Stewart, Bhakta Madu win Inter School Football
Bhubaneswar: In inter school senior football tournament on Saturday New Stewart School defeated PM Academy by 6-5 goals in tie breaker. Sibu Samal was declared as best player of the match. In 2nd inter school junior football tournament Bhakta Madhu Bidyapitha was declared winner by defeating Saraswati Sisu Bidyamandir of Chahata by 3-0 goals. Sk Salim scored double goals and Shubrat Sheti scored a goal. SK Salim of Bhakta Madhu Bidyapitha was declared as best player of the match.
Khurda to meet ECoR in Nalco Cup Hockey final
Bhubaneswar: Khurda would cross swords with East Coast Railway (ECoR) in the final of the Nalco Cup State Hockey Championship at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. In the semifinals on Saturday, Khurda and ECoR edged out Angul and Cuttack by 6-2 and 7-1 goals respectively. Prasana Tirkey and Niten Mukesh Tiga of Khurda scored double goals each in the 8th,46th and 17th,43rd minutes respectively. Upendra Majhi and Sumit Toppo of the winning team scored a goal each in the 19th and 40th minutes respectively. Jugal and Mukti Prasad of Angul netted a goal each in the 48th and 54th minutes respectively. Rajin Kandulana of ECoR scored three goals in the 17th,57th and 64th minutes respectively. His team mates Deepak lugun, Mdeepak Raj, Dillip Toppo and David Minz netted a goal each in the 2nd,18th,31st and 63rd minutes respectively. UP Singh of Cuttack scored the solitary goal in the 38th minute.
Bolangir MP inaugurates TT hall in Bolangir
Bolangir: MP Kalikesh Narayan Singhdeo formally inaugurated the Table Tennis (TT) hall in the RN Singhdeo Sports Complex on Saturday. Inaugurating the TT hall Singhdeo observed that besides the table tennis hall, a good basketball field would be developed in the RN Singhdeo Sports Complex. Singhdeo hoped that it would boost the game of table tennis in the district. Among other Rajya Sabha MP AU Singhdeo, District Collector M.Muthukumar, ZP president Bijaya Pradhani BJD state council member Arkesh Singhdeo, Sumit, Deepak and others spoke on this occasion.
Hyderabad beats Odisha in Syed Mushtaq Ali Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Hyderabad left it to the last ball to grab a five-wicket win over Odisha in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at DRIEMS Ground in Cuttack on Saturday. Given a target of 154, Hyderabad lost Tirumalasetti Suman in the third over of their innings and Akshath Reddy in the seventh, leaving them 34 for 2. Tanmay Agarwal and Dereck Prince shared a 48-run stand for the third wicket to steady the chase, before Hyderabad lost Prince (31) and captain Hanuma Vihari (0) in the space of five balls. Deepak Behera dismissed Agarwal one short of his fifty after which Benjamin Thomas and Akash Bhandari saw Hyderabad home with an unbroken 47-run stand. Bhandari smashed three sixes and two fours for his 17-ball 37 to finish off the chase. Odisha, who chose to bat, began briskly and scored 35 in 3.5 overs before Anurag Sarangi was run out. Biplab Samantaray top-scored with 33 as a couple of 20-run partnerships took Odisha to 121 for 6. The Hyderabad bowlers kept chipping away at the wickets eventually bowling Odisha out for 153 in 19.1 overs. Vihari and M Ravi Kiran picked three wickets each, while Chama Milind took 2 for 21.
Brief Score: Odisha 153/10 in 19.1 overs (Biplab samantary 33, Abhilash Mallick 23; Ravi Kiran 3/31, GH Vihari 3/21, CV Milind 2/21) lost to Hyderabad 154/5 in 20 overs (Danny Derek Prience 31, Tanmay Agarwal 49, Akash Bhandari 37 n.o; ) by 5 wickets.