Priansh joint leader in National U-7 Chess
Bhubaneswar: Overnight leader seven seed Priansh Das of Odisha shared the points with Midilesh MS in the sixth round and scored 5.5 points and jointly shared the top place along with five others in the 29th National Under-7 Open Chess Championship at Chennai on Thursday. Other Odisha players, Sriansh Das (4.5 points), Durgesh Mohanty, Annirudha Sahoo, Koustuv Das (4 points each), Rajveer P Pal, Abhinav Pal (3.5 each) and D Sabat laxmidatt (3 points). Among the Odisha girls, Yashita Rout defeated Afsheen Afsha Zaman of Assam in the sixth round and scored 4.5 points. Other girls from Odisha, Dibyashrita Swain, Aria Routray (3 points each), Sradha Suman Jena (2.5) and Amrusha Mohanty (2 points) by the end of sixth round.
Venketeswar beat Vibekananda in MCl Cup
Bhubaneswar: Venketeswar English Medium School defeated Vibekananda Sikhya Kendra by 2-0 goals in the group-G league round match of the 26th Inter School MCl Cup Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Thursday. Santosh Behera of the winning team draw the first blood in the 20th minute. Tikayata Mohaptra nailed the final goal in the 34th minutes. In another league round group-A league match Ramakrushna Mission School got walkover as DAV Pokahariput failed to reach in time. Former Santosh trophy player Pradip Kumar Baliarsingh gave away the man of the match award to Santosh Behera. Shekhawat Khan, Golak Pradhan, Saroj Maharana and Durga Routray conducted the match as referees. Sai International School and BJB Emglish Medium School would meet Xavier School Khndagiri and Bikash Residential School respectively.
State Police Football Championship from Aug 21
Balangir: The 78th State Police Football Championship would be held at Balangir from August 21 to September 6, informed Superintendent of Police of Bolangir ,Dr Deepak Kumar at a Press conference on Wednesday. A total of 44 teams from different police districts, OSAP Battalions, IRBN units, Commissionerate police team, and Odisha fire services team are scheduled to participate in this tournament. All the 108 matches would be played in three different playgrounds of Bolangir namely Reserve Police ground, Manoharpur, Gandhi Stadium and Pallishree Stadium Sadaipali. DIG Northern Range Sambalpur Prateek Mohanty is schedule to be chief guest on opening day on August 21 and Arun Kumar Ray Additional DGP, SAP Odisha ,would be the chief guest on the closing day. We hope this tournament would give a boost to the game of football in the district, added Kumar.