Hockey Gangpur beat Bihar in Jr Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey Gangpur defeated Bihar in their first league match by 7-1 goals in the 5th Junior ‘B’ Division National Hockey Championship Chamudi Vihar Astro turf Stadium Mysore in Karnataka on Friday. In the group-D match, Sanjay Khalko scored four goals, Rosan Khalko neeted double goals and Pratap lakra scored a goal for Gangpur team. In the league match on Saturday, Hockey Gangpur Odisha would meet Hockey Rajasthan. Our players put a brilliant show in their inaugural match and confident that in the tournament they will put their maximum to enter the semifinals, said Hockey Gangpur Odisha secretary Debasish Gouda. Results: Pool D - Hockey Gangpur-Odisha 7 Rasananda Khalkho (10min-FG, 32 min-FG), Sanjay Xalxo (17min- FG , 34min-FG,53min-FG and 60 min- PC), Pratap lakra (29min- PC) vs Hockey Bihar 1 Sukhram Mundu (8min- FG)
Odisha bag 4 medals in Powerlifting meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha powerlifters bagged two gold, one silver, one bronze and total of four medals in the National Federation Cup Powerlifting Championship held at Punjab from March 27 to 31. Pradip Kumar Patra lifted 115kg in beanchpress, 240kg in deadlift and total of 585kg and claimed the top prize in the 66kg category. Anil Kumar of Madhya Pradesh and Bijay Kumar of Chhattisgarh won the silver and bronze medals by lifting 573kg and 535kg respectively. Pradip received strongman of India second runner up award and grabbed strongman of India award in deadlift event. G Siba received the silver medal. In the junior 53kg event, Basant Malka won bronze medal. In the Masters-II event, Kartikeswar Jena won gold medal in the 83kg event. Utkal Karate School felicitated the medal winners here.
Odisha beat Punjab in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
Bhubaneswar: Odisha put in a strong batting performance to beat Punjab by five wickets in their Super league game in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at DRIEMS Ground in Cuttack on Friday. Punjab, who chose to bat, started well with a 51-run opening stand between Jaskaranveer Singh and Manan Vohra. Biplab Samantaray ended the stand when he ran out Vohra for 34 in the eighth over. Sheshdeep Patra then picked up three of wickets through the middle overs to leave them on 114 for 4 after 17. Punjab added a further 29 runs as Himanshu Chawla top-scored with a 20-ball 37 guiding them to 143 for 5 in 20 overs. Debutant Shubek Gill struck on the fourth ball of Odisha’s chase to remove Roshan Kumar Rao for a duck and then dismissed Govinda Podder in his second over, leaving Odisha at 9 for 2. Abhilash Mallick and Anurag Sarangi revived Odisha’s chase with 76-run stand only to be broken by Mandeep Singh, who dismissed Mallick for 41. Odisha then lost Arabind Singh and Sarangi to Siddharth Kaul and Sandeep Sharma as they were 112 for 5 in the 16th over. Samantaray and Suryakant Pradhan took charge, making 32 from 14 balls, with Pradhan striking three sixes for his eight-ball 22 to guide them to victory with 11 balls to spare. Brief Score: Punjab 143/5 in 20 overs (Jaskaran Sohi 32, Manan Vohra 34, Himanshu Chawla 37 n.o; Seshdeep Patra 3/33) lost to Odisha 144/5 in 18.1 overs (Anurag Sarangi 45, Abhilash Mallick 41, Biplab Samantary 22 n.o; Surayakant Pradhan 22 n.o; Shubek Singh Gill 2/47) by 5 wickets.
Semifinalists spotted in Nalco Cup Hockey
Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway, Angul, Khurda and Cuttack entered the semifinal rounds of the Nalco Cup State Hockey Championship at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. In the quarterfinal matches on Friday, Angul , Khurda and Cuttack defeated Sundargarh, Dhenkanal and CRPF by 3-2, 9-0 and 3-2 goals respectively. Xavier Ekka , Amit lakra and Dev Prakash Kujur of Angul scored a goal each in the 5th,17th and 56th minutes respectively. Suraj Minz and Ashwin Kujur of Sundargarh netted a goal each in the 19th and 65th minutes respectively. Angul beat Sundargarh by 3-2 goals. In another match of the day between Cuttack and CRPF ended in 1-1 goal draw. CRPF got the lead in the 19th minutes by goal of Siman Tirkey. In the 27th minute Suraj Kerketa of Cuttack netted the equalizer. Cuttack beat CRPF by 3-2 goals via through penalty round. Prakash Batra and Nitin Mukesh Tigga of Cuttack scored three goals each. Summit Toppo , Upendra Majhi and sanjiv Ekka netted a goal each in the 36th,51st and 65th minutes respectively and Cuttack pipped Dhenkanal by 9-0 goals. Results: Angul 3 (Xavier Ekka 5th, Amit lakra 17th, Dev Prakash Kujur 56th) bt Sundargarh 2 (Suraj Minz 19th, Ashwin Kujur 65th). Khurda 9 (Prakash Barla 1st,19th,21st, Nitin Mukesh Tigga 8th,40th,45th, Summit Toppo 36th, Upendra Majhi 51st, Sanjiv Ekka 67th) bt Dhenkanal 0. Cuttack (Suraj Kerketa 27th) bt CRPF (Siman Tirkey 19th) by 3-2 goals.
Sepak Takraw body felicitates Jr girls team
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sepak Takraw Association felicitated gold winning Odisha junior girls team at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Friday, the team emerged champion in the 18th Junior National SepakTakraw Championship to be held at Jodhapur, Rajasthan from March 28 to 31. Girls team; Sarita Sethy, Baisakhi Sahoo, Rupali Sahoo, Afsara Begum, Aliva Das, Madhusmita Behera, Itishree Samal (vice-captain), Chunmun Samal, Debasmita Rout (all Cuttack), Milarani Biswal (Kendrapara), Tulasi Behera (Captain) (Dhenkanal), Mamuni Mahata (Bhadrak), Stand By; Rakhi Bandita Sahoo, Premalata Sahoo (both Cuttack), Rita Behera (manager), Muna Barik (coach).