Kishore win limka Memorial tourney opener
Bhubaneswar: Kishore Club, a leading city football-cum-cricket body, made a successful debut in basketball by winning the opening match of the 2nd limka Memorial Basketball Tournament here at Unit-I Basketball Complex on Tuesday.
Displaying excellent speed, agility, coordination and aggression, KishoreClub prevailed over home favourites Yuva Basketball Club (YBC) 72-48 in the high-scoring Group C clash. Teams were evenly matches in the first quarter, which ended at 14-14. But asserting their superiority thereafter, Kishore scored 28 points in the second quarter to lead 42-21 at the halfway stage. YBC made partial recovery in the third quarter, winning it 20-18. But Kishore took the last quarter 12-7 to clinch a comfortable win.
Siba Sankar Behera and Suman Sahoo were leading scorers for Kishore with 18 and 14 points respectively. Siba Sethi and Nishant Mishra performed well for YBC, contributing 16 and 10 points respectively.
“We have a young and spirited side. We are confident of reaching semifinals. But we will try our best to make our debut in basketball a memorable achievement by winning the title here,’’ said Kishore Club coach Arun Mishra after the match. Organised jointly by Bhubaneswar Basketball Association (BBA) and Khurda District Basketball Association (KDBA), the five-day tournament, featuring 12 teams from Twin City Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, was inaugurated by Bhubaneswar Central MlA Bijay Kumar Mohanty. On the occasion, city basketball fraternity paid humble tribute to former basketball player Syed Waqar Yunus, who was fondly known as limka. Despite being 70 years old, limka’s mother Farida Yunus showed a fine gesture by coming to the venue and encouraging the players. Meanwhile, the tournament received major boost as Serajuddin Mining Group came forward to fully sponsor the event, providing pleasant surprise and relief to the organisers.
Chand Club, Rising win in FAO league
Bhubaneswar: A three goal haul by Owalesho Abey of Chand Club powered the team to beat Jay Durga Club by 4-1 goals in the super league round match of the FAO 1st Div Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday. Owolesho netted a goal each in the third, 17th and 48th minutes, his-mate Sashikant Sandil scored a goal in the 20th minute. Mahesh Sahu of Jay Durga Club scored the solitary goal in the 23rd minutes. In another match of the day, Odisha Police got the lead in the 13th minute through a goal by Rabi Mundari. But Adetola of Rising Star Club leveled the score in the 33rd minutes. After the lemon breaks, Adetola nailed the winning goal in the 55th minutes. Sunrise Club and Bidanasi Club would meet Independent Club and Rising Student Club respectively in the super league round match on Wednesday.
Visually Impaired Cricket team announced
Bhubaneswar: Cricket Association for The Visually Impaired (CAVI) on Tuesday announced a 14 member State team for the 22nd National Cricket Tournament for the visually impaired schedule to held at Delhi from December 17 to 21.
After being the champion in the east zone cricket tournament at Ranchi, Odisha qualified for the national meet. Md Jafar will lead the lead with Sukhram Majhi as his deputy.
Team Odisha: Md Jafar Iqbal (Captain), Kalia Pradhan, Tapan Kumar Gauda, Fakira Behera, Debraj Behera, lingraj Rautara, Nakula Badnayak, Jujhar Bari, Singrai Majhi, Sukhram Majhi (Vice-Captain), Biswanath Khara, Bikash Sahoo, Noor Mohammed, Raghuram Nayak, Chandrasekhar Patnayak (Coach), Biranchi Sahoo (Manager).
Assam take lead in U-16 match against Odisha
Bhubaneswar: The all round performance of Akash Sengupta of host Assam, who scalped five wickets and scored 65 runs and helped the team to script a seven runs first innings lead against Odisha in the three-day Vijay Merchant Trophy U-16 East Zone match at Guwahati on Tuesday. Assam added 133 runs to their overnight score of 36 for two. Binit Kumar Mohanty and Pritam Jena of Odisha bagged four wickets each and Assam struggled for 115 runs losing eight wickets.
Akash played a brilliant innings and stitched 54 runs for the ninth wickets with Rituraj Biswas and Assam scored 169 in the first innings. In reply, Odisha scored 71 for four at day two stumps.
Brief Score: Odisha 162/10 in 71.1 overs (Akash Ch Nayak 39, Rajat K Das 53; Akash Sengupta 5/25, Bishal Das 3/40), Rituraj Biswas 2/35) and 71/4 in 28 overs Vs Assam 169/10 in 90.2 overs (Akash Sengupta 65; Binit Kumar Mohanty 4/23, Pritam Jena 4/45, Md Shah Arman 2/47)
Amarnagar win DPCl Volleyball Challenge Trophy
Dhamra: Amarnagar defeated Dosinga Town Club and emerged champion of the two day long 8th DPCl Volleyball tournament was held at Dosinga market ground, near Dhamra Port on Monday.
The day-night match was participated by 10 volley teams from eight periphery panchayats of Dhamra Port. In the semi-final Dosinga defeated Karanpali , while Amarnagar team defeated Karanjmal. The other participating teams were Bansada, Kaninali, Dhamra, Jagula, Kaithakhola and Panchutikri. Sahadev Pal and Surajit Jena of Dosinga team won the best smasher and player prizes respectively. Adani-Dhamra Port organises the tournament every year to encourage local volley teams and promote rural sports talents. Among others, the group CEO of Adani Group Unmesh Abhayankar and Dhamra Port CEO Subrat Tripathy were present during the final match of the tournament.