St. Peter’s, Royal in Sevens quarter finals
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Action from the first day’s proceedings at the inter school
rugby Sevens tournament between Maliyadeva College and St.
Joseph’s College at the Royal Complex ground in Colombo
yesterday (Picture by Saman Mendis)
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Defending champions St. Peter’s College and last season’s League
champions Royal College powered their way to the quarter finals of the
Cup championships at the opening day’s matches of the Inter-School Rugby
Sevens worked off at the Royal Sports Complex rugby ground, Colombo
yesterday.
Besides St. Peter’s and Royal, the other six teams which qualified to
play in the quarter finals of the main Cup Segment are S.Thomas’,
Kingswood, Trinity, Science College, St. Joseph’s and Isipatana
St. Peter’s kept their dreams of retaining the seven-a-side title
with two successive wins.
But the defending champions had to overcome some anxious moments in
the second qualifying round league game.
Having registered a runaway 33-0 win over Vidyartha in the first
game, the Peterites were fully stretched in the second game before they
pulled off an exciting 24-17 victory against Wesley.
In contrast, reigning league champions Royal marched towards the
quarters with two smashing victories against Mahanama 26-0 and Thurstan
33-0.
But St. Joseph’s accounted for one of the biggest victories of the
day when they thrashed Maliyadeva 53-0.
The tournament will be continued at the same venue this morning with
the quarter finals of the three respective segments.
Quarter final line up:
Cup championship:
St. Peter’s v S.Thomas’
Kingswood v Trinity
Science College v St. Joseph’s
Royal v Isipatana
Bowl championship:
Wesley v Dharmaraja
Zahira v Prince of Wales
CWW Kannangara v DSS
Lalith Athulathmudali v Mahanama
Shield championship:
Vidyartha v St. John’s, Nugegoda
Lumbini v St. Sylvester’s
Ananda v Maliyadeva
Thurstan v Piliyandala Central.
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