Rising enter Sumit Bose U-16 Cricket final
Bhubaneswar: Sasant Rungta of Rising Student Club of Cuttack scalped four wickets and guided the team into the final of the Sumit Bose Memorial Junior U-16 Cricket Tournament by Juvenile Club of Cuttack by five wickets at Cuttack on Thursday. Winning the toss Juvenile elected to bat first, Sasant scaled four wickets by giving only six runs and his mate Nitish Samantray bagged three wickets and restricted Juvenile innings for 78 runs in 29.1 overs. Chasing the small total, Rising reached the winning target in 27.3 overs by losing five wickets. Biswabharati Cricket Club treasure Susanta Mohanty gave away the man of the match award to Sasant Rungta of the winning team for his brilliant bowling skill.
Santosh Jena and Basu Sekhar were conducted the match as umpires. In the semifinal on Friday, Pragati Sporting would meet Saheed Sporting Club both of Bhubaneswar teams.
Brief score: Juvenile Club 78/10 in 29.1 overs (Tarini Tanmay Mohapatra 25, Saswat Mohanty 21; Sasant Rungta 4/6, Nitish Samantray 3/18) lost to Rising Student 79/5 in 27.3 overs (Narendra Sharma 18; Bl Shibram 3/21) by 5 wickets.
Anupama, Dillip to join National Karate Camp
Bhubaneswar: Anupama Swain and Dillip Kumar Jena of Odisha would join the national karate coaching camp which kicks started at Coimbatore from May 4 to May 31, organised by Karate Association of India. International kumite coach Antonia Oliva would conduct the camp. Anupama and Dillip left from here to participate in the camp.
Earlier, Dillip won gold medal in the national karate championship in the kumite eventand won three bronze medals in the national meet. Anupam also won bronze medal thrice in different national meets, informed Odisha State Karate Do Association secretary Hari Prasad Pattnaik through a release.
Odisha bag 17 medals in Athletic meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha bagged four gold, nine silver, four bronze and total of 17 medals in the 36th National Athletic Championship held at Panaji, Goa from April 25 to 29. Altogether 69 members of the State participated in the meet. Brundaban Sahu and Sujit Kumar Mohanty won two gold medals each in the 70+ and 50+ age categories respectively. Sahu and Mohanty also won a silver medal each in their respective age groups. A Raja Rao, Sk Hazi Gulam Kadir (both 75+), Surendra Kumar Pattnaik (65+), SN Kumura (45+), Madan Mohan Sharma (40+), Babita Panda (40+), G Mohan Babu (35+) won a silver medal each in their respective age group.
A Raja Rao (75+), Khirodini Moharana (65+), Sukhlal Singh Mundari (50+) and Sukanti Patro (40+) received a bronze medal each in their age group.
Odisha eves win in Jr Women Div-A Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey Odisha eves thrashed Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu by 4-0 goals in the 5th Junior National Hockey Championship 2015 (Women) ‘’A’’ at Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
In the one-sided match Odisha started the match with fierce attacks and earned a penalty corner in 10th minute of the match, which was perfectly converted by Mariana Kujur to give an early lead. With the impressive goal, Odisha kept on attacking and skipper Nil Projita Majhi and Seema lakra scored one goal each in 18th and 19th minutes respectively and took the score-line to 3-0. In the 29th minute, Dipti lakra scored the fourth goal for Odisha and helped her team to defeat Tamil Nadu by 4-0. In the pool-D match on Friday, Hockey Odisha would meet Hockey Delhi. Results: Pool D Hockey Odisha 4 Mariana Kujur (10min-PC), Nil Projita Majhi (18min-FG), Seema lakra (19min-FG), Dipti lakra (29min-FG) vs Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu 0
India seal Indo-Japan Hockey series
Bhubaneswar: Big game for both the teams, confident Indians sealed the fourth match test series against Japan in their favour. After a brilliant showing in the last game on Tuesday , India beat Japan by 2-1 goals at Kalinga Stadium here on Thursday. India scripted two win and one draw after the third match and took away the series easily.
In the 30th minute, India makes another counter with Sunil leading the solo run, takes reverse shot and hit defenders foot and the team got the first penalty corner of the game. Dharamvir Singh pushes in and Raghunath drags it on the right of the goalkeeper straight into the bar and India got the lead in the first half. Clearly India has been the more attacking team in the second half. Despite some good chances from Japanese but fails to convert any of them.
Harjot Singh is doing the honors for India in absence of dependable custodian Sreejesh. Akashdeep Singh with a superb solo run, dogging in the way and taking the shot towards the bar beating the Japanese keeper in the 36th minute and India registered 2-0.
In the third quarter Hirotaka Wakari successfully converted the penalty corner in the 44th minute and created hope for Japan to draw the match. In the 50th minute India with the counter, Akashdeep in the circle finds defender's foot and created a penalty corner for the team. Sardar pushes in and young Harmanpreet drags a powerfull shot but nicely saved by the Japan keeper. India's prospective player's positioning inside opponents striking circle is a concern for them.