Petes crush Wesley 50-13

by Ranjan ANANDAPPA

RUGBY: A robust second half rally by St. Peter's saw them completely outplaying Wesley by 50 points (5 goals, 3 tries) to 13 (2 tries, 1 penalty) in their Singer Schools 'A' Division League rugger match at Bambalapitiya yesterday.

The Peterites came back so strongly after the turn around and collected 33 points to their 17 which they scored in the first half.

Wesley withstood the pressure applied by their opponents till a good part of the first half. Infact they opened scoring when Azmil Omar fired over a penalty and further went to plant a try when he broke off dummied and scored which gave Wesley a 8-0 lead.

The Peterites took sometime to get their act together while the Wesleyites kept the Petes at bay with some spoiling work through their tackling.

The Peterites suddenly found their fluency and touched down thrice through Keith Gurusinghe, Danushka Ranjan and Steve Nelson. St. Peter's led 17-8 at Lemons.

On resumption the winners went on to score five more tries through Keith Gurusinghe, Danushka Ranjan, Srinath Perera, Sandun Herath and Banuka Nanayakkara. Rizwan Meeding put over the conversions.

For Wesley Azmil Omar and Randika Tillekeratne were the try scorers.

A.T. Tennekoon refereed.