Bajrangabali Club wins Football league
Bhubaneswar: Racing from the back, Bajrangabali Club of Ghatikia beat Netaji Subash Railway Institute by 3-1 goals in
the group-A league match of the 10th Gatikrushna Memorial Bhubaneswar Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Tuesday. Netaji Club got the advantage in the 32 minute
through the goal by Somesh Kujur. But after the change of sides, Bajarangbali Club bounced back in style, Sraban Nayak nailed the equaliser in the 70th minute. Prasanta Nayak and
Tophan Nayak scored a goal each in the 78th and 89th minutes respectively. Sakhawat Khan, Pradipta Kumar Nayak, Chandrakanta Barik and Durga Prasana Acharya were the official for the match. In the group-B league match on Wednesday, Green Club would meet Shaan Club, Gadakana.
Girya retains solo lead in Chess Championship
Bhubaneswar: Despite the draw with Indian International Master Mohota Nisha in the third round Russian WGM Girya Olga scored 2.5 points and retained her overnight solo lead in the AICF-KIIT Cup International Category Women Chess Championship at KIIT Campus on Tuesday. Olga and IM Nisha Mohota of India were involved in a theoretical battle from the Slav defence. Nisha approached the game positively facing an opponent of 100 Elo points by winning a pawn as early as 12th move.Olga accepted the challenge and entered complications, but when the smoke cleared it was a good old draw from the Rook and pawn endgame. In an interesting dual between local talents WGM Padmini Rout and Kiran Manisha Mohanty, the former surprised her opponent with a rare Sicilian defence. Neverthless Kiran had a tight grip over the position until 25th move. Padmini's knight movement to d2 square exchanging one of the two bishops brought Kiran to earth. later Padmini increased to a two pawn advantage forced resignation in 50 moves. Along with Padmini three overseas players shared the second place with two points each. Results and score after third round: WGM Gomes Mary Ann (IND)(.5) lost to IM Foisor Cristina-Adela (ROU)(1.5), IM Mohota Nisha (IND)(1.5) drew WGM Girya Olga (RUS)(2.5), IM Mkrtchian lilit (ARM)(2) beat WGM Guo Qi (CHN) (1), WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (IND)(.5) lost to WGM Padmini Rout (IND)(2), IM Karavade Eesha (IND) (1.5) drew GM Danielian Elina (ARM)(2), WGM Swathi Ghate (IND) (1) lost to IM Paehtz Elisabeth (GER) (2).
10 body-builders leave for National meet today
Bhubaneswar: 10-bodybuilders of the State will leave on Wednesday for 6th Senior National Bodybuilding Championship and 2nd Fitness Competition to be held at Cochin in Kerala from March 22 to 25. Md Safiq Rahaman, Brajabandhu Suara, Srikanta Rao,
J Das, Bapuji Seth, Rakesh Babu Achary, Janmajaya Mohanty,
Debasis Dutta, Kaju Parida and Anjan Satapathy are the ten builders selected for the State team. Umakanta Satapathy and KM Francis would accompany the team as manager and coach respectively. International referee Golak Pattnaik, Benu Gopal Rao and Chittaranjan Swain got invitation from Indian Bodybuilders Federation to officiate the four-day long meet. This will be the first official tournament of the federation after getting the affiliation from the Sports Ministry in which army, railway, ordinance factory board and many bodybuilders from different State will participate, informed Odisha Bodybuilding Association secretary Nilamani Rout.