120 INF win in Kalinga Cup Basketball
Bhubaneswar: 120 INF BN defeated Shining Star Basketball Club by 59-57 points in the Kalinga Cup Basketball Tournament on Tuesday.
Though Subham Samal of Shining Star scored highest 22 points but the team suffered defeat. Sangram Das and Ramtosh Rajbahar of the winning team scored 16 and 14 points respectively. In another match, Shining Star defeated Sports Hostel by 65-31 points. However, in a high scoring match, Kalinga Basketball Club (KBC) beat IMFA Basketball Club by 72-63 points. Tanmay Beura and Rajesh Sashani of KBC netted 20 and 15 points respectively.
Independent, Radha Gobinda win in Kalinga Cup
Bhubaneswar: Sk Mustakin and Prasanta Naik of Independent Club of Cuttack netted a double goals each and powered the team to beat Army-XI of Bangalore by 4-2 goals in the All India Kalinga Cup Football Tournament at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday. Sk Mustakim scored double goal in the 5th and 30th minute and Prasant netted twice in the 39th and 51st minutes. The goal scorer for Army Xl of Bangalore were Ramu V and lalaramanlenga Mawia one goal at 41st and 74th minutes respectively. Bugai Soren (Jharkhand), Tanmaoy Dhar (West Bengal), PK Pal and Srikant Bohidar (both of Odisha) were officiated the match as referees. In the second match between Radha Gobinda Club of Cuttack and SBT of Kerala ended in 1-1 goal draw in the regulation time. Kerala got the lead in the 25th minute through the goal by Jijo Joseph. After the lemon breaks, Rajak Nag of Radhagobinda Club scored the equalizer in the 79th minute. Radha Gobinda Club won the match by tie breaker in 6-5 goals. The officials who conducted the Match were Ajit Dutta (West Bengal), SubratPurohit, Bhanu Bauri and Chandrakanta Barik (all Odisha).
Soumya bags gold in Civil Service Chess
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’ first Fide Master Soumya ranjan Mishra won gold medal in the All India Civil Services Chess Tournament, which concluded on Tuesday at TT Nagar Stadium at Bhopal. Soumya is the first player of Odisha to win a gold medal in the history of the All India civil services chess tournament. Soumya scored 7.5 points out of 9 rounds. six win, three draw and remain unbeaten in the tournament. Total 120 players including 69 rated players were participated in the meet .Gurpreet singh Maras of Mumbai and Tarun Sharma of Rajsthan won silver and bronze respectively. Soumya is now working in (CPMG)Chief Post Master General office here.
Biju Pattnaik Gold Cup U-15 Football from today
Bhubaneswar: Unit-Vi Athletic Association is all set to organise the 8th Biju Pattnaik Gold Cup Inter-District U-15 Football Tournament from November 19 to 23 at Unit-6 High School Ground on Wednesday. Altogether 10 teams would participate in the meet. The defending champion Sambalpur Sports Hostel and runners-up Cuttack Sports Hostel would not participate in the meet due to age limitation. Total 40 players would be selected for a camp here out of which few talented junior players would be selected to join Tata Football Academy for three weeks. In the inaugural match, KISS School would meet United Football Team of Cuttack on Wednesday.