Chandrashekharpur beat City
Bhubaneswar: Chandrashekharpur Athletic Association defeated City Club by 2-1 goals in the group-B league match of the 11th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-B Football league at Unit-1 High School Play Ground here on Thursday. Chandrashekharpur got the lead in the 11th minute by Baraju Marandi. Sayad B Rashedin of City Club scored the equaliser in the 36th minute. Bhagabat Murmu of the winning team scored a goal in the 40th minute. Durga Acharya, Suphal Roy, Manoj Soren and Prasanta Naik were the officials who conducted the match. In the group-A league match on Friday, GGP Football Club would meet Kalinga Sporting.
DPS, SAI enter Inter-School Football quarters
Bhubaneswar: Delhi Public School (Kalinga) edged out Sri Aurobinda Institute of Integral Education (Khandagiri) 5-4 via sudden death tie-breaker to advance to the quarterfinals of the 25th Kalinga Marine-Bibekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-VI Govt Boys’ High School Ground here on Thursday. Penalty shoot-out rule was applied after play in the regulation time ended in 1-1 draw. DPS forged ahead when their key centre-forward Dhyanendra Bhanjdeo scored in the 19th minute, cleverly chipping the ball over an advancing opposition goalkeeper Jagan Behera. NA Narayan Rout equalised for Sri Aurobinda, tapping home off a flag kick in the 35th minute. In the tie-breaker, both the teams started well with Dhyanendra Bhanjadeo and Narayan Rout converting the first spot kicks for DPS and Sri Aurobinda respectively. But stalemate continued as the next four kicks of both the sides were either saved or missed the target. In the sudden death, teams were tied 2-2 with Shivam Ray, Agneyakar Mohapatra of DPS and Jagan Behera, Abhaya Naik of Sri Aurobinda making no mistake in converting respective kicks. At that juncture, lady luck smiled on DPS, who clinched victory thanks to Aditya Pradhan shooting home successfully and their tall goalkeeper Suvankar Das saving the opposition kick. Sri Aurobinda custodian Jagan Behera was adjudged the match for effecting two saves in the penalty shoot out many more in the regulation time. The match was officiated by Saroj Moharana, Durga Routray, Rajendra Barik and Basant Sahoo. Earlier in the day, Sai International School made a free entry to the last-eight round, getting walk-over against DAV School, Unit-VIII, who failed to turn up for their pre-quarterfinal match. Friday will be the restday of the tournament and an exhibition match among physical education teachers of city schools will take place on the occasion of Teachers Day.
Birendra lakra selected for Asian Games
Bhubaneswar: Hockey India on Thursday today announced the 16 member Indian Men’s Hockey team for the 17th Asian Games 2014, scheduled to take place at Incheon, South Korea from 19 September 4 October 2014. Odisha’s defender Birendra lakra the only players of the State got selected in the national team. The team of 16 players for the 17th Asian Games 2014 was selected by Hockey India selectors B P Govinda, Harbinder Singh, Dr. R P Singh and Arjun Halappa alongwith Director High Performance Roelant Oltmans and Chief Coach Terry Walsh on the basis of their performance in the recently concluded XX Commonwealth Games 2014, Bangladesh tour and selection trials conducted at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi August 11. Midfielder Sardar Singh (191 caps) will be leading the team as the Captain while goalkeeper P R Sreejesh (106 caps) will be seen as the Vice-Captain of the team. India will be seen playing their first match in the Asian Games 2014 against Sri lanka on 21 September 2014 which will be followed by clashes against Oman on 23 September 2014, the most awaited match against Pakistan on 25 September 2014 and China on 27 September 2014. Pocketing a Bronze medal finish in the 2010 Asian Games at Guangzhou, India will now be looking to better the results in this season. list of Players: Goalkeepers; P R Sreejesh (106 Caps) Vice-Captain, Defenders: Gurbaj Singh (170 Caps), Birendra lakra (77 Caps), Rupinder Pal Singh (95 Caps), Kothajit Singh (77 Caps), V R Raghunath (166 Caps), Midfielders: Dharamvir Singh (81 Caps), Sardar Singh (191 Caps) Captain, Danish Mujtaba (117 Caps), Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (58 Caps), Manpreet Singh (103 Caps), Forwards: Ramandeep Singh (17 Caps), Akashdeep Singh (47 Caps), S V Sunil (143 Caps), Gurwinder Singh Chandi (103 Caps), Nikkin Thimmaiah (17 Caps).
Adhip nominated as IOA Executive Council member
Bhubaneswar: Adhip Das of our State nominated as a executive council member of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), informed Odisha Olympic Association general secretary Asirbad Behera. Adhip worked for the development of the sports in our State in different position. Balasore District Athletic Association secretary and Odisha Olympic Association treasurer Adhip nominated as executive council. OOA secretary Asirbad wishes him for nominated as an executive member of IOA.