Tuesday 1st September, 2009 13 Under-17 Division I semi finals Manisha Rajanayake leads SL’s Joes in final Adebayor sinks first-ever women’s water polo team A young girl who has spent 11 keeper. by Reemus Fernando years playing her favourite sport - Sri Lanka team compromises water polo - has been rewarded Manisha Rajanayake (Captain)- St. Joseph’s College advanced to the Portsmouth for her hard work and commit- Otter Aquatic Club, Tehani final of the Inter School Under-17 ment by being chosen to lead Sri Pendigrast - Bishop’s College, Division I tournament as they chased a by Jason Burt Lanka’s first ever women’s Savera Weerasinghe – Ladies’ revised target of 94 and made it with five national water polo College,C.D.Dbarmadasa wickets to spare after restricting their Footballers don’t exactly repay their team in an international -Sri Lanka Navy,Thisuri opponents to 97 in the semi final played transfer fees but with a third goal in competition. Madara –Ladies’ College, at CCC Grounds, yesterday. three Premier League games, Emmanuel After deciding to field first, paceman Adebayor is suddenly looking pretty Manisha Rajanayake Dinukshi De Livera – Chathuranga Kumara picked up four much value for money at £25 million. will captain the Sri Ladies’ College, His first-half strike broke wickets for the Joes to restrict the Bens Lanka team at the 11th Charindhi Weerasinghe - Portsmouth’s resistance, condemning Asia Pacific Water Polo Visakha Vidyalaya, to 97 runs in 39.3 overs. them to a fourth straight league defeat of Championships to be Soraya Wickramasinghe - In reply, the Joes were 53 for three the season and propelling City ahead of when rain interrupted proceedings. Manchester United and into third place held in Hong Kong from Bishop’s College, Akila When play resumed they reached the in the table. August 28 to 31. Fowzie - Bishop’s College, revised target for the loss of five wickets How they will love that at City, but Nineteen-year old Shivani Gunawardena - with 10 overs to spare. they will also enjoy, during a summer in Manisha has represent- Manisha Visakha Vidyalaya, Vidusha Jayasinghe, the top scorer of which money has sloshed around, that ed Otter Aquatc Club Rajanayake Darithri Amarasekera – the match held the Joes batting together the expensive components of Mark since leaving school. She devel- Ladies’ College, Sachini Hughes’ squad are quickly coming with an unbeaten 26 for which he took as oped an interest in water polo Rajanayake - Ladies’ College and together. many as 92 balls. He scored a solitary while studying at Ladies’ College Minuri de Silva - Bishop’s boundary. This was an impressive, hard-working performance with City solid in defence - and ended captaining the school College. bolstered by Joleon Lescott’s Premier team. The officials accompanying Scores: League debut - and fluid in attack. Following in her sister’s foot- the team are the SLASU Water St. Benedict’s 97 for 9 in 39.3 overs (Roy They went ahead just after the half steps, Manisha’s sister Sachini Polo Director Farid Noor Ameen Manchester City’s Emmanuel Adebayor celebrates scor- hour with Adebayor rising powerfully, has also excelled in the sport and (Manager) and Udara Fernando Sheran 21, Jeson Perera 15, Shanon ing against Portsmouth during their English Premier after easily losing his marker, the new is a member of the Sri Lanka and Sanjaya Fernando (Coaches). Paterson 13, Dulaj Perera 15; Chathuranga League soccer match at the Fratton Park Stadium, Portsmouth captain Aaron Begovic, to team for the Asian They are the coaches of Ladies’ Portsmouth, England, Sunday Aug. 30, 2009. (AP head Gareth Barry’s corner beyond Kumara 4/22, Roscoe Thattil 2/06) Championships. She is the goal- College and Visakha Vidyalaya. Photo/Tom Hevezi) stand-in goalkeeper Asmir Begovic. St. Joseph’s 95 for 5 in 35.1 overs (Keshan Perera 14, Vidusha Jayasinghe 26n.o, Nishitha Perera 12, Roscoe Thattil 21; Jeson Bolt to run 200 meters at World Athletics Final Perera 2/21, Dinal Angelo 2/12) MONACO (AP) - Usain Bolt month. He clocked 9.58 in the 100 Greece. has confirmed that he will run and 19.19 in the 200 to improve "But as per the qualifying the 200 meters at the IAAF World the times he set in winning gold regulations the 8th place is at the Athletics Final next month in medals at last year's Beijing discretion of the IAAF," the 94 SL Tennis Nationals Greece, the international athlet- Olympics. international federation said in a ics federation said on Monday. Bolt contested the 200 meters statement. The Jamaican sprinter shat- at three meetings this season Bolt last competed in the Wheelchair men’s tered world records in the 100 and was not automatically quali- world final in 2006 when he came and 200 meters at the world fied for the race, which will take third in the 200 with a time of quarter-finalists championships earlier this place on Sept. 13 in Thessaloniki, 20.10 seconds in Stuttgart. found European Men’s Hockey Championship by Revata S. Silva

Seven of the last eight players of the Wheelchair Men’s Singles Open were England stun Germany found on Monday (30) at this year’s Sri Lanka Tennis Nationals, which continued by Patrick Rowley at the SLTA hard courts in Colombo. As six players, in a 15-player draw, won England stunned Germany, their respective Round-1 matches, the top the Beijing Olympic gold medal- seed Upali Rajakaruna had received a bye lists, in the final of the while 3rd seed Sunil Perera was to play his European Championship at match with M. Nandasena. Amstelveen to win their first The Men’s Singles draw this year fea- continental title. tures three top players in Rajakaruna, Lionel Senarathne and bottom seed It was England’s first major Gamini Dissanayake, who represented the title since they won the 1908 and SL National wheelchair tennis team which 1920 Olympic titles before the emerged 5th in the World Group-2 segment days of Great Britain sides. of the ‘Invacare World Team Cup,’ the vir- England played hockey of tual World Cup of the game. such a quality there can be little doubt that they will be serious Results (Monday, Aug. 30): contenders at the World Cup in Lionel Senarathne bt Alagoda Bandara 6-3, 6-2 Delhi next year and, in Great Goalkeeper Maximillian Weinhold of Germany, reacts after losing Mahanama Basnayake (Seed 4) bt Sandamal Britain colours, at the 2012 their final hockey match against England at the European Olympic Games in London. Liyanage 6-1, 6-0 Championship Hockey in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Ermindo Armino) M. Padmasiri bt M. Weerasinghe 6-2, 6-2 Germany, who boasted more experience, went into the final as the M. Wanninayake bt M. Jayashantha 6-3, 6-4 favourites and they quickly got into Wasantha Balasooriya bt Saman Kumara 6-0, 6- their stride leading 3-2 at half-time 1 and well into the second half. Gamini Dissanayake (2) bt Susantha England’s early deficit was partly Pushpakumara 6-1, 6-3. due to their commitment to attack and the ability of the Germans to catch them out on the break. England’s new corner striker Ashley Jackson scored the opening goal for Lorenzo England, his fourth in five matches. Germany’s noted striker Christopher Zeller then replied in wins IndyGP kind before Barry Middleton, a cap- tain who led by example, restored INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Spain's Jorge England’s lead. Lorenzo took advantage of surprising miscues by pole winner Dani Pedrosa and England twice went close to mak- current points leader Valentino Rossi to ing it 3-1 but Zeller struck again and win the Indianapolis MotoGP on Sunday. an unmarked Jan Montag put Lorenzo pulled away for a 9 1/2 second Germany ahead on 31 minutes. victory over San Marino's Alex de But England showed their Angelis - a margin that could have been strength in depth and the game was even wider. American Nicky Hayden was turned on its head when three of third, nearly 13 seconds off the pace. England’s big guns were resting. "In the last two races, I tried to win Two corners were forced and, and I crashed, so I was a bit disappoint- with Jackson, Glen Kirkham and ed," Lorenzo said. "But now today, the sit- Ben Hawes, off the field, Ric Mantell uation changed completely. It changed for converted both and England were Valentino and Dani, unfortunately for ahead again by the 56th minute. them." Germany forced three corners after Lorenzo won for the first time since that but all were safely defended. May 31, ended a two-race streak in which That England’s James Fair he didn't finish and trimmed Rossi's points lead from 50 to 25. It was Lorenzo's received the ‘goalkeeper of the third win of the season and gave Fiat championship’ award was fully Yamaha, which also employs Rossi, its deserved. His was not the only indi- eighth win in 12 races. vidual award. One should go to With cool temperatures and overcast coach Jason Lee, who brought his skies, the biggest obstacle for Lorenzo team to a peak at exactly the right was figuring out how to celebrate. He set- time; one did go to Jackson, deemed tled on blending MotoGP tradition with ‘player of the tournament’ at the Indy tradition. tender age of 21. As he rolled down the famed front It was Jackson who rounded off straight for the final time, Lorenzo the scoring, converting a penalty for popped a wheelie - a regular occurrence his eighth European goal. in the MotoGP series but believed to be a Holland beat Spain 6-1 in the first at the 100-year old track. bronze-medal match, the day after Then he adopted a routine first used they took the women’s gold with a 3- by three-time Indianapolis 500 winner 2 over Germany. England’s women Helio Castroneves and scaled the fence. "This is the only track you can do that who lost to Germany on a golden at. I wanted to do some exercises," goal in their semi-final, retained the Lorenzo joked. "Six laps to go, I was bronze with a 2-1 win over Spain, thinking oh no, maybe on the straight, thanks to goals from Chloe Rogers maybe I will not be able to do the wheelie. and Kate Walsh. But every lap, I say 'OK, maybe I will try.' " (C) The Telegraph Group, For Pedrosa and Rossi, the race ended London, 2009 in frustration.