Sunyasakta,Baivab,Prasmit,Miracle lift titles
Bhubaneswar: Sounyasakta Satapathy of Khurda scored 4.5 points out of five rounds and Baivab Mishra of Puri fetched six points by the end of seventh rounds, emerged champion in the girls and open categories of the All Odisha State U-17 Chess Championship concluded at Srusti Academy of Management in Patia here on Saturday.
Similarly, in the U-7 event, Miracle Panda and Prasmit Prayansu both of Khurda scored 6.5 and seven points respectively by the end of seventh round in the girls and open categories respectively. Adishree Anjum Nayak of Cuttack Manish Kumar of Khurda scored six points each and grabbed the runners-up trophy. The top two finishers of each group would represent the State in the forthcoming national championship to be held at Pune in Maharashtra from May 1 to 9. The third and fourth finishers Shreyash Subham Patnaik and Debvanssh Arav Das also qualified for U-7 national meet. Sidhant Mohapatra of Bhadrak and Smaraki Mohanty of Kendrapada bagged the runners-up in the U-17 open and girls categories respectively and top two finishers of the event would represent the State in the national meet at Assam from May 1 to 9.
Odisha employees’ badminton from April 27
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Secretariat Badminton Association (OSSBA) is all set to organise the 3rd Secretariat All-Odisha Employees’ Open Badminton Tournament at Sahid Nagar Indoor Hall here from from April 27 to 28th The tournament, which offers a total cash prize of Rs 32,000, would feature competition in two categories singles and doubles both for men and veterans. The champion and runners-up of singles and doubles would receive Rs 4,000 and Rs 3,000 respectively. Similarly, Veteran singles and doubles would got Rs 3,000 and Rs 2,000 respectively. The employees of the State Government /Central /Public Sector Undertakings in Odisha and not recruited under sports quota are eligible to participate in the tournament. OSSBA has been promoting badminton by organising the annual All-Odisha Open and the Secretariat All Odisha Employees’ Cup tournament alternatively. Further details players can contact OSSBA, working president Chitta Ranjan Rout (Mobile: 9861554737) / general secretary Niranjan Pattanayak (Mob. 9437281542), treasurer Baresh Nath Pradhan (Mob. No.9437230573) and Sasan Sekhar Mohapatra (Mobile: 9437129811).
Barabati bag Veteran Football trophy
Bhubaneswar: Barabati Morning emerged champion by defeating host OGP Club in the final match of the two-day-long Veteran Football Tournament in Cuttack on Friday. In the one sided final match, Barabati edged out OGP Club by 3-0 goals. Saroj Das of the champion team bagged the man of the series award and Judhishir Sethi adjudged as the man of the match. Rajya Sabha MP Shasi Bhusan Behera (M.P) RajyaSabha was present in the finalmatch as the chief guest of the closing cerimony. The other dignitaries who were present were director OGP Balakrushna Behera, director-OGP- technical Hemanta Kumar Mishra and joint-director N Dhumal were present.
KIIT beat Friends Paradise in Football league
Bhubaneswar: Chaturananda Marandi of KIIT University netted double goals and the team defeated Friends Paradise of Jatani by 4-0 goals in the group-D league round match of the 10th Gatikrushna Memorial Bhubaneswar Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday. Chatrurananda started the party in the sixth minute. After the change of sides, KIIT changed the gear, Chaturananda stocked again in the 66th minute. Just after two minute his-mate Ramdan Hemram scored the third goal for the team. Finally, Samurai Marandi scored the fourth goal in the 77th minute and team registered a 4-0 win.
Durga Acharya, Sekhawat Khan, Sudeepta Das and Sarada Prasana Sahoo were the officials for the match. ITER would meet Green Club in the league round matches on Sunday.