Chinamya bags gold in National Jr Athletic meet
Bhubaneswar : Chinamay Ranjan Jena bagged gold medal in boys-18 Javelin event by throwing 65.09 meter in the concluding day of the 29th National Junior Athletic Championship at Kanteerva Stadium, Bangalore on Saturday. In this event silver medal won by Vikrant Malik of Haryana with distance of 63.96 meter and bronze medal received by Mulayam Singh Yadav of Pondichery with distance of 63.29 meter. Another Odisha athlete Rjeswari Bhoi in girls-18 category heptathlon event won the silver medal by scoring 4756 points. In this event gold medal won by West Bengal girl Swapna Barman with 4992 points and bronze medal won by M Sowmiya of Tamilnadu with 4498 points. A 18-member Odisha contingent participated in the five-day-long meet, which kicks started on December 3. Odisha bagged one gold, three silver, three bronze and finished 12th with 52 points. While, Kerala emerged overall champion with 585 points and Tamilnadu claimed the runners-up trophy with 361.5 points.
KISS lift YMCA Inter-School Football title
Bhubaneswar : KISS (red) emerged champion by defeating Tapoban High School by 4-0 goals in the final of the YMCA Inter-School Football Tournament, which concluded at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday. Hindurai Soren of the champion team scored double goals in the 42nd and 46th minutes respectively. Chaturananda Marandi and Bholanath Sardar netted a goal each in the 17th and 30th minutes respectively. Chaturananda, Bholanath and Khageswar Hansda of the champion team bagged the best forward, man of the final and best defender awards respectively. Susanta Soren and Mohan Hansda of the runners-up team received the best goalkeeper and best half award respectively. Former National women team captain Sradhanjali Samantary distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony in presence of former assistant director of Sports and youth Services Department, Bhubaneswar Athletic Association secretary SR Parija,vice-president Naba Ranjan Patnaik and football coach RK Mandal.
OPTCl, Infosys win in Secretariat Cup Cricket
Bhubaneswar : OPTCl and Infosya defeated ESS and Reliance by 32 runs and nine wickets respectively in the 15th Secretariat Cup Cricket Tournament at Indira Maidan here on Saturday. Batting first, lalatendu Bairanjan of OPTCl smashed an unbeaten 50 runs and team total reached 159 runs for the loss of four wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Soumitra Sethy and Amitav Rout of OPTCl scalped two wickets each and restricted ESS for 127 runs in 20 overs for the loss of five wickets. lalatendu of the winning team received the man of the match award. In another match, Infosys pipped Reliance by nine wickets and Sunny Deol of the winning team won the man of the match award.
Brief score: OPTCl 159/4 in 20 overs (lalatendu Bairanjan 50n.o; Pratap Sahoo 39, Sambit Harichandan 22) beat ESS 127/5 in 20 overs (Rashami Rajan Praharaj 38, Subashish Pattnaik 30; Soumitra Sethy and Amitav Rout two wkts each) by 32 runs. Reliance 84/10 in 19.3 over (Kallol Saha 27; Sunny Deol 4/11, Aritra 3 wkts) lost to Infosys 86/1 in 8.3 overs (Sujoy Mukhapadhaya 35 n.o; Sandeep 31) by 9 wickets.
AG team win in State TT meet
Bhubaneswar : Accountant General (AG) team emerged champion in the men’s team event by eliminating Cuttack-A by 3-2 in the Inter District and State Table Tennis Championship at Table Tennis Academy Indoor Hall in Angul on Saturday, being organised by Angul District Athletic Association under the aegis of Odisha State Table tennis Association. Earlier, AG and Cuttack-A reached the finals by defeating Cuttack-B and Rourkela Steel Plant respectively. AG team comprises of D Debudutta Mohanty, Sagar Ghatge, Kallol Ganguly, KVP Rama Rao and Cuttack-A consists of Tousif Haque, Tohid Haque, Md. Azhar, Digant Parida. Similarly, RSP defeated Bhubaneswar Table Tennis Association (BTTA) 3-1 games while Cuttack-A defeated Cuttack-B 3-0 and booked their birth for the junior team event title clash. In the final, Cuttack-A (K Kartik , M Eshawar Rao, T Shiva) edged out RSP (Bikash Singh, Janmajay Moharana, Bikash Behera, Harish Bagh) by 3-2 and bagged the title. The meager upset of the day caused by Anjali Agarwal in women’s single event by defeating Samartha Prusty of BTTA in the round robin league match.
Balinali lifts OP Jindal inter-village Trophy
Angul : Balinali emerged as the champion of the three-day-long OP Jindal inter-village Volleyball Trophy by defeating two time champion Natada by 3-0 sets, being organised by the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) department of Jindal Steel & Power ltd. (JSPl) in association with Bada Mahitala and Gopabandhu Nagar Village Committee . The winners team was awarded with a trophy and cash prize of Rs 7,000 and the runners-up team was awarded with a trophy and cash prize of Rs 5,000, while Siddhartha Sahoo of Balinali was awarded with a trophy and cash prize of Rs 1000/- for putting his outstanding efforts in the tournament and claimed the ‘Best player of the tournament’ award. Total 16 team from the vicinity participated in this OP Jindal inter-village tournament which started on December 5. Chief-guest and guests of honour of the occasions were Chairman, Angul Municipality, Akshay Samant, District Sports Officer, Angul Mahendra Kumar Sahoo, IIC Nisha, Police Station, Bhabani Shankar Udgata, Mahitala Village President Dayanidhi Gadnaik, Natada sarpanch Reenabala Sahu. Executive Director of JSPl Rakesh Kumar as Chief Patron, along with other dignitaries and gave the awards to the teams and its players. Appreciating the sportsman spirit of the local youths Chairman Angul Municiapality Samant said, “JSPl is such an organisation in this locality which is well known for its CSR activities and I am really delighted to watch sports talent in the villages that have the potential to play at District and State level”. Addressing the players on the occasion, Rakesh Kumar said, \\”it is good to see you all playing with enthuse and spirit and hopes district administration for organising coaching camps. Addressing the players of this locality Prashant Hota, Vice-President CSR & CC said, “JSPl has been holding such tournaments for the past few years to induct constructive and positive paradigm in the local youth.