Cuttack: West Bengal thrashed Chhattisgarh 4-0 in an East Zone qualifying round match of the Sub-Junior National Boys’ football championships at the Ravenshaw University Ground here Friday. Nayandeep Rai (78th, 82nd) scored a brace, while Manav Mullick (46th) and Phurba Thely Sherpa (84th) found the back of the net once each.
Team leave
Twenty bodybuilders and four officials from the state departed for Assam Thursday to take part in the East Zone Bodybuilding Championship to be held at Naogaon, January 7-8. The squad: Satyaranjan Panda, Nitesh Kumar Barik, Lebachand Tudu, Satyaranjan Behera, S Krishna Rao, Ranjan Kumar Pradhan, Debakanta Sahoo, Vijay Mantri, Sujit Kumar Jena, Sanjib Kumar Mohapatra, Debashis Dutta, Subhrajit Bahinipati, Satish Huda, Master Milon, Kiran Kumar Kamita, Somnath Jali, Biswanath Roy, Subrat Sasmal, and Amarnath Khuntia; (Officials): Prasana Kumar Mahasuara, Babuli Swain, Bhabani Shankar Sahoo and Ranjan Mohanty.
Golak no more
Eminent sports organiser Golak Bihari Patnaik breathed his last after suffering a massive cardiac arrest at his Angul residence, Thursday. He was 62. Golak was the former executive member of National Bodybuilding Federation and former treasurer of Orissa Bodybuilding Association (OBA). All the members of OBA expressed their deep condolences over the sad demise of Golak.
Chess tourney
Bhusandpur Chess Association (BCA) will organise the VIth Bhusandpur Chess Championship at Bhusandpur here January 14-14. “Participants below 1600 rating points are eligible to participate in the tournament, which carries a total prize purse of Rs 25,000,” BCA expressed in a press release Friday.
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