Friends & Friends barged into Bhubaneswar league final
Bhubaneswar: Friends and Friends Club barged into the title clash round by defeating Unit-6 Athletic Association by 4-3 goals via through penalty struck in the 10th Gati Krushna Memorial Bhubaneswar Football league by at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday.
The nail biting semifinal match ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time. Ramesh Murmu, Suvendu Pohan, luish Xalco and Debi Prasad Das were the winning team players converted into goals. Similarly, Asis Pradhan, Rameswar Padhi, Ranjit Jena were the Unit-6 Athletic Association players transferred their shoot into goals. Durga Madav Nayak, Chandrakant Barik, Sudipta Dash and Durga Madav Acharya were the referees for the match. In the last quarterfinal match on the day at Unit-6 High School Ground, Director of Sports edged out AG Recreation Club by 7-5 goals through penalty shoot. The match ended in 2-2 goals draw in the allotted time. Bhagirathi Padhiary of the winning team scored double goals in the third and 38th minute and team dominated the first-half. After the change of sides, Prakash Jena and Jayant Rout of AG scored a goal each in the 59th and 66th minute respectively and leveled the score. Prasant Kumar Pal, Sekhawat Khan, Pradip Kumar Nayak and Somanath Barik were the referees for the match. In the second semifinal match on Sunday, Kishor Club would meet Director of Sports.
Venketeswar wins in Sub-Junior football championship
Bhubaneswar: In the inaugural match, Samuel John of the Venketeswar English Medium School scored the all important goal in the 21st minute and the team pipped Mother’s Public School by 1-0 goal in the four-day-long Sub-Junior Football Championship for Bhubaneswar zone Coca-Cola Cup at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday, being organised by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association and Bhubaneswar School Sports Association under the aegis of All India Football Federation and Odisha Football Association. In other matches of the day, St Xavier’s School beat DAV Pokhariput by 4-2 goals (trough tie breaker), similarly, BJEM defeated Capital High School by 4-1 goals (trough tie breaker) and Topavon High School thrashed Kendriya Vidyalaya-3, Mancheswar by 5-0 goals.
Altogether 22 teams devided in two groups are participating in the four-day-long meet and the final match to be held on Tuesday. Arabinda Mitra inaugurated the meet in presence of Bhubaneswar Athletic Association secretary Sauraya Ranjan Parija, Ashok Mohanty and the members of the association were present.
All-Odisha employees’ open badminton begins
Bhubaneswar: Total 125 entries are registered in the two-day-long 3rd Secretariat All-Odisha Employees’ Open Badminton Tournament, which kicks started at Sahid Nagar Indoor Hall on Saturday, organised by Odisha State Secretariat Badminton Association (OSSBA). The tournament, which is offers a total cash prize of Rs32,000, featuring competition in two categories singles and doubles both for men and veterans. The champion and runners-up of singles and doubles would receive Rs4,000 and Rs3,000 respectively. Similarly, Veteran singles and doubles would get Rs3,000 and Rs2,000 respectively.