Police in stunning 11-10 win over CR

Chris Dhambarage

Sri Lanka Police Sports Club created the first major upset this season when they edged out last year’s runners up CR and FC 11-10 in their Caltex inter club ‘A’ division league rugby tournament match worked off at the Police Park yesterday.

Police SC played a terrific game from the kick off and turned the game in their favour while collecting their points from one try and two penalties. CR and FC who led 10-8 at half time responded with two unconverted tries.

Centre Priyantha Ekenayake was the match winner for Police SC with two crucial penalties after prop forward Malith Hettiarachchi had scored their solitary try in the first half.

CR and FC of course minus some of their key players scored both tries in the first half through scrum half Srinath Sooriyabandara. Both tries went unconverted and that turned out to be costly as they went down by a solitary point.

Havies have it easy

Havelocks Sports Club produced a splendid performance to beat Sri Lanka Army Sports Club 36-13 in their Caltex inter club ‘A’ division league rugby tournament match worked off at Havelock Park yesterday.

The Havies after their superb display against the defending champions Kandy SC last week got their act together well and went on to collect their points from three goals and three tries after having led 29-3 at half time.

Sri Lanka Army SC despite a good second half rally managed to score only two tries and one penalty as they crashed to their second successive defeat in the tournament.

Wing three quarter Anuruddha Wilwara and number eight Atelia Uaisele scored two tries each while centre Angata Sae and Lee Keegal scored one try each for the winners.

Full back Sajith Bandara was successful in converting three tries.