Three schoolboys from Kandy in the National Sevens Rugby Pool

By Shamseer Jaleel

There were five schools in the Singer Schools division ‘A’ this year. Out of those Kingswood became champions and Trinity became runners-up. Three lads from these two schools were rewarded for their fine performance in this season.

Roshan Weeraratne (Kingswood), Viswajith Wijesinghe and Ruzul Ramzeen (both from Trinity) were the selected players in the initial pool of 22 in preparation for the Singer-SriLankan Airlines Sevens in September and then later in October they will feature in the Rugby World Cup 2009 Qualifying Sevens in Hong Kong. Roshan Weeraratne who operated from the base had a grand season for the Randles Hill school being behind most of their victories.

He got the slight edge over the Trinity scrum half Habeeb Hameed. Ruzni Ramseen was tower of strength and the pack leader of the Trinity “Lions” in this season. He was an excellent player in loose as well as in attack.

The third player selected from Kandy was the dashing winger of Trinity Viswajith Wijesinghe.

He is yet another making of a Sanjeewa Jayasinghe. His powerful run, down the line and his hand off was an eye catcher this season. All these players are certain to make the national youth team for the Junior Asiad in Korea later in the year.

The other two school boys selected were Sajith Saranga (Isipathana) and Jerad Canute (St. Peter’s).