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Blue, black, blue dazzle St. Peter's
S. Thomas’ 15
St.Peter’s 6
S. Thomas' Mt. Lavinia, playing to a better game plan, outplayed St. Peter's by 15 points (a goal, a try and a penalty goal) to 6 (two penalty goals) in a schools rugby match played at Havelock Park yesterday. At the interval the winners led 7-6.
The Thomians after a lukewarm start to their season are playing better rugby.

Displaying better skills, the Thomians scored first when scrum-half Dinesh Siriwardena went over the line. Prop Isuru Fernando made the conversion to lead 7-0.
The Peterites though beaten were not found wanting, but lacked understanding and co-ordination and spilled quite a number of scoring opportunities.

In the first half they put over two spot kicks through Shafeek: 6-7 That was the only scoring they did in the entire duration. In the second half the Mt. Lavinia school scored another try through Sanjay Samarasinghe off a scrum in the '25' when they ran the ball for an unconverted try.

This was followed by a penalty put over by Fernando to lead 15-6.The Thomian forwards dominated play with their ferocious loose play. No 8 Namal Rajapakse stood out for the winners.Referee Rohan Nishantha. In the Under 17 game T. Thomas' beat St. Peter's 14-0.Referee T. Denzil Darling.

Colombo Super basketball
By Rizwan Mihraj
The annual Colombo Super League Basketball tournament will be conducted from August 15 to September 7. The competition would be called "Colombo Super League 2003" and will be open to all clubs affiliated to the Sri Lanka Basketball Federation and will be worked off in two separate divisions for both men and women.

HNB-Seylan through to Mercantile A Div. final
By Marlon Fernandopulle
Arch rivals Seylan Bank and Hatton National Bank entered the final of the Mercantile A Division Tournament after their semi - finals against John Keells and Sampath Bank ended in a tie and victory respectively yesterday.

League Champions Seylan Bank were made to huff and puff before settling for a tie against a fighting John Keells outfit in their semi final clash at Braybrooke Place yesterday.

Needing to score 195 for victory the Bankers were sitting pretty at 150 for 4 wickets before a double strike by medium pacer Thilina Thushara where he picked up Thilan Samaraweera(33) and skipper Sampath Perera followed by a smart piece of fielding by P Abeygunasekera which sent back Kumar Sangakkara (47) tilted the scales in favour of John Keells.However a gritty 22 by Kaushalya Weeraratne brought the Bankers within sight of victory.

Their 9 th wicket pair needed to score eight runs for victory in the last over and they managed just seven before another run out saw the bankers needing one run for victory in the last ball.However medium pacer Mirando managed a dot ball that ensured the game ended up in a tie.Despite the result Seylan were through to the finals after earning more points than Keells in the League games that were completed last week.

John Keells - 194 in 44 overs(M. Vandort 59, Jehan Mubarak 42, Anuhka Polonowita 18; Omesh Siriwardene 4/27, Thilan Samaraweera 2/29)
Seylan - 194/9 in 44 overs (Nuwan Shiroman 23, Naweed Nawaz 27, Kumar Sangakkara 47, Thilan Samaraweera 33, Kaushalya Weeraratne 22;T. Mirando 2/61, C. Welegedara 2/33, T. Abeyratne 2/20)

HNB beat Sampath
Hatton National Bank pulled off a thrilling one run victory over Sampath Bank in the last over in a Mercantile A Division semi final at Maitland Place yesterday.
Chasing 176 runs for victory in 48 overs Sampath Bank were 159 for 9 at one stage before their last pair of Charitha Buddhika and Dilhara Lokuhetti who struck a whirlwind unbeaten half century brought them within one run from victory.

However Akalanka Ganegama who was surprising left out of the attack for a while but called upon to bowl the last over knocked Buddhika's stumps in his first ball to take HNB to the next weeks final.

HNB - 175 all out in 47.1overs (Prasanna Jayawardene 46, Nimesh Perera 47, Chintaka Jayasinghe 36 n.o; Hasantha Fernando 3/60, Jeevan Medis 2/20)
Sampath Bank - 174 all out in 47.1 overs (Shantha Kalawitigoda 49, Sahan Wijeratne 25, Dilhara Lokuhetti 50 n.o; Prabath Nissanka 2/37, Akalanka Ganegama 2/22, Kumar Dharmasena 2/21, Sajeewa Weerakoon 3/29)

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