46th Mercantile Rugby Sevens:

Dialog ‘A’, Access Group vie for Cup honours

Both teams have several national Sevens players and the Cup championship is definitely going to end up in the hands of one of them.

Dialog ‘A’ scored convincing wins over Nation Lanka 17/7, Access Group 21/10 and John Keells ‘A’ 17/12 to advance to the Cup semi-finals where they will meet John Keells ‘A’ today.

The Access team coached by Nilfer Ibrahim defeated John Keels ‘A’ 14-0, Nation Lanka 38-5 but surprisingly lost to Dialog ‘A’ 10-21. They will meet

Nation Lanka Finance in the other Cup semi-final.

The quarterfinal line-ups for the Bowl and Shield are as follows:

Bowl: Kanrich Finance vs HSBC, CDB Reds vs. SL Insurance, Kandurata Umbrella “A” vs. Dialog “B” and John Keells “B” vs Sampath Bank.

Shield: PABC vs. Expolanka Group, MAS Attune vs Brandix, Janashakthi vs Ceylon Tobacco Co., HDPL vs. Kandurata Umbrella “B”.

Results of yesterday’s matches:

Cup Championship (4 teams ): Access bt John Keells ‘A’ 14-0, Dialog ‘A’ bt Nation Lanka 17-7, Dialog ‘A’ bt Access 21-10, Dialog ‘A’ bt John Keells

‘A’ 17-12, Access bt Nation Lanka 38-5.

Bowl Championship (10 teams): John Keells ‘B’ bt Kandurata ‘A’ 15-7, Kanrich Finance bt Nation Trust Bank (NTB) 22-0, Dialog ‘B’ bt Commercial

Development Bank (CDB ) ‘Blues’ 12-0, Sampath Bank bt Sri Lanka Insurance 17-0, Commercial Development Bank (CDB) ‘Reds’ bt John Keells ‘B’ 19-12, Dialog ‘B’ drew with HSBC 0-0, Kanrich Finance bt Kandurata ‘A’ 19-7, CDB ‘Reds’ bt NTB 12-7, Sri Lanka Insurance bt CDB ‘Blues’ 22-0, Sampath Bank bt Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC) 28-0, John Keells ‘B’ drew with Kanrich Finance 5-5, Kandurata ‘A’ bt NTB 17-7, Dialog ‘B’ bt Sri Lanka Insurance 14-7, Sampath Bank bt CDB ‘Blues’ 24-5, John Keells ‘B’ bt NTB 22-0, Kandurata ‘A’ drew with CDB ‘Reds’ 19-19, Sampath Bank bt Dialog ‘B’ 33-0 and HSBC w/o from CDB ‘Blues’.

Shield Championship (17 teams): Pan Asia Bank bt Attune 24-0, Virtusa drew with Amana Bank 7-7, Brandix bt Expo Lanka 12-0, Commercial Credit bt National Development Bank (NDB) 27-0, Janashakthi bt Gestetner 17-5, Hirdaramani bt HDPL 35-0, Millenium IT bt People’s Leasing 15-12, Kandurata ‘B’ bt Ceylon Tobacco 12-0, Attune bt Commercial Bank 10-0, Pan Asia Bank bt Virtusa 31-0, Commercial Bank bt Amana Bank 26-0, Brandix bt NDB 26-0, Expo Lanka bt Commercial Credit 17-0, Hirdaramani bt Gestetner 17-5, Janashakthi bt HDPL 35-0, Ceylon Tobacco bt Millenium IT 17-12, Kandurata ‘B’ bt People’s Leasing 21-0, Attune bt Amana Bank 12-7, Pan Asia Bank bt Commercial Bank 7-0, Brandix bt Commercial Credit 17-5. Expo Lanka bt NDB 17-5.