Peterites outplay Trinity to win 29/20

by Hafiz Marikar

Hundreds of St. Peter's College rugby fans walked out of Pallekelle stadium happily, after their favorite school gave off a good performance to beat Trinity College by 29 points (1 goal, l penalty try, 1 try and 4 penalties) to 20 (1 goal, 2 tries and 1 penalty) in a hard fought second round Division I inter-school 'Cup' competition match yesterday.

St Peter's were awarded the Lt. Gen. Dennis Perera Shield and Peterite S. Stephen was awarded the Player of the Match. At half time

Trinity led 15-13.

In terms of physique, both schools were equal, and they towered over each other. The two sides showed how the oval shaped ball should be handled with the three-quarters superior and the forwards also in a good mood to dish out a good game of open rugby. The two schools surprised everybody with their fine display of run and pass rugby, they played fast and the ball handling was superb. They used their rugby skills, and believed that this is not an individual game but a team. The two team's coordination too was good. The Trinitians who have a fine side should have dominated the game, but the Peterites knew how to address and took the upper hand in the second half. The Trinitians made a great impact and though they lost were superior in their forward play.

They had the power and knowledge of rugby, but failed to drive home the advantage. The Peterites resolute tackling prevented the determined efforts of the Trinitians from scoring. One defect was that the Petrites three-quarters kept close to each other and this prevented their otherwise excellent moves. For St. Peter's P.L. Nonis and D.C. Fernando scored the tries and all the kicking was done by S. Stephen. For the Trinitians it was N.D. Rajaratnam, L.V.A. Wijasuriya, and A.H. Boyagoda who scored the tires. Wijasuriya made one conversion and put over a penalty.

Referee: D. Nimal