Odisha boys, girls finish runner up in Baseball
Bhubaneswar: Host Odisha boys and girls bagged runners trophy in both categories of the 24th Sub-jr National Baseball Championship, which concluded at Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday. In boys final, Maharashtra defeated host Odisha by 5-0 runs. Earlier in the semifinals, Maharashtra beat Chhattisgarh by 2-0 runs and Odisha enter final as Chandigarh team disqualified due to overage ground. Similarly, Chhattisgarh edged out Odisha by 2-1runs in the girls final. Kimmi and Misha of the champion team scored a run each. Swetasen Sabora of the host team scored a run. In the girl’s semifinals, Odisha beat Delhi 2-1runs, Swatasen Sabora and Anita Kanhar of Odisha scored a run each and Manisha of Delhi scored a run. In another match, Chhattisgarh pipped Maharashtra by 14-0 runs. In the girls category Gujarat team received the best discipline team award, Anjali of the Chhattisgarh team bagged best all rounder and pitcher awards. Swatasen Sabora of Odisha and Sujata of Delhi won best fielder and batter award respectively. Similarly, Delhi boys received the best discipline team award. Omkar of Maharashtra got best all rounder and pitcher awards. Bhuban of Chhattisgarh received best batter award. Rajkumar and S Bardhan of Odisha received best catcher and fielder awards respectively. Atanu Mishra conducted the tournament as chief umpire and PC Behera, Rabindar Mallick, Rabi Kumar, Saini, Biranchi Narayan Satapathy and Sibani Singh assists Atanu as umpire. Former PCC president Niranjan Pattnaik distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, High Court lawyer Dharanidhara Nayak, OBA secretary Sibananda Pradhan, vice-president Pankaj lochan Mohanty and Subash Swain were present.
Mizoram, Bihar win Nat’l Sub-Jr Girls Football
Bhubaneswar: Mizoram thrashed host Odisha by 3-0 goals in the quarter final of the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Girls at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Saturday. Elizabet Vanlalmauii of Mizoram dominated the show by nailing three goals in a row. She draw the first blood in the 29th minutes and after the change of sides he netted two goals in the 56th and 83rd minutes respectively. In the match played between Chandigarh Vrs Bihar, Bihar won the match by 6-0 goals. Priyanka Kumari of Bihar netted double goals in the 59th and 69th minutes respectively. Jyoti Kumari, Sonikumari, Nisa Kumari and Sanjana Kumari scored a goal each in the 4th,60th, 81st and 83rd minutes respectively. Maharastra and Haryana would meet Manipur and Jharkhand respectively on Sunday at Barabati Stadium.
Nishan Jyoti to officiate Nat’l Sub-Junior hockey
Bhubaneswar: Nishan Jyoti Mohanty of the State has been selected to officiate the Hockey India 5th Sub Junior National Hockey Championship 2015 Div-A (men) schedule to held at Delhi from May 17 to 24. Umpire Nihan is having lot of experience of conducting national tournament. He was the umpire in the recently completed Indo-Japan hockey test series at Kalinga Stadium. Earlier in 2012 he first officiated the sub junior national championship at patna (boys and girls). After that he never looks back, successfully conducted sub junior national championship at Assam and Bhopal in 2013. He also conducted junior Women National championship and junior Men National championship at Karnataka in the 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Jafer vice Captain of Team of visually impaired
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s visually impaired international cricketer Md Jafer Iqbal has been selected as the vice Captain of Indian Cricket Team of the visually impaired to play the India and England bilateral cricket series. Dr Minati Behera, State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities congratulated and felicitated Md Jaffar Iqbal on Saturday. Kasturi Mohapatra, Chairperson of OSCPCR also joined her and extended best wishes. Jafar was the member of the T20 World Cup Cricket tournament winning team in the year 2012. He was also the member of the national team and the team won the one-day world cup cricket tourney in 2014. Jafar started playing cricket in the year 2000 as an extra player in the school team. With the ability and dedication he became the captain of the State team of the visually impaired in 2010.