Trinity College gave the perfect demonstration of how speed can kill when they blitzed Wesley College with a fierce offensive onslaught, raking in a resounding 41 (4 goals, 2 tries 1 penalty) to 24 (2 goals, 2 tries) victory and propelling themselves into the finals of the Milo President’s Trophy Knockout tournament at the Royal [...]

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Trinity speed too much for Wesley

By David Stephens
Milo President’s Trophy KO Rugby
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Trinity College gave the perfect demonstration of how speed can kill when they blitzed Wesley College with a fierce offensive onslaught, raking in a resounding 41 (4 goals, 2 tries 1 penalty) to 24 (2 goals, 2 tries) victory and propelling themselves into the finals of the Milo President’s Trophy Knockout tournament at the Royal Sports Complex, yesterday.

Trinity’s Randika de Alwis being countered by a Wesley defender. - Pic by Ranjith Perera.

The pace of the Trinity backs, along with a crisp passing game, was simply too much for a Wesley team that for its credit refused to lie down and die. Yet they could do little but look on helplessly as Scrum Half Halique Wadood (3), Centre Lochana Girihagama, Skipper Kaneel Seneviratne and No.8 Randika Alwis sailed over the line.

Although the game was more or less dead for Wesley by the end of the first half, with the score reading 24-7, they refused to give in and resisted with tries of their own from Prop Udara Gayan, Lock Gavin Sigertsz and wing Three Quarter Viraj Nisansala.

Trinity announced their intentions early when they burst deep into the Wesley half, won a lineout and worked the ball down the field for Wadood to burst across the line for an unconverted try in the 10th minute. However, Wesley struck back 10 minutes later with a try of their own. Sigertsz grabbed the ball determinedly and thrust himself over the line, after some splendid work from the Wesley pack, to put Wesley on the board. Scrum Half Rahul de Silva converted to give them a lead 7-5 lead.

That was to be the only glimmer of hope Wesley were to have, and this too was promptly buried under an avalanche of Trinity tries, which began to roll forth a mere two minutes later. Wadood raced after a ball smartly chipped into the dead ball area, before pouncing on it for another converted try.

This effort was followed by an equally stunning goal by Seneviratne, the beneficiary of a ferocious counter-attacking move. Then on the brink of halftime, the Trinitians struck again with another swift move right on the break. Trinity had by now placed the lid on Wesley’s coffin, what remained to be done now was to slam in the nails. They did this with a try apiece from Alwis and Wadood, which were converted by Tarinda Ratwatte. Ratwatte then killed off Wesley’s resistance by sliding in the final dagger through a perfectly-struck penalty.




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