Thurstan College Colombo opened its rugby seasons with an easy win over St
Sylvester’s College, Kandy in a inter school rugby fixture. Thurstanites
outclassed St. Sylvester’s College by 34 (2goals, 4 tries) points to nil in
their opening game at the Havelock Park on Wednesday.
Thurstan opened their scoring with a try from third row-Sasanka Ariyaratne but
center Rakitha Bandara couldn’t add the extra points.
St Sylvester’s got an opportunity to score when they were awarded a penalty, but
failed to capitalize on the chance and made no impact on the game right from the
beginning.
But Thurstan captain Amila Eranga broke the St Sylvester’s defense to score a
try under the post in the next minute, which was easily converted by Rakitha
Bandara to take the lead 12-nil.
Another sharp move by the Thurstan skipper paved the way to strong Rakitha
Bandara to score a sensational try running almost 70 yards to see the touchline.
Rakitha himself added the extra points and Thurstanites were in a commanding
position at the short whistle. Scoreboard read as 17-nil in Thurstan’s favour.
Kandy boys couldn’t do much to avoid Thurstanites resistance.
It was almost one-way traffic in the second half. Kandy lads tried hard to break
the Thurstan’s defense but had no opportunity to add points in their favour.
Thurstan’s winger Suminda Tharaka scored two tries in the second half and
Thurstan unable to add the extra points to those two tries as one convertion was
missed while the other was skipped without even trying.
Fly half N P Nonis crossed the opponents’ line to score another try for Thurstan
and winger Shane Aravinda made no mistake in adding the extra points to read the
final score 34 -nil. St. Sylvester’s College couldn’t hold the Thurstan’s
resistance and went back to hill capital with bitter experience.
Thurstan will meet another school from Kandy-St Anthony’s College in their next
game scheduled on July 27 at the Havelock Park.