Trinity triumphs 32/23 over hometown rivals

By Hafiz Marikar

Trinity College beat their home town rugby rivals St. Anthony's College in their inter-school division I "Cup" competition championship encounter by 32 points (1 goal, 5 tries) to 23 (2 goals, 2 penalties and a drop goal).at Pallkelle yesterday. At half time the winners led 15 (3 tries) to 6 (1 penalty and a drop goal).

The Trinitians under the leadership of Rahul Karunatilake made a great impact in this game, though they lost the two second round games.

Yesterday they were impressive to knock the day lights out of the Antonians who played well in patches under the leadership of Pasindu Dulshan. The Trinitians looked a completely different outfit from the one we saw against Isipathana last week in Colombo. They had transformed into one fighting unit and were fast during the entire duration of the game. They proved their superior in whatever they did and gave a superb three-quarter display.

The Trinity forwards too played well, their tackling was terrific which brought the Antonians to a grinding halt.

The game began with exchanges even and Antonians looking very dangerous, but as the match progressed the Trinitians settled down to play some judicious rugby and exploiting the Antonian mistakes. The spectators were caught in a tense atmosphere for the major portion of the game, as Trinity attacked and the Antonians were forced to defend. The Scorers for Trinity were Shalindra Alahakoon (3 tries), Anuka Boiyagoda, Sansushka Abeywickrema and Diluksha Dange one each. Leshan Wijesuriya goalled one try. For the losers S Maduwantha scored 18 points through a try, two conversions, two penalties and a drop goal. The other try came from K. Amarakoon.

Referee Priya Suranga.

Kingswood vs St. Joseph's today

Kingswood College, who pocketed their first win of the season in their first outing, will certainly try to make a big improvement in today's game against St. Josephs College at Bogambara Stadium. Kick-off is at 4.15 pm.

Kingswood looks more confident. They will be determined to make amends for their failures in the first round.

The Josephains too are expected to play their best side, and prove themselves as a fighting outfit Above all the Joes strong set of forwards will need to put up another tremendous performance if they are to rattle the Kingswoodians.

It is in this department that the Josephian's have a good chance of pulling off a win.