St. Joseph’s carries forward the winning trend in swimming
St. Joseph’s College, Colombo with 34 points continued to carry forward their winning trend in swimming when they clinched the Overall Championship in the Boys segment at the Pentathlon Swimming Championship 2017 concluded at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex last weekend. Lyceum International School, Wattala emerged Overall Champions in the Girls segment with a total of [...]
Zahira College Cricket Extravaganza on August 20
Come Sunday, August 20, will be a day that almost all of the former First XI cricketers of Zahira College Colombo will gather at their most favoured hunting ground in Maradana. It will be when the Past First XI Cricketers’ Association (PCA) of Zahira College hosts its annual Cricket Extravaganza for the third consecutive year. [...]
A title for Trinity College
Trinity College beat St. Joseph’s College by 22-12 to clinch the Singer Under-18 Schools Sevens Rugby Championship which was played at the Racecourse ground in Colombo this week. Trinity led 12-5 at halftime and scored from four tries and a conversion while St. Joseph’s responded with two tries and a conversion to win the Cup [...]
An experience that educated them in the importance of physical training
Nearly 1000 players from 89 schools gathered at the Racecourse ground in Colombo to take part in the Milo Inter-School Under-12 7s Rugby Carnival 2017 which was held on August 2 and 3. Besides taking part in the tournament where only 72 teams reached the second round of the competition, all participants were engaged in [...]
Pakistani Ahmed Baig clinches Best Individual Trophy
Long hitting Pakistani, Ahmed Baig returned an excellent 2 over par 73 in the opening round of the first-ever Sri Lanka Junior international Championship to clinch the Best Individual Trophy, by one stroke from team mate Saqib, Gross 74 and Januka Dilshan, the Sri Lanka team captain was second runner-up, another stroke away on Gross [...]
Alliance Finance steps up to assist Akalanka Peiris
Alliance Finance stepped up to assist Akalanka Peiris, a prominent swimmer of St. Peter’s College Colombo, by sponsoring the youngster who represented Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Youth Games 2017 held in the Bahamas. The Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) upon a request made by the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka recommended Akalanka, [...]
Ravindu Perera the bright spark in TT
Ravindu Indeepa Perera of Lyceum International School, Gampaha showed that a bright future lay ahead of him when he bagged the Under Eight Novices Boys Singles event at the Open Table Tennis Championship 2017 held at the TT Club Hall in Gampaha recently. This 7-year-old youngster attacks both corners of the table with tremendous power [...]