A splendid effort by flanker Thilan Bulner helped defending champions St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya to a convincing 67-0 victory over Thurstan College, Colombo in their inter school Div. I Segment I Singer League rugby tournament match played at Longden Place on Saturday.

St. Peter’s, who won the grand double last season have remained unbeaten this year and look set to emulate the efforts of last season.

The Petes earned their points off 6 goals and 5 tries and led 15-nil at lemons.

The first twenty minutes of play left St. Peter’s supporters disappointed with the champion outfit unable to score a single try, but that was not an indication of things to follow.

In the second-half, the tempo changed completely with St. Peter’s planting tries with no trouble at all.

Bulner was crafty in all his moves and scored 25 points, penetrating the Thurstan defence at will. His colleague, Sharo Fernando scored two tries while skipper and scrum-half Ranuka Jayasinghe, lock-forward Samson Roy, hooker Roshan Fernando and fullback Viduranga Karunaratne piled on the total with a try apiece. Harsha Weerakkody successfully goaled four tries while fly-half Irfath Meedin fired over two conversions.