The Royal Thomian
Annual Encounter - 2009
Royal-Thomian
hockey match ends in a draw -
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/10/26/spo11.asp
Mevan Banagala
The 10th annual Royal-Thomian
hockey encounter for the Orville Abeynayake trophy took place at the
Royal College grounds on Sunday. After a hard fought game, the match
ended in a one-all draw, as bad light prevented play during the
second half of extra time which followed the two main halves.
At half time there was
no scoring. The second half started off on a nice pace as the
Royalists took the offensive, but a continuous Thomian defence
foiled them for a few minutes.
However Royal College
managed to penetrate the Thomian defence as S. Jayawardane scored to
the delight of the Royal fans. With ten minutes to go the Thomians
powered a nice wing play pioneered by D. Wijewardane to score a late
goal, thereby drawing the match.
The match continued into
extra time where the Thomians played an aggresive game, but in the
first half of extra time both teams failed to score. Just as the
second half of extra time was about to be played the Thomians and
Royalists agreed to end the match due to bad light and the match
ended in a one-all draw.








































































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