Mishra to lead SOAU Basketball team
Bhubaneswar: Saurav Mishra will lead a 12-member SOA University team in the East Zone Inter-University Basketball tournament to be held at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, from December 13 to 16, according to a SOA University release here on Wednesday. The team comprises Saurav Mishra (Capt), Aditya Das, Biswa Bignesh Das, Bibhabasu Das, Subrat Kumar Patro, B.Kishan, Pradipta Nanda Dalai, Gyanendu Samanta, Suvimal Sourabh, Siddharth Satapathy, Aditya Bikram and Abhishek Kumar Singh. Sunita Burma will be the coach of the team while Baresh Mishra will be the manager.
Odisha eves beat Mumbai in Women Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Both the opener Madhuri Meheta and Sarita Meher scored a half century each and powered the team to beat Mumbai by huge 159 runs in the Senior Women One-day Elite ‘B’ Group league cricket match at Bandra in Mumbai on Wednesday. Batting first, Madhuri scored 55 runs and her opening partner Sarita Meher contributed an unbeaten 68 runs and team total reached 187 runs in 50 overs by losing three wickets. In reply, Ritu Singh and Sushree Dibyadarshini of Odisha scalped four and three wickets respectively and restricted Mumbai innings for 28 in 19 overs.
Brief score: Odisha 187/3 in 50 overs (Madhuri Meher 55, Sarita Meher 68 n.o; Swagatika Rath 23) beat Mumbai 28/10 in 19 overs (Ritu Singh 4/14, Sushree Dibyadarshini 3/0) by 159 runs.
Yazdani Club-73 enters Tamando Cup Football semis
Bhubaneswar: Yazdani Club-73 of Bhubaneswar entered the semifinal of the All Odisha 23rd Tamando Cup Football Tournament at the city outskirts on Wednesday, by defeating AK Club of Angul by 3-2 goals.Bharat Munda 0f the winning team netted double goals and his mate Prasant Nayak scored a goal. Nigerian Obiwin Williams of AK Club scored twice and lost the match. Kuberpuri Business Sangha secretary Sakti Sankar Mishra distributed the man of the match award to Williams. Sudipta Das, Priyabrata Bahinipati, Susanta Mishra and Abhinas Patnaik were officiated the match. In the semifinal match on Thursday, Club-73 would meet East Coast Railway.
1.70l Cash award Nalco Cup tennis from dec 19
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar District Tennis Association (BDTA) is all set to organise the State’s biggest tennis event 16th All Odisha Nalco Open Tennis Tournament at Kalinga Stadium here from December 19 to 21, informed BDTA president Suresh Chandra Mohapatra in a Press Meet here on Wednesday. “It will be a well organised tournament, to motivate and promote tennis among the junior players, In the process tennis spread length and breadth of the State. The numbers of participants are increasing every year in the tournament, said Mohapatra. In our future plane, to give more exposer and priority to the junior players, year 2015 onwards, we are planning to give only trophies in the veteran categories and coaches would not be allowed to participate in the meet, so that budding talents would get the total cash award and to get the opportunity to play among themselves, Said Mohapatra. As like previous years, more than 300 players from across the State are expected to participate in eight different categories. The tournament is featuring highest cash award of Rs 1.70 lakhs, in the previous year the cash award was Rs 1.39 lakhs and the players would get the prizes from the quarterfinal rounds, added Mohapatra. “The outstation players would get fixed allowances and their food and staying to be arranged by the host. This tournament not only carries highest cash award but also the participant’s number is highest, also increasing every year”, said Mohapatra. “ The players would participate in U-12 ,U-16 boys (singles), Women singles, men’ single, doubles, men’s veteran (40 years+), (50 years +) and (60 years +) doubles categories. We have started this tournament with a motive to promote and popularise the tennis among the common masses, the growing interest among the players and with the different clubs speaks volumes about the success of the tournament. Among others BDTA secretary Saroj Kumar Sahu and joint secretary R Viswanath were present.