Nishant, Avilash duo barge into AITA final
Bhubaneswar: Second seeded Nishant Kumar and partner Avilash Mishra would meet top seeded Adil Kalyan and Rahul Shankar of Karnataka in the boys U-16 doubles final event in the AITA Championship Series U-14 and U-16 at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday. The five-day-long tournament kicks started on Monday. Both the player in their singles event entered the quarterfinals to be held on Wednesday. Boys Under-16 Doubles results: 1st Round: Nishant Kumar / Avilash Mishra (ORS) [2] – BYE, Quarterfinal, Nishant Kumar / Avilash Mishra (ORS) bt K Sandeep Kumar / N R Sainath (AP) 8-1, Semifinal, Nishant Kumar / Avilash Mishra (ORS) bt Taathagat Charan Timath / Siddharth S Gowda (AP) 4-0, 4-1.
Cuttack, Sambalpur enter Football quarterfinals
Bhubaneswar: In the one-sided league matches, Cuttack and Sambalpur thrashed Dhenkanal and Jagatsinghpur respectively and entered the quarterfinal rounds of the Senior Women Inter District Football Championship-2013 for P.C.Behera Trophy at Titilagarh in Bolangir on Tuesday. Sakina Nisha of Cuttack scored second hat-trick of the championship and nailed total four goals in the third, 15th,49th and 62nd minutes respectively and powered the team to defeat Dhenkanal by 4-0 goals. Similarly in another match, Rashmita Podha of Sambalpur open the flood gate in the second minute of the play and scored her second individual goal in the 11th minute. Her-mate Karmi Munda, Subhasini Bagh, Sukanti Barik and Subhasini Oram scored a goal each in the 10th, 18th, 42nd and 49th minute respectively and powered the team to beat Jagatsinghpur by 6-0 goals. The Officials who conducted the match were Giridhari Sahoo, Debraj Nahat, Nishar Kanta Nag, BN Mahakul, Subrat Purohit, Dibyani Sukla, Santosh Meher and Rajendra Dharua as referees.
NYS, Gandhi club win football championship
Bhubaneswar: Naba Yubak Sangha (NYS) of Jharsuguda and Gandhi Club of Sundargarh defeated Ramdhun Sporting Society of Sonepur and Friends Club of Jharsuguda respectively in the inaugural-day of the Inter District Club Championship-2013(Kalinga Cup Qualifying Round) at Baripada on Tuesday. Rohit Rabana and Babul Oram of NYS scored a goal each in the 35th and 41st minute respectively and the team defeated Gandhi Club by 2-0 goals. In the second match of the day, Bidyadhar Majhi of Gandhi Club nailed double goals in the eighth and 75th minute and the team edged out Friends Club by 3-0 goals. Another goal scored by Ranjan Bantur in the 18th minute. The officials who conducted the match were PK Pal, Sujit Patra, Chandrakanata Barik , Manik Rana, Sudeep Das, Bhanu Bauri, Nabin Nayak ,Kailash Chandra Behera and Jugal Chandra Das (match commissioner) as referees. Odisha legislative Assembly deputy speaker Sanada Marandi inaugurated the meet as the chief guest. Among others, vice-president Football Association of Odisha Bijaya Das, Cuttack Athletic Association joint-secretary Subhasish Kar, Mayurbhanj District Athletic Association secretary Kishore Kumar Biswal, treasurer Bijay Das and Pradeep Kumar Mohanty were present.
4 boys, 3 girls reach AITA quarterfinals
Bhubaneswar: Four boys and three girls from Odisha entered the quarterfinals of the AITA Champions Series Under-14 tennis championship being held at the SOA University Sports Complex here with authentic victories over their rivals on Tuesday. Boy’s top seed Swostik Pradhan (Odisha) got a walk over State-mate Rahul Behera while third seed Mahesh Mohapatra defeated compatriot Sahil Kumar 9-0 in the pre-quarterfinals. Odisha’s other contenders Pratyush Chhotray (seeded fourth) beat AP’s Varun Kumar Mudipalli 9-1 and Aditya Satpathy outlasted eighth seed Pratyush Mohanty 9-3 in other matches. Second seed Arvind Sunder (Karnataka) defeated Sumit Mallick (WB) 9-3 in a pre-quarterfinal tie while TN’s N.Kirandevaa (seed 5) outplayed Kabir Hans (Od) 9-2. In other matches, Jharkhand’s Asish S. Sinha beat Raghava C Gannavarapu (AP, 6) 9-2 and Assam’s Mohd. Sheikh Iftikhar defeated M.V. Surya Sushant (AP) 9-5 to complete the quarterfinal line up. In the girl’s section, Odisha’s Anaam Almas (seed 5) beat Anjum Sheikh Mubashira (AP) 9-7 in a tough encounter while West Bengal’s Shreya Mondal caused an upset by ousting fourth seed Anisha Jain (Karnataka) 9-3. Sixth seed Bhakti Shah (AP) beat S.Hashada (Od) 9-1 and AP’s Sameera Salihundam outplayed Bipasha Mehn of her own state 9-5.
Rajeswari bags silver in Jr Athletic meet
Bhubaneswar: Rajeswari Bhoi of Sundargard secured silver medal in Girls-18 heptathlon event with 4366 points in the 25th National Inter Zonal Junior Athletic Championship, which concluded at Kochi in Kerala on Tuesday. In this event gold medal claimed by M Sowmiya of Tamil Nadu with 4379 points and bronze medal received by Sangeetha NP of Kerala with 4039 points.Tamil Nadu team emerged overall champion with 440.5 points and Kerala team grabbed runners up title with 378 points. Rajeswari won her second individual medal in this meet. On Monday, she has received bronze medal in 100 mtr Hurdles. Other Odisha athletes, latika Basara finished 7th in Girls-18 age group 200mtr and In boys-18 group Tapan Kumar Behera 5th in 200mtr. latika, rajeswari, Sekunta Kullu and Susama Toppo of Girls-18 Medlay Relay team secured 4th position.