St. Sylvester's beat Mahanama

St. Sylvester's beat Mahanama College by 37 to 35 today at TCK Grounds, Pallekele. 

Next match with Thurston College Colombo.

Rugby Match - St. Sylvester's College Vs Mahanama College

Rugby Match - St. Sylvester's Vs Dharmaraja College

Dharmaraja College beat St. Sylvester's by 71 (8 goals, 3 tries)to 26 (1 goal, 2 tries, 3 penalties at the Nittawela Rugby Stadium, Kandy yesterday. 

At half time, Rajans led 24-19.

When play kicked off it was the Sylvestrians who appeared to hold sway.

Rajans scored first through flanker Malinda Herath which was goalled by full back Thilina       Wijesinghe.

But it did not take long before the Sylvestrians took over the lead through a try scored by flanker Ravin which was goalled by winger Ishan Rajapaksa who also put over a penalty to be in front 10-3. Another penalty fired by Ishan Rajapaksa saw St Sylvester’s lead 13-7.

In the 20th minute, Dharmaraja’s No 8 Locahana Ekanayake using speed and power breached the opponents defence to touch down and Thilina Wijesinghe added the extra points. Rajan were leading 14-13.

A try in the 25th minute by centre Malinda Herath saw the Rajans extend their lead to 19-13.

In the 32nd minute centre Migara Hewawasam squeezed through a gap to score far left. Rajans led 24-13. 

The Sylvestrians reduced the Rajans lead through two penalties fired by winger Ishan Rajapaksa one of which was a 48-metre effort against the wind. 

St Sylvester’s 19-24. But the second half belonged to the Rajans who punched holes in the opponents defence through full back Thilina Wijesinghe (1), centre Tharuka Wickremanayake (1) and finally winger Lahiru Fernando’s five tries in a row. For St Sylvester’s in the second half, prop Mohamed Faud scored a try and Ishan Rajapaksa added the extra points. Priyantha Gunaratne refereed.

Sylvestrians got the highest score against Rajans this season. But we really need a win for this season. 

WIN OR LOST BE THERE TO CHEER FOR DARK HORSES......

St.Sylvester's College colors Awards Ceremony 2011 - Crown Holder K.Aravinth

Rugby Match - SSCK Vs Rajans

Second place for Sylvesters in Kandy Zonal Athletic Championship

St. Sylvester College, Kandy became second place of the Kandy Zonal Athletic Championship organised by the Department of Education  at the Bogambara Stadium, Kandy on Wednesday. 

3600 Athletes participated from 116 schools

Trinity College  won the overall championship for boys with 195 points but 10 points behind them was St. Sylvester’s College with 185 points.

The performance by the Sylvestrians is remarkable as they are a school with hardly any basic facilities.

The top three in 100 metres under 11 - M.A.S. Malisha Perera -
the winner, second was K.G.G. Madusanka of St. Sylvester’s and
Tuthimal Madugalle came third.

All Island Debate Championship St. Sylvester's College vs British School Colombo

SSCK Indoor Sports Complex

We are very happy to inform you of the progress of the SSCK Gymnasium project. As the structural work is being completed the expenses are sky rocketing. So we are running short of funds to carry on work.

But we can not give this up as we count that it’s our responsibility to make available a facility which we did not have during our time.
So we urge all our old Sylvestrians to join the Colombo OBA and encourage at least two of their colleagues to become members to triple the number of members as early as possible.
Ultimately we will be stronger as an association and create synergy in whatever we do for our alma mater.

Your active support and your fund raising ideas are highly expected and appreciated.
For online membership application please contact on 0 718 345 658

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Old Sylvestrian Tikiri Kobbekaduwa - all round sportsman in young days

A SPORTING GOVERNOR...

Tikiri Kobbekaduwa

The name Tikiri Kobbekaduwa sounds a bell in most sportsmen's minds in the Kandy District. He has been associated with sports at Trinity College, Kandy and St. Sylvester's College, Kandy in no uncertain manner to give the necessary push for them to gain success.
Before becoming the Governor of Central Province, he and his primary education at Trinity College, Kandy where he played cricket in the junior grades that's under-11, 12 and 14 teams which ultimately took him to the under-16 and ultimately to the first eleven team. However, in the First Eleven Team, but his stay in the First Eleven Team was short lived as studies came his way.
The first eleven team when he was there was led by Rohan Perera and some of the names that come in a flash to mind are Roland Perera, Jayantha Keragala and Duncan Vandort.
Kobbekaduwa signed on with St. Sylvester's College in 1974 for his higher studies, but also played cricket in between.
He played for St. Sylvester's under Ishak Sahabdeen. Some of the names that come in a flash to mind who played with Kobbekaduwa were Roland Perera, Jayantha Keragala and Duncan Vandort. Came his second year with St. Sylvester's and he was in full flow playing under Duncan Vandort. He scored three centuries including a century in the 'Big Match' against Vidyartha - 111.
The other two centuries were against Kingswood (128) and against St. Thomas' Matale (108). He scored over 800 runs in that particular year to become on the leading batsmen among the schools.
He sought employment in the mercantile sector and got into Lever Brothers and was promoted to the rank of Marketing Manager and he was a senior hand as he had worked for 15 years. He then joined Reckitts as a Director, Marketing sector and also served at a certain time as a Director of Lake House Group of Newspapers.
Around this time, politics caught his fancy. However, his first attempt at politics was not successful. However, he came into the Municipal Council and then became the Governor of Central Province in 2005. He was sworn in as Governor of Central Province for the second term on 16th December, 2010.