SAI beat Sunshine in FAO Football league
Bhubaneswar : Dominating SAI-STC thrashed Sunshine Club by 3-0 goals in the one-sided group-C league match of the FAO 1st Division Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. Manoj Murmu of the winning team started the party in the 28th minute. After the change of sides, lakhai Murmu doubled the lead in the 53rd minutes. Finally, Somnath Nayak nailed the third goal in the 60th minute. Sujit Patra, Sekhawat Khan and Sudeep Das and BN Mahakul were the referees conducted the match.Indipendant Club would meet Bidanashi Club in the group-B league match on Monday.
Muna, Bikash in national rugby squad
Bhubaneswar: Two Odisha rugby players and coach Manas Kumar Jena were selected in the 25-member national squad on Saturday. KISS student Muna Murmu and army employ Bikash Jena are the two Odisha’s player confirmed their berth in the 23-mamber team and Manas Kumar Jena will accompany the team as assistant coach.
Rugby India announced the team for the HSBC Asian 5-Nations-Division II Tournament, which will be held at Malaysia, Kolalampur from June 4 to 8. India will participate in the international meet along with Singapore, Iran and Malaysia. Rugby India team will leave to Srilanka on Monday, to play the practice match and then they will leave for Malaysia on June 2. Muna, along with two other Odia boys, were selected for coaching camp held at Bombay Gymkhana in Mumbai from May 13 to27. Finally Muna was selected for India Team. He is the only player from Odisha in Indian Rugby Team for this tournament. Earlier, Muna Murmu had represented India in Asian under -20 Rugby Championship held at laos in 2010 and visited France in 2009. Expressing his satisfaction over Muna’s success founder KIIT and KISS Dr A Samanta said, he is not only the pride of father Surendra and mother Neha Murmu, he is the pride of entire tribal community. Rugby India Squad list: Parvinder Singh, Kuljit Singh, Suresh Sajwan, Balakrishana Vakka, Surinder Singh, Jagga Singh, Nitin Dagar, Shokender Singh, Sujai lama, Nasser Hussain ( captain ), Jaspreet Singh, Bikash Kumar Jena, Pulkit Bhat, Gautam Dagar, Mukesh Mankotia, Prince Khatri, Sukhdeep Singh, Inder Gurrung, Wayne Mungei, Rohit Sivach Singh, Muna Murmu, Paramjieet Singh, Hemant Kumar, Rony Ibrahim (coach), Manas Kumar Jena (assistant coach).
State chess body members elected unanimously
Bhubaneswar : The All Odisha Chess Association’s (AOCA) office bearers are elected un-opposed and unanimously for the period of 2013-16 in the Annual General body meeting here on Sunday. As like last year Sekhar Chandra Sahu and Vivek Kumar Tibarewal reelected as president and secretary respectively. Further development of the chess in the State, Kalinga Chess Academy director Sibabrata Dash and SR Chess Center director SR Patnaik will lead the chess development committee as chairman and convenor respectively. AOCA affiliated KIIT University and Jagatsinghpur District Chess Association to new units. New Office Bearers: KIIT/KISS founder Dr Achyuta Samanta (chief patron), KK Nath (chief advisor), Shekhar Chandra Sahu (president), Ranjan Mohanty (vice-president), Vivek Kumar Tibarewal (secretary), Manoj Kumar Panigrahi (joint secretary), Saroj Kishore Behera (treasure), Subasis Patnaik, GC Mohapatra, KK Sarma and Suresh Chandra Sahu (all executive members).