Joes hold Holy Cross to a draw

Yasaratne GAMAGE

St Joseph's College, Maradana drew their interschool soccer match with Holy Cross College, Kalutara by 1- 1 at St.Joseph's College grounds on July 12. During the first half both teams battled hard to penetrate each other's defence but failed in their approaches.

Holy Cross College, striker, Eranga Lakshita opened scoring in the 55th minute of the match with a well calculated free kick taken from top of the box. Desperately seeking for the eaquilizer Joes could not convert any of the three corner kicks and two direct free kicks they won within a period of 10 minutes. In the 70th minute of the match Joes skipper Sanjula Kalpa scored through a superb header from well taken corner kick to make the score 1-1. The match has to be called off early due to bad light.

M Jayaweera refereed.

Results of other matches played between St Joseph's College and Holy Cross College.

Under 13

Holy Cross College beat St.Joseph's College 2 - 0

Under 15

Match Drawn 0 - 0

2nd X1

Joes beat Holy Cross College 1 - 0

Goal Scorer - Alston Carrols

Earlier, Jose defeated Central Province Schools Soccer Champions, Dharmaraja College, Kandy by 4 -3 in their inter school soccer encounter played at the same venue on July 10.

It was the Rajans who took the lead in the 35th minute of the match when striker Thilina Wijesinghe beat the Joes custodian Arumugam Thulakshan with a solo run. But Joes immediately gave a reply three minutes later with a direct free kick from Joes Captain, Sanjula Kalpa from top of the penalty box. So the first half both teams shared the honours. On resumption of the second half Rajan Thilina Wijesinghe scored his second goal with a bullet shot from 45 yards to make it 2- 1. All efforts by Joes to equalize were foiled by Rajan's and on counter attack Captain Suneth Dananjaya scored their 3rd goal in the 65th minutes.

Anton Rangana of St Josephs' College in the 71st minute and the Skipper Sanjula Kalpa in the 73rd minute scored two goals to bring Joes into the game again. Showing well his responsibility as the skipper Sanjula went on to boot his third goal and also the match decider in favour of his team with a superb 40 yard kick at the opponent goal. Dharmaraja striker Thilina Wijesinghe was shown a red card and sent off the field for unsporty behaviour in the 74th Minute by S.Jayaweera refereed.

Under 13

Match Drawn 0 - 0

Under 15

Match Drawn 1 - 1

Goal Scorers - Joes - Mayuraka Perera - 1

Dharmaraja - W.H.G.I.Deshapriya - 1

2nd X1

Dharmaraja beat Joes 1 - 0

Goal Scorer - Isuru Abeysundera