Anwesha bags silver in U-13 Girls chess meet
Bhubaneswar: Anwesha Mishra of Cuttack bagged silver medal in 29th National Under-13 Girls Chess Championship held at Gurgaon in Haryana on Monday. Priyanka Nutakki grabbed gold medal with 10 points and Vantika Agrawal got the bronze medal with nine points.
Undefeated Anwesha had achieved the feat by defeating WFM lakshmi C in the eleventh round and scored nine points. She registered seven win and four draw in the meet. She started the meet with sixth rank and finished second and earned 84 elo rating. She is elder daughter of Prakash Kumar Mishra and Reena Mishra. Her coach Rajes Nayak played most important role in shaping her ability. Odisha’s IM Padmini rout bagged gold medal in the national U-13 chess for continuously three years in the 2005, 2006 and 2007. Other Odisha players third seed WCM Saina Salonika scored 7.5 points and finished seventh and lost 35 points elo rating. However ninth seed Anisha Mishra scored seven points and finished 21st and lost 82 elo rating. 3oth seed WCM Shreya Smruti Mohanty gathered six points and finished 32nd and gain 54 elo rating. Odisha boys, 23rd seed Sambit Panda scored eight points and finished ninth and gained 102 elo rating. 18th seed Ansuman Samal scored 7.5 points finished 15th and lost 13 elo rating. The most sufferer of Odisha player was Mahitosh Dey who lost 122 elo rating by finishing 135th with 4.5 points.
ORFA to host National Jr Rugby from Sept 19
Bhubaneswar: Orissa Rugby Football Association (ORFA) is going to organise All India Junior National Rugby Tournament for Boys and Girls to be held at Kalinga Stadium here on September 19 to 23. Nearly 16 officials’ state teams and 450 participants will participate in the event.
The girls would participate in the seven-A-side and the boys would participate in the 15-A-side tournament. The national boys team would be selected from the meet and the team would participate in the Asian Junior Rugby 15-A-Side Championship for boys in this year.
Teams list: Odisha, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Haryana, Delhi, Assam, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir.
DAV, IRC Govt School enter Pre-Qtr final
Bhubaneswar: DAV School Unit-8 and Government Boys High School, IRC Village edged out Rama Krushna Sikhya Kendra, IRC Village and Xavier International School respectively and entered the pre quarterfinals of the MCl Cup Inter School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Monday, being organised by Unit-6 Athletic Association (UAA). Punya Sloka Panda of the DAV scored the all important goal and the team edged out Rama Krushna Sikhya Kendra by 1-0 goal in league match. Sanjeev Kumar Bhuyan of MCl gave away the man of the match award to winning team goalkeeper Omm Prasad Mohanty. In 2nd match, Taslin Khan netted goal in the 25th minute and Badal Diabagh in 47 minute respectively. and Govt Boys School IRC Village thrashed Xavier International School by 2-0 goals. Bijay Kumar Pradhan gave away the man of the match award to Taslin Khan of the winning team. Sudip Das, Prakash Das, Durga Routray, Rajendra Barik,Chandrakanta Barik and Saroj Moharana were conducted the matches as referees.
Baize Rulers win Odisha Snooker Premier league
Bhubaneswar: The Baize Rulers beat the Blue Hawks 3-1 and emerged champion of the first Odisha Snooker Premier league Trophy here at Sunday. Kunal Agarwal was adjudged man of the final for displaying some great snooker on the day his team needed him most.
The Champion team Baize Rulers received a prize money of `60,000 and a glittering trophy. Runner up team Blue Hawks received a prize money of `30,000 and 3rd placed team Purple Squirrel received a prize money of `15,000. Subrat Das received `3000 for being adjudged Player of the Tournament. Man of the final Kunal Agarwal received `2000 as prize money. All other man of the matches received `1000 each. Gandharba Chandra Nayak Mahavir Group of Institutions chairman gave away the trophies as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Bikram Pradhan Vice-Chairman, Mahavir Group of Institutions) and Adwaitya Prasad Nayak MD, Alfa Best College of Science and Technology were present. Results: Aakash Mohapatra lost to Jeet Kishore Das 3-1 (49-27, 10-65, 15-75, 37-64), Siddharth Sen bt. Anuj Panda 3-1 (66-14, 17-60, 71-44, 58-38), Nishant Biswal bt. Amiya Ranjan Nayak 3-0 (61-28, 62-43, 76-30), Kunal Agarwal bt. Jiten Sarangi 3-1 (46-54, 54-29, 51-26, 66-22).