Manas sole leader in Odisha Open Chess
Bhubaneswar : Top seed Manas Parida scored six points by the end of sixth round in the 9th All Odisha Open Chess Championship held at Secretariat Recreation Club here on Monday. Manas closely followed by Santosh Sinha of Puri with 5.5 points. Altogether 10 players scored five points each and jointly placed in the third place. Bibhuti Mohanty, DSP Rao, Sanjeeban Nayak, D Das, Gangadhar Panda, S Nayak, Chandan Pradhan, Braja Moharana, N Sundar Rajan and Bahadur Patra are in third place. Manas Parida defeated 3rd seed Bibhuti Mohanty of Puri in the 6th round on the 1st board. Bibhuti committed a blunder under time-pressure and lost a dead draw game. The tournament is conducted by Debasis Panigrahi, Games Director of Orissa State Chess Association.
NAFA felicitate School champion women soccer team
Bhubaneswar : Nita Ambani Football Academy (NAFA) coach Nanda Kishor Pattnaik felicitated Inter-School champion Bhubaneswar women football team in presence of sports hostel women football coach Sarita Jayanti Behera here at Kalinga Stadium here on Monday. The school team emerged champion by defeating Mayurbhanj by 8-0 goals at Angul on March 29. In the semifinal team edged out Kendrapada by 4-0 goals and in the quarterfinal thrashed Cuttack by 6-0 goals. Altogether 10 teams participated in the two day long meet. The champion Bhubaneswar team nailed total 18 goals against zero in the meet. The goalkeeper Albina lakra played a vital role and bagged the best goalkeeper award and our star striker Jasmani Samad netted six goals and received best scorer of the tournament, said coach Urmila Das. The team was accompanied by Sarbeswar Barik and Akhaya Patnaik as manager. Total seven girls got selected for the State team out of which two girls would be stand-bay list. The selected State team would participate in the National School Games schedule to held at Pune in Maharashtra on May, added Das.
Semifinalists spotted in Bhagyadhar football
Bhubaneswar : East Coast Railway of Khurda and Yazdani Club-73 of Bhubaneswar would meet Sports Hostel and Odisha Police both Cuttack teams respectively in the Bhagyadhar Trophy All Odisha Day and Night Football Tournament at Indira Maidan here on Tuesday. The nail biting quarterfinal match between East Coast Railway and Kishor Club of Bhubaneswar ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time. In the penalty kicks, Railway edged out Kishor by 4-2 goals. In another match, Odisha Police defeated Barbil lancer by 3-0 goals. Md Miraz Khalid draw the first blood in the 11th minute and his-mate Ramesh Nayak double the lead in the 45th minute. After the change of sides, Adil Khan nailed the final goal in the 50th minute. Siba Sankar Panda, Prasant Nayak, Somanath Barik, Durga Madhav Acharay, Sudipta Das, Sekhawat Khan, Chitrambada Patra and Chandrakant Barik were the officials who conducted the matches.
Delhi, Chandigarh win Baseball tourney
Bhubaneswar : Delhi eves and Chandigarh boys emerged champion by defeating Goa and Delhi respectively in the five-day-long 25th Junior National Baseball Championship, which concluded at Satyabrata Stadium in Cuttack on Monday, being organized by Baseball Association of Odisha (BAO). Odisha and Uttarakhand boys jointly placed in the third place. Similarly, in the girls event third place was shared by Chandigarh and Maharashtra. Odisha senior women team was felicitated on the closing ceremony as they were champion in the 27th Senior National Baseball Championship held at Solapur in Maharashtra. Patitapaban Panda distributed the prizes in presence of BAO president Pankaj lochan Mohanty, secretary Sibananda Pradhan and organizing secretary Anjan Kumar Khuntia.
Debadulav, Umashankar bag double medal
Bhubaneswar : Debadulav Das and Umasankar Mohapatra bagged double medals each in the one-day Secretariat Open Badminton Championship at Unit-1 Indoor Stadium here on Sunday. Debadulav and Mahendra Kumar duo edged out Umashankar Mohapatra and partner Ramakant Das and bagged the senior doubles title. In the senior singles final, Debadulav defeated his doubles partner Mahendra by 25-23,21-18 and bagged his second title in the meet. Similarly, in the veteran doubles final, Umasankar Mohapatra and his partner Ramakant Das pipped lalit Mohan Patnaik and Baresh Nath Pradhan by 21-13,15-21,21-18 and received the champions trophy. The veteran singles title grabbed by Umasankar be eliminating his doubles partner Ramakant by 21-18,17-21,21-16. Finance Department Cultural Association president Sailendra Kumar Rout, secretary Pravat Kumar Patra, sports secretary Tarun Chandra Pal were present in the closing ceremony.