Yoshitha and Namal star in Navy’s win over Kandy SC

The Sri Lanka Navy came up with a stupendous performance to score a superb 29 points (one goal, two tries, four penalties) to 25 (one goal, three tries, one penalty) win over defending champions Kandy Sports Club at Welisara on Saturday after leading 18-8 at the breather.

It was Navy’s power-packed forwards who paved the way for this victory. skipper Yoshitha Rajapaksa was a source of inspiration to his team-mates with his fiery loose play and stood out in both attack and defence along with his brother Namal Rajapaksa who scored a splendid try.

They were ably supported by Bilal Hassan, Sumedha Malewana, Danushka Perera, Kalana Amarasinghe, Sathya Ranatunge and Piumal Manchanayake as the Navy ‘eight’ reigned supreme.

Fly half Dev Anand was also in superb form with his deep kicks to touch and accurate place kicking in which he fired across four penalties and converted one try.

Although Kandy SC fought back in the second half to cross the sailors goal line on three occasions the lads from Kandy were stalled in the last few minutes by the resolute defence put up by Navy.

It was Navy’s third successive win over Kandy SC at Welisara having emerged victorious by 11-10 (2009) and 12-11 (2010) and helped them to climb to third position in the points table and stay in contention for the Caltex ‘A’ Division League Title.