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outclass Dharmaraja After the Rajan full back had missed an early penalty, Ananda's fly half Nipuna Vimukthi put them ahead 3/0. In the 22nd minute, centre Ishan Lakjaya split the Rajan defence with a good run. His pass was collected by winger Chamara Chaturanga who scored. Vimukthi converted and also put over a penalty for a half-time score of 13-0. There was no scoring in the second half to fill the dying minutes of the game when winger Dayan Dhanushka went over, Vimukthi obliged once more. Some Rajan forwards were sometimes short of ideas with the ball in hand and the line not all that far away. -A.K. Joseph
Vaz clinch Blue and Gold hockey 7's Twenty seven teams participated from the expected thirty two with St.Thomas' Matara, Maris Stella Negombo, Dharmadutha MV Badulla, Jaffna College and Zahira Colombo being the absentees. The tournament was conducted by the Royal College Hockey Club after a lapse of 11 years and they should be commended for making an effort to popularise the game among the schools which is the cradle for any sports. The outstation schools dominated the tournament with only Royal from Colombo qualifying to the quarter finals. The Royalists gave their supporters some hope when they advanced to the finals but were eliminated by the champions when they lost by three goals to one..-MSA CCC
Junior Cricketers win top awards The Maitland Crescent School juniors though in the U-12 grade were pitted against Under-13 teams drawn from Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Hyderabad, Varnasi, B'lore. Some promising young cricketers were on show according to Nelson Mendis, who accompanied the team as manager-cum-coach. The CCC juniors had much to learn on and off the field on this tour. The matches were keenly contested. CCC played seven games - won five and lost two and was placed fourth. 13 teams participated. Monfort Academy from New Delhi won the final, defeating St. John's College from Hyderabad. Mendis said the games were virtually played on dust bowls and experienced the driest summer in India for 121 long years. The boys adjusted themselves admirably to the conditions. This itself was an experience for their future betterment, said Mendis, in an interview ith The Sunday Times. Former Indian wicket-keeper-batsman Seyed Kirmani was the chief guest and gave away the awards. Six CCC young hopefuls, won the prestigious "promising Cricketers of the tournament" awards. The six winners were: Primesh Dissanayake, Rasahane Saverimuttu (batting), Sajith Ruberu (allrounder), Kasun Dissanayake and Keshan Dissanayake(bowling), and Sachit Dias (fielding).-BW Davis
Cup Asia/Oceanic Group IV Top seeded Sri Lanka and bottom seeded Singapore were eliminated at the conclusion of day three. Sri Lanka's hopes were dashed when they lost to Vietnam 2/1 on the first day and then were beaten by Saudi Arabia 2-0. While Singapore lost to Myanmar 2-1 and then to Oman by the same margin. The performance of Vietnam and Myanmar were something special as Veitnam was playing in a Davis Cup after a lapse of 25 years and Myanmar were competing after nearly four decades. But Sri Lanka gained a consolation win when they defeated Brunei 3-0 which ofcourse had no effect at all. The pick of the players was no doubt Vietnams Do Minh Quan who defeated both the Sri Lanka players on day one within a space of a few hours. In the first game he defeated Rohan de Silva convincingly 6/0, 6/0 but was defaulted by the ITF referee as he was the first seeded player and Roha was Sri Lanka's second seeded player but he came back again to beat Sri Lanka's first seeded Rajiv Rajapakse 7/6, 6/4. The tournament which was played in the clay court is now being played in hard court which the organisers say is allowed if any occurrence like the rain takes place. Due to heavy rain overnight the orgaizers were compelled to delay the start of the games between Vietnam vs Myanmar and Saudi Arabia vs Oman which only got underway at 4.00 p.m from the scheduled 9.00 a.m. An official quoted that if they had to play even till midnight they will be compelled to do so as it cannot be put off for another day. At the time of going to press the Vietnam had taken a 1-0 lead over Myanmar with Le Quoc Khanh having dropped the first set staged a stout hearted fight back to defeat Mynamar's Khin Muang Win 3/6, 6/3, 6/2 in a 140 minute battle. In the other singles match between Saudi Arabia and Oman has taken a set each. With the eight nation event scheduled to end today the organizers were determined to complete the fourth days matches under any circumstances. Owing to unavailability of suitable courts all the consolation round matches to decide the fifth to the eighth positions were put off for today starting from 9.00 a.m. Sri Lanka will play Singapore and Bangladesh and if they win both it will earn them the fifth place. In playoff from promotions Vietnam will meet Oman and Saudi Arabia will play Myanmar. Meanwhile the
Group II tie between Hong Kong and Lebanon is being held concurrently.
Hong Kong took a 2-1 lead with Wayne Wong winning the second singles
match overcoming Karim Alayli 1/6, 6/1, 7/5, 6/3 after his compatriot
Hiu Tung YU was forced to concede a walk over to Patrick Chucri
in the fourth set owing to heat exhaustion. Chucri won 6/2, 1/6,
6/4, 3/0 (walkover). While Brian Hung and Ling Liu defeated Karim
Alayli and Patrick Chucri 6/1, 6/3, 6/4. |
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