YGTTA All Odisha TT begins
Bhubaneswar: The Annual 22nd YGTTA All Odisha Open Table Tennis Championship 2014 got underway at Sachin Tendulkar Indoor Hall ,Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Friday. Aashirbad Behera the Hony.Secretary Odisha Olympic Association and OCA inaugurated the championship as the chief guest in presence of Rabindra Kumar Parida, Hony secy OSTTA,Satya Mohanty , Treasurer OCA , Sanjib Dutta ,Jt.secy OOA, G C Bose, President YGTTA, CR Mohanty, Vice President OSTTA, Nihar Ranjan Mishra, Organising Secy YGTTA and Treasurer OSTTA among others. In the beginning guests and the participants observed silence in memory of late Binay Kumar Pal (International Table Tennis Umpire), and late Balwant Singh ( State Table Tennis Player). In the three-day-long meet nearly 150 players including 30 women are taking part. The players would participate in 10 events (9 single and one double). This is a State Ranking Tournament played under the aegis of Odisha State table Tennis Assn. Umpires Sujit Roy, Jiban Ballav Samal,Tapan Kha, Bijon Das Mohapatra,KSN Murty,Rama Rao, K Ganguly,Chinna rao, Bhaskar are conducting the matches.
Seminar for video analyst held
Bhubaneswar: A two-day long refresher’s seminar for senior video analyst for East Zone was organised by Odisha Cricket Association under the aegis of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) on 21st and 22nd August 2014 at OCA Conference Hall, Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. 23 nos. Senior Video Analysts from East Zone (Odisha, Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam and Tripura) attended the programme and they were updated by the latest technique and skill of video analysis which will be helpful for then in the forthcoming BCCI Domestic Tournaments. Sumeet Malapurkar, Asst. Manager, Cricket Operations, BCCI and Ashutosh Dandige, Technical Video Analyst of BCCI acted as the resource persons of the aforesaid seminar. Satya Mohanty, Hony. Treasurer and Sanjib Kumar Dutta, Hony. Jt. Secretary of the Odisha Cricket Association was graced the Opening and Valedictory session of the Seminar as the Guests of the occasion. Subhasis Jena, Sawan Padhi, Tapas Kumar Nayak and Raj Kamal Singh, Senior Video Analysts of OCA participated in the Seminar.
Rourkela lift Women Football trophy
Rourkela: local favourite Rourkela emerged champion of the All Odisha State level Women Football Tournament by defeating Sundargarh by 1-0 goal, which concluded at Ispat Stadium in Rourkela on Friday being organised by Panposh Sports Association (PSA). After the barren first half, Arati Khada scored the sole goal in the 53rd minute and powered the team to register victory. While Parbati Kujur of Rourkela team adjudged as player of the final, Arati Khadia awarded with player of the tournament. Similarly Dighi Majhi of Sundargarh declared as best defender, Sita Sharma of Rourkela as best Goal Keeper, Kunti Kumari lakra of Rourkela as Mid Fielder and Pyari Xaxa of Sundargarh as best striker. Ajya Mohanty, Prasant Kumar Pal, T Mohan Rao, Chitrambada Patra and Bishnupriya Das were the officials who conducted the match. Manjari Prasad, President, Deepika ladies Club, OSAP 4th Battalion Commandant, Subash Chandra Samal and Bhakta Ballav Das, Vice President, FAO and President, Odisha Veteran Football Association were graced the occasion as distinguished guests. PSA officials Grogary Minz, Sushant Behera, Mahendra Mishra and Bikram Swain were also present. Both the Rourkela and Sundargarh team were given champions and runners up trophy respectively.
BJEM, KV-II win in Inter-School Football tourney
Bhubaneswar: Buxi Jagabandhu English Medium (BJEM) School and Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) -II defeated St Joseph High School and DAV Pokhariput respectively in the league round matches of the 25th Kalinga Marine Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground on Friday. Abhijit Saho of BJEM netted the all important goals in the 22 minutes and team registered victory against St Joseph in the group-F league match. Abhijit bagged the man of the match award. In the group-H league match, Asutosh Basantary and Asis Kumar Barik of KV-II scored a goal each in the 13th and 24th minutes respectively and guided the team to beat DAV Pokhariput by 2-0 goals. Asis of winner team received the man of the match award. Rajendra Barik, Durga Acharya, Saroj Maharana and Prakash Das were conducted the matches as referees. DAV Unit-8 and KISS School would meet Xavier School Khandagiri and DAV Chandrashekharpur respectively in the league round matches on Saturday.