Sarat Tripathy memorial football from Dec 26
Bhubaneswar : The Chand Club of Cuttack is all set to host the 25th Sarat Tripathy Memorial All Odisha Football Tournament at Sayeed Seminary School in Cuttack from December 26 to January 3. Top eight teams of the twin-city will take part in the silver jubilee tournament. To make the tournament grand success a organising committee meeting was held in the club premises. President Mustafiz Ahmad presided over the meeting, it was unanimously decided that OCA and OAA secretary Asirbad Behera will be the organising committee chairman. To commemorate the silver jubilee of the tournament, an exhibition match would be held between Veteran-XI and Media-XI on January 1. Among others Mansa Samala, Aga Zahar, Subhasis Kar, Mansoor Ali, Sayed Jabbar, Md Sukur, Ramzzan Ali, Sk Sallahuddin, lalatendu Pradhan, Prasant Kumar Mohanty, Sk Ehssan, Sk Akmal and Abdul Karim were present.
Satirtha, Biranchi bag double titles in Nalco Tennis
Bhubaneswar : Young Satirtha Patnaik and veteran Biranchi Narayan Mohanty bagged double titles in the three-day-long 15th Nalco Open Tennis Tournament, which concluded at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday, being organised by Bhubaneswar District Tennis Association (BDTA). Satirtha edged out his doubles partner Ajay Kumar Nishank 6-2,4-6, 6-2 in the men’s singles event and bagged the champions trophy. Similarly in the men’s doubles event, Satritha and Ajaya defeated Santosh Mallik and Vibek Tibarewal 9-4 and grabbed the title. Alisha Samal emerged champion in the women’s single event by eliminating Rutuparna Choudhury 6-4,6-2. Both the veteran events dominated by Biranchi, he and his partner R Viswanath won the veteran 45+ category. Similarly, he and P Basa received the veteran 55+ title. DGP Prakash Mishra, Nalco CMD Ansuman Dash, Sports and Youth Services secretary Saswat Mishra,SS Mahapatra, BDTA secretary Saroj Sahu and BDTA members were present in the closing ceremony.
Final results: Men's singles; Satirtha Patnaik bt Ajay Kumar Nishank 6-2,4-6, 6-2, Women’s singles;Alisha Samal bt Rutuparna Choudhury 6-4,6-2, Boys singles U-12; Kabir Hans bt Pratyush Mohanty 7-5,6-0, Boys singles U-16; Avilash Mishra bt Nishant Kumar 7-5,6-1, Men’s double; Ajay Kumar Nishank and Sartirtha Patnaik bt Santosh Mallik and Vibek Tibarewal 9-4, Veteran 45+ doubles; Biranchi Narayan Mohanty and R Viswanath bt D Tunga and Jhadeswar Das 7-4, Veteran 55+ doubles; Biranchi Narayan Mohanty and P Basa bt PK Baxi and V Raman 7-6 (7-1).
Kishor, Bhotapada win Gyana Patnaik Football title
Bhubaneswar : Kishor Club of Bhubaneswar and Bhotapada emerged champion in the town and village categories respectively in the Gyana Patnaik Memorial Football Tournament, which concluded at Gandarpur here in the city outskirt on Sunday. In the town category, Kishor Club edged out East Coast Railway by 2-0 goals, Manoj Nayak and Sk Sandi of the Kishor Club scored a goal each in the 15th and 34th minutes respectively. In the 57th minute Sk Mustakin of Railway netted goal. Champion Kishor Club received the trophy along with cash prize of `20,000 and the runners-up team richer by `15,000. Sk Alam of the champion team bagged the man of the tournament award. In village event final match, Salman Soren of the Bhotapade scored the all important goal and the team beat Gothapur by 1-0 goal. The champion Bhotapada won the trophy along with cash prize of `10,000 and the runners-up took home `7,000.Salman of the winning team received the man of the tournament award.
Cuttack beat Rayagada in Sahani Cup football
Bhubaneswar : Somanath Nayak of Cuttack nailed three goals and powered the team to beat Rayagada by 8-1 goals in the Senior Men Inter District Football Championship for Sahani Cup at Talcher on Sunday. Somanath scored the goals in 28th,35th and 86th minutes respectively, Sanatan lohar (8th,57th) and Arjun Nayak (31st,52nd ) scored two goals each and Surendra Soren scored a goal in the 61 minutes. Bansi Sagar of Rayagada scored the solitary goal in the ninth minute. Baragarh defeated Khurdha by 3-1 goals at Angul. The goal scorer for Baragarh was Bhabani Shankar Majhi two goals at 18th and 22nd minutes and Hrushikesh Pandey one goal at 38 mins and the goal scorer for Khurdha was Debashish Naik at 57 mins. Chandra Sekhar Behera of Paradeep Port scored the all important goal in the 85th minute and team pipped Rourkela Steel Plant by 1-0 goal at Pallahada. In the match played between Phulbani and Kendrapada ended in 0-0 draw in the regulation time at Athamalik. In the kicks from the penalty rule again the match ended in a draw (5-5). In the sudden death Kendrapada beat Phulbani by 7-6.
Khatti Thugs to organise football screening
Bhubaneswar : Khatti Thugs is a group, comprising of a group of friends who have been together to conduct events all over the entire city to provide viewing of popular football matches to be projected live during the events along with creating a party ambiance by executing a dj night performance simultaneously to cheer up people's mood. The city soccer lovers will get an atmosphere where they can watch the match of Chelsea FC and liverpool FC in a big screen with electrifying environment, at Keshari Hotel here on December 29, informed Archie Patnaik in a Press Meet here on Sunday. Khatti Thugs members felicitated former national women team captain Sradhanjali Samantary and Nita Ambani Football Academy coach Nanda Kishor Patnaik. Football is a massive sport all over the world, played and watched by millions of fans worldwide. It hasn't got the same level of acknowledgment in our country. The idea behind the event is to provide football fans in the city something to cherish about football. Football screenings are very common in the major cities of India, but completely alien to fans in our city, said Amlan Kumar. The intent behind organising such an event is not to earn profit, but to introduce the people of the city to football screenings. If the response is good, we will organise screenings of all club football derbies in the future, said Sanket Mahapatra.
Sujata scalps 7 wkt, Odisha thrash Kerala
Bhubaneswar : A seven-wicket haul by Sujata Mallik of Odisha helped the team to beat Kerala by huge 104 runs in the plate-A group senior women’s one-day match at Vijayawada on Sunday. With the win Odisha bagged four points. Winning the toss, Odisha elected to bat first, Madusmita Behera (37) and Kadambini Mohakud (28) stitched 69 runs for the first wicket and in the end Sushree Pradhan contributed an unbeaten 23 runs helped the team to reach 154 runs in 50 overs for the loss of nine wickets. In reply, the devastating bowling of Sujata who claimed seven wickets by giving only 14 runs and restricted Kerala for 5o runs in 24.5 overs.
Brief score: Odisha 154/9 in 50 overs (Madhusmita Behera 37, Kadambini Mahakudu 28, Sushree Pradhan 23 n.o; Anjana Paul 2/14) beat Kerala 50/10 in 24.5 overs (T Shani 26; Sujata Mallik 7/14) by 104 runs..