Isipatana College have produced the ingredients of success for the first time in the current inter school rugby season. Last week they brought down the high riding S. Thoma’s College team with a stunning performance at Mount Lavinia.
This was a tremendous effort from Isipatana who went into this important game at the back drop some uncertainly having suffered two shock defeats at the hands of St. Peter’s College and Kingswood College Kandy respectively. But in a dramatic turn of events the lads from Havelock Park produced a different game plan as they went on to avenge their last years 12-28 defeat against the same opponents.
Despite performing away from home Isipatana got off to a flying start as they began to dictate terms against the more superior and heavy Thomian forwards. In fact Isipatana rattled up all their points in the first half and were able to build up a commanding 30 points to 7 points lead at half time.
This was clearly a completely different Isipatana outfit compared to their previous two matches, as they planted four early tries that turned out to be crucial at the end. In fact the early setback was certainly causing great concern in the Thomian camp as they began to regroup and stage a comeback in the second half.
The home team was able to reduce the deficit to a solitary try at the end after a great fight back and that was a creditable performance considering their position at half time.
Nevertheless Isipatana will take it because they have now kept their hopes alive of making some progress during the rest of the tournament.
Trinity v Kingswood
Trinity College Kandy pulled off a thrilling 21 points to 20 points victory over their home town rivals Kingswood College in another Singer inter school under 20 division one league rugby tournament match played at the Bogambara Stadium.
The Trinitians despite going in as the underdogs displayed a great amount of courage and determination to snatch a memorable win under tremendous pressure. They made their intentions clear from the kick off and took an early lead from which point they were able to consolidate their position.
However Trinity College had to survive a fierce late rally from Kingswood who made a great comeback during the latter stages of the game. In fact they almost turned this game in their favour following a spectacular try from skipper Rajitha Sansoni during the dying moments of the game.
However Sansoni crucial conversion went astray and with that Trinity College was able to pull off the game through a single point margin.
Royal v Dharmaraja
The defending champions Royal College cruised to their third successive victory as they trounced Dharmaraja College Kandy by 27 points to five points in another Singer inter school under 20 division one league rugby tournament match worked off at the Royal Sports Complex.
Royal are of course yet to face any stiff opposition this season having earlier played two of the weak opponents of the tournament Prince of Wales College Moratuwa and Wesley College respectively.
This time too they sailed through quite smoothly while scoring five tries that also helped them to collect the extra bonus point which could be decisive at the end. The major concern probably was the fact that they could convert only one of the tries which prevented them from winning the game by a much bigger margin.
St. Peter’s v Prince of Wales
St. Peter’s College playing like a champion side thrashed Prince of Wales College Moratuwa by a mammoth 164 points to nil in a completely lopsided Singer inter school under 20 division one league tournament match worked off at Havelock Park.
The Peterites never showed any mercy to their opponents who were making their A division debut, as they ran down as many as 26 tries out of which 17 were converted.
St. Peter’s College raced to a huge 80 points to nil lead at half time following a dazzling performance from their dynamic centre three quarter Dhanushka Ranjan who ended up with eight tries to his credit.
In addition winger Sandun Herath also grabbed the opportunity to make an impact as he touched down on six occasions.
Wesley v St. Anthony’s
St. Anthony’s College bounced back in style with a morale boosting 51 points to 12 points victory over Wesley College in their Singer inter school under 20 division one league tournament match played at Havelock Park.
The Antonians after two unsuccessful attempts finally got their act together well as they completely outplayed their opponents by running down seven tries during a magnificent performance. They were of course restricted to a certain extent initially but cut loose in the second half as they ran circles around the Wesley defence while conceding only a couple of tries.
DailyNews, May 11th 2010
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