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Invitation Basketball tourney in Batticaloa by Chris Dhambarage Eight top teams will be vying for honours at the second National Peace invitation inter-schools basketball tournament to be worked off from July 2 to 4 at the Rev. Fr. Herbert Basketball Stadium at St. Michael's College in Batticaloa. St. Peter's College who are the defending champions will be fielding a strong team once again and the other strong contenders for the title are St. Anne's College Kurunegala, Maris Stella College Negombo and the hosts St. Michael's College Batticaloa. St. Anthony's College Kandy, Holy Cross College Kalutara, St. Pattrick's College Jaffna and St. Joseph's College Trincomalee will complete the line up. This event is organised and conducted by St. Michael's College Batticaloa, Alumni Association Colombo Branch. With the dawn of peace in the country in 2002, this tournament was inaugurated last year with the participation of eight teams and was successfully organised and conducted by the St. Peter's College Alumni Association. On the conclusion of the tournament, the promoters of the Peace basketball tournament awarded the hosting of the second tournament to the St. Michael's College Batticaloa Alumni Association Colombo Branch to conduct the tournament in Batticaloa. Basketball is a popular game in Batticaloa and was introduced there by the American Jesuit Priests at St. Michael's College in the early forties. In fact most of the national championships and national school championships have been won by Batticaloa. It was under these circumstances that the promoters awarded this tournament to be worked off in Batticaloa. The organising committee is headed by the vice patron of the St. Michael's College Batticaloa Alumni Association, Colombo Branch Ignatius Canagaratnam who is also the tournament consultant, senior vice president of the Basketball Federation of Sri Lanka, senior vice president of the South Asia Basketball Association and a Member Central Board Asian Basketball Foundation Sri Lanka Section. President of the St. Michael's College Batticaloa Alumni Association Colombo Branch Kumar David and chief organiser Sam Vakeesan are also working hard to make this tournament a successful one. |
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