KISS, Unit-6 win in Inter-school football
Bhubaneswar: KISS School defeated DAV Chandrashekharpur by 3-2 goals in the group-D league match of the 24th Kalinga Marine Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Wednesday. In the nail-biting league match, lambodar Murmu of KISS nailed the first goal in the 10th minute. But Biswajit of DAV scored the equaliser in the 13th minute and his-mate Deba scored a goal in the 36th minute and DAV gathered a 2-1 lead. However, KISS bounced back in style, Hinduree Soren and Chaturananda Marandi scored a goal each in the 43rd and 49th minute respectively. KISS registered a 3-2 victory and bagged three points.
Similarly in group-A league match, defending champion Unit-6 Boys High School edged out Aurobindo Integral School by 2-1 goals. Rajesh Nayak of the winning team drew the first blood in the 13th minute. But the Aurobindo school leveled the score in the 20th minute by Abashis Banik. After the lemon break, Parmeet Kumar Naik scored the winning goal in the 41st minute. With the win Unit-6 gathered three points. Somanath Barik, Shekhawat Khan, Rajesh Barik, Prakash Das, Amit Nayak and Durga Routary were conducted the matches as referees. Prabhujee English Medium School and Ramakrushna Mission would meet IRC Village Boys High Sikhya Kendra and Ramakrushna Sikhya Kendra respectively on Thursday.
NAF Odisha chapter releases souvenir
Bhubaneswar: National Adventure Foundation (NAF) chapter Odisha released 6th edition adventurer souvenir here on Wednesday. The objective of Odisha chapter to expose the youth to nature, hardship and hazards and therby building personality, character, confidence and courage through adventure programs, said Rajendra Bhuyan. For making the younger generation interested in adventure activities entailing facing of challenges and obstacles both artificial and netural. In our regular activities we conduct parasailing, river rafting, coastal traekking, paragliding, rock climbing, adventure programme and zorbing ball through out the year, said Ashok Patnaik. Bimalendu Mohanty released the souvenir in presence of Naba Ranjan Patnaik, Gobinda Mohanty, Baikuntha Mishra and Arabinda Mitra.
Swayams maintains solo lead in Kesabananda chess
Bhubaneswar: Second seed local favorite IM Swayams Mishra scored five points by the end of sixth round and maintained his top place in the above 2000 category of the 2nd Kesabananda Das Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament here on Wednesday. Ravi Teja S,IM Shyam Nikil and Hemant Sharma scored 4.5 points each and shared the second place. Similarly, Ansuman Samal and Ajaya Krishna S scored seven points by the end of eighth round and shared the top place in the below 2000 category. Tamal Chakrabarti, Sarbojit Paul, Rudraksh Parida, Singh Soram Rahul and Diwan Rajesh are the five players scored 6.5 points and jointly placed in the second place. Similarly, six players shared the third place with six points.
Top ten board results after 6th round above 2000: IM Swayams Mishra (5) draw Ravi Teja S (4.5), IM Shyam Nikil P (4.5) draw IM Sangam A Rahul (4), IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (4) draw Surendran N (4), Hemant Sharma (del) (4.5) bt Pranavananda V (3.5), IM Swapnil S Dhopade (4) bt Shreyansh Daklia (3.5), IM Suvrajit Saha (4) bt FM Ramakrishna J (3), Santu Mondal (4) bt Gusain Himal (3), IM Deshmukh Anup (4) bt Chakravarthi Reddy M (3), FM Thakur Akash (3.5) draw Muthaiah Al (3.5), FM Rakesh Kumar Jena (3) draw FM Sayantan Das (3).
Top ten board results after 8th round below 2000: Samal Ansuman (7) draw Chakrabarti Tamal (6.5), Sarbojit Paul (6.5) draw Rudraksh Parida (6.5), Ajay Krishna S (7) bt Manish Uniyal (5.5), Singh Soram Rahul (6.5) bt Sunyasakta Satapathy (5.5), Diwan Rajesh (6.5) bt Sudarshan Mitra (5,5), Anusha NlV (6) draw Kaushik Shubham (6), Vishwanath Prasad (6) bt Mahesh Prasad Sethi (5.5), Sharma Pankaj (5.5) draw Sandeep Chitkara (5.5), Arindam Das (5.5) draw Subhayan Kundu (5.5), Ganguly Rotabroto (5.5) draw Sumit Grover (5.5).