Kandy Sports Club who are still smarting from last Saturday’s defeat to Army Sports Club, their first loss of the ongoing ‘A’ division rugby league season apparently due to referee’s errors will shed the memories of it when they take on Police SC at Bambalapitiya in a second round game today. Sri Lanka rugby has a problem. It's serious and it needs to be addressed. Too many big games are being compromised by poor refereeing. Reports reaching us say the cops are sparing no pains and efforts to play a good game in their own soil and if possible slap a second defeat on Kandy SC. Tough Kandy SC lost their last game due to a referee’s error. Kandy SC has all the weapons to get off to a good start in this game forgetting that hiccup against Army. They started the season in good form and are fit and ready to display with the star players. Kandy SC are always difficult to beat at Nittawela and last lost after a 36-winning spree at this venue. Fitness has been Kandy SC’s forte this season. Today Police will work up-front and will be at their best, and they will try to address the opponents in the same manner. Their forwards are also good in their play, attack is their sharpest and their scoring strength lies in the back division. Kandy SC will go all-out to throw a net over them, particularly to their brilliant centers. It will take all the efforts of the Police forwards to work something that can deceive the Kandy SC defence, which has solid tacklers. In today’s game the Police three-quarters should be at full strength. This will be another tightly contested game for both teams and most probably go down to the wire.
Trinity senior inter-house athletics
The annual inter-house track and field meet of Trinity College will take place on January 31 at the Asgiriya Stadium. The meet will be held under the patronage of the one C.K. Ranpatabendi who captained the school athletics team in 1990.
Anil Jayasinghe to continue as rugby referees manager
Anil Jayasinghe will continue as rugby referees manager. This post was created at a time when the referees were in need of good support last year. Anil, is a veteran of the game with a wide range of experience in playing, coaching, refereeing and administration. A product of Vidyartha College, where he excelled in rugby and cricket and led both teams. At rugby he was an outstanding player for the School, Outstation Schools, Combined Schools, Kandy Sports Club and Up-Country, He was also in the national pool and had the privilege of leading both Kandy SC and Up-Country. He has made a great contribution to uplift the standard of the game in the hills, by his involvement in the fields of refereeing, coaching and administration.
Kandy not in favour of new system
Kandy’s rugby lovers are not happy over the new format where the top 4 teams will go for a championship round to play for the cup and the bottom 4 will play for the plate. The changes took place at a Sri Lanka Rugby council meeting, where the top four teams in the league after 14 weeks competing for a cup draw qualify for a semifinal. The teams will play each other according to their rankings and progress to a final to compete for the trophy. In the same way, the bottom four teams will play for the plate championship
Kandy schools U-14 football
Unbeaten St.Sylvester's College U-14 team coached by Manjula Gunasekera emerged s champions in the Kandy schools “Samaposha” football tournament which was played at the Randles Hills grounds. Out of the 15 football playing schools only 11 schools participated. In the final St.Sylvester’s College beat Dharmaraja College in a close game by 2 goals to 1. On their way to the finals they beat Kingswood College 2-0 and Rajans beat Trinity College on a penalty shootout after a tie at the final whistle. Only two girl’s schools took part, and St. Anthony’s Convent and Wattegama Central. St. Anthony’s Convent won by beating their opponents by one goal to nil. Most of the schools say the application forms were not given in time. The tournament was held on Saturday and the forms were given on Wednesday.
Vidyartha’s first game on March 2
Vidyartha College a school which has done well in the rugby field will play their first game against Mahanama College on 2 March at Nittawela. Their second match is with arch rivals St. Sylvester's College on 10 March at Nittawela. The third and fourth matches are against CWW Kannangara MV and Thurstan College dates to be fixed and on 31 March vs Dharmaraja College at Nittawela.
Byron tipped to grace
Trinity College 1982 skipper Byron Fernando, who is now in Australia will grace the first leg of the Bradby at Pallakele grounds on 11 May as chief guest. Under his leadership they were winners of the coveted Bradby Shield and the Canon de Saram trophy. Their unbeaten run was only tarnished by Isipathana skippered by Dilroy Fernando. That year they beat St. Peter's 10-6, S.Thomas’ 12-6, St. Josephs’ 16-4, Wesley 19-4, Thurstan 24-0, St. Anthony's 7-0, Vidyartha 23-3, Dharmaraja 28-3, Ananda 29-3, and Royal in both legs 9-6 and 6-4 and lost to Isipathana 3-7. That year's team was coached by late Lt. Col. Bertie Dias, the MIC was late S. Ariyasingam and the principal was late Fr. W.G. Wickremasinghe. He won the rugby lion in 1981 along with Ravi Bandaranayake, T.R. Panabokke, L.S. Pilapitiya. B.S.S. Fernando, Roshan S. Ratwatte, and Dilip Adihetty.
Hilmy in town
Former St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy schools and Kandy Youth SC cricketer Hilmy Marikar who is now a citizen of Switzerland is on a holiday with his wife. Every year they make a visit during the rugby season, and he was able to witness three of Kandy SC’s matches. He promoted cricket in Switzerland for a club, while working for Air Lanka. He will be meeting the Kandy Youth SC officials today, to give them a hand.
Trinitians to continue their good work in weightlifting
Trinity College weightlifters will continue the good work of last year. It was a great effort by their coach M. Wijeratne and MIC K.B.Galagoda when they won the All-Island Schools Weightlifting Championship organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Weightlifting Power lifting Strength Building Federation last October. The team pocketed 9 gold, 2 silver and two bronze medals in the competition. Then in the Central Province Schools Weight Lifting Championship held in June they were judged overall champions winning 18 medals (9 Gold, 6 Silver and 3 Bronze). Then in the Inter District Sports Competition Central Province (Open Meet) they won four medals. Their juniors won the Junior Nationals Weightlifting Championship organized by the Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation for the 11th consecutive year. The meet was held in December under three categories: Youth, Junior and Senior.
Azar College Akurana at cricket
Azar College Akurana, a school which gives a big hand for the game of cricket, are playing in the Division III league one. They have played four games out of which they beat Wayamba Royal College by an innings, lost to Sri Rahula College Katugastota, drew with Nugawelle Cenral and a no-decision against Maliyadeva Model school due to bad weather. They have two more games against D.S.Senanayake College Ampara and Sir John Kotalawela College. The side is led by M. Shakeer who has scored a century. Z Naleem has also scored a century. They are well guided by one of the top coaches Senaka Dissanayake, a product of Dharmaraja College, who has a degree in coaching.
Where is volleyball in Kandy?
Volleyball is supposed to be the national sport of Sri Lanka. It was popular in Kandy but today sadly the much needed support for the game is missing. The first volleyball league was formed in Kandy in 1941. At one time there were tournaments held annually. Today volleyball in Kandy is crying out for help.
All set for Kandy Bash
The past pupils of 20 Kandy schools will gather in the month of April 6 at Havelock Park to celebrate yet another year of togetherness, co-operation and camaraderie. The day’s events start off at 3.30 pm and include, among others fun items, with sporting activities. The first Kandy Bash held in 2007 saw the past pupils of Kandy schools in action. The annual bash is a blast! It’s so much fun with races, matches, and performances, competitions, singing and dancing to cap it all. Proceedings start with the hoisting of the school flags by the respective Principals or Presidents of the schools’ Past Pupils’ Associations. The schools represented are Dharmaraja, Girls’ High School, Good Shepherd Convent, Hillwood, Kingswood, Mahamaya, Pushpadana, Sri Sumangala (St Paul’s), St Anthony’s, St Scholastic’s now known as Hemali, St Sylvester’s, Trinity, Sri Rahula, Vidyartha, Seethadevi, Swarnamali, Seedi Lebbe, Berwetes, Chandrananda, Thaksala etc.
Carrom player Navin remembered
A top class carrom player I. Navin Kalansuriya, the 2016 national schools best carrom player son of Chandra and Nandani was remembered on his first death anniversary by the sports loving community of Mahiyawa. He died under tragic circumstances. While travelling after an open carrom tournament held at the carrom headquarters at Kohuwella he took the Colombo-Kandy bound train. He was seated on the steps of the train compartment and stuck his head on the railway bridge wall and fell into the river, just a few kilometers from Kandy. Navin was a product of St. Sylvester’s College and excelled in carrom at school and later took part as an individual player in tournaments conducted by the Sri Lanka Carrom Association. He has won many tournaments, and was awarded the best schoolboy carrom player’s award in 2016 the year St. Sylvester’s College, under 19 team emerged as the schools all island champions. He died on 6 of January 2018.
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