Anandians trounce Benedictines 74-3

Thushan JAYASURIYA

Ananda College Colombo scored an easy win beating St.Benedicts College 74 (7 goals, 5 tries) to three (a penalty) in their Singer Schools Under 20 League match played at the Air Force Grounds Ratmalana, yesterday.

Anandians scored their first goal with the help of N.W.R.Mahawatte soon after the match started which was successfully converted by D.D.A.C.Hemaratne. N.W.R.Mahawatte contributed with another unconverted try. Both, I.Wickramasinghe's and S.D.Hettiarachchi's tries were converted by G.S.Dilshan while S.D.Hettiarachchi's try was converted by P.A.C. Dushyantha.

St.Benedict's College were only able to score a penalty, by V.A.Fernando. Ananda were leading 33 – 3 at half time.

In the second half, Ananda players played hard.

Their strong tackling and sound defence helped them to score more points in the second half too. G.S.Dilshan was the first Anandian to score a try in the second half. All three tries by Mahawatte in the second half were converted by Hemaratne which helped to lift their second half scores to 41 – 0. P. A. C. Dushyantha, I.Wickramasinghe and R.Kurusinghearachchi scored a try each in the second half.

The Benedictine failed to offer any resistance in the second half as their defence failed to cope with the pressure exerted by the Anandians.

Ananda College will meet Maliyadeva College on May 18 in Kurunegala at 4.00 PM.

Sudath Sampath referred.