[Sport in brief]

Colours Awards Oct. 27

by S.M. Jiffrey ABDEEN - Kandy Sports Corr.

COLOURS AWARDS: St. Anthony’s Girls College, Kandy will hold their Colours Award ceremony next Tuesday, October 27 at 2 p.m. at the school hall in Kandy.

Former S. Thomas’ College rugby captain and Sri Lanka Youth ruggerite Namal Rajapaksa will be the chief guest.

Rajans beat Royal

Kandy Sports Special Corr.

CRICKET: Dharmaraja College, Kandy beat Polonnaruwa Royal College by 155 runs in their Under-13 Division I cricket match played recently at the Lakeview grounds, Kandy.

K. Dissanayake of Dharmaraja scored an unbeaten 122 and the chief scores are as follows:

Dharmaraja: 261 for 7 decl. (K. Dissanayake 122 not out, Kavinda Ratnayake 60, Harsha Herath 18, L. Batagalla 3 for 42, H.L. Walpola 3 for 19).

Polonnaruwa Royal: 106 (S.M. Jayasundera 25, I. Batagalle 15, H.L. Walpola 14, Kavishka Dissanayake 3 for 27, Harsha Herath 3 for 18).

Mithun, Tissa and Amrith China bound

GOLF: Flying over to China tonight to partake in the Asia Cup Golf Tournament will be the reputed golfer Mithun Perera, leading golfer Tissa Chandradasa and the talented Amrith de Soysa.

The golf competition will commence on October 29 and conclude on November 1. The winner at the Asia Cup will be eligible to be invited to take part in the US Masters and the British Open in its final stages.

Easy for Colombo South ‘B’

Moratuwa Sports Corr.

CRICKET: Colombo South ‘B’ beat Kalutara District by 185 runs in their Inter-District Under-15 Cricket Tournament match sponsored by Prima and organised by Sri Lanka Cricket, played at Moratuwa. Batting first Colombo South ‘B’ totalled 258 runs with Janith Vimukthi of Lalith Athulathmudali Vidyalaya scoring 65 runs and skipper Ishan Peiris of Moratu Vidyalaya making 53 runs. Dulan Peiris captured 4 for 51 for the visitors.

Colombo South ‘B’: 258 (Janith Vimukthi 65, Ishan Dilaksha Peiris 53, Anuk Fernando 36, Gayan Chamara 33, Dulan Weerasinghe 4 for 51, Supun Dilshan 2 for 34, Chamika Amarasekera 2 for 38).

Kalutara District: 73 (Anuk Fernando 5 for 17, Gayan Chamara 4 for 21).

Navy in command

Dilwin Mendis, Moratuwa Sports Corr.

CRICKET: Sri Lanka Navy has gained first innings points over Moratuwa Sports Club in their Inter-Club Premier league Cricket Tournament match played at Welisara and organised by SLC. Resuming at 290 for 7 on day-two Navy were all out for 390 runs with overnight batsman Sameera Rasanga making 74 runs.

Navy SC: 290 for 7 overnight all out 390 (Sameera Rasanga 74, Udara Lakmal 47, Charith Fernando 3 for 71, Sudeera de Soysa 2 for 97, Milinda Fernando 3 for 65).

Moratuwa Sports Club: 179 (Milinda Sepala 31, Nalin Wijesinghe 40, Tharanga de Silva 34, Sudeera Karunadasa 2 for 37, Udara Lakmal 4 for 49) and 55 for 0 (Crishal Magage 37 not out).

Old Thurstanites’ Sixes today

SOFTBALL: The Softball Sixes organised by Thurstan Junior Old Boy’s Union for its members which was postponed last week due to an unavoidable circumstance will be conducted today at Thurstan College ground, Stanley Wijesundera, Mawatha commencing at 8.30 a.m.