Kandy smash Navy SC 66-5 in Nittawela 

By A Special Sports Correspondent 

Kandy Sports Club smashed the daylights out of Navy Sports Club in their inter-club league rugby tournament match up in Nittawela on Sunday when they recorded a 66-5 win. The winners led 38-0 at the short whistle of referee Charani Liyanage. Incidentally this also marked the first occasion when a female member from the Sri Lanka Association of Rugby Football Referees got an opportunity to officiate in a division 1 men’s inter-club rugby tournament fixture in Sri Lanka.

Kandy SC opened the floodgates on the ‘Sailors’ in the second half and ran in tries through D. Wickremaarachchi, Dhanushka Ranjan, Gayan Perera and Dilksha Dange. Navy earned their only try which came in the second half through Stephen Gregory.

Meanwhile CR&FC kept title hopes alive with an exciting 27-22 win over CH&FC in closely contested domestic inter-club league rugby tournament encounter played on Saturday at Race Course.

CR played their fast and superior rugby throughout the eighty minutes of rugby, but found CH equally aggressive in their approach to the game. The scores were deadlocked 22 all till the dying stages of the game, before CR’s Aron Corera produced the match winner scoring near the corner flag. The try scorers for the winners were I.Ariyapala, A.Weeratunga and Corera while Zubair Doray kicked right two conversions and a penalty.

The players who were outstanding for CH were Udesh Madushanka, Janidu Dilshan and Nirosh Perera who touched down once each. Janith Chandimal and Dinesh de Silva did the honours in the kicking department.

Also on Saturday, Air Force Sports Club did well to beat Police Sports Club by 20 points to 19 in a closely contested game at Ratmalana. Both sides scored three tries each, but Air Force pulled off the game through their strengths in the kicking department. The scores read seven all at half time.

On Friday, Havelocks Sports Club downed Army Sports Club by 29 points to 18 after trailing 5-3 at halftime. The match was played at Panagoda.

Havies got their points through four tries, three conversions and a penalty while Army responded with two tries, a conversion and two penalties. S. Waidyanatha, D. kodagoda, J.Rajaratne and did the honours in the try scoring department for the winners while Samuel Maduwantha slotted in three conversions and a penalty. D.Wijetilake and M.Patapilihewage scored a try each for the Soldiers while the promising Gayan Salinda kicked right a conversion and two penalties.

Sri Lions SC didn’t have a game his week.