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IMPHAL, April 30: SSA registered a big win against SYUC in the 35th mens Manipur state hockey league being held at Khuman Lampak Hockey stadium.

SSA scored at regular interval to total their score to 12 to which SYUC manage to reduce only two.

H Mani scored six goals for SSA while H Romi added three. Th Rocky and T Robin too scored one goal each.
The goal scorers for the SYUC were P Rakesh and M Dhananjoy.

In the second ground match, COSMO had a thumping win against HU with the score of 14-3.

K Johny scored four goals for COSMO while Amarjit and Thoungamba scored two goals each. Bronson, K Joy, Honda, Bebeto and Rahul scored one goal each for the winning team.

Ch Rishi, M Purnajit and P Hemjit scored for HU.

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IMPHAL, May 6: The 6th edition of the Manipur State League football will be competed by only 10 clubs as no Clubs has applied for filling up two Clubs relegated based on the league table of the 5th Manipur state league.
Executive council of the AMFA has decided to fix the number of Clubs for the 6th MSL to 10 only with no fresh selectio.
The AMFA executive council meet held today also decided that the principle of relegation o two teams and selection/promotion of two teams to replace the relegated two clubs will maintain and continue.

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IMPHAL, May 11: Azad Khan, Premjit and Vishal won their respective quarter final matches of the 1st state level CYLC tennis championship being held at Singjamei Chingamakha.
In the quarter final round matches played today Azad Khan defeated Kangjamba in two sets 6-4, 6-0 while Premjit had easy win against Bona with the score of 6-3, 6-1.
In the third quarter final round matches of the day, Vishal struggle to beat Sanjoy in three sets 6-0, 2-6, 10-7.

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IMPHAL, May 15: Y Bijoy defeated S Chandra in the final of the 50 plus mens singles final of the 3rd Mutum Tomba Singh & Mutum Shangker Singh Memorial veteran Table Tennis tournament held at Indoor Stadium, DM College campus.In the mens 50 plus doubles final the pair of g Prafulla and Dr Ng Mangi defeated the pair of K Kumar and Y Bijoy.In the mens 60 plus category G Prafula defeated K Kumar in the final. In the mens 40 plus singles final, Th Dharmendra defeated K Bedajit while in the mens 40 plus doubles the pair of S Joychandra and N Biren defeated Ksh Manihar and Th Nandakishore. In the women;s 50 plus singles final P Shanta Devi defeated K Ibeyaima.

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IMPHAL, May 21: Eastern Sporting Union, Wangkhei has lifted this year’s Th Birchandra Football Academy U-16 football trophy after defeating TBSFA.
In the thrilling final match played today at Toubungkhok, the Wangkhei club rely on a spot kick delivered by N Loken in the 23 minute which found the net. The match ended in 1-0 in favour of ESU.
ESU earn the spot kick as TBSFA defender Chingkheinganba handled the ball inside penalty area.
Referee Sh Suresh had no hesitation in awarding a spot kick to ESU and Chingkheinganba was sent off.
The winning team took home cash prize of Rs 25000  with a rolling trophy while the runners-up TBSFA was richer by Rs 15,000 with a rolling trophy.
The best fair play award of the tournament was bagged by YWC Malom.
JL Fimate of TBSFA was declared man of the tournament and he was richer by Rs 2000 with a trophy while best defender’s trophy was bagged by N Rohit also of TBSFA.
Most promising player of the league was given to N Loken of ESU while Y Suraj also of ESU was given best goal keepers trophy.
Top scorer of the tournament carrying cash prize of Rs 2000 and trophy was shared between JL Fimate of TBSFA and Raisomi of YOSC.

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IMPHAL, June 2: Three powerlifter from Manipur have been selected for trial of the Asian Bench Press Powerlifting Championship to be held at Taiwan from August 16 to 18.

The selected powerlifters are K Sanayaima (48kg), N Sushila (56kg) and K Rosila (82kg).

In the meantime, nine girls and two boys have been selected to take part in the national sub-junior powerlifting championship to be held at Nagpur, Maharastra from June 8 to 10.

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By John K. Kaping
UKHRUL, Jun.11: “The secret of my success is my love of the game”, said Baichung Bhutia, former Indian Football team captain who is also referred to as the Sikkimese snipper in the Indian Football world.

The football striker coined this word while replying to queries by the people of Ukhrul in a public interactive discussion at Ukhrul Somsai. The “soccer Icon” was felicitated by the people of Ukhrul and the 17th Assam Riffles 10 Sector B’ Range Somsai today morning in a function hosted by the 17th Assam Riffles at its recreation hall under the theme “AR Presents Football Clinic by Baichung Bhutia on 11-06-2011 at Somsai”.

The DIG 10 Sector B’Range Somsai Brig. Narender Kumar in his speech expressed his deep appreciation of the “Indian Soccer hero” termed the star as one of the greatest “Icons” touching the zenith position of achievements in India in the arena of Football. The Brig also gave an assurance to sponsor one football talented school children between the age of 8-12 years from any school in Ukhrul to be cared in financially, educationally and especially in football encouraging to follow in the footsteps of Baichung.

The occasion was marked and attended by all ranks and files of the 17tth Assam Riffles led by the DIG and Commanding officer (CO) Col. Beniwal from the Army Sector where as the Ukhrul District Sports Association (UDSA) Officials, Public leaders, tremendous foot-ball fans from Ukhrul district especially the students of UDSA and Ukhrul District media team also participated in the interaction with the Indian star.

A comprehensive “person to person interactive session” was also conducted in an open platform before dessert break served by AR.

There was also an exhibition football match played between students of the district at the Somsai play-field.

The function was conducted by the commander Ukhrul Post Capt. Sushil Kumar followed by a welcome and key-note address delivered by Tennyson a public leader who elaborated on a brief background history of the soccer who was born in Tinkitam(Sikkim) on Dec. 15, 1976 and started his education in St.Xaviers School, Pakyong, East Sikkim and won a football scholarship from SAI at the age of nine.

He played for several local clubs in his home state before he represented and won the best player award in the 1992`Subroto Cup`.

In 1993, at the age of 16 he left school to join the professional East Bengal Club in Calcutta. Two years later he joined to JCT Mills Football Club, which went on to win the Indian National Football League in the 1996-97 season. Bhutia was the top goal scorer in the league, and was chosen to make his International debut in the Nehru Cup.

He was named “1996 Indian player of the year”. He became the 19th Footballer to recieve “Arjuna Award” in 1999. On Jan 26, 2008 he was chosen for “Padma Shree” for his contribution to Indian Football. He has been described as “God`s Gift to Indian Football”.

The vote of thanks was delivered by Lucky Sareo, secretary UDSA. Also footballs were distributed to various Ukhrul local teams by the visiting Indian soccer Icon. The former Indian football team captain is also reportedly to sojourn his stay in Ukhrul for a couple of days with an aim to train the football talented school children whom he is quite familiar with as infact his spouse (life Partner) Madhuri Bhutia who is a product from Ukhrul Savio School plus Ukhrul being the hometown of his colleague former footballer Somatai Shaiza.

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IMPHAL, June 20: Altogether 21 candidates have passed the AFC ‘C’ Certificate Course held at Imphal from April 1 to 16. All the successful candidates are informed to submit Log Book showing their work for 60 hours.  

According to an AMFA release the successful candidates are N Biren Meetei, Y Khogen Meetei, N Rajesh Meetei, N Uttam Singh, K Sachindra Mangang, A Muniram Singh, Md Abdul Wahid, K Lokendra Singh, Th Sunilkumar Singh, M Bimolchandra Meetei, Md Abdul Quddus Shah, N Nandakishor Singh, O Kulla Singh, Golmei Anil Kabui, Ch Ojit Singh, K Somorjit Singh, Th Tomba Singh, Ng Ruhikanta SIngh, M Dineshchandra Singh, S Manglemjao Singh and L Surjit Singh.

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IMPHAL, June 29: Manipur bagged 12 gold, six silver and five bronze medals at the 35th national Armwrestling championship held at Ludhiana, Punjab from June 16 to 20. 

In the junior girls category A Premila won gold in 45kg category while Ch Minerva, S Aruna and L Chaoba too bagged gold in the 60th, 70th and 70+ categories respectively. L Ranjita bagged silver in the 45kg category while Th Sangeeta and Rojimala bagged bronze medals in the 50kg and 55kg respectively of the section while Kh Ganita was fourth position holder in the 50kg category.

In the junior boys 70kg category, Th Ringo bagged gold while K Surjit bagged bronze.

In the women’s section, S Rani bagged gold in the 60kg while Ch Inaobi, M Memcha, S Inao and L Pusparani bagged gold respectively in the 70kg, 80kg, 80+kg and 65kg bout.

M Abe, Chanchalkumari and S Aruna also bagged silver medals in the 55kg, 65kg and 70kg respectively while Millonda bagged bronze in the 60kg category as also S Anita in the same weight category.

In the men’s 70kg category Md Kalam won silver medal.

In the Masters category, Th Othelo won silver in the 60kg while N Nobo and Th Sarat won gold in the 80kg and 100kg respectively.

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IMPHAL, July 9: Bisnupur Veteran Kabaddi Association defeated LYUC Lourembam in today’s match of the 1st Veteran Invitation Kabaddi tournament being held at LYUC ground, Lourembam. Thoubal veteran Kabaddi team will clash with their Bishunupur counterpart tomorrow at the same venue.

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IMPHAL, July 21: The Manipur Chess Association has invited chess players who want to participate at the 20th National Youth Chess Championship (under-25 years) to be held at Indore in Madhya Pradesh to submit their applications on or before July 27. Details can be had from the office of the association.

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IMPHAL, July 27: UPSA defeated RAU by 4-1 goals in today’s match of Imphal East 1st Division held at KOSC ground, Khabeisoi.

The goal scorers of UPSA were Raju and Amarjit while Bikash scored the lone goal for RAU.

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IMPHAL, Aug 4: FVWA defeated ISAV by 2-1 goals in today’s match of Ng Shamu Memorial Veteran Football Tournament held at Megha High School Ground.

Rajen Khanganba scored two goals for FVWA while S Rajendro scored a goal for ISAV.

FVWA has reached the final after defeating ISAV.

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IMPHAL, Aug 12: KLASA Keinou defeated NCYWO by 3-0 goals in today’s match of 8th Super Division Dangmei Majabi Kabui Memorial Football League held at Mini Stadium, Bishnupur.

The scorers of KLASA were M Malemnganba and S Homeshwar (two goals).

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IMPHAL, Aug 20: TRAU defeated USA by 2-1 goals in today’s match of 6th Manipur State League Football Tournament held at Khuman Lampak Main Stadium.

S Peter scored the first goal for TRAU in 14th minute while L Tiken added another goal in 24th minute of the match. M Tyson scored one goal for USA in 85th minute bringing down the goal margin to 2-1.Suraj and Bikim.

In the super division league, SAO defeated SESU by 15-0.

Samananda, Robinson, Borun, Ngamba, Kiran, Prem and Rajkumar were the scorers for SAO.

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IMPHAL, Aug 29:  ESU has lifted the champion’s trophy for MK Ghanendrajit Memorial Imphal East Super Division Football League.

ESU scored a total of 11 points in the league.

In today’s first match, KIYC defeated UPAA by 3-0 goals.

Patrick scored two goals while Thangboi added another goal for KIYC. Abung of UPAA was booked yellow card.

In the second match, ABA and XI Star ended in 1-1 draw.

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IMPHAL, Sept 7: Manipuri players have excelled at the 13th Sub-junior and 8th Cadet National Fencing Championship held at Kolkata.

H Linthoi secured gold medal in cadet girls’ epee (individual) after defeating Christina of Kerala by 15-9 points.

Manipur team has also secured the gold medal in epee team event yesterday.

The state team comprising of Sayalaxmi, Russia and Thoibi also secured gold medal in cadet girls’ foil team event after defeating Assam by 15-13 points.

In the cadet boys’ epee individual final, N Santosh defeated L Lalpuni by 11-10 points. Both the players are from the state.

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IMPHAL, Sept 15: PRYA defeated EUSC by 3-1 while SSC defeated BSU by 1-0 in today’s matches of Imphal East 2nd Division Football League held at PRYA Ground, Khundrakpam.

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IMPHAL, April 13: The Manipur Chess Association in a press release today invites applications from boys and girls under 11 years of age to participate in the XXV National Under 11 (boys and girls) to be held from May 26 to June 4. Application for participation in the championship should reach the office of the chess association’s office on or before April 23.

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IMPHAL, April 19: The Government of India, ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is inviting applications from eligible sportspersons and coaches for Arjuna Award 2011, Dronacharya award 2011, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2011, Rastriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2011 and Dhyanchand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports and Games 2011.
Ch. Shantikumar, Deputy Direstor (Sports) in a press release today stated that eligible persons and coaches should collect proforma forms from the office of the Youth Affairs and Spors, Khuman Lampak. The last date for submission is April 20.

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