Hockey Gangpur Odisha thrash Tamil nadu
Bhubaneswar: The Hockey Gangpur Odisha showered goals in their inaugural match against Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu (TN) and scripted a 17-0 goals victory in the pool-C league match of the 5th Hockey India Sub- Junior National Championship 2015 (Div A) being played at New Delhi on Tuesday.
Nahas Barwa’s spectacular five goals, hat-trick by Mandip Kerketta and braces by Prakash Dhir, Albert Tete and Sudeep Chirmako contributed towards this mammoth victory of Hockey Gangpur-Odisha. Hockey Gangpur-Odisha controlled the match from the first minute and Nahas Barwa scored two consecutive field goals in the 2nd and the 5th minute. Maintaining the pressure on the opponents Mandip Kerketta scored a hat-trick in the 8th, 9th, 12th minute and Nahas Barwa scored again in the 13thminute taking the score line to 6-0. Prakash Dhir, Albert Tete, Rahul Ekka, Nahas Barwa and Shakti Kujur scored goals in the 14th, 18th, 20th, 31st and 34th minute respectively, adding to the tally 11-0 at the end of first half.
Hockey Gangpur-Odisha maintained its wining momentum over Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu, and managed to score a series of goals as Prakash Dhir, Abhijeet Swain, Sudeep Chirmako and Albert Tete scored in the 43rd, 61st, 63rd, 65th minute respectively to take the score card to 15-0. Hockey Gangpur-Odisha completely defeated Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu by two field goals in 69th and 70th minute by Sudeep Chirmako and Nahas Barwa, taking the final score line to 17-0.
Hockey Odisha would meet Sports Authority of India in the pool-A match on Wednesday and Hockey Gangpur Odisha would meet Chhattisgarh Hockey in the pool-C match on Thursday.
Pool C - Hockey Gangpur-Odisha 17 Nahas Barwa (2 min-FG, 5 min-FG, 13 min-FG, 31 min-FG, 70 min-FG), Mandip Kerketta (8 min-FG, 9 min-FG, 12 min-FG), Prakash Dhir (14 min-PC, 43 min-FG), Albert Tete (18 min-FG, 65 min-FG), Rahul Ekka (20 min-FG), Shakti Kujur (34 min-FG), Abhijeet Swain (61 min-FG), Sudeep Chirmako (63 min-FG, 69 min-FG) vs Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu 0 .
Semifinalists enter National Sub-Jr Girls football
Bhubaneswar: Haryana and Jharkhand both pool-A teams and Mizoram and Bihar are the pool-B teams entered the semifinal round of the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Girls 2015 at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. In the quarterfinal league matches on Tuesday, Jharkhand and Haryana defeated Maharashtra and Manipur by 8-1 and 1-0 goals respectively. Sharda Kumari of Jharkhand netted five goals in the 6,52nd, 55th,74th and 75th minutes. Urmila Kumari scored double goals in the 27th and 82nd minutes and laxmi Kumari netted a goal in the 71th minute. N Shemchulin of Maharashtra netted the solitary goal in the 80th minute to reduce the winning target. In another match, Haryana edged out Manipur by 1-0 goal. Ravina scored the all important goal in the 4th minute.
Odisha youth win State U-17, U-7 chess
Bhubaneswar: Ansuman Samal and Priyansa Das gathered six points each and emerged champion in the U-17 and U-7 open categories respectively. Similarly, Smaraki Mohanty and Anjali Mishra claimed the titles by scoring 5.5 and five points in the U-17 and U-7 girls events respectively in the 3rd Srusti Chess Festival State U-17 and U-7 Chess Championship, which concluded at Srusti Academy here on Tuesday, being organized by All Odisha Chess Association.
Susobhit Das and Rudrakhay Parida scored 6 points each and finished second and third. Pranab Patra scored 5.5 points and finished fourth in the U-17 open categories. Rutumbara Bidhara and Shreejita Kuntia scored five points each and finished second and third. The fourth place claimed by Anisha Mishra with 4.5 points in the U-17 girls open event.
Kaustav Das, Sriyans Das and Aryan Mohapatra finished second ,third and fourth in the U-7 boys open category. Similarly in the girls event, Srijana Dash, Sradha Suman Jena and Dibyasrita Swain finished second, third and fourth respectively.
In the U-17 category, 80 boys and 35 girls were participated in the meet. Similarly, 39 boys and 22 girls were participated in the under-7 age group. Top four finishers of U-17 events would represent the State in the National U-17 Chess Championship at Karnataka from October 2 to 11. The top two finishers would represent the State in the National U-7 Chess Championship at Chennai from August 17 to 25. DM School headmaster Akhilesh Mishra gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others AOCA member Subhasis Pattnaik, Srusti Academy director GD Mishra were present.