BCCI curator visits ECoR Stadium
Bhubaneswar : BCCI east-zone curator Ashish Bhowmick visited East Coast Railway Stadium here on Thursday. As the railway team adopted the ground as their home ground since 2012. Before the ranji season as like every year I use to visit the grounds to ensure the preparatory work. This ground is good for the matches, last year we also organised matches here, said Ashish.
Already six weeks is there, the match would be held on November 7. The ground staffs here are putting a team effort to complete the ground well before the schedule. Already the ECoR stadium is having a good reputation and I am hopeful that Railway team once again adopt this as their home venue, added Ashish.
Boys and girls shine in AITA Tennis championship
Bhubaneswar : Boys and girls from Odisha almost made a clean sweep of the titles with Pratyush Chhotray clinching a double at the AITA-OTA Champions Series Under-14 Tennis Tournament which concluded at the SOA University Sports Complex here on Thursday. Chhotray, seeded fourth, won the boy’s singles title defeating state-mate Mahesh Mohapatra (third seed) 6-3, 6-3 in the final. However, second seed Alisha Samal of Odisha suffered a setback when she twisted her ankle in the girl’s singles final against top seed Yubrani Banerjee (WB) and conceded the match. She was trailing 1-3 in the first set at that time. In the boy’s doubles final, Pratyush Choudhury and Swostik Pradhan of Odisha outclassed N Kirandevaa (TN) and Raghava Gannaparavu (AP) 6-3, 6-2 to lift the title. The girl’s doubles title was also claimed by Odisha’s Alisha Samal and Rutuparna Choudhury who defeated Yubrani Banerjee (WB) and Anisha J. Jain (Kar) 4-0, 3-5, 7-1 in the final. Earlier in the semifinals, Mahesh Mohapatra felled top seed Swostik Pradhan 6-4, 6-0 while Pratyush Chhotray outlasted N.Kirandevaa (TN) 6-4, 6-3.
Phulbani, Sundargarh win in Inter-District Football
Bhubaneswar : Mahaveer Club of Phulbani and Gandhi Club of Sundargarh defeated Junglee Sports of Puri and Naba Yubak Sangha of Jharsuguda respectively in the Inter District Club Championship-2013(Kalinga Cup Qualifying Round) at Baripada on Thursday. A four goals haul by Dasarathi Kanhar of Mahaveer Club guided the team to beat Junglee Sports by 5-0 goals. Dasarathi scored in the 23rd ,40th ,62nd and 67th minutes respectively and his-mate Rajen Pradhan nailed a goal in the 60th minute. Antarjami Nayak, Bidyadhar Majhi and Ratan Banchur of Gandhi Club netted a goal each in the fourth, 46th, 52nd minutes respectively and the team thrashes Naba Yubak Sangha by 3-1 goals. Rohit Rabana of the losing team scored a goal in the 10th minute to reduce the winning margin. The officials who conducted the match were PK Pal, Bhanu Bauri, Nabin Nayak, Manik Rana, Sujit Patra, Sudeep Das, Chandra Kanta Barik and Kailash Chandra Behera as referee.
Jabamani shines in Inter-District Women football
Bhubaneswar : Jabamani Soren of the Mayurbhanj nailed four goals and the team edge out Khurda by 7-1 goals in the Senior Women Inter District Football Championship-2013 for PC Behera Trophy at Titilagarh in Bolangir on Thursday. Jobamani scored in the 13th, 27th, 46th and 51st minutes respectively. Her-mate Itishree Sardar, Goura Majhi and Phulamani Tudu scored a goal each in the 18th , 23rd and 72nd minutes respectively. Ruksana Khatun of the Khurda team scored the solitary goal in the 50th minute. In another match of the day, Bhubaneswar-B team got walk-over as Balasore team was absent. The Officials who conducted the match were Sudipta Das, Chitrambada Patra, Brishnupriya Das and Dibyani Sukla as referees.