Musaeus – U-15 hockey champs

by S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen Kandy Sports corr.

Musaeus College, Colombo, put up a sterling display to upset all predictions to win the all island schools under-15 girls hockey championship by defeating the strong St. Anthony’s Girls College 2-0 in the finals of the tournament organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association and worked off at Sir Albert F. Peiris Stadium, Nattandiya. At the breather Musaeus College were ahead leading 1-0.

This was also first ever hockey title won by the girls from Musaeus College better known in the field of table tennis, badminton and athletics in which they produced the junior national champion in Ruvini Kannagara last month.

A total of 23 school teams participated in this hockey championship which had the best from Kandy, Matale and Colombo and the stickers from Musaeus College stamped their class by winning the ‘plum’ which will take them to better performances in the future.

The game started on a brisk note with the Antonian girls from Kandy being more on the offensive in the start but the Musaeus stickers countered them by better positional play and did not allow their opponents to breach their defence.

With the backs combining well with the forwards, the Musaeus College stickers drew first blood in the 10th minute of the initial half when centre half Dinithi Sathyapala receiving a long pass from one of the halves drove in to sound the boards.

With this the two teams changed ends. But the girls from Musaeus College did not rest in their laurels and knew that an equaliser by their opponents could make things difficult for them.