The Pe­nal Sports As­so­ci­a­tion, found­ed in 1968, and in­volved since then, in the or­gan­is­ing of com­pe­ti­tions in var­i­ous sport­ing dis­ci­plines, is still go­ing strong, and is even more vi­brant than ever, af­ter 45 years of con­tin­u­ous sport­ing ser­vice in the south­land.

It is the old­est Mi­nor League in the coun­try, and boasts of hav­ing 50-odd af­fil­i­at­ed teams un­der its um­brel­la, not on­ly from Pe­nal, but com­ing from such neigh­bour­ing dis­tricts as Debe, Wood­land, La Ro­main, Bar­rack­pore, Siparia and Fyz­abad.

In ad­di­tion to foot­ball and all fours, the Pe­nal Sports As­so­ci­a­tion is the on­ly Mi­nor League in the coun­try which or­gan­is­es crick­et com­pe­ti­tions in any giv­en year at the Un­der 16, Un­der 19, Se­niors, and Over 40 age lim­its. An an­nu­al ladies wind­ball com­pe­ti­tion is al­so or­gan­ised.

Speak­ing at the reg­u­lar month­ly meet­ing of clubs held re­cent­ly, Leo Dood­nath, Pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion, a past teacher for some 20-odd years, a busi­ness­man for some 15-odd years, and now Chair­man of the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, out­lined plans for a gala pre­sen­ta­tion func­tion to be held in Ju­ly of this year, im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the end of this year's crick­et sea­son.

Foun­da­tion mem­bers, long stand­ing clubs, present and past out­stand­ing play­ers, ad­min­is­tra­tors, um­pires and spon­sors of the As­so­ci­a­tion will be spe­cial­ly hon­ored.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar, who in 1998 de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at the As­so­ci­a­tion's 30th an­nu­al pre­sen­ta­tion func­tion, will be in­vit­ed to again de­liv­er the fea­ture ad­dress at the 45th gala pre­sen­ta­tion func­tion.

The As­so­ci­a­tion's 2013 Se­niors 30 Overs Crick­et com­pe­ti­tion bowled off last Sun­day with 20 teams par­tic­i­pat­ing at var­i­ous venues.

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