Peterites in easy win

By Ranjan Anandappa

St. Peter's staged a fine second half rally to record a convincing 44 points (three goals, four tries and a penalty) to nil win over Nalanda in their schools rugger match at Bambalapitiya yesterday. The winners led 10\0 at the breather.

The Nalandians did well to hold the strong Peterites with some effective spoiling work in the initial half of the game restricting them to 10 points with a goal and a penalty. However, the Petes found their fluency early in the second session of play when fly half Irfhan Meeding who was the play maker scored his second try and converted it.

The inexperinced Nalandians ran short of ideas to contain the seasoned Peterites as they went on to score seven tries and three were goalled. The try scorers for the winners were Irfhan Meeding (2) centre Gerard Canute (3), centres Gayan Liyanage and Sham Fernando a try each. Meeding gave them the extra points.

M. K. D. Ranasinghe refereed.