Sushree, Asit to get Saroj Mahasuar sports award
Bhubaneswar: Young women cricketer of the State Sushree Dibyadarshani and experienced umpire Asit Kumar Patnaik would receive 12th Saroj Mahasuar Smurti Sanman sports award here in a function at Town Club on September 6.
In the last one year Sushree played various national and international tournaments. She was played against New Zealand, Sri lanka and South Africa as a member of India-A team. The off spinner Sushree got a call from national cricket academy (NCA) Bangalore.
Asit’s contribution is enormous for State cricket. As a player he played many matches and in last one decade he is dedicating his service as OCA and BCCI panel umpire.
Subrat dominates Snooker Premier league inaugural
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Snooker Premier league has been kicks started at Vintage Snooker Club here on Wednesday. In the league round matches, Baize Rulers defeated Q-Ing Saddles by 3-0 goals and Purple Squirrel defeated Blue Hawks by 3-2 goals.
Aakash Mohapatra, Siddharth Sen and Nishant Biswal of Baize Rulers team registered three victories in a row against Q-Ing players and won the match. Aakash Mohapatra bagged the man of the match award.
In another league match, Subrat Das of Purple Squirrel played the decider match and pipped Jeet Kishor Das of Blue Hawks by 2-0 and the team won the league match by 3-2 sets. With the win Subrat Das received the man of the match award.
Results: Baize Rulers bt Q-Ing Saddles 3-0; Aakash Mohapatra bt. Chirag Arora 2-0(60-53, 71-41), Siddharth Sen bt. Ahsan Ul Haque 2-0(63-49, 65-36), Nishant Biswal bt. Rakesh Roshan Pradhan 2-1(54-66, 71-08, 80-32).
Purple Squirrel bt. Blue Hawks 3-2; Jeet K.Das bt. Subhranshu Bhusan Kar 2-0(61-38, 65-15), Subrat Das bt. Anuj Panda 2-0(70-04, 74-12)- consecutive breaks of 52 and 60 by Subrat, Sureet Singh bt. Amiya R.Nayak 2-1(51-34, 46-57, 66-42), Jiten Sarangi bt. S.P.Pattanaik 2-0(66-36, 65-28), Decider Match: Subrat Das bt. Jeet K. Das 2-0(68-06, 63-25)-break of 60 by Subrat in the first frame.
Sainik School emerges champion in Hockey meet
Bhubaneswar: In All India Sainik School Hockey Tournament held at Sainik School Kapurthala, Punjab from August 24 to 30, the cadets of Sainik School Bhubaneswar emerged champions and directly qualified for national level ‘Nehru Cup’.
In this tournament the winner teams of four zones from 26 Sainik Schools had participated after qualifying from their respective zonal level matches. Apart from this rare success of Sainik School Bhubaneswar, Aman Kumar received the best scorer award and Tinku Kasana was adjudged as the best player of the tournament.
In the series of matches Sainik School Bhubaneswar won by 04 – 02 goals against Sainik School Bijapur Karnatak, 06-03 against Sainik School Purulia – West Bengal, 06-01 against Sainik School Balachadi-Gujrat and 03-01 against Sainik School Sujanpur Tira – Himachal Pradesh. The school Principal Capt (IN) Kanchan Mukherjee and his subordinate officers, teachers and lot many cadets received the winners at Bhubaneswar Railway Station. In this historical victory of Sainik School cadets there are words of appreciations arriving from government officials, Sainik Schools fraternity, Old Boys Association and other agencies of the State.
Capt Mukherjee thanks all of them for their encouragement to the cadets. In this hour of joy of Sainik School Bhubaneswar, all the cadets express their sincere gratitude to the coach Binoya Prakash Kujur, team In-charge A K Rath, CHM Sandip Arakh, CHM Pushkar Kapri and A K Mukherjee for their training and untiring efforts.