KANDY SPORTS ROUND UP:
The Central Province Rugby Football Union under the auspices of the Sri Lanka Rugby Union conducted a two day course for coaches in Kandy district at the Nittawela Club Rugby auditorium on September 3 and 4.
The course was conducted by the Sri Lanka Rugby Educators Nihal (Viper) Gunaratne and Ananda Kasthuriarchchi.
Abdul Rasheed helped provide wide screen multimedia projector, course equipment’s, field training utensils, refreshments, lunch and drinking water etc. It was heartening to see 32 participants on either days with officials from Sri Lanka Rugby and the president of CPRFU present.Only 27 candidates who registered themselves with the CPRFU and sat for the pre-qualifying examination on-line were enrolled, the rest although they went through the course will be taken to the next batch.
This course was designed to enable coaches to acquire basis skills so that players new to the game learn to play in safe, enjoyable competitions. Sri Lanka Rugby CEO Priyantha Ekanayake, a former Sri Lanka captain, thanked the Educators, CPRFU president and all participants, helpers and in particular Rasheed who helped to conduct this event very professionally. With the attendance noteworthy it was suggested that a refresher course be done periodically.
It was also suggested that a ‘Rugby Coaches Association’ of the CPRFU be formed to take forward this course to the next level. Rasheed was entrusted to formally organize the Association within the next two weeks.
The Tentative Committee will be: President Abdul Rasheed, Vice President: H. Marikar, Secretary: Sudeera de Silva, Treasurer: Gamini Jayasinghe, Advisers: Viper Gunaratne and Ananda Kasthuriachchi. Committee: Saman Kotalawa, Kapila Silva, Gerald Rasiah, Sarath Madugalle, Roshan Weeraratne, Nalin Wijesinghe, Indika Perera. Priyantha Gunaratne and Mohamed Faizal, CPRFU Representatives: Iswan Omar – President, Tuan Dole – Vice President, C.P.P. Raj – Treasurer, from Sri Lanka Rugby: CEO Priyantha Ekanayake and T. Kulatunge.
Cricket balls for Rajans
Dharmaraja College cricket team was presented with cricket balls by the Col. Henry Steele Olcott Memorial Sports Foundation at the Lake View grounds.
The presentation was done by Udaya Yatawara representative of CHSOMSF to the captain Bawantha Udhangamuwa and coach Senaka Dissanayake.
Trinity, Dharmaraja, St. Sylvester’s in Division I
Out of the 36 teams in the under 19 division I schools league, they are divided into four groups and there are three schools from Kandy.
Notable absentees from Kandy in the Division I are St. Anthony’s, Kingswood and Vidyartha. Schools from Kandy are Group “A” - Trinity College, Group “C” - Dharmaraja College, Group “D” - St. Sylvester’s College. The Schools Cricket Association has made it compulsory for each team to play a minimum of three tournament matches before the GCE O/L examination, and after exams the remaining five tournament matches to be played before 25 of February 2018.
The traditional games should be completed by end of February.
Junior ranking table tennis
It was good to see Kandy players performing well at the 13th Tibhar Junior Ranking Table Tennis Championship. In the under 18 final Dharmaraja College’s Dishanka Tennakoon went down to Royal College’s Nimesh Ranchanagoda, In the under 15 final Senura Silva beat Kingswood College’s Danushka Wijesinghe.
In the Girls under 12 Bimandhi Bandara of Hillwood College beat Sanjaya Buddhadasa of Visakha Vidyalaya.
Girls High School does well at netball
At the 26th All Island Schools netball championship Girls High School under 13 and 19 netballers did well and came up to the finals. They lost to Holy Family Convent Kurunegala who won the overall title.
T20 cricket for Gladys Jayasundara trophy
The Upananda Jayasundara cricket academy called Kandy Cricket and Athletics in their 5th year will be organizing a T/20 girl’s cricket tournament in memory of Gladys Jayasundara, who was a product of Good Shepherd Convent, Kandy.
As a mother she produced some top sportsmen like Parakrama, late Daya who was a well-known man in the rugby field, Ananda a fine bowler, Upananda an all-rounder at cricket and still involved in coaching, Sarath, Gamini and Senarath. They all learnt and played their sports at Dharmaraja College.
Daughter Swarna was at Mahamaya College, The tournament will played at the end of this month, where Mahamaya Girls College, Nugawela Central College and Gothami Balika teams are expected to play in a triangular tournament.
New Referees Manager to give his best
Anil Jayasinghe , a veteran of the game with a wide range of experience at rugby in playing, coaching, refereeing and administration should give of his best as the Referees Manager, the first to hold this post from Kandy in the rugby referees arena.
He is expected to do a good job with a vision not only to manage the referees, but to ensure that the referees do a good job to the satisfaction of everyone. He also wants to promote more ruggerites to take up the whistle. The main referee’s body headed by Nizam Jamaldeen has assured their fullest support.
Sri Sumangala (St. Paul's) beat Nugawella
Sri Sumangala (St. Paul’s) College beat home town school Nugawella Central by 17 points to 10 in the plate final of the Under 16 10-a-side rugby tournament which was played at Kurunegala. The winners 17 points came off one goal and two tries to 10 (two tries).
Trinity OBA Vintage Car Rally
The Trinity College Old Boys Association who are celebrating their 125th year will present a vintage car rally on Sunday September 10 starting at 10 am from their junior school grounds at Hill Street and proceed along William Gopallawa Mawatha to Gettambe and return via Peradeniya Road and finish at Asgiriya grounds.
CPRFU says Kandy has a problem with rugby grounds
In the Kandy district there is a major problem with lack of rugby playing grounds and most schools are handicapped and are unable to play their scheduled rugby fixtures says CPRFU. A few weeks back the All Island U/16 tournament was held at Satneeshi - Digane New Sports Complex and at Trinity College Pallekele grounds with much difficulty.
At the last moment when the tournament was to begin, there was no rugby goal posts. The CPRFU Rugby Development Officer Abdul Rasheed came to the rescue and overnight fixed the goal posts for the tournament. These are practical difficulties faced by Kandy, the Kandy Sports Club who enjoys a fully fledged rugby grounds are never generous in sharing their grounds. Their charges for hire are so exorbitant that schools can least afford it. When the lease agreement with Kandy Municipality was drawn up many years ago, it very clearly stated that the grounds are released on lease provided the adjoining village is also granted access to the grounds. When the former president late Dr. S. Kapuwatte was in charge, he knew the clause and was very liberal and allowed all schools to use the grounds. It’s high time the club administrators change their attitude and be more agreeable to promote rugby in Kandy.
Total Fitness Bay – Kandy
A gym called Total Fitness Bay will be opened in Kandy in the near future, which will benefit young sportsmen and women. The Physical Fitness Center will have training sessions to experience the facility. The man behind the scene is a double International Duminda de Silva who played Basketball and Rugby for the school and also represented the country in both sports. He played rugby for Kandy SC, CR & FC and CH & FC at club level and in 1999 became Mr. Sri Lanka in modelling.
Sri Rahula to open season with Akurana Zahira
Sri Rahula College started as Kandy High School, and at one time known for football and hockey and later in the field of mini rugby are today a major force in cricket thanks to the efforts of their old boys. This year, half the side is well balanced and should do well and their first game is with Zahira College Akurana on September 20 and 21. Their present coach is Mahesh Bogahalanda.
Inter University Hockey
For the annual inter university hockey tournament, 12 teams have given the okay for participation. This inter university men and women’s tournament is expected to be played at the Peradeniya Campus grounds on September 15 Friday and 16 Saturday.
The participating teams are Universities of Peradeniya, Colombo, Sri Jayawardenapura, Moratuwa, Jaffna, Kelaniya, Rajarata, Uva, Wayamba, Ruhuna, Sabaragamuwa and Eastern.
Kandy Gateway will be in action
Kandy Gateway College will take part in the under 15 international school cricket tournament which will be worked off on September 11 at St. Joseph’s College grounds and UC grounds in Panadura. The Kandy school with some top up and coming cricketers are expected to give a good display.
New rugby coaches for Antonians
St. Anthony’s College has confirmed one of their products Sanjeewa Amunugama as the head coach in rugby; he will replace Priyantha Gunaratne next season. Amunugama, a former Kandy SC player was the Trinity College under 18 coach this year. Under his coaching Trinity won a few tournaments. Pradeep Liyanage, another Kandy SC and Sri Lanka player is the three-quarters coach and also the head coach of under 18. Lionel Dharmapala is the forwards coach. Rohitha Mendis is the under 16 coach, Suranga Kodituwakku under 14 and Pavithra de Silva under 12 with Rumy Abdeen as the trainer.
Olympic torch in Kandy
The Olympic torch bearer and the entourage are coming from Nuwara Eliya on 14 September afternoon to Kandy.
This is in connection with 50th anniversary of the Sports Ministry together with the 34th National Sports festival scheduled for the 21 to 24 September at Matara .
The Olympic torch will be carried throughout the country covering 25 districts and nine provinces. The arrangements were discussed at a meeting held on Wednesday at the Kandy secretariat.
Kandy’s Ransilu to lead at power lifting
Kingswoodian Ransilu Jayatilake has been named to lead the Power Lifting team for the 5th Commonwealth championship, which will take place in South Africa from September 10 to 17. Ransilu’s father Mothilal Jayatilake is the coach of the touring six member team.
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