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Royal pocket old boys match for JR Jayewardene trophy

2 October, 2022

Over here in Kandy six good games of football was played between Trinity College and Royal College last Sunday.

The senior game was played for the J.R. Jayewardene challenge trophy where Royal College were the winners.

The Trinity College versus Royal College football encounter was the fourth in the series and it took place at Pallekelle. In the senior game Royal College gave a good display of football to beat Trinity College by two goals to nil after leading 1-0 at half time. The goal scores were Mohamed Zaneer and Ilman Rizan. The win gave them the J.R. Jayawardene trophy. The under 14 A game was a draw with both sides scoring a goal each. Azman Khan scored for Royal and S. Ekanayake for Trinity.

The under 14 B game went in favour of Trinity 3-1 and the goal scores for the winners were Abdul Malik (Trinity) two goals and one goal by Puneth de Silva. Mohamed Sabri scored for Royal. The under 16 game which was an interesting good game went in favour of Trinity 2-0.

Both the goals came off the boot of M. Shan. The Under 18 game went in favour of Trinity 2/1 with Abdulla Cassim and Vinduneth scoring for the winners and Mohammed Usman doing the honours for Royal.

The Old Boys game was won by Royal 2-1.

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