Chanaka and Sajani take men and women’s shuttle titles
Chanaka De Silva of LOLC and Sajani De Costa of Ceylinco emerged the men’s and women’s singles champions at the 31st Mercantile Novices Badminton Championships held at S. Thomas’ Indoor Sports Complex recently.
After losing the first set 17/21 to Navinda Amarasinghe of Virtusa, Chanaka De Silva came back to clinch the other two sets 21/18, 21/18.
In the women’s singles, Sajani De Costa coasted to a two set (21/12, 21/7) win over Roshani Dissanayake of Seylan Bank.
Other results
Men’s Doubles: Navnida Amarasinghe and Nalinda Amarasinghe (Virtusa) beat Chanaka De Silva and Sadeepa Ratnayake (LOLC) 21/7, 21/13.
Women’s Doubles: Udayanga Jayaratne and Upeksha Fonseka (NTB) beat Shehani Jayawardena and Anupama Peiris (Autogril) 21/2, 21/7.
Mixed Doubles: Lakmal Silva and Upeksha Fonseka ( NTB) beat Navinda Amarasinghe and Hashani Meemanage (Virtusa) 21/15, 21/19.
Men’s Veteran’s Singles: Alanzo Doll (IBM) beat Dayantha Fernando (SriLankan) 21/19, 21/11.
Men’s Veteran’s Doubles: Dayantha Fernando and K.L.M. Perera (SriLankan) beat Alanzo Doll (IMB) and Priyantha Sa-
maradivakrara (NTB) 21/18, 18/21, 21/18.
Master’s Singles: M.R.M. Thaseem (A&A) beat Rienzie Fernando (JKH) 21/18, 21/14. Madushanka’s hat trick gives Commercial Credit‘B’title
A hat-trick by centre forward W.A.A. Madushanka gave Commercial Credit a 3-0 win over Sampath Bank in the final of the MFA ‘B’ division knock-out soccer tournament at the Baddegana Football ground recently. At half time neither side had penetrated the other’s defence.
After the turn around, Madushanka scored his goals in the 32nd, 40th and 55th minutes.
The game was refereed by K. Udayakantha, while the co-ordinator was K.A.G. Gunasena and Anton Atapattu was the match commissioner.
Kalutara win on tie breaker
Kalutara defeated Dehiwlela/Mount Lavinia by 8 goals to 5 in a Senior League All Island Inter League 2014 football fixture conducted by the FFSL at various venues island wide.
When no time was blown, the scores were level at three all.
Other Results
Sri Lanka Navy beat Kinniya 2-1; Ratnapura beat Civil Security 2-1; Polce beat Sri Jayawardenapura/Kotte 2-0; Government Services beat Wattala 5-2; Kinniya beat Amapara 3-2; Navy beat Point Pedro 6-1. - (B.M)