Sri Lanka, Sept. 20 -- S. Thomas' College Mount Lavinia will look for their best performance to stop arch rivals Royal College Colombo from winning the Orville Abeynaike Memorial Trophy for the third year in a row when the two schools meet in their 24th annual hockey encounter at the International Astro Turf in Colombo at 5 45 p m today.
Royal have taken the trophy with 1-0 wins in the last two years when the match was played on grass. The Thomians, known as the blue-black-blue boys, still lead the overall tally with 10 victories, while Royal have won eight. Five games have ended in draws.
This year Royal are led by Yusuf Shihar, a junior national striker who represented Sri Lanka at the Junior Asia Cup in China. S. Thomas' captain is B...
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