Winners of the C Rugby Cup Championship – Vidyartha/Pushpadana Combined Team
- Vidyartha’s Hashan Perera & Pushpadana’s Hashini Mallawa Thennakoon adjudged
most valuable male and female players - Combined teams of Kingswood/Girls High School Kandy – Plate Champions
- Wesley/Methodist win the Bowl Championship
In an atmosphere that was both exciting and electric, the brother/sister school combined team
from Vidyartha/Pushpadana emerged Cup Champions with a 1-nil score, defeating
Science/Girls’ High School Mount Lavinia team, at the annual C Rugby Tag Carnival held on 30 th
August at the CR&FC Grounds. Organised by Agoal Rugby headed by renowned international
Rugby referee Dilroy Fernando for the 9 th time, in the midst of a crowd of over two thousand
five hundred cheering their favourite teams, the combined team of Kingswood/Girls’ High
School Kandy won against Thurstan/Devi Balika with a score of 2-1 to be named Plate
Champions. The Wesley/Methodist combined team was adjudged Bowl Champion beating the
Dharmaraja/Mahamaya team on a score of 1 nil.
Sixteen teams participated in this very popular annual tournament. Vidyartha’s Hashan Perera
was adjudged the Most Valuable Male Player, while Pushpadana’s Hashini Malawa
Thennakoon emerged the Most Valuable Female Player.
The tournament which has become very popular in the annual rugby calendar due to schools’
rugby stars of yesteryear taking the field, kicked off at 4 pm with the knock out stages of the
competition being played under floodlights. With counterparts from sister schools joining
brother school teams, the tournament gains the title of being a first in the history of Sri Lanka
rugby.
Reliving the glorious days of the past heralding a reunion of old mates from brother and sister
schools, the atmosphere at the CR&FC grounds took on the beat of a rocking carnival with a
host of vendor markets, street food stalls and non-stop music by Slipping Chairs, Dreaming of
Saturn, Pop Culture and Section 8 and DJs Trev D, Rob R and DJ Ace. Adding to the mix of the
excitement were cheerleaders and decorated tents with both the Best Tent Décor and the Best
Cheerleading Squad won by D S Senanayake/Sirimavo Bandaranayake combined team.
A team of amazing partners backed this unique tap rugby carnival; Nations Trust Bank was the
Banking Partner, Fairway Holdings – Altitude as Real Estate Partner, Elephant House as Food &
Beverage Partner, Haleon-Iodex Multipurpose Balm as Pain Relief Partner and Rush Energy as
Energy Drink Partner. Yes 101 & Legends 96.6 was the Radio Partner while ThePapare came in
as Digital Broadcast Partner.
