DCA general body meeting held
Nabarangpur: The district cricket association's (DCA) general meeting-cum-election held under the chairmanship of general secretary of DCA Prahalad Tripathy, at the mission Shakti conference hall in here on Sunday. While reading the reports on the association Tripathy welcomed entire general body and congratulated the district administration for their cooperation during this year. The district had participated all the domestic tournaments organised by the Odisha cricket association, Cuttack on various age groups during the year 2014-15. The association also organised coaching camp for school boys in the stadium headed by M. Balakrishna Rao, district cricket coach, about 80 nos of school boys of various school of town and nearby villages participated. The association produced two good Odisha state panel umpire namely M.Balakrishna Rao,of Nabarangpur and Pramaod Kumar Majhi of Umekote who are officiating the domestic matches of Odisha cricket association cuttack. While Majhi is the BCCI level-I umpire, Rao is BCCI district coordinator. He added that for the first time in the history of un-divided Koraput, district P. Roshan Kumar of Jharigam block has been selected for Odisha senior Ranjit cricket team as wicket keeper. Speaking on the occasion Sub-collector Birendra Karkara was assured for all cooperation from the district administration and development of stadium. M Balkrishna Rao, said our association will organise T20 cricket tournament during the Mondei festival. While Collector and District Magistrate Rasmita Panda, ex-officio president of DCA, superintendent of police and Sub-collector are ex-officio vice-presidents, Pramod Padhy, elected as Vice-president, Prahalad Tripathy, general secretary, Debasis Patnaik, Joint secretary, Subhendu Behera as Treasurer respectively.
African XI win Neelachal Football tourney
Bhubaneswar: African Elelven of Kolkata emerged champion of the 2nd All India Neelachal Express Football Tournament-2015" held at Railway Stadium, Khurda Road, Jatni by defeating Sports Academy of Jatnai by 2-0 goals, being organized by East Coast Railway Sports Association, Khurda Road Division. Amos Nathanid and Oweleso Abbey of the Kolkata team scored a goal each. The champion team received the winner cup with a cash prize of `50,000, the runner up team received the cup along with a cash prize of `30,000. A huge number of spectators from Jatni and nearby cities enjoyed the match, which remained competitive till the end. Sk. Alam of the runner up team has been declared as man of the final match.Similarly, Sk Rajan and Jagannath Maharana of the runner up team received best defender and goalkeeper awards respectively. Amos Nathanid of the champion team got the best forward of the tourney award. Yazdani Club-73 of Bhubaneswar received the best disciplined team award. Siba Prasad Das, Ratnakar Barick, Priyabrat Bahinipati, Subrata Purohit and D Bhagwan Dash were the officials who conducted the match. East Coast Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer Prem Chandra gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony.
Nishan to officiate Sub-Jr Women Div-A Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Once again Nishan Jyoti Mohanty national repute umpire of Odisha has been selected by Hockey India to officiate as an umpire in the 5th Hockey India Sub-Junior National Women Championship 2015 (Division A) to be held at Jharkhand, Ranchi from May 24 to 31. Bhubaneshwar based Nishan is working at East Cost Railway he is an excellent umpire he is doing excellent job under Hockey Odhisha. I congratulate him for his new assignment, said Hockey Odisha secretary Pratap Satapathy.
Odisha win National Sub-Jr Div-A men hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey Odisha who beat Hockey Haryana by 4-1 to emerge the winners of the 5th Sub Junior National Hockey Championship 2015 (Men) held at New Delhi On Sunday. Playing for the 3rd and 4th position, Hockey Gangpur Odisha edged out Hockey Karnataka by 5-3 to settle for the 3rd position. The battle between the two teams turned out to be a tough one where both the teams were striving to score from the onset but it was Hockey Odisha who showcased a good start as Ashwin Kujur netted the first goal for his team in the early ten minutes through a field effort. Taking the lead to 2-0, Sudhir Kujur scored the second goal for Hockey Odisha in the 14th minute of the game. The game seemed to be dominated by Hockey Odisha when completely charged Suman Beck made no mistake and converted a penalty stroke in the 27th minute. By the end of the first half, Hockey Odisha was leading with a 3-0 on the score board. The second half was even exciting as Hockey Haryana's remarkable efforts resulted in a field goal which came through the stick of the captain Abhishek who dexterously struck the nets in the 43rd minute to open the team's account by 1-3. With this, Hockey Odisha intensified their attacks and bounced back into the game by yielding a 69th minute field goal through Pradeep lakra who wrapped up the tournament in favour of Hockey Odisha winning the match 4-1. The Hardline match between Hockey Gangpur Odisha and Hockey Karnataka was an intense clash as the former managed to outwit the latter to win the game 5-3. The proceedings for the day started as early as the 6th minute when Pavan M Madiwalar scored though a field goal taking Hockey Karnataka to a lead of 1-0. looking for the equalising goal Hockey Gangpur Odisha stuck in the 11thminute which was the result of the field efforts by Biraj Topno. Just before going onto break, Hockey Gangpur Odisha managed to take the lead in the game when a penalty corner was struck on target by Biraj Topno which even marked his second consecutive goal in the match. With a 2-1 lead in the game, Hockey Gangpur Odisha came back with a strong intent to continue their hold in the game. 38th and 44th minute saw the team adding two more goals to their tally, taking the scorecard to 4-1. Hockey Karnataka looking at coming back into the game scored in the 52nd minute as likhith B. M scored through an amazing field effort. Hockey Gangpur Odisha not deterred by this, yet again scored the very next minute and the scorecard read 5-2. In a desperate attempt to score, Hockey Karnataka scored through a penalty corner but it was late as Hockey Gangpur Odisha won 5-3 and which allowed them to take the 3rd position in the tournament. Results: Final Hockey Odisha 4 Ashwin Kujur (10min- FG), Sudhir Kujur (14min- FG), Suman Beck (27min- PS), Pradeep lakra (69min- FG) vs Hockey Haryana 1 Abhishek (43min- FG). 3rd / 4th Position: Hockey Gangpur - Odisha 5 Biraj Topno (11 min-FG, 34 min-PC), Nahas Barwa (38 min-FG), Mandip Kerketta (44 min-FG), Ibrahim Toppo (53 min-FG) vs Hockey Karnataka 3 Pavan M Madiwalar (6 min-FG), likhith B. M (52 min-FG), Rajesh (60 min-PC).