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Ko wins all
The Millennium Trophy 2002 competition just concluded at the Ridgeways of the Royal Colombo Golf Club was an impressive success. On the opening day Prof. A.H. Sheriffdeen stole a march over a century of competitors to settle for a stunning 6 under par nett 65 round and be declared the best performer for the day.

He drove with accuracy, seldom strayed and on the greens he was firm and positive. It was altogether a great day for him and his breezy smile sitting in the foyer after the game was an indication that he was pleased with the world.

Sanjay Gunewardena from Grandpa Norman's Clinic has very quickly dropped to 14. The young fella is playing good golf and it came as no surprise when he once again played a below par nett round.

He struck 67 and came second. Satoru Tanokura 68, Ananda Jayasekera 70, Alain Gyi 70, Anel de Silva 70 and S.K. Jayakody impressed with creditable scores. Bandula Weerasinghe had good reason to be talking about his commendable score of nett 71.

Centurions
Error riddled centurions came in galore. There were a quarter century of them and the most distressing came off the clubheads of Rohana Wittanachchi, Rohan Fernando, Sunil de Costa and Lalinda Dharmaratne. There was some degree of earth moving and hasty visits to the ponds by Amal Tudawe, Rajan Joseph, A.I. Gooneratne and Gerard Amerasinghe.

The 2nd day's play was as impressive with a few excellent scores recorded. Korean Joe II Ko was in splendid form. A good looking player he is quite impressive off the tee carrying on in the groove smooth swing.

Deadly enthusiastic he makes the grade often and on Sunday he was at his best with a tremendous 6 under par nett 65 to be judged the best for the day and be accorded a miniature reception from the members of his community who are regulars at the Ridgeways.

Sriyan de Soysa's nett 65 was as impressive and the diminutive fella was unfortunate to lose the 1st place beaten by Ko who had a better rear nine.

Lalith Ramanayake shot a tremendous nett 66, received quite an ovation and played host to a big ring of well-wishers through an elastic period at lunch time. Norman Gunewardena recorded his best score for the year. 2 under par nett 69 was good cause to be jubilant and he showed every sign of distinct pleasure at the pleasurable 19th. Others who were impressive were Amrith de Soysa 70, Sumal 'Access' Perera 71 and Anel that man again Silva 71.

Twin Centurions
In the 2 outings over the weekend the following picked up scintillating centuries with some degree of damage to the course, extra mileage and substantial contributions to the coffers of the pond boy who sang a few hosannas to the lavish contributions on the way home. Kiruba Kumarakulasingam, Carl Tranberg, Ajanta Mylvaganam, Jit Wanigasekera, Saman Premasiri and S.A.K. Abeywardena.

Confetti
There were an untidy crop that contributed to packs of confetti surprising Sohli Captain and Lalin Samarawickrema were the most lavish. In the final analysis popular Korean star Joe II Ko was oustanding. His scores of 73 and 65 were totally adequate to take the handsome trophy and have his name recorded on the panel for distinguished winners.

Kingswood take honours
Kingswood took almost all the honours in their rain-shortened inter school match against S.Thomas' Mount Lavinia at the Peradeniya Grounds. Skipper Millinda Wattegedara led the way with a stroke-filled innings of 92, while half centuries came from the bats of Rachitha Liyanage and Sumudu Wijesinghe. Indika Senaratna was unlucky to miss out.

The Thomian reply was featured by a solid contribution of 58 from the skipper Arjun Rajawasam. Kaushal Silva was unbeaten on a promising 20.

Kingswood 322-7 in 96.5 overs (M.Wattegedara 92, R.Liyanage 64, S.Wijesinghe 56 notout, I.Senaratne 45, T.Fernando 2/73 P.Rodrigo 2/48)

St.Thomas' 125-4 in 48.3 overs (A.Rajawasam 58, N.Perera 31, K.Silva 20 not out ; R.Liyanage 2-32) Rain stopped play for the day at 2.25 pm.-AK

Bloomfield set for early win
By M.Shamil Amit
Bloomfield put themselves in a strong position of posting an early outright victory when they slammed a massive 428 for 8 against Moratuwa SC's score of 179 on the second days play of the Premier League cricket being played at Moratuwa. A century by Ian Daniel and another knock of 94 by skipper Kumar Dharmasena was the highlight of the Bloomfield innings.

Moratuwa SC 179 (Dhammika Rajapakse 38, Ashan Ranaweera 57, Sudeep Perera 17, Prabath Nissanka 4 for 51, Kaushalya Weeraratne 2 for 54, Kumar Dharmasena 3 for 49) Bloomfield 428 for 8 at close (Ian Daniel 100, Kumar Dharmasena 94, Sanjaya Rodrigo 28, T.M. Dilshan 24, Kaushalya Weeraratne 39; S. Perera 2 for 107, M. Abdeen 2 for 106)

Evenly poised game at Braybrooke
The Premier League cricket match between Moors SC and Air Force being played at Braybrooke Place is also set for an outright result with both the teams having a chance of winning. Moors were bowled out for just 100 runs in reply to the Airmens score of 232. But fought back to bundle out the Airmen for 104 in the second innings which left Moors with a target of 237 to win, they were 24 for no loss at close.

Air Force 232 and 104 (R. Peiris 25; Chandika Hathurusinghe 4 for 22, Rangana Herath 2 for 4)

Moors SC 100 (Bhatiya Perera 25; Charith Rangajeewa 6 for 26, Chaminda Weerasinghe 4 for 42)-MSA

KYCC on top
Kurunegala YCC were on top against Sebastianites SC on the second days play of the Premier League cricket match being played at the Kurunegala. KYCC taking first lease of the wicket scored 360 with Dilan Ramanayake hitting 111 and Sebastianites in reply were badly placed on 72 for 5 wickets at close.

KYCC 360 (Dilan Ramanayake 111, I. Dharmawardena 37, M. Maduwantha 33, A. Wewalwala 33; A. Dalugoda 2 for 48, Nimesh Perera 2 for 62, Niranjan Kumar 2 for 39, Dinusha Fernando 4 for 88)

Sebastianites 72 for 5 at close (Nilantha Bopage 22, N. Fernando 21; R. Amunugama 2 for 9)-MSA

Galle CC upset Marians
Galle CC have already registered a first innings win over the fancied Chilaw Marians on the second days play of their Premier League match being played at the Galle Stadium. Having bowled out the Marians for 204. Galle CC made 230. Chilaw Marians 204 and 125 for 3 at close (Hasantha Fernando 33, Janaka Gunaratne 55 n.o.)

Galle CC 230 (Dhammika Sudarshana 30, Hirantha Wijesinghe 36, Primal Buddika 45, Dilhara Lokuhettige 31, N. Kulasekera 33 n.o.; Dhammika Perera 3 for 56, Hasantha Fernando 2 for 25, P. Wickramasinghe 2 for 3)-MSA

BRC clobber 431/7 declared
A century by Sanjeewa Silva helped BRC to score a massive 431 for 7 declared against Panadura SC in the Premier League encounter being played at the BRC grounds. Panadura in their turn were 148 for 5 at close.

BRC 431 for 7 declared (Sanjeewa Silva 115, Udaya Hettiarachchi 57, Malintha Warnapura 42, Varuna Waragoda 42, C. Handunnettige 29, Sampath Perera 50 n.o., Sajeewa de Silva 52 n.o.; Chamara Silva 3 for 87, Sanjeewa Roshan 2 for 62)
Panadura SC 148 for 5 at close (Dilruwan Perera 30, Chamara Silva 30, Anjula Perera 26, Sunendra Kumara 40 n.o.; Chamara de Soysa 2 for 36, Suranjith Silva 2 for 37)-MSA

CCC in strong position
CCC were in a strong position on the second days play of the Premier League cricket encounter against Ragama CC being played at Maitland Place. Ragama CC batting first made 228 and CCC in reply scored 347.

Ragama CC 228 (Upul Fernando 54, S. Weerasiri 42, R. Priyadharshana 46, C. Samarasinghe 28; C. Mudalige 4 for 51, I. Gallage 2 for 34, M. Villawarayan 2 for 60)

CCC 347 (Bradman Ediriweera 79, Anushka Polonowita 80, Hemantha Boteju 71, Indika Gallage 33, Duncan Arnolda 26; Ruwan Dilruk 4 for 85, S. Saranagala 2 for 85, S. Fernando 2 for 44 )-MSA

Royal take first leg
Royal overcame arch rivals S.Thomas' by three goals to two in the first of the Under 15 waterpolo encounters for the Royal College Union Aquatic Club Shield held at the Royal pool yesterday.

The Royalists scored their goals through Supun Kulatileke (2) and Sri Chandrasekera. Skipper Shiven Wijeratnam and Sahan Perera scored for the Thomians.

The second leg of this encounter will be played on October 11 (Thursday) at the Thomian pool in Mt Lavinia.-MSA

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