Royal and Trinity tied at 10th Bradby Golf encounter

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Old Trinitians

Old Royalists

By Shamseer Jaleel

The 10th edition of the Bradby Golf between Old Trinitians and Old Royalist ended in a tie at the Victoria Golf Resort (VGR) last weekend.

Trinity won the first encounter with the pair of Chandima De Singhe and Sampath Hemachandra securing a 2 up win over Royals Anel de Silva and Harsha Abeywickrema. Old Trinitians extended their lead when the pair of Nisal Hettiarachchi and Surain Premathilake defeated Derrick Ponnambalam and Saliya Jayaweera 4/3.

Royal fought back strongly in the middle order. Samitha Perera and Andy Anderson outplayed Trinitys Suren Waas and Fazly Azhar winning 5/4 while Dilan Dedigama and Priyanga Hapugalle dominated with a resounding 7/6 victory against Anil de Silva and Ajith Dissanayake. The comeback continued as Gihan Wickremasinghe and Dineth Palhena clinched a 2/1 win over Gihan Puncihewa and Clifford Fernando.

In the sixth game former rugby and cricket-combination of Suren Madanayake and Chulaka Amarasinghe delivered another Royal point, defeating the much fancied former cricketer, Ashan Welegedera and Hemanga Karunasena before Trinity’s Satish Balasunramaniam and S. Sriharan levelled the field with a 2 up win. Tension grew when James Elliyathamby and Prasad Dissanayake from Trinity edged Romesh Abeywickrema and Roschen Perera 1 up.

Royal’s Lucky De Simghe and Suhayb Sangani fought hard to snatch a 1 up win over Tharanga Gunasekera and rugby fame Shah Dole, but Trinity’s Asiri Ariyaratne and Niranjali Kandiah sealed the tie with a 7/5 victory in the final match over Arjun Fernando and Dr Senarath Yapa.

Old Trinitians in a sporty decoration though the game was tied handed over the trophy to Old Royalist.

This encounter was played for G.C. Wickremasinghe Trophy with the tally reading favour of Trinitians with 6/3 with one tie after 10 encounters with NDB sponsoring this annual event.

Meanwhile in the Victoria Bowl best five cards was won by Old Trinitians who beat old Royalist 150/125. The 1991 Trinity rugby skipper and Lion, Ayas Deen was the highest scorer for Trinity with 37 points.