MB Sports talent award held
Bhubaneswar : Utkal Karate School secretary Hari Prasad Pattanayk received the Kalinga Krida Ratna award in the Mukunda Barala (MB) Memorial Trust’s 1st Sports Talent Award here on Monday. Five players, karateka Payal Baral, rugby player Hupi Majhi, footballer Rameswar Parhi, weightlifter Sadhu Soren and veteran weightlifter Bajali Apat were received trophy along with cash award of Rs 10,000 each. late Mukunda Baral was a native of Puri was a prominent wrestler of our State, he brought many laurel for the State not only that he trained many wrestler of our State. Sports and Youth Services Minister Sudam Marandi gave away the prizes in presence of MlA Priyadarsi Mishra. Among others, trustee Piusha Mohanty, Nabakishore Barala, Kaibalya Barala, Gourisankar Mishra, Nabaranjan Pattnaik, Chitta Ranjan Swain and Bikash Chandra Patnaik were present.
Cuttack emerge champion of Sahani Cup Football
Bhubaneswar: Cuttack emerged champion of the 57th Senior Men Inter District Football Championship for Sahani Cup, defeating Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) by 2-0 goals at VSS Stadium in Sambalpur on Tuesday. After the barren first half, Cuttack got the lead in the 80th minute through a goal by V George Prakash. His team mate Bikash Chnadra Padhiary nailed the final goal in the 87th minute and took away the match from RSP. The officials who conducted the match were Subrat Purohit, Kartikeswar Das, Pardipta Kumar Naik and Nabin Kumar Naik as referees and Durga Madhab Naik was the match commissioner. MP Nagendra Kumar Pradhan gave away the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony in presence of Sambalpur Superintendent of Police Akhileshveer Singh. The other dignitaries who were present were FAO working president Srikara Mishra , vice president Bhakat Ballav Das, Rabi Narayan Panda, Tadit Kumar Rout, joint secretary Avijit Paul and DAA Sambalpur secretary Dulal Chandra Pradhan.
Odisha register back-to-back win in Jr Football
Bhubaneswar: Jabamani Tudu, Suman Pragyan Mohapatra, laharee Mangaraj and Subhadra Sahu of Odisha netted four goals each and the team defeated Andhra Pradesh by 25-0 goals to notch second victory in a row in the Junior Girls National Football Championship at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday. Jasmani Samad of the host team opened the flood gate in the fourth minute. Arati Sethi and Anima Mallick joined the party by scoring three goals each in the 7th , 17th ,30th and 19th,23rd,55th minutes respectively. Jabamani ( 8th , 13th , 25th and 42nd ), Suman (14th , 34th , 37th and 58th ) and laharee (53rd , 60th , 69th and 82nd ) scored four goal each and Odisha scripted a huge win. In another match in the same ground, Ansuska Samuel and Mariya Tehereen Khan of Delhi netted a goal each in the 25th and 41st minutes respectively and the team win over Assam by 2-0 goal. A double goal each haul by Vanlalhriathai and Grace H lalrampari guided Mizoram to edge out Chandigarh by 4-1 goals at Police ground. Anline Fernandes, Karishma and Sushmita Jadav of Goa netted a goal each in the 11th,49th and 68th minutes respectively and powered the team to beat Kerala by 3-2 goals in the same venue. The goal scorers for Kerala were Unnimaya V and Reshma ER 13th and 88th minutes respectively.
2 Odisha women cricketers to join nat’l camp
Bhubaneswar: Anjali Singh and Sarojini Giri of OCA got selected in the 25-member U-19 (Girls) squad to join the National camp will be conducted at Guntur (Andhra CA) under the aegis of NCA from July 8 to August 7. The selected player/s presently participating in the U-19 (Girls) Inter Zonal Tournament will stay back at Guntur.