The U-17 Inter-school Girls’ Basketball tournament will commence on 16th of June with the finals set to be played on the 19th of June 2018. The tournament will be hosted by Hillwood College and St Anthony’s College in Kandy.
12 Schools, divided into 4 groups will compete in the 1st round. The top two teams from each group will move on to the quarterfinals from which point the tournament will continue on a knockout basis.
In last year’s tournament St. Joseph’s Girls School – Nugegoda took on Lyceum International School – Wattala in the final. St. Joseph’s Girls School dominated the game with for the entire forty minutes which gave them a ten-point win as the scores read 52-42 at fulltime.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya finished the tournament as 2nd runners up behind Lyceum International School – Wattala.
The groups for this year’s tournament will be as follows:
Tournament Secretary Buddhin Amarasinghe speaking to ThePapare.com, about the tournament being held after a successful stint last year, “The main objective of playing the U-17 tournament is to groom the young Basketball players since it is the foundation level where the players get to play the sport in a sense of a tournament or rather a competitive level.”
The fixtures for the first round are as follows,
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