Dialog and Access kick off Mercantile Sevens in style

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Dialog A and Access ended victorious in the only cup segment games of the Mercantile sevens as the 2018 edition began today (7/20) at the Racecourse International Stadium.

Access – comprising of 10 Sri Lanka seven’s players – breezed past Classic Travels as 2017’s runners up got off to a winning start of 42 to nil, without conceding a point.

Meanwhile, Dialog ‘A’ got the better of a star studded JKH ‘B’ outfit. The John Keells lads were starved of possession, as the much fancied Dialog lads posted 31 points, holding the opposition scoreless.

ACCESS 42 0 CLASSIC TRAVEL
JKH “B” 0 31 DIALOG “A”

17 Shield segment games, got under way at 1pm as Dialog ‘B’ dispatched Aitken Spence 38-05 earlier on in the day.

Ceylon Tobacco, PABC and Fairfirst Insurance were easy winners in the first few Shield segment games, while Softlogic were pushed by the Ceylon Tea Brokers, however, Softlogic managed to get over the line by 2-points in a closely fought battle.

Fairfirst Insurance, however, were penalized for fielding two club players in the Shield segment, in which only one is eligible as the Insurance group were disqualified from the tournament in unfortunate fashion.

AITKEN SPENCE 5 38 DIALOG “B”
CEYLON TOBACCO 41 0 STAFFORD MOTOR COMPANY
STANDARD CHARTERED 10 33 PABC
MAS “B” 5 43 FAIRFIRST INSURANCE
CEYLON TEA BROKERS 22 24 SOFT LOGIC
NATIONS TRUST BANK 29 5 LANKA MINERALS & CHEMICALS
CEYLON KNIT TREND 34 0 HSBC “B”
COMMERCIAL CREDIT 50 0 GLAXO SMITHKLINE
AITKEN SPENCE 17 35 GEORGE STEUART
DIALOG “B” 41 0 STAFFORD MOTOR COMPANY
STANDARD CHARTERED 19 21 VIRTUSA
PABC 5 43 FAIRFIRST INSURANCE
CEYLON TEA BROKERS 12 10 NDB
SOFTLOGIC 19 14 LANKA MINERAL & CHEMICALS
CEYLON TOBACCO 12 19 GEORGE STEUART
MAS “B” 24 0 VIRTUSA
NATIONS TRUST 33 0 NDB

Meanwhile, CDB got the better out of Brandix, winning 33-14, while, Allianz Insurance surprisingly got the better out of JKH ‘C’ 12-07, in the only two Bowl segment games to be played on the first day.

BRANDIX 14 33 CDB
ALLIANZ INSURANCE 12 7 JKH “C”

Day two of the Mercantile sevens will begin tomorrow (7/21) from 8.40 am onwards and will go on till 9pm as 31 games are scheduled to take place.

Day 2 Schedule

MATCH SEGMENT TEAM SCORE TEAM
1 SHIELD AITKEN SPENCE STAFFORD MOTOR COMPANY
2 SHIELD DIALOG “B” CEYLON TOBACCO
3 SHIELD PABC MAS ‘B’
4 SHIELD CEYLON TEA BROKERS LANKA MINERALS & CHEMICALS
5 SHIELD SOFT LOGIC NATION TRUST BANK
6 SHIELD CEYLON KNIT TREND GLAXO SMITHKLINE
7 SHIELD HSBC ‘B’ COMMERCIAL CREDIT
8 BOWL BRANDIX JKH “C”
9 BOWL CDB ALLIANZ INSURANCE
10 SHIELD DIALOG ‘B’ GEORGE STEUART
11 SHIELD PABC VIRTUSA
12 SHIELD SOFTLOGIC NDB
13 BOWL MERCANTILE INVESTMENTS SAMPATH BANK
14 CUP MAS ‘’A’ NATION LANKA
15 CUP ACCESS JKH ‘B’
16 CUP CLASSIC TRAVEL DIALOG ‘’A”
17 SHIELD AITKEN SPENCE CEYLON TOBACCO
18 SHIELD STANDARD CHARTERED MAS ‘B’
19 SHIELD CEYLON TEA BROKERS NATIONS TRUST BANK
20 BOWL BRANDIX ALLIANZ INSURANCE
21 BOWL CDB JKH “C”
22 BOWL SAMPATH BANK HSBC ‘’A”
23 CUP NATION LANKA JKH “A”
24 SHIELD STAFFORD MOTORS CO. GEORGE STEUART
25 SHIELD LANKA MINERALS & CHEMICALS NDB
26 SHIELD CEYLON KNIT TREND COMMERCIAL CREDIT
27 SHIELD HSBC ‘B’ GLAXO SMITHKLINE
28 CUP ACCESS DIALOG ‘A’
29 CUP CLASSIC TRAVEL JKH “B”
30 BOWL MERCANTILE INVESTMENTS HSBC “A”
31 CUP MAS “A” JKH “A”