PSH gets rousing welcome
Rourkela: The winning men’s team members of the Rourkela-based Panposh Sports Hostel (PSH) were on Tuesday given a warm reception at the PSH campus upon their arrival after winning the 36th All India Shastri Memorial Gold Cup Hockey Tournament was held at Guna of Madhya Pradesh from February 2 to 7. The champion PSH team walked away with cash award of `1.10 lakh after beating EME Jalandhar (Punjab) 5-3 in the final via through tie-breaker. While final match was ended in 2-2 draw in the stipulated time. In its run to the semi-final the PSH team had beaten Western Railway, Mumbai 5-3 and Jhansi Railway Division 2-1. In the semi-final the PSH had emerged victorious against Core of Signal, Jalandhar with a 2-1 score. Rourkela ADM K Sudershan Chakravorty visited the PSH to congratulate the winning team in the presence of team coach Bijay lakra, PSH coach Amulya Behera and the PSH inmates.
Odisha, WB enter Sub-jr Football final round
Bhubaneswar: Odisha and West Bengal entered to the final round of the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Boys (East Zone Qualifying Round) at Barabati stadium in Cuttack. In the last league round match on Tuesday, Odisha edged out Sports Authority of India (SAI) by a solitary goal. After a barren first half, Beekay Oram scored the all important goal in the 65th minute.
In another match of the day, Chhattisgarh defeated Sikkim 4-1 goals. Arun Tigga, Probjit Singh, Abhishek Kunjam and Amit Nag of the winning team netted a goal each in 23rd,37th,67th and 81st minutes respectively. lalang Subba of Sikkim scored a goal in 62nd minute.
State Blind team to join Nat’l Cricket meet
Bhubaneswar: Team Odisha reached at K.D Sing Babu stadium lucknow to participate in the 15th Dr Sakuntala Mishra National cricket tournament for the blind scheduled to held from February 10 to 14. As many as 12 teams including Odisha will take part. Odisha team: Md Jafar Iqbal, (captain) Tapan Kumar Gauda, Fakira Behera, Gananidhi Singh, Pankaj Mangal,Nakula Badanayak, Ekadashi Hemram, Singrai Majhi, Sukhram Majhi(vc) Biswanath Khara, lingraj Rautra, Jujhar Bari, Durga Hemram, Judhiister Paika and Chandrasekhar Patnaik.
Sprinter Srabani, Dutee bag medal in SAG
Bhubaneswar: Odisha ‘s ace sprinter Srabani Nanda and Dutee Chand bagged silver and bronze medal respectively in the women 100 meter event of the 12th South Asian Games at Gouwhati in Assam on Tuesday. RMRK Rathnayaka of Sri lanka grabbed the gold medal. In the heats Srabani clocked 11.71 seconds while Dutee qualified for the final with 11.88 seconds.