Odisha beat Karnataka in Women Hockey meet
Bhubaneswar: Ashim Kanchan and Elima Minz netted a four goals each and lead Hockey Odisha to a thumping victory by 10-1 over Hockey Karnataka in the 5th Hockey India Sub- Junior Women National Championship 2015 (Division A) on the grounds of Ranchi on Tuesday. Hockey Odisha showcased a brilliant performance against Hockey Karnataka. Hockey Odisha made their intentions clear as early as the 7th minute when Elima Minz found the nets and helped her team take a 1-0 lead in the game. Seen in action again Elima Minz doubled the team’s lead 12th minute leaving the opponents stunned. Continuing with their goal spree, Ashima Kanchan this time did the job for Hockey Odisha in the 20th minute and took the goal tally to 3-0. Catching Hockey Odisha by surprise, Hockey Karnataka finally managed to break the shackles to open their account in the 27th minute as Abhinashree S R. smashed the ball into the nets. Undeterred by the goal, Hockey Odisha added one more to the scorecard when in the 33rd minute when Ashim Kanchan stood tall to score, taking the goal margin further to 4-1 at half time. The second half saw a similar story by Hockey Odisha as when Ashim Kanchan smashed two back to back field goals in the 45th and 48th which added further and score line read 6-1. Continuing its dominance in the rest of the session Hockey Odisha scored four further goals in the 53rd, 59th 63rd and 67th minute and which helped them register a convincing win of 10-1 over the opponents. Pool D Hockey Odisha 10 Elima Minz (7min- FG, 12min-FG, 59min-FG, 63min-FG), Ashim Kanchan (20min-FG, 33min-FG, 45min-FG, 48min-FG), Mariamma Kujur (53min-PC), Bimla Barwa (67min-FG) vs Hockey Karnataka 1 Abhinashree S R (27in-FG).
Summer Coaching Camp concluded
Rourkela: Summer Coaching Camp, the annual sporting extravaganza for the budding talents organised by Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) concluded at the Archery Ground in the Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium Complex on Tuesday. G S Prasad, CEO, RSP graced the occasion as chief guest. M K Das, ED (Project), Dr. A K Singh, Director Incharge (Medical and Health Services), P K Pradhan, GM Incharge (P&A), R Khan, GM(Town Services) and several senior officers of the Plant were also present on the occasion. The participants presented an impressive demonstration on different sporting events. Thereafter CEO interacted with the participants. At the end of the function Prasad lowered the sports flag and handed it over to the Sports Department. He also presented awards to various teams who displayed their sporting skills in the concluding function. 1st Prize of Rs. 900 was given to team hockey for their spectacular performance, second prize of Rs. 800 was given to the football team and the third Prize of Rs. 700 went to the boxing team. The rest of the teams received consolation prizes of an amount of Rs. 400 each. It is worth mentioning here that during the Summer Coaching camp that was inaugurated on 5th May, the thousand odd participants learnt 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 from expert coaches. Archery has been introduced for the first time in this year’s camp. The Summer Coaching Camp of RSP that started in the year 1986 has produced many sports persons of national and international repute in the past and is continuing to bring to the limelight many budding sports stars.
Sahid Sporting beat Rameswar in Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Sahid Sporting defeated Rameswar Sporting by five wickets in the Junior Cricket league on Tuesday. Winning the toss Rameswar elected to bat first, Rameswar sporting scored 103 runs in 30 overs for the loss of nine wickets. In reply, Anuwesha Tripathy smashed an unbeaten 44 runs nad Sahid Sporting reached the winning tarhet in 27 overs for the loss of five wickets. Anuwesha bagged the man of the match award. Niharkanta Patnaik and Sai Akhankhyati Pradhan were conducted the match as umpire. Town Club would meet Green Cricket Academy on Wednesday. Brief score: Rameswar Sporting 103/9 in 30 overs (Bhabesh Sahu 19; Aryan Dunga 3/8, Ansuman Sinha 2/7, Roshan Sharma 2/9) Sahid Sporting 104/5 in 27 overs (Anuwesha Tripathy 44 n.o; Kiran Das, Surag Das scalped two wickets each) by 5 wickets.