2011 All Island Sevens

St. Peters College won the 2011 All island sevens tournament beating Kingswood College today in the final. S. Thomas’ College won the plate segment while Royal Panadura walked away with the bowl.
Cup finals – Peters win 6th consecutive trophy, remains ‘UNBEATEN’ (24-15)
St. Peters College the defending sevens champions came out with another superlative performance to beat a tough Kingswood side in the cup finals. St. Peters who won the Carlton schools sevens tournament back in 2009 never looked back since then, winning the western province and all island sevens tournaments, the interschool 2010 league and knock out tournaments and now the 2011 all-island sevens tournament.
Danushka Ranjan, Skipper Banuka Nanayakkara, Rizi Meedin, Dulaj Perera and winger Sandun Herath were the stand out performers for the Petes. St. Peters after an unbeaten season last year proved to be the team to beat from the outset. Kingswood College who had a good run up to the finals beating Trinity in the semi finals did not have the fire power to stop the marauding Petes from scoring. Lavanga and Oshan Perera were brilliant in attack but lacked support from the rest of the players.
Plate final – Thomian three-quarters pilot win (26-00)
The Thomian Three-quarters played their part in bringing them the Plate, in the interschool all island rugby tournament. Shevan Kapuwatte, Hashaka Senanayake, Danoj de Silva, and skipper Randika Pieris took the game the Lumbini players and walked away with a comfortable win against Lumbini. The Thomians having a disappointing run in the initial stages of the tournament rallied their troops to finish on top of the plate category.
Bowl Final – Royal Panadura take away the bronze (19-00)
Royal Panadura who displayed brilliant rugby from the start of the tournament were the ominous favourites going in to the second day in the bowl category. Their speedy three-quarters were no match to the Nalanda lads as they dished out typical sevens rugby at the Royal sports complex. The only chink in their armory was consistency but it was good enough to take away the bowl for the 2011 season.
Cup quarters review
SPC vs. IC - St. Peters College after dominating proceedings went on to clean sweep their opponants on day two after facing Isipathana College in their quarter finals. It was always expected to be a close tussle and St. Peters held their nerve to come out victors scoring 12 points to seven.
WC vs. Mahanama – Wesley who had an average start to the lsland tournament gave in a hearty performance to come out victorious by 31 points to nil. Mahanama did not have the right combination going in to the match and was knocked out during the early hours of the tournament.
KCK vs. POW – The Kingswood team completely dominated proceedings against the minnows from Moratuwa, pilling up 26-0 at the end of full time.
TCK vs. DC – Trintiy who have been tagged as one of the favourites this season had a tough time against the Rajans winning by just 7-0.

Plate quarter finals
Vidyartha 21 vs. Thurstan 07
Lumbini 33 vs. St. Aloysius 00
St. Sylvesters 24 vs. Royal 00
S. Thomas’ 26 vs. Ananda 07

Cup semi finals
St. Peters 31 vs. Wesley 05
Kingswood 14 vs. Trinity 05

Plate semi finals
Lumbini 24 vs. Vidyartha 12
S. Thomas’ 22 vs. St. Sylvesters 12