BhubaneswarA, B dominate U-19 cricket
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-A and B dominated their respective first innings against Balasore and Jajpur respectively at day-one stumps in their two-days long (90 overs innings) Inter-District U-19 Cricket Tournament at different grounds in Cuttack on Sunday.
A four-wickets each haul by Bhabatosh Paramanik and Suvam Nayak of Bhubaneswar-A powered the team register a 83 runs by losing six wickets against Balasore. Batting first, Balasore scored 91 runs in 33.5 overs. In reply, Sangit Mohanty smashed 90 runs and helped Bhubaneswar-A to score 174 runs at a loss of six wickets in 52.3 overs. In another match Bhubaneswar-B dominated Jajpur. While batting first, Ashok Nanda scored an unbeaten 54 runs and Jajpur gathered 177 runs in 48 overs. In reply, Rakesh Mohapatra’s 63 runs guided Bhubaneswar-B to inch closer and scored 175 runs for the loss of four wickets in 40 overs in the first innings. Brief score: At Barabati Stadium: Cuttack-B 182/10 in 89.1 overs (Rama Chandra Behera 52, Avinash Nayak 30; Ramakanta Singh 4/39, Hari Shankar Pati 2/30) Vs Sundargarh. At Ravenshaw Ground-1: Khurda 129/10 in 65.5 overs (Debi Prasad Sahu-44, Anirudha Choudhury 23; Raj Kiran Panda 3/25, Suman Mohanty 3/64) Vs Cuttack-A 36/3 in 10 overs (Pratik Tripathy 17 n.o; Nilu Pradhan 3/12). At Nimpur Ground: Balasore 91/10 in 33.5 overs (Amit Das 28 n.o; Bhabatosh Paramanik 4/33, Suvam Nayak 4/30, Gourav Mahapatra 2/16) Vs Bhubaneswar-A 174/6 in 52.3 overs (Sangit Mohanty 90, Sandeep Patnaik 34; Tapan Singh 2/26, Sarbeswar Mohanty 2/30). At Bidanasi Ground: Jajpur 177/10 in 48 overs (Ashok Nanda 54 n.o; Jeet Singh 39, Papu Ray 33; Abhisek Panda 3/20, Swagat Routray 3/35, Asish Pradhan 2/14) Vs Bhubaneswar-B 175/4 in 40 overs (Rakesh Mahapatra 63, Kartik Biswal 34 n.o; Sarthak Priyadarsi 22; Papu Ray 2/47).
Bramheswar wins in Football league
Bhubaneswar: Santosh Kumar Behera of Bramheswar Sports and Cultural Association scored double goals and team edged out Netaji Subash Railway Institute by 4-2 goals in the group-A league match of the 10th Gatikrushna Memorial Bhubaneswar Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground on Sunday. Raj Kishor Majhi of the winning team opened the score at the seventh minute. lagnajit Mohanty doubled the lead in the 35th minute. The double scorer of the match Santosh nailed his first individual goal in the 38th minute and the team set 3-0 lead in the first-half. After the change of sides, Santosh scored another goal in the 54th minute. Roshan Kumar Mohanty and Manas Behera of the Netaji team scored a goal each in the 53nd and 80th minute respectively to reduce the winning margin. Durga Madhav Achary, Chandrakanta Barik, Manoranjan Khuntia and Susanta Kumar Mishra were the official for the match. In the group-B league match on Monday, Kishor Club would meet ITER.
Girya leads in International Women Chess
Bhubaneswar: Girya Olga of Russia is inching closer to the title by scoring seven points from nine rounds, followed by lilit and Elizabeth Paehtz on the second and third position with six and five points respectively in the AICF-KIIT Cup International Category Women Chess Championship at KIIT Campus here on Sunday. Similarly, Guo Qi and Padmini Rout are also in the joint third position with five points apiece. A crucial encounter between the Armenian GM Elina and the tournament leader WGM Girya Olga started with the exchange variation of Slav defense. Girya's 24.Ke8 gave white an alarming advantage, which was thrown away by Elina by exchange of queens on the 28th move. An active endgame play by Girya saved the day and both played till the King's were left alone in 70 moves. Indian challenge, WGM Padmini Rout sustained a self inflicted defeat at the hands of WGM Guo Qi, who enjoys her second consecutive victory of the event. Fresh from her victory against GM Elina, Qi's Caro kan did not bother Padmini much, who had a decisive advantage throughout. Padmini wilting under time pressure, played out the double rook endgame badly and was got checkmated in the 50th move.