Hosts ICBT Colombo bag Cup title
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Hosts ICBT Colombo thrashed Mercury Institute 38-0 in a one-sided game to clinch the Cup Championship of the ICBT Inter-University Rugby 7s Tournament, worked off at the Royal College Sports Complex yesterday.
On their way to the Cup final, ICBT Colombo easily pushed aside ICBT Kandy 17-10 in the Cup/Plate semi-final after recording comprehensive wins against SLIM (52-0), Mercury Institute (33-5), NSBM ‘B’ (43-0) and ANC (45-0). ICBT Kandy annexed the Plate Championship defeating NSBM ‘A’ 26-19 while Gen. Sir John Kotalawala Defence University thrashed SLIM 42-0 to bag the Bowl Championship.
An encouraging factor of the tournament this year was the participation of a large number of school leavers and several top ‘A’ Division club players in the competition, which attracted 10 University teams.
Besides the winners ICBT Colombo, Mercury Institute, ANC Foundation, SLIM, NSBM ‘A’ and ‘B’, Royal Institute, KDU, Saegis Campus and ICBT Kandy participated. The tournament was organised and conducted by ICBT with the collaboration of Sri Lanka Rugby.