AG lift Pravakar Memorial Football title
Bhubaneswar: Accountant of General (AG) Odisha defeated Unit-6 Athletic Association by 1-0 goal in the final match and bagged the champion trophy of the Pravakar Das Memorial Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Sunday. After the barren first-half, Nipendra Das of the champion team scored the all important goal in the 47th minute. Chetan Nayak and Jayant Rout of the AG team received the man of the final and best defence awards respectively. Prakash Nayak and Surya Patnaik of the Unit-6 won the best forward and half awards respectively. The champion team bagged the trophy along with cash prize of `10,000 and the runners-up team richer by `5,000. Industrial Tara Ranjan Patnaik distributed the prizes.
Bihar bag Chandan Cup Women Football title
Bhubaneswar: Kamala Debi of East Central Railway of Bihar netted double goals and helped the team to emerge champion in the All India Chandan Cup Women’s Football Tournament at Biju Pattnaik Playground in Baramunda by defeating Cuttack by 3-0 goals in the final, being organised by Odisha Veer Mahasangh (OVM). National team captain Sasmita Mallick draw the fist blood in the 21st minute. After the lemon breaks, Kamala Debi netted two goals in the 40th and 70th minutes. Kamala of the champion team received best forward and player of the tournament awrds. Bishnu Priya Mahanta and Pravasini Panda of the runners-up team received the best goalkeeper and defence awards respectively. The champion Bihar bagged the trophy along with cash prize of `15,000 and the runners-up team took home `10,000. BJP leader Biswa Bhusana Harichandan distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony.
Sunrise Club lift Biju Pattanaik football trophy
Rourkela: Sunrise Club, Koira won the 10th All India Biju Pattanaik Memorial Ball Tornament-2014 defeating SAI (Sports Authority of India), Cuttack by 4-1 goals in a sensation final match held on Sunday here at Ispat Stadium. While for Sunrise Club Shyam Bankira, Bhusan Murmu, Murphy and Sankha Munda scored one goal each in 24th, 59th, 76th & 89th minute respectively Bablu Murmu of SAI scored the sole goal for his team in 83rd minute. While Champion team received the trophy along with cash prize of `50000 and the runners-up team got trophy and `30000. Former India Team Captain and Kerala Police Team Chief Coach IM Vijayan was specially felicitated by the organiser of tournament Rourkela Sports Association (RSA). Sunrise club goalkeeper Piten Mukhi adjudged as man of the final. In the prize giving ceremony IM Vijayan and Panposh Sub Collector SB Mishra graced as guests and RSA President Mihir Ray, Secretary Bhaskar Nanda and members were present.
lPU beat OUAT in SPl T20 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: lovely Professional University, Phagwara, edged out local challengers Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) in a thrilling encounter as the 5th edition of the SOA Premier league (SPl) kicked off at the SOA University Stadium here on Sunday. The Group-C match ended in a tie after which lPU, who had finished runner-up in the tournament last year, won the tie in the nerve-wracking super over. OUAT, after winning the toss, asked the visitors to bat first and bowled them out for 167 runs in the allotted 20 overs with Amit Sundar top scoring with 60 off 42 balls.He hit eight boundaries and two sixes. Mahendra Sarmath (3/41) and Debasis Das (2/19) were the successful bowlers for OUAT. Jitendra, with 45 (5x4, 1x6) off 27 balls, kept OUAT's hopes of reaching the rather stiff target, but the local challengers were also dismissed for exactly the same score in 20 overs. Rishav Muthoo claimed three wickets for lPU conceding 24 runs. In the super over that was played to decide the winner, OUAT could score only 6 runs and lPU hit seven off only four balls to emerge victorious. Twelve different University teams are participating in the T-20 tournament the final of which will be played on February 28. The winners will be presented a cash award of ` 1,00,000 while the runner-up will take home `50,000 besides trophies.