American football continues today at Sugathadasa Stadium

The second set of Elite Football League of India American Football matches kicked off on a bright and humid day at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Monday. The first among four brilliantly fought matches kicked off at 1.00pm between Kolkata Vipers and Pune Marathas. The Pune Marathas kept an aggressive form of play from the kick off scoring a touch down at the first quarter of the game and continuing their attack till the last whistle was blown. Dinesh Ravikumar and Rahul scored the touchdowns for Pune Marathas while Sanjay scored the single touchdown for Kolkata Vipers.

Despite the intense heat the games continued between the Mumbai Gladiators and the Pashwar Wolf Pack. An adrenaline charged game between famed rivals, saw more firecracker tackles and nerve wracking moments. Mumbai Gladiators won the game 14 (Ashutos and Staivesh scored) to Pashwar Wolf pack ’s 12 (Waqar and Shenal).

The game between our very own Colombo Lions and Bangalore War Hawks was a tightly fought encounter with Colombo Lions leading for a brief moment until Madusudan surged ahead to score the touchdown and a penalty taking the score War Hawks 9 against CL’s 07 scored by Hassan Sameen.

The last match was a complete offensive game by the Delhi Defenders who kept running through the Kandy Sky Kings beating them 43 to 6. An injury prone game with 5 of the KS players getting injured and two actually being carried out of the field. The players who scored the touchdowns for Delhi Defenders were Verma -2 , Lohchab, Saini – 2, Singh (The quarter back) scoring 2 . The single touchdown for Kandy Sky Kings was by Jude Perera.

Matches to be played today at the Sugathadasa Stadium.

1.00p.m. Pune vs Bangalore
3.00p.m. Colombo vs Kolkata
6.00p.m. Delhi vs Pakistan
8.00p.m. Mumbai vs Kandy

Tickets are available at the Stadium gate.