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Lake House clinch Mercantile ‘B’ Division soccer title

Lake House Sports Club won the Mercantile ‘B’ division knock out soccer title yesterday at the Sports Ministry ground beating Hayleys Group SC by two goals to nil. Lake House playing in Group B maintained an unbeaten record throughout the tournament and entered the final by defeating John Keells.

Lake House took an early lead in the 15th minute when Manjula Sirisena collected a good pass from Bhakthi Mendis to net in the first goal.

They went out for lemons having this lead. The first 15 minutes was evenly contested. But after Lake House got the lead, Hayley’s could not keep pace with the Printers. Lake House too made many mistakes during this period. Specially Hayley’s strikers missed two good scoring opportunities.

After the turnaround, Lake House tried to increase the lead by making few good moves.

This tactic paid rich dividends when in the seventh minute M. V. Surendran netted in the second goal for the Newspapermen.

Hayleys at this stage tried everything in store to reduce the lead. But all their attempts were thwarted by the opponent’s defence line.

During this period too, Hayley’s strikers were not on target.

Though the midfielders did their job well, front liners failed to produce good results as the defence line and the custodian of the Newspapermen played sensibly to hold on to their lead which sealed victory for them.

Priyanga Pieris who controlled the game had to pull out the Red card on Hayley’s custodian A. Bernard Dexter with ten minutes left for the final whistle.

Amana Takaful win

The ‘A’ Division Mercantile knock-out soccer final which commenced soon after the ‘B’ division final saw Amana Takaful beat Softlogic one goal to nil to grab the title yesterday.

Both teams played good soccer what is expected in a final. This was the main reason it went in as a low scoring affair.

First quarter hour which was contested evenly saw the players of both sides work hard moving up and down. During the first session of play Softlogic was in possession of the ball for most of the times but failed to achieve success. The fifteenth minute it was Rifaz Ahamed the left winger intelligently moved in to score the only goal of the match.

Second half too was dominated by Softlogic Players though they failed to score as the defenders and the goal keeper of Amana Takaful played their part well to halt the strikers from scoring.

The last five minutes of the game took a different turn with Amana’s strikers going an all out attack though did well to pierce through the defence line failed to find the net until the final whistle was blown by the referee M.A. Ranjith.

The referee had also to pull out the yellow card on many occasions as few players from both sides tried to adopt tough tactics.

The award ceremony took place with Chrysahnta Perera, Chief Executive Officer, FFSC as chief guest who gave away the awards.

 

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