Kingswood, Amal IS enter semis

S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy Sports Correspondent

Kingswood College and Amal International Schools (Havelock Town) entered the semi-finals of the all island schools under 17 ‘B’ Division Basketball Championship organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Basketball Association and the Kandy District Schools Basketball Association after the two quarter-finals played at Kingswood College Basketball courts, Kandy yesterday.

The semi-finals will be played at the same venue this morning. The finals will be played at 4.30 p.m. The first semi-final will be between Ananda College and Amal International School at 7 a.m. The second semi-final between Kingswood College and St. Aloysius College, Galle will be at 8.30 a.m. The consolation finals between the two losing semi-finalists will be at 3 p.m.

In the quarter-finals played yesterday Kingswood College trounced Alethea International School by 49 points to 26 after leading 24-13 at the breather. The Kingswoodians did well in the first quarter leading 12-2. But the second quarter was evenly contested with the Kingswoodians leading by a single point 12-11. But the third quarter saw the Kingwoodians gaining a lead of 14-7 but the losers fought back in the final quarter drawing level 11 all. The Kingswoodians owe their victory to the sharp shooting of their skipper Theyshitha Walisundera who contributed 22 points followed by Isuru Ekanayake 14 points. For Alethea Ashan Fernando was the chief scorer with 14 points.

In the second quarter final, Amal International School beat Gateway College, Kandy 58 points to 46 after a close tussle. At half time winners led 27-21.

Though Amal International won the first quarter 17-11 but the losers drew level 10 all in the second quarter. Gateway also won the third quarter 17-14. But Amal International put up an excellent performance in the last quarter winning comfortably 21-8 and also sealing their victory. Top scorers for Amal International School were Ismail Ikram 22, Dilshad Nizar 17. For Gateway College, Kandy Shane Jayawardena 20, Shehan Perera 14 and Dilshika Pathirage 10 were the main scorers. Anuradha Wijesinghe and Christopher Karunasinghe umpired both matches.