Sahu to officiate C’wealth Weightlifting meet
Brahmapur: Odisha Weightlifting Association’s secretary Narayan Sahu has been offered a prestigious role of technical officer in the upcoming Commonwealth Weightlifting competition to be held at Belwadi Shivaji Stadium at Pune from October 11 to 15. This was disclosed by the Odisha Weightlifting Association in a Press release here on Saturday this afternoon. Mention may be made that, Sahu has already been honored with several such prestigious offers by different sports bodies of the world both at national and international levels including Asian Championship game held in China in 2007, Asian Weight lifting Championship held in Hyderabad in 2003, Youth Commonwealth Weight lifting Championship held in Pune in 2008, Commonwealth Games held in Denmark in 2009, Commonwealth Games held at Delhi in 2010, Asian Championship held in Thailand in 2015, Commonwealth Championship held at Bangkok in 2013, Commonwealth Championship held at Quatar in Dubai in 2014 respectively. The members of Odisha Weight lifting Association, members of Beer Hanuman Club, well known weightlifting coach and joint secretary of OWlA Ramesh Chandra Padhi and sports lovers have congratulated Sahu for his continuous and selfless efforts to promote sports in the States and weightlifting in particular in Ganjam district. For selection of Sahu as technical officer of this prestigious international competition at Pune, the people of Ganjam are proud this honor. The players who have also been selected to participate in this Commonwealth game from Brahmapur include Pramila Kisani (53 kg) and Meenati (55 kg).
DAV Cluster-I sports meet begins
Bhubaneswar: The two-day long DAV Cluster-I Odisha Zone Sports Meet inaugurated on Saturday by the Regional Director Dr KC Satapathy at the DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur premises.
Total 210 participants from 15 DAV Public Schools of this zone are participating in the meet conducted in three venues. In table tennis boys team of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur emerged as the champion while DAV IFFCO Paradeep declared as the runners-up. The final matches of badminton and kho kho will be played on Sunday. The winning teams will participate in the DAV National Sports Meet later on.
RFC beat SGO in Gati Krushna Memorial Football
Bhubaneswar: A double goals haul by T Menon of Regional Football Club (RFC) guided the team to beat SGO Nayapally by 2-0 goals in the league round match of the 12th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-II Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday, being organized by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association. T Menon draw the first blood in the ninth minutes. After the change of sides, Menon scored another goal in the 64th minutes and the team registered a convincing win. Susanta Kumar Mishra, Srikrushna Pattnaik, Durga Routray and Chandrakanta Barik were onducted the match as referees. City Club Nayapally and MS Eleven would meet Gopabandhu Youth Association and Tech Mahindra respectively in the league round matches on Sunday.
Maha register 1st innings lead in Ranji trophy
Bhubaneswar: It was a tense conclusion to Odisha’s first innings with Maharashtra sealing the lead of 14 runs after being under the pump in the Ranji Trophy cricket at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Saturday.
In reply to Maharashtra’s first innings score of 281 runs, Odisha’s Govinda Poddar scored a ton and the team total reached 267 runs in 103 overs. Maharashtra scored 156 runs for the loss of three wickets at day three stumps. At 230 for five Odisha looked like favourites to take the lead but Shrikanth Mundhe had other plans as he quickly got rid of Pratik Das and Rajesh Dhuper to give Maharashtra the opening they required. Mundhe later dismissed Deepak Behera and Odisha were unable to overhaul the lead falling short by 14 runs. Mundhe finished with a 6-for 62 runs. Maharashtra posted a total of 281 in their first innings thanks to a couple of brilliant knocks from Harshad Khadiwale (74) and Ankit Bawne (60). Mumbai would have hoped for a stronger total after being 231 for 5 at one stage. They though folded up for just 281 adding more 50 runs but losing as many as five wickets. It was Suryakant Pradhan who was the best bowler for Odisha taking 4 for 90. Biplab Samantaray chipped in with three crucial wickets. In reply, Odisha were in trouble at 68 for 4 with Shrikant Mundhe taking three wickets. But since then the pair of Govinda Poddar and Pratik Das have shared a 99-run stand to steady Odisha at 167 for 4. They are still long way away from taking the lead in the first innings and Maharashtra will hope that their bowlers can step up and ensure gain the first innings lead. With so much cricket left to be played, expect a tense battle. Brief score: Maharashtra 281/10 in 101.2 overs (Harshad Khadiwala 74, Ankit R Bawane 60, Rahul A Tripathi 41, Suryakant Pradhan 4/90, Biplab Samantaray 3/31, Basant Mohanty 2/41) and 156/3 in 55 overs (Swapnil M Gugala 71; Basant Mohanty 2/31) Vs Odisha 267/10 in 103.5 overs (Govinda Poddar 100, Pratik Das 62, Shrikant Mundhe 6/62, Anupam A Sanklecha 2/58).