Will the Thomians end the drought or will Trinity make history yet again?

1040
Trinity Thomian Hockey 2016

The 12th Annual Trinity- STC Hockey Encounter will be held on Friday, 30th September at the Reid Avenue Astro Turf.

The 1st XI fixture for the Warden Neville de Alwis Memorial Shield will commence at 4.30 pm. In addition, the U-15 fixture will take place at 2.30 pm and the Old Boys fixture, for the Mirzan Ousmand Trophy will begin at 3.30 pm.

Inaugurated in 2003, this fixture embodies the spirit of the two schools, having shared brotherhood and camaraderie in many sports throughout history. S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia will host this year’s encounter.  Last year’s encounter resulted in both teams being declared as joint champions, due to the bad weather conditions that prevailed.

Let’s take a look at the history of the encounter.

Year STC – Captain Trinity- Captain Venue Result
2003 Tivanka Wijeratna M.M. Anfaz Asgiriya Grounds – Kandy (STC) 1-0
2004 Rohan Joshna S. Sanjeewan Not Held
2005 Duminda Karunaratne M.S. Razeek Asgiriya Grounds – Kandy (STC)2-0
2006 Raveen Gunasekara S. Krishanthan Big Club Grounds – Mt- Lavinia (STC)2-0
2007 Iresha Gunasekara S. Prabu Not Held
2008 Asela Kohona A.R.M.K.J. Vidyathilaka Big Club Grounds – Mt- Lavinia (STC) 3-0
2009 Pasan Wijewardena J.I.Vitharange Asgiriya Grounds – Kandy (Trinity) 1-0
2010 Roshan Munasinghe S. Shanmuganathan Big Club Grounds – Mt- Lavinia Draw 2- 2
2011 Heshan Fernando M.H.S.Deen Asgiriya Grounds – Kandy (Trinity)3-1
2012 Lashan Haran S. Sudarshan Big Club Grounds – Mt- Lavinia (Trinity) 2-1
2013 Devin Welihinda K.Thusithan Asgiriya Grounds – Kandy (Trinity) 3-2
2014 Theekshana Rajan Y. Vinothraj Police Park Grounds – Bambalapitiya (Trinity) 1-0
2015 Pasindu Wanigasooriya K. Jayasinghe Asgiriya Grounds – Kandy Joint Champions

Tally:  5 – TCK       4 – STC      2 – Tied

The 2016 Teams

Trinity College Kandy will be led by Kasun Jayasinghe and coached by Mr. Sumith Dissanayaka, with 14 years of training the Trinity Hockey team, under his belt. S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavina will be led by Javindu Pieris and the coaching staff includes Mr. Shane Ratnam (Head Coach) and Mr. B.L. Perera (Assistant Coach)

The STC 1st XI 

Javindu Pieris (Captain), Romesh Nallapperuma,Ashwin Ellepola (Secretary), N. Hewawickrama, Karresh Kumaratheesan, Daniel Peramune, I. Prakash, Thilina Dela (VC), Devmal Palapathwala, G. Hamshavathanan, Bodh Maathura, Savindu Wanigasooriya     ,Rahal Rambukpotha, Aravinda Kulathunga, Aditya Senanayake, Poland Jayawardene, Devmith Udage

 

The TCK 1ST XI

Sachinther Saundararajan, Dhaanushan Rajamahendran, Abinavan Indrakumar, Sathira Wijethunge, Givantha De Silva, Sangeeth Kanagarajah, Kasun Jayasinghe (Captain), Tharatharan Utharan (VC), Niroshan Krishnamoorthy, Anest Loren, Bhanuka Edirisinghe, Venuja Walgampaya, Aamir Shoaib, Kalpa Hulangamuwa, Avinash Fernando, Waleed Bashique

The shield has remained in the hills since 2008 as STC has only been granted a glimpse of it as a result of two draws since then. Will the Thomians end the title drought or will Trinity make history yet again? Find out this Friday.