CH&FC A team beat Navy SC A team to clinch the Western Province Rugby Union 7s tournament which took place today at Police Park ground.
19 teams participated in this year’s tournament and they were separated into two sectors, the Top Division clubs and the Development Clubs. There were 12 top division clubs divided into four groups where as the 7 development clubs were divided into 2. The groups were as follows;
Top Division Clubs
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| Police | Field Force | Havelocks | CR&FC |
| Army B | Air Force A | Army A | CH&FC A |
| Navy A | CH&FC B | Navy B | Air Force B |
Development Clubs
| Group E | Group F |
| Malay CC | Old Wesley |
| Panadura | Peterson |
| Old Kannangara | Black Hawks |
| Old Bens |
- Cup Finals: CH&FC A v Navy SC A
Samuel Maduwantha kicked things off for the reigning inter club champions this year. The star studded CH&FC side did not take much time to get on the scoresheet as skipper Rohitha Rajapaksa touched down in the 2nd minute. Few moments later Anuradha Herath barged through the defences and offloaded to Samuel Maduwantha to score their second try which was converted by Samuel himself.
The sailors needed to bounce back which they did in style when they smartly took the the quick tap and caught CH&FC by surprise to score under the post just before the half time whistle.
2nd half started off with another try from CH&FC. This time it was the experienced Hirantha Perera who showed his pace down the touch line. Samuel added the extras. The time was running but Navy wasn’t giving up as they replied with a converted try to bring down the deficit to just 5 points going into the final two minutes.
However, CH&FC managed to keep the ball in their attacking half and the Navy’s desperation caused them to conceded a penalty inside their 22. CH&FC camp without a doubt went to Samuel to shoot and he succeeded with ease to secure their win after a tough tussle.
Full Time: CH&FC A 22 – Navy A 14
- Plate Finals
Plate finals was played between CH&FC B team and Navy B who went down to their A teams in their respective cup semi finals. Going into the break, CH were leading 10 points to 7 but a hard fought second half made the game interesting. It was only one point which was in favour of CH in the final minute of the game but a handling error by the sailors gave away possession which let Rizwan Meedin touched down to seal the win.
Full Time: CH&FC B 20 – Navy B 14
- Bowl Final
Air Force dominated proceedings against Havies to take the Bowl Championship by 22 points to nil.
- Development Cup Championship
Peterson SC took the cup championship beating Old Kannangara by 12 points to 10. At half time it was Peterson who led by 7 points to 5. Old Wesley SC won the plate champions ship beating Malay SC by 29 points to 12 while Old Bens beat Panadura SC by 38 points to 24.
