Trinity champs

49th TB Jayah memorial boxing

By Shamseer Jaleel

The 49th T B Jayah Memorial Boxing saw Trinity College merging champions at the meet. They accumulated with 3 Gold, 1 silver and 2 Bronze, Sylvester’s secured second place with 3 Gold,  1 Silver, 1 Bronze, third place went to Mahanama College with 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze.

The Sylvestrians were declared joint champions with Trinity and then relegated to second position by the Schools Boxing Association. This is due to one of the Sylvestrian boxers had taken part in a kick boxing meet and was disqualified. This enabled Trinity to emerge winners.

The Best Boxer award went to M.M. Faris of St. Sylvester’s, Best Loser to R.M.T. Raymond of Bandaranayake Central College Veyangoda. The meet was conducted by St. Sylvester’s College with the collaboration of the Sri Lanka Schools Boxing Association and the meet was held at the Sylvestrian ring at Asgiriya.

Participation wise there were 187 boxers from 41 schools.