United Football win Biju Pattnaik Gold Cup inaugural
Bhubaneswar: Double goals haul by Rakesh Kumar Sahu guided United Football Club of Cuttack defeated KISS of Bhubaneswar 3-0 in the inaugural match of the 9th Biju Pattnaik Gold Cup Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Thursday, being organized by Unit-6 Athletic Association (UAA). Rakesh Kumar drew the first blood in the 19th minute and he doubled the lead in the 39th minutes. After the change of side, Sakid Sahazad nailed the final goal in the 46th minutes. Rakesh of the winning team bagged the man of the match award.
In the knockout round matches on Friday, Balasore Sports Hostel and United School Bhubaneswar will take on Sanik School and Keonjhar Sports Hostel respectively and Balangir Sports Hostel will meet Nayagarh Sports Hostel on Friday. MlA Bijya Kumar Mohanty inaugurated the meet in presence of MlA Padmanav Behera, Tata Residential executive Manikant Naik, General Manager MC Thomas, UAA president Tapan Mohanty, secretary Dillip Kumar Das, Vice-president Prafulla Mishra and Naba Ranjan Patnaik were present.
Haryana beat Odisha in National Blind Cricket
Bhubaneswar: The all-round performance by Dipak Mallick, who scalped three wickets and smashed 69 runs helped Haryana to edged out Odisha by eight wickets in the league round match of the 22nd National Cricket Tournament for the blind started at Tau Devilal sports complex ground in Gurgaon on Thursday. Batting first, Odisha scored 175 runs for the loss of nine wickets in 20 overs. Sukhram Majhi and Jujhar Bari of Odisha contributed 84 and 32 runs respectively.
In reply, Dipak well supported by Rambir who scored 54 and the team reached the winning target in 17.2 overs for the loss of two wickets.
Odisha placed in group-B along with Haryana, Karnataka and Rajasthan. Odisha will play the second league against Karnataka on Friday. To qualify for the semi-final Odisha have to win both the league against Karnataka and Rajasthan.
Odisha suffer defeat in All India Postal football
Bhubaneswar: Odisha postal circle suffered defeat from Kerala by 0-2 in the semifinal match of the 29th All India Postal Football tournament at Bangalore in Karnataka on Thursday. Though Odisha team fought well but could not able to utilize the half chances into goal. In other hand Kerala grabbed their opportunities in time. For the third and fourth place match on Friday, Odisha will meet Jammu and Kashmir.
Bramhandei win Rural Volleyball Tourney
Bhubaneswar: Bramhandei defeated Rangabeda and emerged champion of the Rural Volleyball tournament for village youths on Wednesday. 24 teams from 24 nearby villages within the periphery of 15 km radius of NTPC Kaniha were participated in the tournament.
Samal, Badahira,Balipatta,Bhuinpur,Banasingh,Bijigol, Boinda, Brahamandei, Burubahal, Derang, Gadashilla, Hanamanpur, Jarada,Kansamunda, Kaniha, Kantapal, Pathermunda, Poipal,Rangabeda, Sanatribida, Takua, Telisingha, Tolakbeda and Titirima were the teams participated in the meet. PM Jena, General Manager (EMD) and Anil Jana (FM) distributed the prizes to winner and runners’ up team. Each participating team was provided with volleyball net to encourage the game. On this occasion SK Suar, Chairman, Sports council, Sudhir Pani, General Secretary and other committee members of sports council, tournament referees along spectators in huge numbers were present during the tournament.
Gajapati athletic selection trail held
Paralakhemundi: Gajapati Districts athletics selection trail was held at Gajapati Stadium, Parlakhemundi on Thursday, being organised by District Administration and Sports and Youth Services.
The event was conducted under the leadership of Prabhakar Thripathy District Sport Officer, around eighty students from seven blocks and one MNC participated in the trail.The competition was held for U-20 and U-18 for boys and girls, 100,200,400,500,1000,1500 metre race, high jump, long jump , throw ball competition. The selected students will be sent to Cuttack , Barabati stadium to participated in the State meet going to be held on December 27. P.E.T Santosh Kumar Panda, Priyadari Mishra, Dhiran Kumar Samal, Tapaswini Panda, Jagya Narayan Behera were conducted the events.
FAO announced Women team
Bhubaneswar: Football Association of Odisha was announced 20-member State team on Thursday, The team will participate in the 21st Senior Women National (East Zone) Football Championship 2015 to be held at Kalyani in West Bengal from December 21 to 27. Karishma Oram will lead the State team as captain. Odisha will meet Chhattisgarh, Sikkim and West Bengal on December 21st , 23rd and 26th respectively. State Team: Sita Sarma, Tikina Samal, Rajeswari Das (goalkeeper), Jabamani Tudu, Hema Xaxa (stopper), Karishma Oram, Jyoshna Malik, Parbati Kujur, Guddi Tirkey, laxmi Munda (Defense), Anima Malik, Arati Anima Khadia, Arati Sethi, Swarnapriya Nayak, Manisa Tirkey (half), Pyari Xaxa, Sakina Nisa, Jasmani Samad, Susmita Dalei, Menaka Malik (forward), Jyoshna lata Bhadra (manager), Sarita Jayanti Behera (coach).