Royal-Trinity hockey encounter postponed

The annual Royal-Trinity hockey encounter, junior, senior and old boys games which was to be played today in Colombo has been postponed due to bad weather . This is a much looked forward hockey game by the present, old boys and fans of the two schools. These two schools first met at hockey in the year 1950 which game ended in a draw and a trophy was introduced for the senior game in 2000 and this year’s encounter for the trophy will be the 17th which is known as the James Clifford Aelian Corea Memorial Trophy for the senior game. J.C.A.Corea is the first Sri Lankan principal of Royal College, succeeding E.L.Bradby in 1946.

The under 16 game is played for Paul Jeyaraj trophy, he was a top hockey coach and vice principal of Trinity College and coached the school for well over 25 years. The Old boys game is played for Col. Bertie Dias trophy; he is one of the finest sportsmen to come out of this school and won the Lion in hockey and rugby.

Kalid Gazali excels in snooker

Kandy’s 14 yrold Kalid Gazali doing well in snooker In the history of Kandy cue sports a youngster is doing well and sure to hit the top, that is 14-year-old Khalid Gazali who is showing great talent in Snooker and recently he went on to do well in cue games. This young cueist is guided by his father who is also good in the cue sport Gazali Saheed.. Khalid Gazali has the potential to become a top class snooker player,at this young age.

The post Royal-Trinity hockey encounter postponed appeared first on DailyNews.