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School Preview Richmond College, Galle will meet St. Benedicts College Kotahena while Royalists will clash with St. Sebastian Moratuwa in their interschool fixtures today at Kotahena and Reid Avenue. Richmondites led by Dilantha Sumathipala have a well balanced side and are expected to make a good challenge against the home side, Bens. However both teams were unable to play most of their matches due to bad weather during last two weeks. Richmondites played only one game against S. Thomas' while Bens played with Trinity. The others were all washed out. Richmondite Avantha Redeegammanagedara who missed out on the first game is expected to play today. Omesh Wijesiriwardane Oshad Sumathipala (the younger brother of skipper) and Manoj Chaturanga are also the key all rounders of the Galle side. Bens side have more freshers. Royalists led by all rounder Thushan Amarasuriya have a strong side. Jehan Mubarak who performed well in the recently concluded Hong Kong under 17 tour will be their key all rounder, while skipper Amarasuriya who cracked a fine half century against Dharmapala is bound to impress aainst Sebastianites. Milo schools 'Colours Awards' on Sunday Physical education and health will be included as a GCE Ordinary Level subject for schools, from the year 2000. This was stated by R. Yoganathan Additional Secretary Ministry of Education. Speaking at a Press Conference held in view of the Milo Schools Colours Awards Ceremony he said that awards ceremonies of this nature promote and encourage schools sports. "We have observed that some sports have reached very high standards while others have declined," he said. He also admitted that Ministry budgets have been cut down. Olivia Gamage Director Sports Ministry of Education said this is the sixth Milo Colours Awards Ceremony and they were all made possible by the kind courtesy of Nestle Lanka makers of Milo. She also said that 285 school boys and girls will receive awards from 24 sports. "A special committee went through all applications and selected these awards recipients," she said. The schools colours awards ceremony for 1998 sponsored by Nestle Lanka Limited (Milo) has been organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Sports Council. This will be held on the 15th of November 1998 at 3.00 p.m. at Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall. Chief Guest will be Prof. W. A. Wishwa Warnapala Deputy Minister of Education & Higher Education. Guest of Honour is Christian Van Houtteghem Managing Director of Nestle Lanka Ltd. and A. Andrew de Silva Secretary, Ministry of Education and Higher Education. "The main objective is to motivate school children to achieve National Standards in sports during their school days," said Bandula Egodage Senior Brand Manager Nestle Lanka Ltd. Following are the sports: Athletics (04), Basketball (11), Badminton (18), Boxing (03), Cycling (02), Chess (03), Cricket (15), Football (18), Gymnastic (11), Hockey (16), Judo (11), Kabaddi (27), Karate (11), Life Saving (02), Mountaineering (06), Net-Ball (21), Rugger (23), Swimming (32), Diving (03), Table Tennis (12), Tennis (8)Volley Ball (24), Wrestling (03) and Wushu (02), Total 289. Most outstanding school sports star of the year - Boys- Ranga Wimalawansa (St. Peters Bambalapitiya), (Athletics), Girls - Pamisha Dishanthi (Devananda MV Ambalangoda) - Badminton. Up Coming School Player - Girls Naslim Hasseen (Girls High Schools, Kandy) - Netball. Boys - Rajiv Rajapaksha (Royal Colombo) - Tennis. Thushara and Chandrika win singles titles at Otters Shuttle C'ships Otters '98 Badminton Championships (Members & Open Ranked National Players) There were outstanding performances - by Otter's members and National Players in the Open Title for the Men's Singles was won by Thushara Edirisinghe who beat his arch rival Duminda Jayakody, who appeared jaded and somewhat unfit. Chandrika de Silva maintained her dominance in the Women's Section by easily picking up the title. Of the several outstanding shuttler-members of Otters, was of Cornel Perera who, once again won the Masters Single Title in a hard-fought game where he displayed exceptional skills A remarkable feature was the Masters Single Semi-Final when Cornel Perera completely swamped his opponent, not conceding a single point with a 15-0 and 15-0 victory over R. Jumar who had held the Doubles Masters National Title for the past three years. Cornel created history by setting up this unique record. Cornel also won a three-set cliff-hanger in the Masters Double when he and his partner, P. S. Rodrigo, beat the current National Masters Champions, R. Jumar and the evergreen Sam Lovell. Cornel with Sarath Silva followed up the winning streak at Otters defeating Eraj Wijesinghe and J. Samuel in straight sets to clinch the '98 National Masters Doubles Cup. Otters Singles Champion was Shakeel, and the Women's Title went to Vishna Ranjini. Have Your Say The recent coverage of the Wills Mini World Cup as well as the Sharjah Cup was not bad, but for the common mistakes committed by T.V channels. Like other channels Swarnawahini too, was more interested in revenue and have many commercials scheduled. This prevented the viewer from seeing the 1st and the 6th ball in many overs. This also prevented the viewer from listening to many knowledgeable views expressed by experts. It was also appalling to note that Swarnavahini had not even spared the prize distribution, scheduling commercials and cutting off the instant thrills. Due to this very sorry situation many cricket fans were compelled to listen to the interesting commentary provided by the team of commentators of the S.L.B.C With the retirement of Premasara Epasinghe the Singhala commentary which was not very sound have now reached a good standard with the description provided by Jayantha Weerasinghe and Upali Wijesinghe along with some of the trainees. With the English commentary headed by the no. 1 commentator Roshan Abeysinghe backed up by Aubrey Kuruppu and Suresh Chandra it has been a pleasure to the listeners ear. The S.L.B.C. sports service no doubt was once again the saviour of cricket fans in Sri Lanka. I am sure the cricket-loving public in the country will join me in congratulating the S.L.B.C. sports service. And Samantha Algama better known as the "Satellite Man". Who has been a tower of strength to the SLBC Sports Service. Our thanks are also due to Mrs. Soma Rodrigo, Director Sports Service, as well as to the Chairman Janadasa Peries and Eric Fernando the hard working Director General . Ebert Silva, |
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