Sports

Patra Memorial Hockey league from today

Bhubaneswar: Poonam Youth Welfare organisation PYWO), Cuttack is going to celebrate “National Sports Day” on Saturday along with the commencement of “Subhendu Patra Memorial Cuttack School Hockey league” at Satyabrata Stadium in Cuttack from August 29 to September 13. PYWO was established on 5th Feb 2015 in Cuttack as Poonam foundation hockey academy which was further renamed to Poonam Youth Welfare Organisation. Its main aim is to promote hockey and encourage young and talented hockey players in the coastal districts of Odisha like Cuttack, Khurda, Dhenkanal, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Baleswar. Kendrapada. Gyanesh Kanungo, former national level player who represented Odisha for several years took the initiative to establish the academy back in 2011. Since then it has promoted the game both on and off the field. The organisation has a facebook page which promotes hockey and makes it popular among people active in various social media. On the concluding day PYWO would observe the death anniversary of Subhendu Patra, former secretary of the State association.

Snooker Premier league Jersey released

Bhubaneswar:  The franchise owners of the Odisha Snooker Premier league released their team jersey in a function here at Vintage Club on Friday. Govind Prasad Sharma owner of Purple Squirrel, Mishal Swain of Baize Rulers, Ashwini Kumar Patnaik and Sumet Hembram owner of Qing Saddles, similarly, Shyam Agrawal and Mrunamay Biswal of Blue Hawaks were present in the function.  Earlier on July 26 auction held for the league. Top seed player of the State Subrat Das auctioned in a highest price of rs11,000. Total 20 players name was in the auction list and eight layers remain unsold. Purple Squirels, Blue Hawks, Baize Rulers and Qing Saddles are the four franchises purchased four players each with maximum found of `20,000. The tournament would be played in league basis. The top team would qualify for the final directly and the bottom team to be eliminated. The second and third team would play the knockout and the winner would enter the final.

The champion team would receive the trophy along with cash award of `60,000 and the first runner up would get Rs30,000 and the second runner up to get Rs15,000. Subrat would be the part of the Purple Squirels team and other three players are Subhransu Bhusan Kar (Rs3,500), Sauraya Prasad Pattnaik (`2,000) and Surit Singh Rs1,000). Blue Hawks members are Jet Kishore Das (Rs9,500), Jiten Sarangi (Rs6,000), Amiya Ranjan Nayak (Rs3,500) and Anju Panda (Rs1,000). Baize Rulers team members are Nisant Biswal (Rs8,500), Sidharth Sen (Rs6,500), Kunal Agrawal and Ashok Mohapatra (`1,500 each). Rakesh Rosan Pradhan Rs11,000, Satyadeep Das, Chirag Arora (Rs3,500 each) and Ahsan-ul-Haque (`2,000) are the member of the Qing Saddles.

Kishore Club to start Grassroots Football Centre

Bhubaneswar: As per the initiative of Football Association of Odisha and All India Football Federation the Kishore Club is going to start a Grassroots Football Centre here in near future. In this grassroots centre kids (both boy’s and girls) between 6-12 yrs will be given football coaching by AIFF Certified coaches. This grassroots football centre will be monitored by FAO and AIFF. Candidate in the above age group are requested to take participate in the above programme and offer their willingness in a plane paper mentioning their name, address and phone number. The application should reach Kishore Club secretary Dr SR Parija by September 5 by mail or by hand at Kishore Club, Unit-1. The email Id is kishoreclub.bbsr@gmail.com . The selection trial date will be intimated later. The original birth certificate is mandatory for age verification. As such those who intend to participate in this coaching programme may contact Premananda Das (07504350633) and Shuvendu Panda (09438362362) for any further clarification.

Biju Patnaik Sports Award 

Bhubaneswar: On the occasion of National Sports day, international hockey star Birendra lakra, Nita Ambani Football Academy coach Nanda Kishor Patnaik, veteran basketballer Ashok Kumar Sahu and journalist Satish Sharma would get the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2014 in a function here on August 29. Hockey player defender Birendra lakra represented the country in the Asian games and the team bagged the gold medal. In the year 2014 lakra was participated many international matches. Presently lakra is the only Odisha player constantly a member of the national squad. Though, he was not applied for the outstanding player of the year award. But as per the new policy the department can nominate a name for any award category. Birendra lakra would get the outstanding player of the year award which carries trophy and cash award of `2 lakhs. It is better to late than never, women football coach Nanda Kishor Patnaik would receive the excellent coach award, which carries trophy along with cash award of 1 lakhs. In last 25 years Nanda Kishore created many international women footballer the names are Sradhanajali Samantray, Ranjita Mohanty, Pratha Priadarshini, Kalpana Sahu, Sudipta Das, Sarita Jayanti Behera, Mamata Samant, Mamali Das, Bishnupriya Mahanta, Subhadra Nayak and Runi Nayak. Ashok Kumar Sahu would receive life time achievement award in promotion of sports and games in our State. He would receive trophy along with cash award of `3 lakhs. Satish Sharma would get the sports journalists award. The winner would get trophy along with cash award of `50,000.

Xaviers, DPS win in MCl Cup Inter School Football

Bhubaneswar: Xavier’s Kandagiri and DPS Kalinga defeated BJB English Medium School Satyabhamapur and Xaviers International School by 3-0 and 5-0 goals respectively in the league round match of the 26th Inter School MCl Cup Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Friday, being organised by Unit-6 Athletic Association (UAA). In the group-B league match, Nikhil of Xavier’s draw the first blood in the 8th minute and hismates Debasis Das and Asish netted agoal each in the 47th and 49th minutes respectively and the team edged out BJEM of Satyabhamapur by 3-0 goals. MCl officials Ashok Kumar Bal gave away the man of the match award to Nikhil. In a onesided group-D league match, Aditya Pradhan of DPS scored the hattrick and he scored in the 23rd, 35th and 39th minutes respectively. Dhanedra Bhanjdeo and Rishab Paresh scored a goal each in the 8th and 42nd minutes respectively. Former Santosh Trophy player Biranchi Narayan Mohanty gave away the man of the match award to Aditya Pardahan.