Wickets down

Skipper Biplab Samantray led from the front in the last Ranji match of Odisha against Karnataka. Despite his knock of 106, the state team faced defeat as Karnataka snatched the win by four wickets.

The victory earned Karnataka six points and lifted them from seventh to fourth position in the Group-A table, while Odisha with nine points slipped from fifth to sixth place.

Ball game

Odisha senior women’s team for the first time emerged champion in the National Senior Women Baseball Championship that concluded on Monday at Sholapur in Maharashtra. Odisha emerged joint champions with finalists Punjab after the final match ended in a draw at 2-2. “The state teams had won nationals in sub-junior and junior category, but this is the first time we won a senior national title,” said Pankajlochan Mohapatra, the coach of the team. Baseball Association of Odisha has announced a grand welcome for the players said Sibananda Pradhan, secretary of the association.

Tough act

The senior national karate champion in the 55kg segment Dilip Jena of Odisha, is representing India at the Asian Championship that began on Tuesday. Jena is the 11th karateka from Odisha to play international karate. He had won the senior title last month and thus was selected for the Asian Championship. The event will conclude on December 6.

Tennis tourney

The inter-district and Odisha state table tennis championship is all set to be hosted at the table tennis academy of Angul near the Angul stadium from December 6 to 9. Overall, 12 events will be conducted in the tournament that include the senior men's and junior boys' team championship as well as singles and doubles in all age groups for men and women. Players from all districts and organisations have been invited to take part in the event.

Hockey hurrah

The Central Zone University Hockey Women’s Tournament concluded at the Biju Patnaik Stadium, Rourkela, on Sunday. The final was played between Sambalpur University, and LNIPE, Gwalior.

The Sambalpur team won the match by 5-1 goals and emerged champion. In all, 15 teams had took part in this tournament.

Right shots

Bhubaneswar boy Ashutosh Padhy amazed everyone with his unbelievable performance at the Falcon 20th Odisha State Billiards and Snooker Championship that concluded at the Cue Sports Academy in Bhubaneswar recently.

He won five titles, including the junior and sub junior snooker and billiards titles that he was defending.

He also won the senior billiards title this year. Neither Nishant Biswal nor Subrat Das could defend their senior snooker and billiards titles. Siddharth Sen of Cuttack won the remaining championship of senior snooker.

Ashutosh, a three-time national sub-junior champion, made a record with his feat of five victories in the state championship. For Siddharth, this is the fifth senior snooker title that he had last won in 2006. He defeated Rakesh Roshan Pradhan by 6-2 frames in the final.