Rowing: Ladies sink Musaeus 52-0 to win annual regatta

Ladies' College, Colombo took the waters of Beire Lake under their control to walk away with the Marie Musaeus-Higgins Trophy when they whitewashed Musaeus College with a 52-0 win in their 16th annual regatta at the Colombo Rowing Club waters on Saturday (12).  

The much expected Musaeus lasses failed to live up to their reputation as winners in the last three encounters as Ladies College completely out rowed them winning all eight events of the day. With this win Ladies College leads the tally with 10 wins to six. 

Tania Goonetilleke put Ladies in the driving seat with a win in the curtain raiser event of the day- 'B' Sculls event. 

There onwards Ladies lasses took control to register a resounding victory. 

The two events that Musaeus College came in sight of a win but failed in the last 100 metres to reach the post was in the 'A' Double Scull and the all important 'A' Four events. 

The only race that came in establishing a new meet record was in the A Four race which Ladies College missed by a mere second as the existing record stands at 3mts.46sec. 

Gabriella Senanayake of Museaus College was adjudged the Sportswoman of the Regatta. 

Results with winners: 

B Scull: Tanita Goonetilleke (Ladies College)-4mts.53secs (2 points) 

A Scull: Anithra Fernando (Ladies College)-4mts.40secs (6 points) 

B Pair: Kiara Kumaranayagam/Ashvini Subasinghe (Ladies College)-4mts.46secs (4 points) 

A Pair: Anithra Fernando/Gabriella Senanayake (Ladies College)-4mts.25secs (8 points) 

B Double Scull: Niharra Chandrasekera/Tanita Goonetilleke (Ladies College)-4mts.22secs (5 points) 

A Double Scull: Gabriella Senanayake/Anya Dewapura (Ladies College)-4mts.22secs (7 ponits) 

B Four: Chiara Wijetilleke/Niharra Chandrasena/ Avani Amarasinghe/Keshya Varia/Tanita Goonetilleke (Ladies College)-3mts.55secs (8 points) 

A Four: Janindri Frenando/Kiara Kumaranayagam/Ashvini Subasinghe/ Anithra Fernando/Gabriella Senanayake-3mts.47secs. (12 points)