School football honour
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Kurseong, Sept. 3: St Augustine, Kalimpong, have lifted the Sixth Himali Cup organised by Himali Boarding School here.
The football tournament concluded yesterday, with St Augustine beating Saptashri Gyanpeeth, also from Kalimpong, 3-1 in the final. Himali Boarding and another school from Kurseong, St Anthony’s, lost in the semi-finals.
“The tournament is organised for students below Class VIII who are under 4 ft 10 inches in height. There are hardly any events for this age group and we thought that a mini- football tournament for them would be a good idea,” said the director of Himali Boarding, Robindra Subba.
The tournament began in 2000.
Eighteen schools from the Darjeeling hills, and Namchi Public School from neighbouring Sikkim, participated in this year’s tournament.
Kurnal Parnell, the principal of South Point School here and the chief guest at the presentation ceremony, handed over the cup to St Augustine, while every participant was given a certificate.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Congratulations to St. Augustines School on their victory. I am not surprised that the Sasonians lifted the trophy, coz the Sasonians have always been strong contenders of football ever since. I have been a strong force of the school since my long gone hey days in 80’s. I represented kalimpong in many tournaments in darjeeling, Kurseong, Shillong, Orissa, Sikkim etc.. and played many finals in our famous mela ground in the independence finals n the gold cup finals. I now live in Taiwan… Long live Kalimpong and gogogo Sasonians!!!! Gud luck to all future games..