Mercantile League Basketball semi-finalists found
National Development Bank will meet LB Finance in the Men’s ‘C’ Division while Union Bank as Group leaders with four wins qualified to play in the Men’s ‘D’ Division semi-finals along with Softlogic and from the ‘E’ Division Airport and Aviation qualified to play in the quarter-finals at the 26th Mercantile League Basketball Tournament 2016 continued at the Henry Pedris Basketball Courts last week.
Results of matches from day 18 to 22:
‘A’ Division: Men’s – Sampath Bank 81 (Sameera Senarath 30) beat Nations Trust Bank ‘A’ 76 (Devon Rebert 22)
DFCC Bank 56 (Rajitha Hettiarachchi 16) beat Hatton National Bank 44
Abans Group 48 beat Aitken Spence 47 (W. Anuruddha 21)
Union Assurance 64 (Isuru Perera 19, Shehan Udayanga 17) beat Sampath Bank 46 (Mithila Abeysekera 16)
Commercial Credit 78 (Clinton Stallone 20, Thimothi Nithushan 18) beat Sampath Bank 49
‘B’ Division: Men’s – John Keells Holdings 68 (Lakshan Samarasinghe 28, Vishwa Alessio 15) beat SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ 52 (Sanjaya Wanasekera 18)
John Keells Holdings 64 (Tushan Dharmasena 20, Lakshan Samarasinghe 17) beat MAS Holdings Reds 45
Women’s – MAS Holdings 49beat David Peiris Motor Company 18
MAS Holdings 57 (Gayathri Kariawasam 18) beat John Keells Holdings 30 (Binoli Barsanbach 22)
‘C’ Division: Men’s – NDB Bank 56 (Malen Mario 15, Jude Akila 10) beat LB Finance 48 (Gihan Sarinda 21)
‘D’ Division: Men’s – NTB ‘B’ 65 (Promoth Weerasinghe 31) beat Standard Chated Bank 41
Hirdaramani Group 48 (Niroshan Pushpakumara 16) beat SriLankan Airlines ‘B’ 42 (Maleesha Thilakaratne 17)
Seylan Bank 45 (G. Samaraweera 16) beat MAS Holdings Blacks 34
Union Bank 61 (Clifford Shenal 22, Dhananjayen Wijendra 18) beat SriLankan Airlines ‘B’ 54 (Avishka Ranasinghe 17)
Softlogic Group 55 (Lakshan Kulatunga 18, Chameera Praneeth 15) beat LOLC 42 (Chatura Hewa 20)
‘E’ Division: Men’s – Millenium IT 54 beat Sarva Integrated 25
Amana Bank 53 (Mohomed Najath 20) beat WNS Global 40 (Nipuna Samarakoon 31)
Commercial Credit 55 (Thimothi Nithushan 19) beat Union Assurance 53 (Isuru Perera 20)
MAS Blacks 44 (Mohomed Jawad 15) beat Commercial Bank 40 (Kavin Kumara 17)
Amana Bank 56 (Najath Luqman 18, Giwantha Karunatilleke 15) beat Citizens Development Business 42
Airport and Aviation 79 (W.D. Silva 35, K.H. De Silva 23) beat Abans Group 37
Airport and Aviation 57 (K. De Silva 20) beat Sarva Integrated 26 (Sajith Silva 20)
