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by Eurobasket News - Sep 10, 2008 | |  | Thirty four teams will vie for honours in the All Island National Schools Basketball Tournament 2008 for boys and girls including 17 boys schools and 17 girls schools which will be worked off in four different venues in Colombo and suburbs from September 11 to 13.
All the boys fixtures will be played at St. Joseph's College's courts, Maradana and Nalanda College while St. Joseph's BV, Nugegoda and Holy Family Convent, Dehiwela are the girls' venues. The tournament is conducted by the Department of Education.
Both boys and girls defending champions D.S. Senanayake College and Good Shepherd Convent, Kotahena have not qualified for the nationals this time as they were eliminated in the selection tournaments held provincial wise.
The teams taking part (boys) - Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda, Mahinda College, Galle, Siri Dhamma Vidyalaya, Galle, St. Michael's College, Batticaloa, Shivananda Vidyalaya, Batticaloa, Kamel Fathima College, Kalmune, Trinity College, Azar CC, Akurana, A. Ratnayake MV, Walalla, St. Joseph's College, Maradana, St. Peter's College, Bambalapitiya, De Mazenod College, Kandana, Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa, St. Anne's College, Kurunegala, Kegalu Vidyalaya, Sussex College, Ratnapura, Pinnawala MMV.
(Girls) - Dharmasoka College, Sri Sumangala Vidyalaya, Weligama, Sujatha BV, Matara, Sri Krishna College, Batticaloa, Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Batticaloa, St. Mary's College, Trincomalee, Mahamaya College, Kandy, Pushpadana Girls' College, Kandy, Girls' High School, Kandy, St. Joseph's BV, Nugegoda, Sirimavo BV, St. Paul's Girls Schools, Milagiriya, Holy Family Convent, Kurunegala, Maliyadeva BV, Sumana BV, Ratnapura, St. Joseph's BV, Kegalle, Furguson BV, Ratnapura.
Courtesy of http://www.dailynews.lk |
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| Joes - U 17 All-Island 'A' Div Basketball Champs | |
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by Eurobasket News - Sep 7, 2008 | | | St. Joseph's College, Colombo 10 emerged champions at the Under 17 'A' Division All-Island Basketball Tournament at St. Sebastian's College Courts, Moratuwa.
In a closely contested final, they beat St. Benedict's College, Kotahena by 58 to 50 after leading 22 to 19 at half time.
Shehan Wasana Perera, captain of the Josephian team was named Player of the Tournament while Praneeth Udumalagala was the Best Defensive Player.
On their way to the final, the Joes beat Royal College, Colombo by 69 to 25, Trinity College, Kandy by 76 to 58 and St. Joseph's College, Enderamulla by 90 to 41 in their preliminary round matches. In the quarter-finals, they beat Lyceum International School by 88 to 57. In the semis they beat St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa by 96 to 59.
The victorious Josephian team was coached by Roshan Randima with Shane Daniels as assistant coach.
Courtesy of www.sundayobserver.lk |
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| Sri Lanka National Team 2007 | |
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| India outplay Sri Lanka, to meet Kazakhstan in final of FIBA Middle Asia Zone | |
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| | | The visiting cagers from India cruised into the final of their FIBA Middle Asia Zone Basketball qualifying championship 2007 when they outplayed hosts Sri Lanka by a mammoth margin of 117 to 66 points yesterday evening at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium courts, Colombo.
The Lankans after a promising start sailed to live up to expectations and were completely beaten by a superior outfit.
The Indians took a commanding 52 to 28 points lead at half time and set a pace for an impressive victory. Before the half time the scores stood at 23 to 10 points in favour of Indians at one time.
However, the visitors dominated the play with their superior height and brilliant shooting.
Sri Lanka missed lot of scoring opportunities through their faulty shooting which opened the way for opponents to grab the ball and to collect more points.
However, lankans were trailing by a huge margin and they could not get closer to their opponents at any stage. Indians came up with a fine performance in the latter part of the game scoring more three pointers.
Shiv Kumar (187-F/G-85) with a massive 23 points was the top scorer for the winners while Lokesh Yadav (16), Riyaz Uddin (186-G-81) (17) and Jayachandra Shenoy Subash were the other chief scorers for visitors.
The Indian team was led by Muraleekrishna Ravindran and the other members of the team were Sambhaji Kadam (176-G-80), Dulip Kumar, Rajana Sanjay Raj (204-C-84), Anoop Mukkanniyil (192-F-86), Roshan Padavettiyil, Ravikumar Krishnasamy and Jayaram Jat.
Prageeth Pushpakumara (19), Randima Sooriyarachchi (10) and Shanaka Perera (9) were the main scorers for Lankans. Jagath Kulatunga captained the side and the others were Harshadeva Yasaratne, Virantha Bastian, Chamath Danawansa, Gamunu Sandaruwan, Roshel Mendis, Anushka Nilakshan, Asanka Suwaris and Vajira Kumarasinghe.
On Tuesday the Kazakhstan overcame India by 88 to 40 points to secure their place in the final after leading 45 to 23 points at half time. Yevstigneyev Mikhail (17) and Ponomarev Anton (15) top scored for winners while Jayachandra Subash (12) and Riyaz Uddin (9) were the main scorers for losers.
Kazakhstan and India will qualify to take part in the FIBA Asia championships which will be staged in Japan. |
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| India outplay Sri Lanka, to meet Kazakhstan in final of FIBA Middle Asia Zone | |
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| | | The visiting cagers from India cruised into the final of their FIBA Middle Asia Zone Basketball qualifying championship 2007 when they outplayed hosts Sri Lanka by a mammoth margin of 117 to 66 points yesterday evening at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium courts, Colombo.
The Lankans after a promising start sailed to live up to expectations and were completely beaten by a superior outfit.
The Indians took a commanding 52 to 28 points lead at half time and set a pace for an impressive victory. Before the half time the scores stood at 23 to 10 points in favour of Indians at one time.
However, the visitors dominated the play with their superior height and brilliant shooting.
Sri Lanka missed lot of scoring opportunities through their faulty shooting which opened the way for opponents to grab the ball and to collect more points.
However, lankans were trailing by a huge margin and they could not get closer to their opponents at any stage. Indians came up with a fine performance in the latter part of the game scoring more three pointers.
Shiv Kumar (187-F/G-85) with a massive 23 points was the top scorer for the winners while Lokesh Yadav (16), Riyaz Uddin (17) and Jayachandra Shenoy Subash were the other chief scorers for visitors.
The Indian team was led by Muraleekrishna Ravindran and the other members of the team were Sambhaji Kadam, Dulip Kumar, Rajanna Sanjay Raj, Anoop Mukkanniyil, Roshan Thankachan Padavettiyil, Ravikumar Krishnasamy and Jayaram Jat.
Prageeth Pushpakumara (19), Randima Sooriyarachchi (10) and Shanaka Perera (9) were the main scorers for Lankans. Jagath Kulatunga captained the side and the others were Harshadeva Yasaratne, Virantha Bastian, Chamath Danawansa, Gamunu Sandaruwan, Roshel Mendis, Anushka Nilakshan, Asanka Suwaris and Vajira Kumarasinghe.
On Tuesday the Kazakhstan overcame India by 88 to 40 points to secure their place in the final after leading 45 to 23 points at half time. Yevstigneyev Mikhail (17) and Ponomarev Anton (15) top scored for winners while Jayachandra Subash (12) and Riyaz Uddin (9) were the main scorers for losers.
Kazakhstan and India will qualify to take part in the FIBA Asia championships which will be staged in Japan.
By Hector Santos |
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| Sri Lanka Basketball players to receive overseas donation | |
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| | | The Federation of International Basketball Amateur (FIBA) of Asia donated 10,000 US dollars to the Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) to be given to tsunami affected basketball players.
The Sri Lanka Basketball Federation Tsunami Relief organising committee chairman and member of FIBA Ignatius T. Canagaratnam who represented the country at a Congress in Kuwait received the donation.
At the Congress former SLBF president Canagaratnam was re-elected as a member of the FIBA Asia central board for the fourth consecutive time to function from 2006 to 2010.
Canagaratnam who is a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police was the first Sri Lankan to be elected to the Asian basketball body when he achieved this honour in 1994.
Earlier in 2002 he was also honoured with a special recognition award at a ceremony in Malaysia for his contribution to the development of Asian basketball.
Canagaratnam was the president of the SLBF in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998 and was vice president in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. |
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| Nature Cup’ cager to commence on June 3 | |
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| | | David Peiris Motor Company Sports Club of Sri Lanka will conduct the fifth successive ‘Nature Cup’ Invitation All Island men’s and women’s Basketball Championships 2006 at their sports complex in Madapatha from June 3.
The men’s and women’s badminton segment will not be conducted this year.
Nine men’s teams and five women’s have accepted the DPMC invitation. A notable absentee this year will be Seylan Bank, last year’s men’s runners-up and women’s champions.
The men’s tournament will be conducted on a round-robin basis. The nine teams pooled into two groups, with the first two teams of each group qualifying for the semi finals at the completion of the league.
The teams: Group ‘A’ – Ranawana and Company, Kurunegala BC, Colombo International School and David Peiris Motor Company. Group ‘B’ – Dialog Telekom (defending champions), MAS Holdings, DFCC Vardana Bank, SriLankan Airlines and Red Devils BC.
The women’s tournament will be conducted on a single group round-robin basis, with the first two teams qualifying for the final at the completion of the league.
The teams: St. Paul’s Girls School, Milagiriya, SriLankan Airlines, Good Speherd Convent, Kotahema, MAS Holding and David Peiris Motor Company (last years runners-up).
Thirty matches are scheduled to be played in the two tournaments. Twenty will be played at the DPMC courts at Madapatha from June 6 to 25 and the other ten will be worked off at the Depot Police Courts from July 6 to 22.
The tournaments are being sponsored by Cherry QQ.
The above was revealed at a media briefing held on Friday, May 26 at the MCA with the association of DPMC officials – Neil Perera (executive director), Hiranga Mohotti (GB Human Resources and President Sports Club, Laksiri Peiris (service manager and secretary SC), Deeptha Ekanayake (manager financial services and treasurer SC) and Tudor Perers (operations manager and executive committee SC). |
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| Basketball in Sri Lanka | |
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| | | Basketball was introduced to Sri Lanka (previously known as Ceylon) in the year 1917 by Walter Cammak, an American who was the director of physical education of the Central YMCA in Colombo. The YMCA took this game to different parts of the country included in its physical training proram. Around the capital cily of colombo the municipality playgrounds and other clubs took up this game rapidly.
The first school to introduce basketball was Ananda College in 1927, and later many schools followed suit. 1936 was very significant, as in that year the Japanese and Filipino Olympic teams played in Sri Lanka for the first time. The Second World War brought to Sri Lanka many services teams, which gave further impetus to the game.
With increased participation in the game, the need for a strong controlling body was very evident. Consequently in November 1950, the Ceylon Basketball Association was formed with Mr. John Exter, the Governor of the Central Bank, as President, Subsequently the mercantile and public school associations were formed. The Public School Association was instrumental in spreading this game among the student population and in conducting several tournaments.
The year 1958 saw the inauguration of the Ceylon Basketball Federation (CBF), which was admitted to the FIBA in 1959. In September of the same year Sri Lanka staged its first international contest against the Pakistan National Team. The first National championship was held in July 1960, and continued annually. Women’s basketball was introduced in 1961. Mini-basketball was introduced in 1967, and several competitions are conducted for boys and girls, annually.
The Federation organized its first international competition in December 1964, with India, Iran, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as Participants. The 5th Asian Games held in Bangkok in 1966 saw Sri Lanka taking part for the first time in major international competition. From 1962, Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) has been a member of the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC). Since 1962 Sri Lankans have participated in almost all the competitions organized by the ABC. In 1984 the ABC organized three tournaments and Sri Lanka took part comprehensively in all. The best performance of the country in any international contest was achieved when the youth team (boys) reached the final round at the ABC Youth Championships in Seoul in 1984. Basketball is played throughout the year, with different associations organizing their own tournaments. The federation conducts the national championships for junior and senior (men and women) teams, which are the major tournament highlight of the year. |
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