Football team announced for Santosh Trophy
Bhubaneswar: Football Association of Odisha (FAO) has announced a 20-member State team to participate in the 69th national Football Championship for Santosh Trophy-2015 (East Zone Qualifying Round) to be held at JRD Sports Complex, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand from January 15 to 20. Sk Zahid would lead the team as captain. Akshya Das, Ashok Panda and Shuvendu Panda would accompany the team as coach, goalkeeper coach and manager respectively. Odisha would meet Sikkim, Chhattishgarh and Railway on January 16,18 and 20 respectively. State Team: Sk. Kamaluddin (Cuttack), laxman Murmu (Mayurbhanj), U.Shyam Sunder Reddy (Cuttack), Sk. Zahid (Cuttack), Sk. Shahabaaz Alam (Rourkela), Sk Rohit (Cuttack), Rudra Prasad Pradhan (Sports Hostel), Janmo Xess (Rourkela), Mukesh Kumar Bhoi (Baragarh), Sk. Mustakim (Railway), Mohasin Khan (Cuttack), Surendra Soren (Sports Hostel), Sunil Marndi (Angul), Antarjami Naik (Angul), Sankho Marandi (Bhubaneswar), Md Meraj Khalid Danish (Jajpur), Ramdas Hansdah (Odisha Police), Sk. Juber (Cuttack), Ranjit Kerketta (Rourkela), Mohammad Imtiaz (Cuttack).
19 lifters to participate in National Sub-Jr meet
Berhampur: The 10th National Female and Male Sub-Junior Weight lifting Competition will be held at Jagadhari in Haryana from January 16 in which eleven female and eight male competitors from the State have been selected to participate in the above national level competitions, said Narayan Sahu, the honorary secretary of Odisha Weight lifting Association in a press release on Monday. The competitors from Odisha who have been selected to participate in girls group are Jyoti Badamundi, Namita Mallick, Jhilli Dalabehera, Pinki Nayak, Mati Janee, Shanti Gadkami, Tuni Mondal, Seetamani Hembram, Bhavani Tokiya, Santoshini Kaonar and Santoshini Ghadai. Similarly in boys group, Jagdish Nayak, Srikanta Mallick, Bidyadhar Sahu, Rama Chandra Hembram, Uma Sethi, Rajendra Muduli, Sanatan Mallick and Shaktiprasad Swain. Manager Gagareen Nayak, coach Pramod Mohanty and Cormec Whealen respectively accompanied the players to Haryana, the release pointed out. Naryan Sahu and well known coach Ramesh Padhi are quite optimistic of the players in winning medal in the ensuing national completion.
Soumya bags gold in All India Postal Chess
Bhubaneswar: Fide Master Soumya Ranjan Mishra of Odisha won the gold medal in the 29th All India Postal Chess Championship concluded at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Monday. This championship was started from January 6 to 12, being organised by Tamil Nadu Postal Sports Board. Soumya won this championship at his first apperence in the Postal. Total 60 players were playing including 29 international rated players. Soumya scored six points out of seven rounds (five win, two draw)and remain unbeaten in the tournament. Fide Master P Maheswaran of Tamil Nadu and Manoj Kumar Panigrahi of Odisha finished second and third position respectively. In the team event Odisha finished 5th position. Earlier Soumya won the first gold in Civil services chess tournament at Bhopal before two months back and first gold medal of central Railway in all India Railway chess championship at Secundrabad in 2009.Director Postal Service Pawan Kumar Singh congratulate the Odisha team.
Delhi eves beat Odisha in T20 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Odisha eves suffered another defeat in a row, earlier lost to Railway and on Monday suffered defeat from Delhi by six wickets in the Senior Women T-20 Elite Group-A league match at Pune on Monday. Batting first, Odisha scored 112 runs in 20 overs for the loss of seven wickets. Madhusmita Behera scored highest 33 runs. In reply, latika Kumari smashed an unbeaten 79 runs and Delhi reached the winning target for the loss of one wicket in 18.4 overs. Brief score: Odisha 112/7 in 20 overs (Madhusmita Behera 33; Babita Negi 2/11) lost to Delhi 114/1 in 18.4 overs (latika Kumari 79 n.o;) by 9 wickets.
Sub-junior Judo team announced for National meet
Bhubaneswar: A 22-member State sub-junior judo team was announced on Monday to participate in the National Sub-Junior Judo Championship at Chennai in Tamil Nadu from January 14 to 18. The team would leave for the national meet from here on Tuesday. The team would be accompanied by Gitanjali Panda as manager, Binash Kumar Mishra and Kandan Murmu as coach for boys and girls respectively.
State Team: Girls; Subunidei Majhi, Sabyasini Sabar, Manini Majhi, Sangita Maniaka, Phulamani Hansadah, Jasmita Nayak, Utkarshini Nayak, Tanuja Chhatria, Biswasini Nayak, Mukta Jani, Rasmita Nayak, Boys; Sankar Majhi, Chandramani Pradhan, Rama Sisa, Bikram Mandal, Bibhudatta Sahoo, Masi Hantal, Guruji Maharana, rakesh Kumar Jena, Uma Prasad Mishra, Mickey Mukesh Tirkey, Raju Koude, Gitanjali Panda (manager), Binash Kumar Mishra (coach-boys), Kandan Murmu (coach girls).
Bhubaneswar-XI win Nanu Bhai memorial cricket
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-XI edged out Cuttack-XI by 41 runs in the 2nd Nanu Bhai Memorial U-16 Exhibition Cricket at Sahid Sporting Ground here on Sunday. Batting first, Bhubaneswar scored 191 runs in 30 overs for the loss of six wickets. Ragunath Malla scored highest 56 runs, Binayak Mohanty and Dibyaranjan Sahu contributed 40 and 39 runs respectively. In reply, Cuttack scored 150 runs for the loss of nine wickets in 30 overs. Ragunath, Md Sultan of Bhubaneswar scalped three wickets each and their mate Ansuman Sinha bagged two wickets and restricted Cuttack innings for 150 runs.
Rutaparna, Kiran win Nalini Memorial Badminton
Bhubaneswar: Rutaparna Panda and B Kiran Mouli emerged champions in the women and men events respectively in the three day long 2nd Nalini Mohanty Memorial Badminton Championship, which concluded at Sahidnagar Indoor Hall here on Sunday.
Results: Men’s singles; B Kiran Mouli bt S Appa Rao 21-19,21-18, Women singles; Rutaparna Panda bt Itishree Behera 21-4,21-4, Boys U-19 Singles; Arobinda Sahoo bt BY Pruthviraj 21-15,21-18, Men Doubles; S Appa Rao and D Subrakant Mohanty bt Rasmi R Beura and B Kiran Mouli 21-18,21-10, Boys U-19 Doubles; Swapnil Mohanty and Saurav Mohanty bt M Dushmant and Abhimannu Bagarty by 10-21,21-14,21-16, Veteran Men Doubles; Sanjaya Kumar Mohanty and Gouri Sankar Bishi bt Chani Prasad Das and Akshaya Kumar Sahoo 21-18,21-18, Mixed Doubles; Kamal Das and Rutaparna Panda bt Gyan Chand and Hosana Topono 23-21,21-17.
Boys team bag National Sub-jr Sepak Takraw title
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Boys team created history by winning 17th Sub Junior Sepak Takraw National Championship Trophy held at Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh from January 11 to 14 in the Team event defeating Mizoram in the final on Monday. Odisha Boys team first time won the Championship. Earlier the Boys team played against the following teams in the team event. First match Odisha Played against Telengana and lost by 2-1 sets. Second match played against Mizoram and won by 2-0 sets and qualified to semifinal. Odisha played semifinal match against Delhi and won the match by 2-1 sets. And enter in final 11th January.
Saina bags best women player in GM open Chess
Bhubaneswar: World U-10 Girls’ Chess Champion Woman Candidate Master Saina Salonika got best woman player prize in the Delhi Grand Master Open Tournament Below 2000 Rating category. Saina who got seven points won five games, draw four games and lost one game. 470 Players from the country and outside were participated in the tournament. Saina received Rs 10,000 as cash prize. Starting as 117 seed she concluded the tournament securing overall 43 rank and also got valuable 64 rating points.