The CH and FC ruggerites led by their inspirational captain cum number eight Rohitha “Chichi” Rajapaksha carried out an excellent second half rally, where they came from behind 10-12 down to beat Navy sports club by 27 points ( 3 tries, 3 conversions, 1 penalty, 1 drop goal) to 24 ( 4 tries, 2 conversions) in their Dialog ‘A’ Division inter-club league rugby first round final match played at Race Course grounds in Reid Avenue, Colombo yesterday.
At half time Navy were leading 12 points to 10.
Both teams dished out a spectacular display of running rugby in the whole game but CH was the pick of the lot with their young Lee twins Avishka (Scrum Half), Avantha (Full back), flankers Sasanka Ariyaratne, Yoshitha Rajapaksha, centre Lee Keegal and fly half Samuel Maduwantha having an outstanding game in both in attack and defence..
Sailors staged a spirited performance from mid way in the first half to lead the game and went in to the half time with the scores reading 12 points to 10.
The victorious CH and FC scored their tries through flankers Yoshitha Rajapaksa (one), Sasanka Ariyaratne (one) and former St.Anthony's colleage Kandy star player and fly half Samuel Maduwantha (one) while Maduwantha put over all three conversions, a solitary penalty and a spectacular drop goal for the winners.
For the losing Navy hooker Dulanjana Wijesinghe, fly half Mohamad Abzal, flanker Adeesha Weerathunga and winger Buddima Piyaratne scored the tries while full back Thilina Weerasinghe put over the two conversions.
The final score stood at CH and FC 27 points to Navy 24 Referee- Praneeth Weranga had a poor game
CR in runaway 53-13 win over Police
CR & FC thrashed the hapless Police Sports Club by 53 points (8 tries, 5 conversions, 1 penalty) to 13 (1 try, 1 conversion, 2 penalties) win in their Dialog ‘A’ Division inter club league rugby first round final encounter played at CR grounds in Longden Place yesterday. The winners were leading 34 points to 6 at half time. For the winning CR outfit, fly half Tharinda Ratwatte (two), winger cum skipper Kavindu Perera (two), prop forward Kokila Hiran (two), scrum half ex Peterite Avishka Heenpalla (one) and prop forward Hafeez Adahan (one) scored the tries while Tharinda put over five conversions and the solitary drop goal.
Wajid Fawmy scored the only try for Police while former Peterite captain
Sandesh Jayawickrama fired across the conversion and the two penalties (IW)
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