Air Force bag two titles
Action from the Women's Open final - Pic by Ranjith Perera
Sri Lanka Air Force bagged two championship titles at the Sunquick National Beach Volleyball Championships concluded at the Sugathadasa New Beach Volleyball Courts.
The tournament was conducted by the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation and was sponsored by Sunquick PLC and C.W. Mackie Pvt. Ltd.
The championships won by Sri Lanka Air Force were Under 21 Men and Women.
The Open Women’s Championship was won by Sri Lanka Navy and the Open Men’s Championship was won by Sri Lanka Army.
In the Under 21 Men’s Finals Sri Lanka Air Force (Ashen Rashmika and Kavindu Malinda) beat Davisamara Sports Club (Rehan Madusanka and Mihiranga Udayakumara) by 3 sets to 1. Scores: 21-12, 19-21, 15-10 and 17-15.
In the Women’s Under 21 Final Air Force (Hasini Malsa Priyamali and A.S. Asanga) overcame Galigamuwa Sports Club (G.Senaratne and S. Lakmal) by 2 to 1. Scores: 17-21, 21-17 and 15-9.
In the Women’s Open Sri Lanka Navy (Sagarika Gunasinghe and Kasuni Tharaka) beat Sri Lanka Army (Chathurika Madushani and Tamara Kumari) by 2 sets to nil. Scores: 21-14 and 21-6.
In the Men’s Open Sri Lanka Army (Indika Tyrone and Jayan Sanuja) beat Sri Lanka Air Force (Pubudu Ekanayake and Sujeeva Chinthaka) by 3 sets to 1. Scores: 21-15, 16-21,13-15 and 11-15.
There were island wide first round matches where 112 teams participated.
The specialty of the event was that a beach volleyball court was constructed specially for the tournament and three finals were worked off on it. The Under-21 women’s final was completed earlier.