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Thomians triumph once more
S. Thomas' College emerged Overall Champions once again at the All Island Inter School Squash Championships which was held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium from July 11-13, 2002.

The two teams entered by S. Thomas' College performed exceptionally well to enter the final of the team event. The STC 'A' team emerged top of their group beating Colombo International School, St Josephs 'B' and Royal College 'B'. The STC 'B' team which comprises of players all below 15 years beat the Royal College 'A' team to top their group after beating STC., Gurutalawa and St Josephs 'A'.

In the semi finals STC 'A' beat Royal College 'A' and STC 'B' beat Royal College 'B' to enter the final of the team event.

The S. Thomas College 'A' team comprised of Captain Malinda Sugathapala, Vice Captain Manojith Weerasuriya, Shamin Kannanagara and Damith Jayatillaka.

Team event winners:
S. Thomas' College A team Team event runners-up: S. Thomas' College B team Overall Champions of the All Island Inter School Squash Championships 2002: S. Thomas' College Mount, Lavinia

Why not in Kandy
Four teams from Kandy St. Anthony's, Kingswood, Dharmaraja and St. Sylvester's along with Wesley and table leaders Isipatana are playing in one group - in the Schools Rugby tournament.

All the Kandy Schools had to wend their way to play Isipatana in Colombo. According to school sources in Kandy, Isipatana are great crowd pullers wherever they play. It should have been better if the organisers of this tournament (schools) could have fixed one of these games to be played in Kandy. The outcome was secondary. In turn it could have given the school concerned to raise funds to further development of the sport. \

The schools section should give serious thought to this effect when drawing the fixtures in the future. - (B.W.)

In brief

Saints cricket quadrangular
The Old Boys of St Peter's, St Joseph's, St Benedict's and St Anthony's Kandy will fight out in a quadrangular crikcet tournament scheduled to be played on July 27 and 28. This will be the first ever cricket tournament for over 40's and it will be of 25 overs duration.

The tournament played for the 'Quad' challenge trophy will be hosted by OBU of St Peter's College. All matches will be played at St Peter's grounds, Bambalapitiya.

Scheduled matches are Julu 27 - Old Bens vs Old Joes (Morning) and Old Petes vs Old Anthonians (Afternoon). July 28 -Play off for third place (Morning). Final (Afternoon.-MSA

Thrilling win for Labour Dept
Labour Department registered a thrilling three runs win over Central Bank in a 30 over cricket match played at the Health grounds in Borella.

Central Bank 175 in 30 overs (Rohan Suranga 78, Sarath de Silva 15) Labour Dept 178 for 9 in 30 overs (Rohan de Silva 75; Supun Prasad 3 for 17, Manjula 2 for 14)-MSA

Richmond 80-90 reunion at Galle
The 80-90 Group of Richmond College Galle has made elaborate plans to hold its annual family reunion at the picturesque Bay Beach Hotel, Weligama on July 27 starting at 10.00 a.m. The theme of the get together is Richmond 80-90 Sojourn.

Entertainment with lots of fun for the whole family is assured as this is in fact a fund raising campaign aimed at promoting language skills of the college in a long term programme. All old Richmondites are welcome. Tickets priced at Rs 300 can be bought from the entrance.

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