Kandy crush Air Force - 82/3

Caltex League rugby tournament:

S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen. Kandy Sports Corr.

RUGBY: Defending Caltex League Champions Kandy Sports Club ran up another cricket score in scoring their third successive victory this time defeating Sri Lanka Air Force by the huge margin of 82 points (6 goals, 8 tires) to 3 (1 drop goal) in their Caltex League rugby tournament match played at Nittawala yesterday. At half time Kandy were up leading 53-3.

Much was expected from Sri Lanka Air Force after their fine performance against the strong CR and FC but their defence looked very brittle and allowed the Kandy team to punch holes in their defence.

Airmen were also guilty of not tackling and the Kandy team took advantage to score tries.

Kandy's number eight Dushantha Lewke once again had a great game displaying a lot of aggressiveness and ended up scoring two fine tries.

Kandy's new winger Old Kingswoodian Mohammed Jabber too had a great game scoring three tries displaying plenty of speed. Winger Sanjeewa Jayasinghe once again excelled scoring two tries .

Centre Sameera Silva and stand off Fazll Marija chipped in with two tries each. The other try scores were full back Nalaka Weerakoddy (1) centre Pradeep Liyanage (1) and flanker Imran Bishamin (1). Full back Nalaka Weerakoddy goalled four tries while his brother Erande Weerakoddy added the extra paints to two tries. For the Airmen fly half Nalin Sirisena executed the drop goal.

Aruna Ranakothge referred.