Seven-in-a-row for ‘Thora’

The much looked forward to traditional hockey clash between Royal and S. Thomas’ Mt.Lavinia provided a keenly fought out contest with S. Thomas’ pulling of a 2-0 win in the under 19 game at the Astro turf yesterday.

The Thomians led by Raveen Gunasekera led 1-0 at the breather. Centre forward Natheef scored the first goal. The second was scored late in the second half in semi-darkness by Amjad. Thus the Thomians retained the Orville Abeynaike trophy for the seventh successive year. The Thomian goalie Cassim stood out in defence with some daring saves while Royal full back Aloka Amarasiri had an excellent game in defence as well as in attack.Umpires: Ravi Irugalbandara and Mahes Perera.

In the old boys match played earlier Old Royalists triumphed 1-0 with Thisara Herath scoring the goal.

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