Sri Lanka rescheduled to play in Group C

Sri Lanka taking part in the Al Nakba tournament conducted by the Palestine Football Association for the second time were rescheduled to play in  Group C as Uzbekistan who to originally play in Group B failed to turn up. Sri Lanka was pitted in Group A alongside hosts Palestine, Pakistan and Vietnam but now will [...]

Schools’hockey tournament postponed

The three day schools hockey nationals organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association and the Matale Schools Hockey Association, which was scheduled to be played at Matale last weekend did not come off as some of the participating teams had requested for a postponement of the championship as they had not received the letters [...]

National football team leaves for Palestine

Sri Lanka's top forward, E. B. Channa, will lead a new look football team to Palestine in the Al-Nakba invitationalm tournament being staged at Jerusalem. The 11 day tournament will feature nine national teams from Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Indonesia, Mauretania, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Palestine. Sri Lanka football team Name Club Position E.R Channa [...]

Zesta powers Trinity College Rugby team

Trinity College, Kandy, one of the first schools in Sri Lanka to play rugby, is sponsored by 'Zesta', a product of Watawala Marketing Limited. The sponsorship runs for the second consecutive year as Trinity commenced this season with firm resolve to win the schools’ rugby league as well as to defend the esteemed Bradby Shield. [...]

Solid SC goes on goal spree – finds target 15 times

Solid Sports Club from Anuradhapura created a record in the current Holcim FA Cup by scoring a 15 goals 1 victory over Eagle SC in a first round match played at the Prison ground last weekend. M. H. M. Haleem (7 goals) and T. D. Wijetunge (5 goals) went on a goal spree as they [...]

Great Star in easy win

Great Star from Beruwela became the first team to qualify to play in the second round of the Holcim FA Cup knockout tournament by virtue of beating Thihariya Youth SC of Gampaha by 8 goals to 3 in the first round match played at the Kelaniya Football Complex on Friday. This was the only match [...]

Sri Lanka Insurance to sponsor Carlton Sevens

Sri Lanka Insurance has stepped forward to sponsor the “Carlton Super Sevens Rugby Tournament 2012” which will feature the cream of the country’s rugby crop along with international stars, and will be conducted later this month. The Carlton Sevens will bring together youth from all corners of the country under 10 teams representing 10 provinces [...]

Trinity – Peter’s in blockbuster clash

Three inter-school Division One rugby tournament matches will be played in the hill capital today with two teams looking for their first win of the season while, in a strange contrast, the other two will be making a determined effort to end the unbeaten record of the other. At the Trinity College Rugby Stadium at [...]

DSS hold Anthonians to 10 all draw

D. S. Senanayake held to a 10 all draw against St. Anthony's Katugasthota, in a Singer League rugby match played on Friday. The group 'A' match of the division I tournament played at CR & FC grounds, Colombo. DSS led at the half time with 5-0 and both teams scored two tries each. Gopinath Dushyanth [...]

Future Minds Beach Rugby Feasta on Sunday

Future Minds Beach Rugby Feasta will be held at Mount Lavinia Surf Club beach on 13th May 2012. This is organized by Future Minds Secretariat & Nalanda College Junior Old Boys' Association. Sixteen teams from leading schools in Colombo, Kandy & Kurunegala will participate in the fieata. There will be an exhibition netball match at [...]

Zahira thrash Panadura Royals

Zahira College beat Panadura Royal College by 42-0 in a Singer League rugby match played on Friday. The group 'C' match of the division I tournament played at Air Force grounds, Ratmalana. Winners led 10-0 at the half time, where Maradana lads scored a goal and seven tries. M. Anaz(3), M. Rizaker(2), Ishan Noor (1), [...]

Nalanda record first win

Nalanda, after undergoing two heavy defeats, at last saw the winning post when they overcame St Sylvester’s, who recorded their third successive defeat, by 24 points to 19 in another match of the same tournament played at the same venue prior to the Wesley and Mahanama game. Nalanda took a an early 12-7 lead at [...]

Wesley in easy 45-7 win over Mahanama

Wesley coasted to their third successive win of the Singer Under 20 Division 1B rugby tournament with an easy 45-7 victory over Mahanama played at the Air Force ground in Ratmalana yesterday. Wesley led 17-0 at the breather and accumulated their full time tally through five goals and two tries to a goal by Mahanama. [...]

Junior Chess Stars shine in Romania

Two Sri Lankans Vonara Goonetlleke (under 7) and Tharushi Nicklesha (under 9) won two gold medals in the 8th World Schools Chess Championship which was held in Romania. Meanwhile there were two silver and our bronze medalists for the Sri Lankan squad. Vonara, a student of Ferguson BMV, Ratnapura, won the under 7 age group [...]

Peterites take early lead

St. Peters took the lead with 5.50 points per game by the end of the second week of Singer League 2012, inter School rugby season. Petes beat Kingswood College, Kandy by 69-05 before chasing down the arch rivals, St. Josephs and win 36-24 in their second game. royal College, Colombo, too has 11 points in [...]

St. Thomas’ Matale trounce St. Anne’s

St. Thomas’ College, Matale trounced St. Anne’s College Kurunegala by 24 points (3 goals, 1 penalty) to 05 (1 try) in their schools division one segment ‘C’ under 20 rugby tournament match played at the Trinity Stadium, Pallekele yesterday. At half time St. Thomas’ College led 15-05. The losers St. Anne’s College opened scoring early [...]

Golden Stars SC in FA Cup win

Red Sun Sports Club, Gampola, came up with a fine performance to hold Golden Stars Sports Club, Kandy, to a thrilling scoreless draw before losing 3-0 after a penalty shoot out in their FA Cup football tournament match organised by the Footbal1 Federation of Sri Lanka and played at the Bogambara Stadium, Kandy yesterday.   [...]

Suwen wins Sri Lanka-uae Ladies Golf C’ships 2012

Versatile golfer Suwen Selvaratnam won the ladies event while the ‘plum’ for the overall championship was lifted by Dayananda Ukkuwatte while a former national test cricketer won the Men’s Division One championships at the first ever Sri Lanka UAE Golf 2012 tournament organised by the Lankan Golfers Union in United Arab Emirates and the Victoria [...]

Schools Hockey nationals this week

The annual boy’s and girl’s hockey national tournament organised by the Matale Schools Hockey Association on behalf of the Sri Lanka School Hockey association will be worked off at Edward Park and Nandamithra Ekanayake Hockey Stadium, Matale from May 10th (Thursday) to May 13th (Sunday). The finale will be worked off at the Nandamithra Ekanayake [...]

Trinity beat Thomians by 50-21

Trinity Lions launched a superb attack in the second half to beat S. Thomas by 50-21 and kept R. S. De Saram trophy in their possession for yet another year. The match was played at Trinity Rugby grounds, Pallekale. Thomians led by 21-19 at the half time but the late assault by Trinitians paid them [...]
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