Ganjam emerge State Excise meet champion
Bhubaneswar : Ganjam emerged overall champion in the two-day 46th State Excies Sports Meet, which concluded at Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday and Rayagada finished runner up. Rohi Patra of Ganjam and Sagarika Bagar of Rayagada bagged the best men and women athlete titles respectively. As many as 650 athletes from 31 district and four EIEB units were participated in the meet. State Excise Department principal secretary SP Thakur gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony.
Axis emerge Secretariat Cup Cricket Champion
Bhubaneswar: Axis Bank emerged champion by defeating OPTCl in a nail-biting final match by a run in the 17th Secretariat Cup Cricket Tournament, which was concluded here at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday. Batting first, Siva Prasad Roy smashed an unbeaten 47 runs and helped Axis Bank 145 for 7 in 25 overs. Arun Pradhan scalped three wickets. In reply, Axis bowlers came into action while Dhiren lenka bagged three wickets and Dibesh Mohanty scaled two wickets and restricted OPTCl for 144 in 24.2 overs. Rabi Narayan Nanda gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Odisha Secretary Cricket Association president laxmi Prasad Bhuyan, secretary Tarun Chandra Pal , Himansu Sekhar Rout, Ratan Das, Swarnendu Mishra, Nrusingh Prusty and Rama Chandra Panigrahi were present. Brief score: Axis Bank 145/7 in 25 overs (Ansuman Das 29, Debraj Kar 27, Siva Prasad Roy 47 n.o; Arun Pradhan 3 wkts, D. Shiva and Deepak Majhi 2 wkts each) beat OPTCl 144/10 in 24.2 overs (Deepak Majhi 53 runs, lalatendu Bairganjan 24; Dhiren lenka 3/20, Dibesh Mohanty 2 wkts) by 1 run.
Odisha, SAI win in National sub-jr Football
Bhubaneswar: Bekey Oram of the host Odisha nailed the first hat-trick of the meet and guided his team to beat Chhattisgarh in the league round matche of the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Boys 2015-16 at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. Odisha dominated the match from the beginning, Bhagaban Chuniar drew the first blood in the second minute, while Suraj Malha double the lead by scoring a goal in the 16th minute. Just before the end of the first half in the 44th minute Kushajani scored a goal, Odisha closed the first half with 3-0 lead. After the change of sides, Bekey dominated the show by scoring three goals in a row in the 55th,57th and 74th minute. The final toss gave by Dula Murmu in the 81st minute and host scripted a 7-0 goal victory. In another one-sided match of the day, SAI edged out Sikkim 3-0 goal. After the barren first half, SAI got the lead through a goal by Arup Mani in the 74th minute and Sashikant Boypai took the game away from Sikkim by scoring two goals in a row in the 76th and 83rd minute.
Renovation of Sashi Bhusan stadium demanded
Brahmapur: Rushikulya Cricket Club (RCC), Surada (Ganjam) president Ephrem Behera submitted a memorandum to the Block Divisional officer on Friday demanding immediate renovation and reconstruction of Sashi Bhusan Mini Stadium, Surada which is incomplete and worsening state and as such lying defunct since last several years. Though the villagers, local youths, sports lovers have drew the attention of the authorities for reconstruction of this stadium, but their demands remain unheeded by the district administration which is quite unfortunate, Behera said. Keeping public perceptions and local demands in mind, the Department of Sports and Youth Services of the State had released a grant of `10 lakhs in July last with an assurance to complete the work by the end of the financial year 2015-16 which is going to be over by March this year. Though, one and half months left for ending of the financial year , no work has yet been started on the ground so far causing serious discontent among the local public, he added. The Club has demanded for issue of work order for undertaking the construction work so as to complete the work by end of this FY, failing which the Club will gherao the office of the BDO and will resort to agitation and for consequences thereof, the BDO will be held responsible, the memorandum cautioned. The club also alleged that, the release of sanctioned amount along with all the required papers and other supporting documents are lying pending deliberately and deliberately remain unattended by the Office. Among prominent sports lovers and local intellectuals who signed the memorandum include RK Mahapatra, Satya Pattnaik, Chinmaya Sahu, Saroj Maharana, Dillip Panda, GK Panda, Advocates Bijaya Panda, Rajani Pattnaik, Manoj Kumar Mahapatra, Sanjay Kumar Panda,Satyabrat Patra and a galaxy of social activists and sports persons.
Behera fashions 4th win for BSNl
Bhubaneswar: Feb 7: Riding on former Odisha Ranji team captain Niranjan Behera’s fine all-round performance, star-studded Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNl) beat Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) by seven wickets in their fifth and last Elite Series match of the 3rd E-league Cricket Tournament here at IMMT Ground on Sunday.
This was the fourth win for BSNl and they confirmed their place in the semifinals. On the other hand, TCS suffered their fourth defeat in a row and they will play their last Elite Series match against formidable Odisha Blues. Put into bat today, TCS mustered a competitive total of 174 for nine, thanks to a half-century each by Soumendra Dalai and Asutos Das. For BSNl, captain BBCC Mohapatra bagged three wickets, while Niranjan Behera, Sanjay Satpathy and Tukuna Sahu picked up two wickets apiece. In reply, BSNl batted with authority to overhaul the target in 28 overs. Niranjan Behera and Tukuna Sahu capped the victory with unbeaten knocks of 50 and 40 respectively. Behera was adjudged man of the match. Brief score: TCS 174/9 in 40 overs (Soumendra Dalai 54, Asutos Das 52, Rabinarayan Dash 20; BBCC Mohapatra 3/18, Niranjan Behera 2/27, Sanjay Satpathy 2/27, Tukuna Sahu 2/31) lost to BSNl 176/3 in 28 overs (Niranjan Behera 50 n.o, Tukuna Sahu 40 n.o, Priyabrat Pradhan 32, Ramachandra Mohanty 21; Gourav Bhut 2/22) by 7 wkts.