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Hettiarachchi wins AWL trophy in style
Manjula Karunaratne Doctor of Medicine, golfer and now absolute impresario and golf promoter combined with Ananda Jayasekera with comparable qualifications except that he knows absolutely nothing about medicine to merge with Avinda & Asanga Weerasinghe the "Granite Boys" of repute and promote one of the most successful and friendly golfing tournaments in the Royal Colombo Golf Club Calendar. The Weerasinghe brothers made the unique and unusual par 3 golf competition a stunning success of rousing interest.

Ruhunu Rally on Dec 20
The Ruhunu Motor Sports Club of Matara, the pioneers of motor sports in the South, have organised the Ruhunu Rally 2003, which would cover approximately 320 kilometres through some of the towns and interior villages of the Matara, Hambantota and Galle Districts.

The Rally will commence opposite the Sanath Jayasuriya Stadium in Matara at 6 p.m. on December 20 and finish at P..............., Matara (on Galle Road) at about 8 a.m. on December 21. This will be a night rally. Entries have already opened at: (1) D.B. Automotors, No 18, Palm Grove, Colombo 3 (Tel: 0114723902); (2) Dharmadasa Industries, 69 Hakmana Road, Matara. Tel - 041222376 and will close on December 15.

Basketball at St. Joseph's
Basketball has been revived at St.Joseph's College, Maradana after a lapse of several years largely due to the initiative taken by the Principal Rev. Bro. Godfrey Perera and the Master-in-charge Vice-Principal Rev. Bro. Robert Miranda and Mr. Dilan Mendis, Prefect of Games. Presently practices have commenced for Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17.

Premier Final: Colts vs Bloomfield
Bloomfield sail into final
By Marlon Fernandopulle
Bloomfield booked a place in the Premier league final when they beat NCC on the first innings and consolidated their position at 226 for 2 wickets in their second innings at the end of the second day's play in their semi-final at Havelock Park yesterday.

Requiring 214 runs for a first innings win, NCC never looked like reaching that total as they were undone first by the medium pacers Dharshana Gamage and Udara Warna and later by part time bowler Thilakaratne Dilshan. After the Bloomfield medium pacers reduced the NCC top order to 30 for 3 wickets, Dilshan did the rest when he scalped up four wickets to bowl out NCC for just 148 runs.

Enjoying a lead of 65 runs Bloomfield led by a fine unbeaten century from Saman Jayantha (110 n.o.) annihilated NCC's chances further as they reached 226 for the loss of two wickets. Jayantha who reached his century off 116 balls with the help of 8 boundaries and two sixes was involved in an unbroken 3 rd wicket stand of 102 runs with Dilshan (41n. o.). Earlier opener Tharaka Gunaratne chipped in with a half century.

SCOREBOARD
Bloomfield 1 st innings 207/9 overnight 213 all out(Susantha Pradeep 4/26 Ravindra Pushpakumara 3/56)
NCC-1 st innings
S. Weerasinghe ct Seram b D Gamage 8
P. Hewage ct Seram b D Gamage 12
M. Perera b U Varuna 7
K. Silva lbw Dilshan 42
R. Arnold ct Dilshan b S Jayantha 3
P. Padmasanka lbw Dilshan 7
S. Pradeep ct De Silva b D Gamage 14
A. Ganegama b U Varuna 18
T. Mirando ct Dissanayake B Dilshan 25
J. Saverimutthupulle not out 04
R. Pushpakumara b Dilshan 2
Extras 06
Total 148
Fall of wickets:1-17,2-26,3-30,4-53,5-69,6-95,7-115,8-120,9-146
Bowling: D. Gamage 15-3-47-3, U. Varuna 11-2-44-2, S. Jayantha 5-1-8-1, A. Ratnayake 2-0-6-0, S. Dissanayake 10-3-17-0, T. Dilshan 8.1-3-22-4

Bloomfield 2nd innings
T Gunaratne c & b Saverimutthupulle 51
S Mendis ct Perera b Arnold 6
S Jayantha not out 110
T Dilshan not out 41
Extras
Total (for 2 wickets) 226
Fall of wickets:1-10-2-124
Bowling:T. Thushara 5-0-18-0, A. Ganegama 3-0-10-0, R. Arnold 13-0-56-1,J Saverimutthulle 15-0-72-1, P. Padmasanka 11-0-42-0, S. Pradeep 3-0-9-0

Colts run riot to make 427/3
By M. Shamil Amit
An unbeaten 152 in 226 balls by Sajith Fernando and another 126 runs by Shantha Kalavitigoda enabled Colts to make a massive 427 for 3 at the end of the second day's play in reply to Galle CC's score of 134 in their Premier League Division One semi final cricket encounter at the NCC grounds.

Sajith and Shantha made merry and thrashed the hapless Galle bowlers to all corners of the field with Sajith cracking 20 boundaries and two sixes in his unbeaten knock while Shantha's knock was made in 202 balls which had 15 hits to the ropes and three over it.

Colts resuming on their overnight score of nine for no loss were given a sound start by openers Kalavitigoda and Dulip Samaraweera who put on 78 runs before the dismissal of Dulip for 37 made in 64 balls which had five boundaries. Kalavitigoda who was joined by Sajith continued the good work with another solid partnership of 157 runs in just 222 balls.

SCOREBOARD
Galle CC 1st innings - 134
Colts Cricket Club 1st innings
S.Kalavitigoda c Rideegammanagedera b Perera 126
D. Samaraweera b Komasaru 37
S. Fernando not out 152
R. Kaluwitharana c Kularatne b Rideegammanagedera 53
J. Kulatunga not out 47
Extras (b 1, lb 1, nb 10) 12
Total (for 3 wickets) 427
To bat: M. Pushpakumara, D. Liyanage, E. Upashantha, N. Bandaratilleke, P. Liyanage, I.Amerasinghe.
Fall of Wickets 1-78, 2-235, 3-329 .
Bowling: S. de Silva 10-0-8-0, N. Kulasekara 5-1-22-0, A. Rideegammanagedera 31-9-96-1, C. Komasaru 34- 5-116-1 I. Vithana 2-0-23-0, P. Perera 15-0-87-1, R. Galappathy 2-1-1-0.

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