Ladies rowers clinch Higgins Trophy
By Leslie Fernando
ROWING: Ladies rowers rowed with great endurance, strength and
balance to win the overall title to carry away the Maris Musaeus Higgins
Trophy collecting 34 points to Musaeus College 6 points at the Ladies vs
Musaeus 4th annual Regatta held on the Beira Waters yesterday. The
Regatta was sponsored by Dialog GSM.
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Ladies College won the ‘A’ pair with a time of 4.22 secs at the
4th Ladies vs Musaeus Regatta held on the Beira waters
yesterday. Sarani Jayawardena (B) Congratulating Amaya
Jayasuriya (S) after their win. - Pic by Kavindra Perera |
For Ladies College it was their second win in the 2-1 with the 2006
regatta ending in a tie 20 points each. The Champion Ladies College
oarswomen won the 'B' pair, 'A' pair, 'B' four and the Boat Race. They
also won the 'C' four (but as points were awarded).
Musaeus started winning the first two events 'A' Scull and 'B' Scull
to collect 6 points and at the interval Ladies College no the 'B' pair
to equal with 6 points each.
Ladies College rowers proves their class to win the remaining four
events.
In the main race of the day the Boat Race saw Ladies College squad
Amayi Mandawala (Bow), Denise Koch (2), Varunika Samarasinghe (3),
Amenthi Weerasinghe (stroke) and Minuri Amarasuriya (cox) rowing with
great power and courage to beat the Musaeus squad Swarnamali Weerasinghe
(B), Vinuri Jayasundara (2), Sachithra Jayathilaka (3), Naduni Perera
(S) and Sanjeevani Kularatne (cox) with comfortable ease 'clocking' 4.07
secs. Musaeus times 4.21 secs.
'A' Scull: Sachithra Jayathilaka of Musaeus beat Amenthi
Weerasinghe of Ladies (Time: 4:39 secs)
'B'Scull: Swarnamali Wijesinghe of Musaeus best Amayi,
Mandawala of ladies (Time: 4:42 secs)
'C' Four: Nanditha De Silva (Bow, Dulanjali Mandawela (2)
Sarani Jayawardena (3), Amaya Jayasuriya (stroke) Khyati Wikramanayake (cox)
of Ladies beat Dilhara Rupasinghe (Bow), Natasha Perera (2), Rashmi
Kodikara (3) Poornima Mananayake (stroke) Natheera Wijemanne (cox) of
Musaeus (Time: 5:06) - No points awarded.
'B' Pair: Senuri de Silva (B), Yanithtra Hallock (s) of Ladies
best Swarnamali Wijesinghe (b), Naduni Perera (s) of Musaeus (Time: 4:27
secs).
'A' Pair: Sarani Jayawardena (B), Amaya Jayasuriya (S) of
Ladies beat Sachitra Jayathilaka (B) Vinuri Jayasundara (S) of Musaeus
(Time 4:22secs).
'B Four: Oshani Kulatunga (B), Tarea Navaratne (2) Senuri de
Silva (3) Yanithtra Havelock (stroke) Chrutti Pieres (cox) of Ladies
beat Chalani Ramanayake (B) Samanmali Gurusinghe (2) Rushani Pathirana
(3) Ranmalee Jayaratne (S) Dhanishri Welikala (cox) of Musaeus (Time
4:21 secs)
The Beat Race: Amayi Mandawala (B) Denise Koch (2) Varunika
Samarasinghe (3) Amenthi Weerasinghe (s), Minuri Amarasuriya (cox) of
Ladies beat Swarnamali Wijesinghe (B), Vinuri Jayasundara (2) Sachitra
Jayathilaka (3) Naduni Perera (S) Sanjeevani Kularatne (cox) of Musaeus
(Time: 4:07 secs)
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