Sambit in the medal race of National U-11 chess
Bhubaneswar: Sixth seed Sambit Panda of Odisha scored six points by the end of seventh round and shared the second place along with Mohan Kushagra in the 29th National U-11 Open Chess Championship at Puducherry on Friday. Sarin Nihal scored 6.5 points and placed in the top. Another Odisha boy Mahitosh Dey scored 5.5 points and shared he third place along with 11 others. Other Odisha boys, Baibhav Singh five points, Pratyansu Kar four, Rudranarayan, Soubhanik Mazumdar, Ankit Kumar Sethi scored 3.5 points each and Saswat Mallik scored three points. In girls, Ankita Sahoo, Aditi Mohanty and Priyanka Routray scored five, four and 3.5 points respectively. Altogether 193 players including eight boys from Odisha and total 97 girls and three from Odisha are in the title race.
Bhubaneswar Cadets win School sports
Bhubaneswar: In Sub-junior football and hockey Sainik School Bhubaneswar Cadets emerged champion in the five day long Central Zone Sainik Schools Sports and Co-curricular Championship-2015, which concluded here on Friday. Sainik School Nalanda emerged overall champion and Bhubaneswar cadets grabbed the overall runner up trophy. In these meet more than 360 cadets had participated from Sainik School Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh), Sainik School Gopalganj (Bihar), Sainik School Nalanda (Bihar), Sainik School Tilaiya (Jharkhand) and the host Sainik School Bhubaneswar (Odisha).
Capt (IN) Kanchan Mukherjee, Principal, Sainik School Bhubaneswar extended a warm welcome to the Chief Guest Air Vice Marshal (Dr) Rajvir Bhalwar, in the presence of lt Col Ajay Gupta, Registrar, lt Col Shreyash Nitin Mehta, Headmaster, Senior Master P K Mohanty, Pritish Basa-President OBA, Amitabh Swain, Secretary OBA, all staff, parents and cadets. In football junior and volleyball Nalanda stood first. In Basketball Sainik School Tilaiya were the champions. In his address the Chief Guest extended a warm applause to all the teams. While appreciating to the players he stressed on the importance of games, sports and co-curricular activities in the career of students. He also greatly appreciated and congratulated for the spirit of comradeship, physical stamina and sense of co-operation among the Sainik School cadets. AK Mukherjee, Sports Secretary co-ordinated the meet being assisted by CHM/APTC Sandip Arakh and CHM/APTC Puskar Chandra Kapdi. Eventually lt Col Sreyash Nitin Mehta proposed the vote of thanks.
Jeet enter State open Snooker final
Bhubaneswar: The Jeet Kishore Das entered the final of the 6th Pradeep Sen Memorial Snooker Championship at Cuttack on Friday.
In the semifinal Jeet edged out Nishant Biswal 5-2(41-60,73-29,61-70,51-26,67-6,53-19,59-40). In the second semifinal between Rakesh Roshan Pradhan and Sidharth Sen is being played while writing the report.