DE LA SALLE reign supreme

De La Salle College, Mutwal walked away with the boys' under-17 'B' division basketball championship beating St. Anne's College, Kurunegala 78-41 in the final at their home courts yesterday. Both teams seemed to be equally tough at the initial stage and Annites played with a good teamwork despite the roaring cheers and home crowd support received from the Lasallians. Annites sealed the fist quarter with a slight one-point lead keeping the strong home team on the back seat (14-13).

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HSC Blacks win Open 3x3 National Selection Tournament

SLBF Men’s and Women’s Open 3x3 National selection tournament was held on April 27 and 28 at the Hendry Pedris Basketball Complex. The tournament implemented a new method of selecting players for the national 3x3 pool. It was the first time in Sri Lanka that a tournament of this manner took place, where the National selectors had to individually rank the players who took part in the above tournament.

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Trinity bounce back with 35 - 25 win over Peterites

Trinity College Kandy bounced back to score a superb 35 points to 25 win over the formidable St.Peter’s College Colombo to keep their hopes alive of clinching the Singer under 20 ‘A’ division league rugby title. Thus the lads from Kandy not only made amends for their 15 - 29 defeat at the hands of S.Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia, but also inflicted the first defeat on the Peterites this season.. The Trinitians made maximum use of the possession which came their way by running the ball at every opportunity, and also exploited the mistakes made by the Peterites.

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