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Invitation Basketball Championship from July 2 by Chris Dhambarage All arrangements have been finalised to conduct the second National Peace Invitation 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. This event is organised and conducted by St. Michael's College Batticaloa, Alumni Association Colombo Branch and sponsored by Browns Group and Hatton National Bank Limited. The co-sponsors of the tournament are Ranjanas, Seagull Property Development Limited and Superior Palayakat Limited. The eight teams have been drawn into two groups with the defending champions St. Anne's College Kurunegala competing in group 'A'. The rest of the teams vying for honours in group 'A' are St. Peter's College Bambalapitiya, Maris Stella College Negombo and St. Anthony's College Katugastota. The last year runners-up St. Michael's College Batticaloa will battle it out in group 'B' along with St. Joseph's College Trincomalee, St. Patrick's College Jaffna and Holy Cross College Kalutara. 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. In fact this will be the first major basketball tournament to be worked off in Batticaloa since 1980. The organising committee is headed by the vice patron of the St. Michael's College Batticaloa Alumni Association, Colombo Branch Ignatius Canagaretnam who is also the tournament consultant and senior vice president of the Basketball Federation of Sri Lanka. 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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