Odisha, Manipur win in National Sub-Jr Football
Bhubaneswar: A hat-trick haul of Malati Naik helped Odisha to beat Tamil Nadu 7-2 goals and notch third victory in a row and entered the semifinal round of the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Girls 2015-16 at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Friday. Malati dominated the show from the beginning by scoring in the 4th,56th and 59th minute. While Deepa Nayak and Bannya Kabiraj joined the party and scored double goal each in the 9th , 53rd and 28th,56th minutes respectively. NV Sandhiya and Pavithra of Tamil Nadu netted a goal each in the 21st and 60th minute respectively. In a one-sided match, Manipur defeated Telengana 3-0. Y Thailand, Kh Nirmal and NPriyanka scored a goal each in the 16th,47th and 52nd minutes respectively.
Odisha suffer defeat in National Jr Football
Bhubaneswar: Odisha suffered yet another defeat in the league round match of the Junior Boy’s Football NFC for Dr BC Roy Trophy 2015-16 at Hoshiarpur in Punjab on Friday. Uttarakhand defeated Odisha by 1-0. Uttarkhand scored the only goal of the match at 35th minute.
KIIT, CESU win in HoD Cup Cricket
Bhubaneswar: All-round performance of Santosh Jena who scalped a wicket and scored 23 ball 33 run guided his team KIIT to beat Nalco in the league round match of the HoD Cup Cricket Tournament at Kalinga stadium here on Friday. Batting first Nalco scored 105 for 5 in 20 overs. In reply, Santosh and Chandra Bhanu contributed unbeaten 33 and 32 runs respectively and KIIT reached the winning target in 17.2 overs by losing four wickets. Santosh of the winning team received the man of the match award. In another match, discipline bowling of CESU restricted Gridco 128 for 7 in 20 overs. Dipti Mishra and BP Paital scalped three and two wickets respectively. Chasing the small target CESU also struggled in the beginning and manage to reach the target in 19.1 overs for the loss of seven wickets. Dipti Mishra scored highest 32 runs and bagged the man of the match award. Brief score: Nalco 105/5 in 20 overs (Dushamant Dash 30; Durga Mallick 2/17, Santosh Jena 1/15) lost to KIIT 110/4 in 17.2 overs (Santosh Jena 33 n.o; Chandra Bhanu 32 n.o; CD Sika 2/13) by 6 wickets. Gridco 128/7 in 20 overs (Manoj Kumar Subudhi 40; Dipti Mishra 3/23, BP Paital 2/37) lost to CESU 129/7 in 19.1 overs (Dipti Mishra 32; Rakesh Roshan Pradhan 2/16) by 3 wickets.
BBSR-A scores 213/10 in U-16 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-A (BBSR) scored 213 in the first innings of the inaugural day of three-day final match of the Sumit Bose Memorial OCA U-16 Inter District Cricket Tournament at SCB Medical College Ground in Cuttack on Friday. Batting first, Ansuman Sinha (42), Suvam Satrujit (40), Suman Das (36), Manas Ranjan Nayak (29), and M Prasant (25) five batsman of BBSR-A guided the team total 213 in first innings. In reply, Cuttack-A scored 25 for 2 at day one stumps. Brief score: BBSR-A 213/10 in 75.3 overs (Ansuman Sinha 42, Suvam Satrujit 40, Suman Das 36, Manas Ranjan Nayak 29, M Prasant 25; Spandan Sabat 3/29, Gyana Ranjan Acharya 3/49, Debi Prasad Bhanja 2/26, Nitish Niranjan Samantaray 2/50) Vs Cuttack-A 25/2 in 17 overs.