Joes in convincing win over Wesley

By Ranjan Anandappa

RUGBY: St. Joseph's recorded their second successive win beating Wesley convincingly by 27 points (1 goal, 4 tries) to 10 (1 goal and a penalty) in their Singer school rugger match played at St.Peter's College grounds Bambalapitiya yesterday.

Wesley started off well making advances into the Joes territory in the first ten minutes or so and crossed the touch line when centre Asmin Omar pierced the Josephian defence. Dulanjan Perera added the extra points.

The Wesleyites increased their lead through a penalty put over by Perera and led 10-0.

However, their joy was short lived when the Joes got their act together with their forwards and backs combining effectively, as Wesley gradually lost their way.

Josephian flanker Dananjaya Perera reduced the lead in the 15th minute when he touched down and Dilshan Devananda gave them the extra points. Two unconverted tries scored by flanker Adrian Hackel gave the Joes a good 17-10 lead at the breather.

Flanker Hackel covered almost the entire length of the ground to score his first try and followed up the second rapidly to expose the Wesleyites weakness.

From that point onwards the Wesleyites had little or no chance of bouncing back into contention.

On resumption the Joes struck twice through winger Navin Abeyratne and Dilshan Devananda.

The easy conversions were missed by Dilshan Devananda ,otherwise the score margin would have looked more impressive for he Joes.

Referee. A.C. Tennekoon.