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| Sunday, 15 September 2002 |
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Sri Lanka trounce Belgium 33/10, Chinese Taipei get two wins by S. M. JIFFREY ABDEEN, Kandy sports correspondent Sri Lanka made a winning start and the defending champions Chinese Taipei scored two good wins to secure a place in the Cup Championship on the opening day of the Singer Sri Lankan Rugby Sevens International competition organised by the Kandy Sports Club and sponsored by Singer Sri Lanka (Pvt) Ltd and SriLankan Airlines and co-sponsored by Connaissance de Ceylan's Le Kandyan Resort. The matches were played at the Bogambara Stadium yesterday. The defending champions Chinese Taipei had no difficulty in defeating Singapore 38 points (4 goals, 2 tries) to 7 (1 goal) after leading 19-0 at the breather. They followed this win by defeating Czech Republic by 33 points (4 goals, 1 try) to 14 (2 goals) in the opening match. Sri Lanka made a winning start when they trounced Belgium by 33 points (4 goals, 1 try) to 10 (2 tries). At 'lemons', Sri Lanka led 26-5 and did not go flat out in the second half and were quite content in keeping their margin of victory intact. For Sri Lanka Lakala Perera, Sajith Mallikarachchi, Leonard de Zilva, Radhika Hettiarachchi and Nalaka Weerakoddy scored a try each and also added the extra points to four of the tries. Nalaka Weerakoddy's try was a brilliant effort when he was running with the ball, he was confronted with three big made Belgians and he did the next best thing to get past them by 'punting' ahead and collected the ball and scored under the post. Anthony Tay refereed. New comers Kenya had an easy time to beat Netherlands by 40 points (5 goals, 1 try) to nil after leading 12-0 at the short blast. Lucas Onyango (2), Sidney Obonto (2), Dennis Mwaja (1), Feliex Ochieng (1) scored tries. Aruna Jayasekera refereed. A point of interest was that Kandy Sports Club's winger Sameera Silva turned out for Malaysia and scored a try under the posts against Arabian Gulf but yet found himself on the losing side. The tournament rules provides for foreign players to play for another country in the semi-finals and finals. The results of other matches played during the post-afternoon were Portugal beat Malaysia 33 points (4 goals, 1 try) to 7 (1 goal) after leading 19-nil at the interval. Arabian Gulf beat Hongkong by 33 points (4 goals, 1 try) to 14 (2 goals). The scores at the recess were 19-7. Germany squeezed through to a 19 points (2 goals, 1 try) to 14 (2 goals) win over China. At half time Germany led 12-0. South Korea trounced India by 54 points (7 goals, 1 try) to nil to notch the highest score upto then. At half time South Korea led 28-0. Denmark beat Czech Republic by 42 points (6 goals) to 14 (2 goals) after having led 28-0 at the interval. Portugal beat Hongkong by 29 points (2 goals, 3 tries) to nil. At half time Portugal led 12-0. Arabian Gulf beat Malaysia by 24 points (2 goals, 2 tries) to 14 (2 goals). At half time Arabian Gulf led 12-7. The above matches were refereed by Antony Tay, Anil Jayasinghe, Dilroy Fernando, Aruna Jayasekera, Orville Fernando, Priyantha Nawaratne, Nizam Jamaldeen and A. Rankothge. |
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