RoyTho Regatta: Clash of the Oars

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Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 23:13

Written by Lishan Wickramanayake

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The 38th Royal Thomian Regatta will take place Saturday afternoon at the picturesque Colombo Rowing Club. The regatta will also see the 42nd Boat Race between the two coxed fours of these two great institutions. The two crews will enter the regatta with mixed performances this year with neither really dominating the other in the regattas held thus far.

The Reid Avenue boys will be lead by the experienced Chirath Karunanayake, a 5th year coloursman, with Dhanushka Perera as his deputy. The Royalists also have in their ranks 5 more coloursman; Sahan Warnasuriya, Jehan Samasekara, Sanjiva Jayasuriya, Pasan Ranaweera and Ajmal Sideek. Royal College is coached by Asiri Abayaratne with Niranjan Gajendradas and Hisham Hassan assisting.

The School by the sea is led by Shelan De Livera with Chamal Jayanetti second in command. Other coloursman include Sajin De Livera, Zydney Fazal, and Akshanth Wikramanayake. Ajith Goonawardena is back at the hot seat as head coach at STC with Sharen Kannangara assisting

Regatta Format

The regatta will see 10 races been rowed with two singles, two doubles, two coxless pairs and two coxed fours carrying points totaling 52 points. Further there would be a junior “B” Four and an Under 14 four that will carry no points.

The regatta is set to be thrilling encounter with both teams coming into the regatta on a level playing field but it can be said that the royalists hold an edge due to the depth in their squad. But the Thomians will be coming all guns blazing to regain the TN Fernando Trophy from their arch enemies.

The Royalists under the captaincy of Radika Weerasekara won the 2010 regatta by 34 points to 18 while the Thomians last won the regatta under the captaincy of Dhanushka Jayanetti  in 2009(40-12).

Mini Battle

The Royalists achieved a whitewash at last week’s mini battle regatta where the juniors won all 8 events offering points and 3 more under 14 events (no points) to setup a convincing 52-nil victory to annex the Asia Digest Trophy.

Immortality Awaites!

The Boat Race, which is the pinnacle of a Royalist’s or Thomian’s rowing career is blue ribbon event of the evening and will see the best of these two institutions battling it out for supremacy and the famed “Crossed Oars Trophy”. The Thomians are currently on a 3 race winning streak having won the race since 2008 and the royalists last won the boat race in 2007 when they achieved the whitewash of 40 points to nil under the captaincy of Maalik Aziz.

Key persons for Royal College

Chirath Karunanayake (1x,2x,4+), Jehan Samasekara (1x,2x,4+), Sahan Warnasuriya (2x,2-,4+), Sanjiva Jayasuriya (2-,4+),Ishan Perera (2-,4+), Arith Cooray (2-,4+),Dulaj Rajaguru(2-,4+), Ajmal Sideek (4+)

Key persons for S. Thomas’ College

Shelan De Livera(2x,4+) , Chamal Jayanetti(1x,2-,4+), Zydney Fazal(1x,2-,4+), Sajin De Livera(2x,4+), Ming Hau Chang(2x,4+)

Squad STC

S.R. de Livera (Captain), C. Jayanetti (Vice Captain), S. C. de Livera (Secretary), A.E. Wikramanayake (Coloursman), M.Z.M.F. Fazal (Coloursman), M.S.A. Latiff (Meritsman), H.R. Nanayakkara (Meritsman), M.K.L. Peter, A.K. Wikramanayake, H.H.A. Peiris, W.C.S. de Alwis, D.N. Hennayake, A.A Nadaraja, M.N. Cassim, M.M.H. Munshif, D.D.C Ferdinando, N. Gunawardene, N.S. Bartlett. S.R. Munasinghe, M.H. Hanzar, K.M. Chang, S.S. Bartlett, S.D. Wijetunga, C. Abeywardene, H.P.K. Nanayakkara, J.K. D’Jonk, M.M.D. Peiris

Squad RC

Chirath Karunanayake (Captain), Dhanushka Perera (Vice Captain), Sahan Warnasuriya, Ajmal Sideek, Jehan Samarasekara, Sanjiva Jayasuriya, Pasan Ranaweera, Kaveen Rajapakse, Sachith Ekanayake, Pravindra De Costa, Bhanuka Kirinde, Dulaj Rajaguru, Shavindra De Costa, Lahiru Herath, Farhaan Jayman, Arith Cooray, Ishan Perer, Chamal Gomes, Keshan Ranasinghe, Saishna Fernando, Druvinke Peiris, Aman Sideek, Amrith Fernando, Emash Ahamat

 

So ladies and gentlemen please make your way to the Colombo Rowing Club to see competition at its best, tradition at its highest at the 38th Royal Thomian Regatta 2011.

Stay logged on to ThePapare.com for further information regarding the Royal Thomian Regatta. ThePapare is also proud to announce that we will bring the action LIVE via our web stream on Saturday and streaming will commence 1.30 pm (SL time) we would like to invite all our overseas viewers to be part of our live text stream as well and keep those comments following like last year.

 

 

 

 

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