Bir Birsa win in Gati Krushna Memorial Football
Bhubaneswar: In the group-A league match Bir Birsa Youth Club edged out Chandrashekharpur Athletic Association by 3-0 goals in the 12th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-II Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday, being organised by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association. Bijaya draw the first blood in the 24th minutes and Karan Murmu netted double goals in the 42nd and 54th minutes. Susanta Mishra, Chitrambada Patra, Manoranjan Khuntia and Manoj Soren were conducted the match as referees. Oriental Warriors and Mukteswar Sporting would meet City Club, Nayapalli and JSJS AG Colony respectively in the league round matches on Sunday.
Defending KISS retains Inter School Football title
Bhubaneswar: Defending champion KISS retained the champion title by defeating Sainik School by 3-1 goals in the MCl Cup Inter School Football Tournament, which concluded at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Saturday, being organised by Unit-6 High School Ground.
Dillip Murmu of the champion team netted double goals in the fifth and 15th minutes and his mate Sana Marando scored a goal in the 44th minutes. Ashok Jena scored the solitary goal in the 27th minutes. Sana Marandi, Sunil Murmu and Dillip Murmu of the champion team received the man of the final, best midfielder and man of the tournament respectively. Santosh Behera of the runner up team received best defence and Avijit Mohanty of Vikash School got the best goalkeeper award.Prakash Das, Amit Naik, Chandrakant Barik, Kirti Ranjan Swain and Durga Routray were conducted the match as referees. MCl director personnel Purna Chandra Panigrahi gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Akshya Kumar Das, Sritam Das, Naba Ranjan Pattnaik, Kusa Ranjan Patnaik, Priyanath Mishra, Bhakta Ballav Das, Narendra Sethhi, Debendra Mishra, SN Barik, UAA president Tapan Mohanty, secretary Dillip Das and Prafulla Mishra were present.
Ananya, Asif win RN Sing Deo memorial TT
Bhubaneswar: Ananya Basak of Khurda District and Asif Haque of Reserve Bank emerged champion by defeating Pousali Ghatak of Accounts General of Odisha and Tausif Haque of East Coast Railway by 4-3 and 4-0 respectively in the Transports 1st RN Singh Deo Memorial All Odisha State Ranking Table Tennis Championship at MB Dharmashala in Bolangir on Saturday, being organized by Balangir District Table Tennis Association. Transport and Commerce Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Balangir District Table Tennis Association secretary Sumit Purohit, vice president Deepak Purohit, lotus Sadangi, joint secretary Tikdal Majhi, Swagatika Mishra, Amit Sahani, Dinesh Sharma, Muna Khan, Manas Nanda, Siba Behera, Sarat Mishra and Senior Journalist Satya Narayan Behera were present. Results: Womens singles; Ananya Basak bt Pousali Ghatak by 4-3 (11-9, 11-9, 11-13, 6-11, 11-3, 6-11, 11-3), Men’s Singles; Asif Haque bt Tausif Haque by 4-0 (11-6, 11-2, 11-9, 13-11), Junior girls; Ananya Basak bt Suryasmita Aparajita 4-0 (11-4, 11-2, 11-9 , 11-2), Junior boys;M Ishwar bt Janmenjay Moharana 4-1 (13-11, 4-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-7), Youth boys singles; Bikash Singh bt M Ishwar 4-0 (11-7, 12-10, 11-6, 11-6), Sub-jr Girls; Yoshita Jamula bt Gayatri Mitra 4-2 (11-9, 15-13, 11-9, 7-11, 5-11, 11-8), Sub-jr boys; Arya S Mahaprasastha bt B Raju 4-2 (11-4, 9-11, 11-8, 3-11, 7-11, 11-9), Cadets girls; Sushree Patnaik bt Anu Sweta Hembrom 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-9), Cadet boys; Sahil Sunder Bhuyan bt Nakul Jamula 3-0 (11-5, 11-8, 11-4).