Air Force, Bishops reign supreme at water polo nationals

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Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 19:06

Written by Sankha DLT

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The finals of the water polo nationals was worked off today at the Police pool, and Air Force clinched the men’s title while the women’s title was taken by Bishops College.

Men’s Final – Air Force wins forces battle

It was always going to be a close tussle between the Sri Lanka Air Force and the Sri Lanka Navy in the final battle of the men’s category and it lived up to expectations with the former winning the game by a solitary point.

Final score 9-8.

Both teams had impressive lead up’s to the final game and it was all set for a crunching battle.

The Air force team packed with some national players in the form of S. J Silva and K. S Karunaratne led from the front with Karunaratne continuing his form from the group stages scoring 3 vital goals while his senior partner Silva managed to hit the net twice.

Tissa Chandrasekera who scored 4 goals in the semi finals against SSC scored 2 goals to take the task beyond the Sailors reach.

For the Sri Lanka Navy team it was combination of Bilal Hassen and Shehan Dasanayake who did the bulk of the scoring as they managed to score 3 goals apiece.

Women’s final – Aneesa Fawzi takes Bishops to the helm of water polo

Bishops College managed to win the water polo nationals for the first time in history under the leadership of Akana Jayawardene.

Final score 8-6

The architect of the win however was Aneesha Fawzi who scored 5 important goals for her team. Fawzi maintained her consistent form from the first two days to lead her team to their first victory.

The Sri Lanka Air Force team could only manage to get 6 goals largely to the help of senior players Kadinappalige and J.D.R.S Jayakodi who scored 3 goals each.

The third place in the women's category was taken by Ladies College after they received a walk over from Visakha Vidyalaya.

For pictures of the final click here

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