OSKA felicitates Junior Karate
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Karate Do Association (OSKA) on Tuesday felicitated State junior karatekas here, who bagged medals in the National Junior Karate Championship held at Talkotra Indoor Stadium in Delhi from May 1 to 3. Odisha team bagged two silver and two bronze medals in the meet. Payal Baral and Nihar Ranjan Swain won silver medal each in the 16-17 years girls and 18-20 years boys kumite respectively. Similarly, Abhisek Patnaik and Udit Udam received bronze medals each in the 18-20 years boys kata and 14-15 years Kumite events respectively. OSKA officials Gouri Mohanty and Dipak Samnatray felicitated the players, coach Mahesh Chandra Baral, Rajib Kumar Singh and manager Abhinash Pundir.
Annual Summer Coaching Camp inaugurated
Rourkela: The 30th Annual Summer Coaching Camp organised by Rourkela Steel Plant was inaugurated on Tuesday at the DPS Stadium, Dr A K Singh, Director in-charge (Medical and Health Services) graced the occasion as the chief guest and inaugurated the programme. Singh unfurled the sports flag to mark the commencement of the programme. Singh congratulated the youngsters for enthusiastically participating in the annual sporting extravaganza organised by the Sports unit of RSP. Exhorting the participants to take advantage of the camp to the fullest he said, “Sports is not only a physical activity, it also improves discipline and time management. It will definitely help you in shaping your future as well.” later the chief guest and other dignitaries were introduced with the officials and the participants of the camp.
The inaugural ceremony was coordinated by Niranjan Samal, Senior Field Assistant, Sports Section. The camp has evoked an enthusiastic response from the students of the steel city as well as nearby places, with huge number of students joining the camp. They will learn the nuances in 15 disciplines of sports namely Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Body building, Boxing, Chess, Cricket, Cycling, Football, Hockey, Kabaddi, Table Tennis, Volleyball and Weight lifting, Power lifting and Archery. Expert coaches in various disciplines are imparting the training. Archery has been introduced for the first time in this year’s camp. The multi-location camp is being organized at the Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium, Basketball complex, Ispat Indoor Stadium and the Chess Hall of Ispat Stadium. The camp is slated to conclude on May 26.
Semifinalists lined up in Sumit Bose U-16 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Juvenile Cricket Club would meet Rising Student both Cuttack teams in the semifinal of the Sumit Bose Memorial Junior U-16 Cricket Tournament at Cuttack on Thursday. Similarly, Sahid Sporting Club would meet Pragati Sporting on Friday.
Winning the toss Sahid Sporting elected to field first, Subham Satrujeet and Sandeep Chauhan of Sahid Sporting bagged three and two wickets respectively and restricted Victoria Cricket Academy for 145 runs in 36 overs. In reply, Sraban Bunga smashed 70 runs and well supported by Subham Satrujeet who scored 31 runs and the team reached the winning target in 35 overs by losing four wickets. With the win Sahid Sporting entered the semifinals. SCB Medical College Neurology Professor Dr Ashok Kumar Mallick gave away the man of the match award to Sraban Bunga of the wiinning team for his excellent batting. Tapan Behera and Chandrasekhar Das conducted the match as umpire.
Brief Score: Victoria Cricket Academy 145/10 in 36 overs (Kaushal Daneek 37; Subham Satrujeet 3/40, Sandeep Chauhan 2/35) lost to Sahid Sporting 149/4 in 35 overs (Sraban Bunga 70, Subham Satrujeet 31) by 6 wickets.
India beat Japan 2-0 in Hockey Test Series
Bhubaneswar: India have started it with a good fury of position and looking confident and sharing the ball position and win the second match with 2-0 goals in the India Japan Hockey Test Series at Kalinga Stadium here on Tuesday. After the barren first quarter, Yuvraj Walamki makes a run inside the circle takes a reverse shot through to his team-mate and Sannuvanda Uthappa makes no mistake to push it in the bar in the 29th minute. Great stick work by Indian youngster succeeded in scoring the first one of the day. By the end of second quarter Indians leading courtesy a goal from S K Uthappa and some brilliant stick work from Yuvraj. In the 48th minute Sunil with the ball again enters the D takes a back-hand shot but deflacted by the Japanese’s goalkeeper. Dharmvir Singh scores on the rebound. Both the team missed few penalty corners in the match. Earlier on Monday, Furious Japanese strikers who were always tend to enter the opposition's circle at will and dominated the preceding in first test ended up in tame 1-1 draw.
We had missed few easy chances, Our players need to concentrate more and creating opportunity in the d area will not solve the problem, you have to convert it, said coach Kang Keonwook.
We played a good hockey, but we need to develop more. We have to build our structure and most show our aggression when we are in the opponents scoring area. We own the match, but regarding the converting penalty corners into goal is matter of concern, we are working hard to overcome that, said Indian coach Van Paul Ass.
Summer Kabaddi Camp begins
Bhubaneswar : To promote and papularise Kabaddi among the new generation, Sports and Youth Services Department’s senior coach Sanhita Dash organised a month long summer Kabaddi coaching camp, which kicks started at Kalinga Stadium here on Tuesday.
Altogether 45 players including 18 girls among the age group of 14 to 18 are participating in the camp. The camp would be concluded on June 4. Every day the camp timing is 7 am to 8.30 am and 4.30 pm to 6 pm. Sanhita accompanied by senior players of the State to guide the campers. Assistant Director of Sports and youth Services Department Akhila Das inaugurated the camp in presence of Trilochan Das, Amiya Kumar Mishra and other coaches of the sports hostel were present.