Army take national baseball league title
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Army's Gayan Tharindu was the best
Sri Lanka Army scored an exciting 7/5 victory over Sri Lanka Navy in the finals of the Sri Lanka National Baseball League Championship 2018 played at the Diyagama Baseball Complex yesterday.
Eight top teams of the island took part in this year’s edition of the championship where the competition proved that the future of baseball look good with the performances exhibited by the competing teams.
H.E. Mr. Akira Sugiyama, the Japanese Ambassador in Sri Lanka graced the the final day’s play as the chief guest and distributed the awards.
The individual awards were won by –
- Best Pitcher: Sugath De Silva (Army)
- Best Fielder: Thushara Wickremasinghe (Navy)
- Best Batter: Niroshan Sriyaratne (Army)
- Player of the Match: Gayan Tharindu (Army)
- Most Valuable Player: Gayan Tharindu (Army)