Janadhipathi Vidyalaya hockey champions

S M Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy Sports Correspondent

Janadhipathi Vidyalaya, Nawala clinched the all island schools girls under 19 hockey championship when they beat Sangamitta Balika Vidyalaya from the hockey town of Matale 2-0 in the finals of the hockey championship organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association and played at Jaffna College grounds, Jaffna yesterday. At half time there was no scoring.

The winner after a quiet start made their impression clear with some fine stick work through their forwards who made several attempts to penetrate their opponents and succeeded in the 10th minute of the second half through centre forward Sandani Dilhara who sounded the brands.

With the Sangamitta girls staging a fight back, the Janadhipathi Vidyalaya decided to insultate themselves from an equaliser and scored their second goal through centre half Thushani Sachintaka which put the issue beyond doubt.

D J Pragath and P N Cramer umpire. The defending champion Seetha Devi Balika Vidyalaya won the consolation trophy by defeating their home town rivals St Anthony's Girls College, Kandy by the big margin of 4-0 after leading 2-0 at the lemons.

Goal scorers for Seetha Devi BV were Wathsala Jayasinghe (1), Sapuni Guruge (1), Samudra Chandrika (1) and Nilusha Weerasinghe (1).

In the semi-finals Sangamitta BV beat St Anthony's BV 2-0 and Janadhipathi Vidyalaya beat Seetha Devi BV 2-0.