The Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB) in collaboration with Sportscom, the Sports committee of XUB, hosted the first edition of Xavier meet, a Jesuit sports extravaganza, here from January 18 to 20.
In the event the XLRI, Jamshedpur and XIM, Bhubaneswar battled it out with the home team-XUB for the trophy across the twelve formal sporting events. On first two days different matches like cricket, basketball, badminton were played among the teams and a movie night was organised “filmophile” and in which students enjoyed the movie Chak De! India.
The third day marked the finals for cricket, football, volleyball, throwball, carrom and basketball where the XLRI emerged as the winners in football, men’s cricket, women’s cricket, volleyball, basketball, carrom. Later XUB Registrar EA Augustine unveiled the trophies in presence of Deputy Registrar S Antony Raj, general secretary Sarthak Das, Student Affairs coordinator Prof Sutapa Pati and hostel in-charge PK Mohapatra and distributed the prizes to the teams