St. Anthony’s College Kandy beat St. Joseph’s College Colombo and Kingswood stylishly overcame St. Johns to progress through to the semi-finals of the All Island U18 schools’ rugby championship. In other quarter-finals Maliyadeva overpowered Eheliyagoda MMV in the only shield quarter- final. Trinity College and Vidyartha College beat Thurstan College and Lalith Athulathmudali College respectively in the Bowl quarter-finals.
Shield quarter- final
The day kicked off with the only Shield game being Eheliyagoda MMVt versus Maliyadeva College. Maliyadeva looked comfortable from the outset as they began well and put the game to bed with 5 tries and 3 conversions to just a solitary unconverted try from Eheliyagoda MMV. The game finished 31-05 in favour of Maliyadeva College.
Bowl quarter finals
Two Bowl games took place as the host Thurstan College took on Trinity College in the first game while Lalith Athulathmudali College fought it out with Vidyartha College.
Trinity College Kandy, hardly broke a sweat as they dispatched a rather chaotic Thurstan College in their own paddock. Trinity scored 4 tries converting one in the process while Thurstan were held scoreless. The game ended 22-00 in favour of Trinity.
In the second Bowl quarter-final, Vidyartha made easy work off Lalith Athulathmudali, scoring 9 tries while holding the latter to no score, to proceed to the Bowl semi-final. Vidyarthe 53 (9T, 4C) Lalith Athulathmudali 00
Cup quarter final
In the first Cup quarter- final, St. Anthony’s College made easy work out of a messy St. Joseph’s College team. The lads from Kandy scored 3 tried a piece while converting 4 of the 6 tries. The Darley Road boys scored 2 tries in the first half to be in touching distance of St. Anthony’s at the end of the 1st half. The hill country boys’ defense held strong, they struck back on the counter attack to score 3 tries in the second half as they sealed a remarkable win to progress through to the semi-finals of the cup segment while Joes make their way to the Plate semi-final.
Game two saw Kingswood take on St. John’s College. The game was a one sided affair from the onset as Kingswood ran riot scoring a massive 13 tries. It always looked out of the reach of the raw and under built St. John’s lads. 75 points in the context of the game pushed St. John’s to the Plate segment as they would battle it out against the likes of St. Joseph’s to contest for the Plate championship.
Cup semi-final line up:
Isipathana College, St. Anthony’s College, Kingswood College and Zahira College
Match Day scores:
Maliyadeva College 31 (5T, 3C) beat Eheliyagoda MMV 05 (1T)
Trinity College 22 (4T, 1C) beat Thurstan College 00
Vidyartha College 53 (9T, 4C) beat Lalith Athulathmudali College 00
St. Anthony’s College 38 (6T, 4C) beat St. Joseph’s College 17 (3T, 1C)
Kingswood College 75 (13T, 5C) St.John’s College 00
