KISS, Kalinga enter Inter-School Football semis
Bhubaneswar: Hindurai Soren of KISS scored the first hat-trick and the team edged out Tapobana High School by 3-1 goals in the quarterfinal match and entered the semifinal rounds in the 24th Kalinga Marian-Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Thursday. Tapobana School got the lead through the goal by Mohanty Murmu in the 12th minute, but Hindurai nailed the equaliser in the 26th minute. After the change of sides, Hindurai dominated the show and scored in the 30th and 41st minutes. Racing from the back KISS barged into semifinals.
In another quarterfinal match, defending champion Unit-6 Boys High School lost the match from Kalinga High School by 3-1 goals via through penalty shoot. The match ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time. Prakash Das, Durga Routary, Jitendra Samantsingh, Sudip Das, Pradip Naik, Chandrakanta Barik, Somanath Barik and Amit Naik were conducted the matches as referees. Xaviers International School and DPS Kalinga School would meet Mothers Public School and Kendrya Vidyalaya-II respectively in the quarterfinals on Friday.
Odisha athletic team announced for National meet
Bhubaneswar: A four-member State team announced and the team left on Thursday to participate in the 53rd National Open Athletic Championship would be held at Ranchi from September 7 to 10. Other Odiya athletes, Purnima Hembram, Jauna Murmu and Dutee Chand will participate from ONGC Team in this meet. After the ban Jauna would test her talent in the national meet. Earlier, The results of the sample taken by NADA from Jun 11 to Jun 14 during the National Inter-State Athletics Meet, Bangalore indicated that Jauna was tested positive for taking methandienone, a banned medicine. She has failed the dope test twice. She was tested positive earlier in a dope test conducted by International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) in Patiala in Jun at a training camp. list of athletes: Srabani Nanda (100mtr, 200mtr), Parbati Sethi (discus), Amiya Kumar Mallick (100mtr, 200mtr), Rabi Das (longjump) Susanta Ray (coach-cum-manager), Purnima Hembram, Jauna Murmu and Dutee Chand.