BHUBANESWAR 17-Sep-2016
Kalinga Bidyapitha were crowed champions of the 27th Bhubaneswar Inter-School Football Tournament when they edged out Vikash Residential School by 4-3 goals in the final, via penalty shoot out at Unit-VI High School Ground here today. Tie-break rule was applied after play in the regulation time ended in 1-1 draw.
Kalinga Bidyapitha custodian Sisir Naik saved three penalty kicks in the tie-breaker to bag the prizes as man of the final and best goalkeeper of the tournament. His teammate Suryakant Majhi received man of the tournament award. Suddeep Kumar and Krishna Sawaiyan of Vikash Residential School grabbed best mid-fielder and best forward prizes respectively, while the prize for best defender was claimed by Bindu Sagar of DPS Kalinga.
Local MLA Bijya Kumar Mohanty and Odisha Cricket Association secretary Asirwad Behera handed over the trophy and prizes at the closing function.
In the semifinals, Vikash Residential beat Delhi Public School, Kalinga, while Kalinga Bidyapitha got the better of Unit-II Govt Boys High School.
The ournament was organised by Unit-VI Athletic Association from September 1. The tournament, involving 24 schools of the capital city, was earlier inaugurated by former minister Padmanav Behera. Among the 24 teams, eight seeded ones played pre-quarterfinals directly.
The rest 16 teams were divided into four groups and after completion of group league and the top two finishers from each group joined the eight seeded teams in the pre-quarterfinals.
Seeded teams included defending champion KISS, last year’s runners-up Sainiik School, Vikash Residential School, Mother’s Public School, Ramakrishna Sikhya Kendra (IRC Village), DAV Public School (Unit-VIII), St Xavier High School (Kedargouri), Delhi Public School (Kalinga).
Other 16 teams were: Kalinga Vidyapitha, Sampur; Xavier International School; BJEM School,Vivekananda Siksha Kendra, Unit-IV (all Group-A); St Xavier High School, Khandagiri; St Joseph’s High School, Unit-VI Govt Boys High School, Venkateswar English Medium School (all Group-B); DAV Public School, Pokhariput; IRC Village Govt High School, Sai International School, Times Gurukul (all Group-C); Ramakrushna Mission School, Capital High School, Stewart School, DAV Public School (Kalinga Nagar).
RESULTS:
GROUP LEAGUE:
Sept 1 (Match No 1): Ramakrushna Mission School (Mahendra Mallick 14, Biram Marandi 40) beat Capital High School (Akash Behera 44) 2-1. Man of the Match: Mahendra Mallick.
Sept 3 (Match No 2): Sai International School (Archit Kumar hat-trick with 3 goals, Pawan Kumar, Deepak Kumar 1 goal each1) beat Times Gurukul 5-0. MoM: Archit Kumar.
Sept 3 (Match No 3): Stewart School beat Tapovan High School 4-3 in tie-breaker. Full-time 0-0. MoM: Bishnu Basudev Patra (Stewart).
Sept 6 (Match No 4): Unit-VI Boys High School (Akash Nayak 8th, 42nd) beat Venkateswar EM School 2-0. MoM: Akash Nayak.
Sept 6 (Match No 5): BJEM School (Rajib Das 2, Smruti Swagat, Soumesh Patra, Satyanarayan 1 each) beat Vivekananda Siksha Kendra, Unit-IV 5-0. MoM: Rajiv Das.
Sept 7 (Match No 6): St Xavier High School, Khandagiri (Ashish Singh 40th) beat St Joseph’s High School 1-0. MoM: Ashish Singh.
Sept 7 (Match No 7): Kalinga Vidyapitha, Sampur got walk-over against Xavier International School.
Sept 8 (Match No 8): Kendriya Vidyalaya-II (Satya Mishra 28th, Rohit Kumar 41st, Yuvraj Sahool 42nd) beat IRC Village Govt High School 3-0. MoM: Rohit Kumar.
Sept 8 (Match No 9): BJEM School (Soumesh Mohanty 15th, Sambit Das 40th) beat Rama Krishna Mission School (Self goal) 2-1. MoM: Soumesh Mohanty.
Sept 9 (Match No 10): Kalinga Vidyapitha, Sampur (Nabin Hembram 24th) beat KISS 1-0. MoM: Sisir Nayak (Kalinga Vidyapitha).
Sept 9 (Match No 11): Unit-VI Govt High School (Rajesh Hansdah 8th, Purandar Bari 24th, Sushil Hansdah 28th, Aditya Singh 44th) beat St Xavier High School, Khandagiri (Ashish Chhualsingh 3rd, 43rd) 4-2. MoM: Suhil Handah.
Sept 10 (Match No 12): Kendriya Vidyalaya-II (Yuvraj Sahoo 15th, Ranjit Singh 34th) beat St Xavier School, Kedargouri 2-0. MoM: Yuvraj Sahoo.
Sept 10 (Match No 13): Govt Boys High School, Unit-VI got walk-over against DAV Public School, Unit-VIII.
Sept 12 (Match No 14): Vikash Residential School (Krishna Kumar 14th, Gyanendra Pradhan 43rd) beat Sai International School 2-0. MoM: Gyanendra Pradhan.
Sept 12 (Match No 15): Mother Public School (Sarthak Sarangi 25th) beat Stewart School (Soubhagya Das 42nd) 5-2 in tie-breaker (Full time 1-1). MoM: Sarthak Sarangi.
Sept 13 (Match No 16): DPS Kalinga (Sudipta Routray 7th, Sanket Nayak 11th, Vishal Dev 14th) beat Rama Krushna Mission School (Prasanna Kumar Pandit 23rd) 3-1. MoM: Bindu Sagar.
Sept 13 (Match No 17, QF): Kalinga Bidyapitha, Sampur (Nabin Hembram 11th, Dhananjay Bhoi 27th) beat BJEM School 2-0. MoM: Dhananjay Bhoi.
Sept 14 (Match No 18, QF): Unit-II Govt High School (Aditya Prasad Singh 15th, Sushil Hansdah 33rd) beat Unit-VI Govt Boys High School 2-0. MoM: Prakash Nayak (Unit-VI).
Sept 14 (Match No 19, QF): Vikash Residential School (Kishan Swain 7th, Avishek Barla 30th, Sandeep Kumar 32nd) beat Kendriya Vidyalaya-II 3-0. MoM: Sandeep Kumar.
Sept 15 (Match No 20, SF): Kalinga Bidyapitha, Sampur (Suryakanta Majhi 10th, Bijay Swain 20th, Sakhan Nayak 41st) beat Govt High School, Unit-II (Sushil Hansdah 20th) 3-1. MoM: Suryakanta Majhi.
Sept 15 (Match No 21, QF): DPS Kalinga beat Mother’s Public School 5-4 in tie-breaker. MoM: Bindusagar.
Sept 16 (Match No 22, SF): Vikash Residential School (Krishna Roseya 40th) beat DPS Kalinga 1-0. MoM: Krishna Roseya.
Sept 17 (Match No 23, Final): Kalinga Bidyapitha (Nabin Hembram 17th) beat Vikash Residential School (Sagar Pradhan 25th) 4-3 in tie-breaker (Regulation time 1-1). MoM: Sisir Naik (Kalinga Bidyapitha).
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PHOTO: Players of Kalinga Bidyapitha lift the trophy in Bhubaneswar on Sept 17, 2016.
