Indramalee Cooray scrabble champ

The Sri Lanka Association of Senior Citizens (Colombo Branch) concluded their annual All Island Scrabble tournament recently at the Hilton Hotel.

The contest was in two categories set out to those playing professional scrabble in ‘A’ and others who prefer the Oxford Dictionary in ‘B’. Over 60 players took part in the two divisions playing five games of one hour each.

Indramalee Cooray emerged champion in the ‘A’ section with five wins. She also clinched the highest number of bonus words awarded. Shaila Amalean was runner-up.

S. Rajendran was the winner in group ‘B’ and Dr. T. Cumarasamy was runner-up.

Anil Wickremasinghe and K. Kulatunga won the highest game score and highest word score awards respectively.

Dr. Lalantha Amarasinghe, President of the Scrabble League gave away the trophies.