Swapnil retains solo lead in Kesabananda Chess
Bhubaneswar: Overnight solo leader IM Swapnil S Dhopade of Railway edged out Muthaiah Al of Tamil Nadu and scored eight points by the end of ninth rounds and retained his solo lead in the 4th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India FIDE Open Rating Chess Championship here on Wednesday, being organised by Khurda District Chess Association. In the final round on Thursday Swapnil would meet IM Narayanana Srinath of Tamil Nadu. IM Narayanana and IM Nitin S scored seven points each and shared the second place. local boy Utkal Ranjan Sahoo defeated IM Anurag Mhamal of Goa and scored 6.5 points and shared the third place along with six others.
GGPFC win in Gati Krushna Memorial Football
Bhubaneswar: Gada Gopinath Prasad Football Club pipped Ekamra Sports Association by 1-0 goals in the group-D league match of the 12th Gati Krushna Memorial Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Wednesday, being organised by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association. After the barren first half, Santosh Amayant scored the all important goal in the 63rd minutes. Chandrakanta Barik, Manoranjan Khuntia, Susanta Mishra and Durga Acharya were conducted the match as referees. JSJS Bhabani Football Club would meet Golak Bihari Youth Association in the league round match on Friday.
KISS, Vikash enter MCl Cup Football semis
Bhubaneswar: KISS School and Vikash School edged out DAV Unit-8 School and Xavier Kedargouri School by 5-0 and 1-0 goals respectively in the quarterfinal matches and entered the semifinal of the MCl Cup Inter School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Wednesday, being organised by Unit-6 Athletic Association (UAA).
Sunil Murmu (3rd minutes), Dillip Murmu (4th), laxman Soren (13th), Sana Marandi (27th) and Deepak Barda (33rd) of KISS school scored a goal each. Bhubaneswar Athletic Association joint secretary Naba Ranjan Pattnaik gave away the man of the match award to Sunil Murmu.
In another quarter final match, Sampad Patra of the Vikash School scored the all important gaol and the team barged into the semifinal by defeating Xavier Khandagiri. Veteran footballer Bijay Kumar Das gave away the man of the match award to Singray Soren of the winning team.
Sudip Das, Saroj Maharana, Durga Routray, Amit Naik, Sekhawat Khan and Golak Pradhan were conducted the matches as referees.
Mother’s Public School and DPS Kalinga would meet Rama Krushna Sikhya Kendra and Sainik respectively on Friday.