Jay Durga, Odisha Police win in Football league
Bhubaneswar: Jay Durga Club and Odisha Police defeated Sunshine Club and Morning Club by 1-0 and 3-1 goals respectively in the league round matches of the FAO 1st Div Football league at Cuttack on Thursday. After the barren first half, Mahesh Sahoo of the Jay Durga Club scored the all important goal in the 60th minutes and the team edged out Sunshine Club by 1-0 goal. In another match of the day, Prasant Naik of Odisha Police netted double goals in the 24th and 78th minutes and hismate Maheswar Sethi scored a goal in the 80th minutes and the team pipped Morning Club by 3-1 goals. laxman Bindhani scored the solitary goal in the 77th minutes. The officials who conducted the match were Siba Sankar Panda, Sujit Patra, Jiban jyoti Nayak, Bhanu Bauri, T Mohan Rao, Chandrakant Barik, Shekhawat Khan and Sk Hayat as referees. Sports Hostel ans Rising Star Club would meet Bidanasi Club and Mangala Club respectively on Friday.
Ananya, Asif win State TT Championship
Bhubaneswar: Ananya Basak of Khurda and Asif Haque of RBI emerged champion by defeating Samartha Prusty of Bhubaneswar and Bikash Singh in the men and women events by 4-3 and 4-3 sets respectively in the State TT Championship at NTPC Kaniha on Wednesday, being organized by Angul District Table Tennis Association (ADTTA) under the aegis of Odisha State Table Tennis Association (OSTTA). R Krishna Kumar, Jiban Ballav Samal, Tapan Kumar Kha, Sujit Ray and K Satya Narayan Murty were conducted the meet as officials.
NTPC Kaniha Executive Director NK Kothari gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, NTPC Corporate Centre GM (OS) AK Haldar, S Ghose, Sports Council Chairman Sajib Kumar Suar, OTTA secretary Rabindra Kumar Parida, ADAA secretary Nilamani Rout and joint secretary Golak Bihari Patnaik were present.
State athletic team leaves for National jr meet
Bhubaneswar: A 17-member State team left to participate in the 31st National Junior Athletic Championship -2015 to be held at Ranchi, Jharkhand from November 21 to 25. The State team consisting of eight girls and nine boys athletes would participate in the meet.
State player lists: Panga Soren (100 meter hurdles), Bikram Murmu (100 meter) (boys-16), Raibari Tiria (100 meter, 100 meter hurdles), Jasmi Kisku (heptathlon) (girls-18), Damaynti Murmu (Javelin),Sekunta Kullu (100, 200 meter) (girls-20), Hari Behera (shotput) (boys-20) (all Bhubaneswar), Kamakshya PR Nayak (100, 200 meter)(boys-18), Priyanka Mahalik (3000m walk) (girls-16) (both Cuttack), Parbasi Karua (600 m run) (Keonjhar), Chandan Beti (long jump) (Koraput), Bhima Soren (100 meter) (Mayurbhanj), Arbin Minz (100m, triathlon) (Sundargarh) (all boys-14), Bhimsen Samad (Pentathlon)(boys-16), Salmi Kispotta (discus, shotput), Carmela Barla (javelin) (both girls-18), Rajeswari Bhoi (100m hurdles, heptathlon) (girls-20) (all Sundargarh), Bhabani sankar Jena (coach cum manager).
BAA to host school volleyball tourney
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Athletic Association (BAA) is all set to organize one day Inter School Volleyball Tournament at Unit-1 High School Ground here on November 22. Altogether 16 teams have given their consent to participate in the tournament. KV-I, Vikash Residential School, DAV Unit-1, Sainik School, Boys High School Unit-9, St Xavier International School, SAI International School, DM School, ODM Public School, St Xavier High School, Prabhujee EM School, Mother’s Public School, KISS, St Xavier High School Kedargouri, DAV Chandrasekharpur and GSEM School are the 16 schools would join in the meet. Manoranjan Mohanty and Dillip Patnaik have been nominated as chairman and co chairman of the tournament committee. Rabindra Kumar Routray will act as technical coordinator, informed BAA secretary Dr SR Parija.