Khordha to meet ECoR in Nalco Cup final
Bhubaneswar: Khordha will take on East Coast Railway (ECoR) in the final of the 15th Nalco Cup State Hockey Championship at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Thursday. In the one-sided semifinals on Wednesday, ECoR and Khordha edged out Sundargarh and Jharsuguda by 7-1 and 6-2 goals respectively and entered the final.
Results: ECoR 7 (Binay Kujur 20th, Sunil Toppo 26th,David Minz 33rd, Deepak lugun 54th, Arbin Barla 61st, Anand Tirkey 63rd, M Deepak Raj 69th) beat Sundargarh 1 (Amit Chirmako 55th). Khordha 6 (Prasan Tirkey 24th,50th, Ashis Topno 26th,Suraj Minz 33rd, Nitin Mukesh Tigga 47th, Suman Kujur 67th) beat Jharsuguda 2 (Erness Surin 40th, Suraj Kerketta 64th).
Rajan to officiate National Junior Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey India has been announced a 17 member umpires team to officiate 7th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2017, B Division and A Division, schedule to be held at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh from April 14 to 22 and April 20 to 30 respectively. Rajan Ekka of Hockey Gangpur Odisha has been selected in the 17-member official team for the national meet. Virender Singh of Air India and MS Anna Kumar of Tamil Nadu have been appointed as umpire manager and assistant umpire manager respectively. Manish Gour will join the tournament as tournament director. Earlier, former Hockey Gangpur Odisha players Rajan had nominated by National Council for Sports and Youth Department (NCSYD) to officiate the All India Inter School Hockey Championship (U-14) at Pune in Maharashtra from January 28 to February 1.
State athletic meet from April 2
Bhubaneswar: The 64th Odisha State Athletic Meet will be held from April 2 to 4 at Barabati Stadium, in Cuttack. All the throw events will be conducted at Reserve Police Ground and Satyabrata Stadium, Cuttack.
The Opening function of the meet will be held on 2nd April 2017 at 9.00 A.M in which athletes from all the districts of State and Bhubaneswar Athletic Association, Odisha Police, Rourkela, East Coast Railway, KIITS, Paradip Port Trust will fight for the top honour.
Altogether 1500 athletes are expected to take part in the three-day meet. Olympian Duti Chand is expecting to participate.