8 jointly place in top of Bhubaneswar Open Chess
Bhubaneswar: Eight players scored three points each by the end of third round in the inaugural day of the 29th Bhubaneswar Open Chess Championship at Orissa Secretariat Recreation Club here on Saturday, being organized by Bhubaneswar Chess Association. Manas Parida, Manas Singh, Prabhat Ojha, Sahadev Khatei, Dhirendra Das, Prabodh Mishra, Sushant Garabadu and Ayush Parija are jointly shared the top place. Kumar Ashok, Natabara Das, Bansidhar Bhoi, M. Ranjan, Sumit Ojha, Aditya Pattnaik and ndra Kunjar Biswal scored 2.5 points each and shared the second place. As mans 91 players from 15 districts including 19 rated players are participating in the three-day nine round tournament. The top seed of the tournament is former State champion Manas Parida.
Nat’l Sub-Jr Girls Football qF from Jan 24
Bhubaneswar: Bihar and Jharkhand will take on Haryana and Chandigarh respectively in the quarterfinal round of the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Girls at Satyabrata Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand and Chandigarh placed in the group-A and host Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Manipur and Telengana are in group-B. Top two teams of the group will play the semifinal round. The semifinal will be held on January 31 while final will be play on February 2. As many as 21 teams were participated in the league round tournament. FAO was felicitated participating state teams, match officials and national team’s electors in a fuction at Cuttack on Friday. The Cuttack DCP Sanjeev Arora felicitated the players in presence of OCA and OAA secretary Asirwad Behera.
KISS Girl Mandakini to participate in SAF Games
Bhubaneswar: Mandakini Majhi, a +3 1st year commerce students of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) has been selected for South Asian Federation (SAF) Games 2016. She has selected in Indian women Kho-Kho team for the 12th SAF Games to be held from.
Mandakini is the first girl from Odisha to represent Kho Kho in SAF Games. Daughter of Rajiv Majhi and Rama Majhi has come from a very poor Kondh family from ludhipada village of Bolangir district. She has achieved many successes to her credit including 2nd place in 19th East Zone National Kho-Kho Championship 2014 held at Bihar, participated in 59th National School Games 2013-14 held at Delhi, Represented the State in 46th Senior National Kho-Kho Championship 2012-13 held at Baramati, Maharashtra and bagged the 3rd position in Junior National Kho-Kho Championship 2014 held at Rajasthan. Founder KIIT and KISS Achyuta Samanta congratulates Mandakini and wishes her success in SAF Games. It is a matter of pride not only for KISS, it is good news for Odisha and entire tribal community opined intellectuals.
Semifinalists spotted in U-16 Inter Dist Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Sambalpur and Nayagarh will take on Cuttack-A and Bhubaneswar-A respectively in the semifinal round of the three-day matches of the Sumit Bose Memorial OCA U-16 Inter District Cricket Tournament at different grounds in Cuttack from January 25 to 27.
In the last super league round match, trailed by 30 runs, Kendrapara scored 122 in 58.5 overs. Pramod Sahoo of Nuapada scalped four wickets for 10. Chasing the target of 92 runs, Kendrapara bowler Sd Aman Ali bagged five wickets but could not stop Nuapada to reach the winning target in 23.1 overs for the loss of eight wickets. Cuttack-A , BBSR-A and Bargarh gained three points each by taking first inning lead against Rourkela, Bhdrak and Cuttack-B respectively in other super leage matches, which ended in draw. Medical Ground: Kendrapara 63/10 in 31 overs (Aswan Dandasena 5/18, Chayan Kumar Devta 3/13, Ranjeet Baghel 2/8) and 74/5 in 33 overs (Pramod Sahoo 2/8) and 122/10 in 58.5 overs (Sd. Aman Ali 26 n.o; Pramod Sahoo 4/10) lost to Nuapada 93/10 in 26.2 overs (Sd Aman Ali 5/36, Ritesh Samal 2/7, Harekrishna Ghadai 2/33) and 93/8 in 23.1 overs (Sd. Aman Ali 5/43, Biswajit Jena 2/5) by 2 wickets. Ravenshaw Ground - II: Rourkela 121/10 in 48.5 overs (Nitish Niranjan Samantray 3/26, Spandan Sabat 3/10, Gyan Ranjan Acharya 2/40) and 111/9 in 41 overs (Saswat Rout 36; Nitish Niranjan Samantray 6/33) drew Cuttack-A 180/10 in 76.3 overs (Nitish Niranjan Samantray 23, Utkal Keshari Rout 23; Ankitkar Jaiswal 7/50). Nimpur Ground: Bhadrak 110/10 in 46 overs (Minal Parida 5/38, Bikash Nayak 2/25) and 69/7 in 33 overs (Ansuman Sinha 3/15) draw with BBSR-A 268/9 in 86.5 overs (Manas Ranjan Naik 78, Ansuman Sinha 25, Suman Dash 38; Kishan Manohar Mohanty 2/42, Sarthak Nayak 2/36, Surya Mohapatra 2/28). Ravenshaw Ground-I: Bargarh 153/10 in 63.5 overs (Harjit Singh 54 n.o; Badal Khamri 27, Ajit Swain 23; Sasanga Runguta 4/30, Sibasish Sahoo 3/24, B.l. Sibaram Bajarangi 2/31) and 142/10 in 59.2 overs (Aryaman Mishra 39; Bl Sibaram Bajarangi 4/34, Sair Prasad Acharya 4/52) drew with Cuttack-B 121/10 in 45.6 overs (Bibhuti Bhusan Chatriya 3/14, Harjeet Sing 7/52) and 79/4 in 13.1 overs (Gyana Ranjan Baliarsingh 33; Harjeet Singh 2/38).