Peterites Under-15 Tennis Champs
St. Peter's College, won the recently concluded under-15 All Island
Inter School Tennis Championship at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association
courts last week.
The Peterites completely and convincingly dominated the entire
tournament to clinch the championship trophy. In this particular age
group there was no real opposition for the formidable Peterite side.
St. Peter's which has been performing consistently well in the
schools tennis arena in the recent times once again showed their
supremacy on the court.
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St. Peter’s College U-15 All Island Inter School Champion
Team (Seated from left:) Bernard Jesuthasan
(Master-In-Charge), Rev. Fr. Shameera Nirosh Cooray (Sports
Co-ordinator), Aritha Weerasinghe (Captain), Rev. Fr. Travis
Gabriel (Rector), Aaron Assauw (Vice Captain), K.D.Y.
Pathiraja (Coach), Nishangan Nadarajah. (Standing from
left:)Kanishka Rajapakse, Sajeev Mohankumar, Kalana
Wijeratne, Haneef Zarook, Senel Rohana, Radley Perumal,
Shashanka Gomez. |
In this tournament where about 20 teams took part including teams
from the outstation schools was competitive from the start. In the group
stages Peterites won with authority against all their eight opponents.
They beat Issipathana College, Colombo, St. Michael's College,
Batticaloa, St. Benedict's College, Colombo, St. Thomas' College, Mount
Lavinia, Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala, St. Joseph's College, Colombo
and Karandeniya Central College, Galle. Zahira College, Colombo conceded
a walk over to the Peterites. All eight schools were comprehensively
beaten by the Peterites and against each school St. Peter's College
registered a win of 35 nil. Peterites finished first in the group
amassing a total of 280 without conceding a single point to any school.
S. Thomas's College, Mount Lavinia finished second in the same group
receiving a point tally of 180.
In the other group Ananda College topped the group and Royal College
finished second. Therefore, in the semifinals Peterites had to play
Royal College, Colombo in the semi-finals. They went on to comfortably
defeat Royal College 3 nil. In the other semi final Ananda College beat
St. Thomas's College, Mount Lavinia after a close contest.
After the semi-finals the final were worked out between St. Peter's
College and Ananda College. Peterites with their three Sri Lankan caps
dominated the game convincingly to walk away with the championship
trophy effortlessly.
Peterites were led by Aritha Weerasinghe, a Sri Lankan player. The
two other Sri Lankan players in the Peterite team are the Vice Captain
Aaron Assauw and Nishangan Nadarajah. With such a star studded team, the
Peterite march to conquer the Championship could not be prevented by any
and was an inevitable one.
Peterites are coached by K.D.Y. Pathiraja who has been with St.
Peter's College for more than a decade, and is responsible for much of
the Peterite success story. |
