Radha Gobinda, Rising win in FAO Football league
Bhubaneswar: Radha Gobinda Club and Rising Star Club defeated State Bank of India and Sunrise Club respectively in the league round matches of the FAO 1st Div Football league at Cuttack on Tuesday.
After the barren first half, Kuwar Marandi of Radha Gobinda scored the all important goal in the 54th minutes and beat SBI by 1-0 goal.
In another match, Rising Star Club got the lead in the 28th minute through the goal by Guman Shrestha. After the lemon breaks, Adetola Abiodun Oluwasegun double lead in the 84th minutes and the team pipped Sunrise Club by 2-0 goals. Independent Club and Radha Raman Club would meet Chand Club and Durga Club respectively on Wednesday.
Odisha bags 2 silver, 5 bronze in Athletic meet
Bhubaneswar: Vinsen Samad bagged silver medal and Priyanka Mahalik and Bhim Soren received bronze medals each on the third day of the 31st National Junior Athletic Championship on Tuesday, which is going on at Ranchi, Jharkhand. Odisha received total two silver and five bronze medals. Priyanka Mahalik of Cuttack who is studding at Balasore DAV Public School in 10th Class secured her first ever National medal and satisfied with Bronze in 3km Race Walk Girls Under -16 age group. She has crossed finished line with in 16mints 20.46 sec. In this event Gold medal received by Kerala Girl Divya. A with timing of 16mint 09.36 sec and Silver medal received by Maharastra Girl Suvarna Kapse with timing of 16min 18.41 sec. Second medal has come for the day through Vinsen Samad of Sundargard Sports Hostel in Boys under-16 Pentathlon event. He has secured Silver medal with 3196. Gold medal received by Mohit of Haryana with 3345 points and Bronze medal received by Praveen of Tamilnadu with 3171points.
Bhima Soren of Mayurbhanj in Boys under 14 age group secured one more Bronze medal for state in 100 mtr with timing of 11.53 sec. In this event Gold medal received by Sunil Vatas of Gujrat with timing of 11.42 and Silver medal won by Y. Harikrishna of Telengana with timing of same 11.44 sec. Other athlete Bikram Murmu of Bhubaneswar finished poorly 7th position in Boys 16 age group in 100 mtr Run.
Deepsan, Anand gets rousing welcome
Bhubaneswar: Odisha junior hockey star Deepsan Tirkey and Anand lakra got rousing welcome at Rourkela Railway Station on Tuesday, on their arrival from the Junior Asia Cup held at Malayasia and
AN Bihari In charge of Sports Hostel Rourkela, Raju Saini RSP Coach, Peter Tirkey RSP Coach, Nishan Jyoti Mohanty National Hockey Umpire, Rajen Ekka, Rajat Minz IGHT Secretary, Pradeep Xess, and Salestin Tigga were present .