St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya ruggerites led by their play maker cum centre Dilshan Madushanka who scored two spectacular tries and carried out an excellent second half rally to beat St. Anthony’s College Kandy by 39 points (6 tries, 3 conversions, 1 penalty) to 12 (2 tries, 1 conversion) in their President trophy Milo ‘A’ Division inter-schools knock out rugby quarter final match played at Royal Sports Complex in Colombo on Monday. At half time the Peterites led 19 nil.
Both teams dished out a good game displaying running rugby but the Peterites were the pick of the lot with their young forwards of Abdulla Fais, Julian Charles, Nizran Nillar, the Fernando trio along with fly half Kenneth Wimaladasa, Jason Karunaratne, two Madusanka’s and Shehan Liyanapathirana who had an outstanding game with both in attack and defence.
Winning St. Peter’s College scored their six tries through centre Dilshan Madushanka (two), flanker Sunera Fernando (one), Shehan Liyanapathirana (one), co – centre Rukshan Madushanka (one), fly half Kenneth Wimaladasa (one) while full back Liyanapapathirana put over three conversions, as well as the solitary penalty for the winners.
For the losing St. Anthony’s College scrum half Suhail Wasim and winger Niranga Ranaweera scored the two tries, while left footed full back Chamod Wanasinghe slotted in the only conversion.
Referee – Dinka Peiris
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