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teams expected at Mercantile Netball The tournament will again be sponsored by Mason's Mixture Ltd along with Nippon Paints (Singapore) Co Pvt Ltd. Masons Mixture will be sponsoring this event for the 14th successive year. The media sponsors for the event are Daily Mirror and The Sunday Times. Mason's Mixture who will be celebrating their 75th year of existence ties up with Nippon Paints for the first time who will be celebrating their 125th next year, in sponsoring this much looked forward to event under a combined banner. The organizers are expecting around 30 teams to participate from various mercantile sectors in the A, B and C categories. They have already received over 15 entries. Apart from the main championship the organizers will be conducting a mixed division championship, which will be held concurrently. Last year’s champions Hatton National Bank will go all out to defend their title this year too but they will face stiff opposition from Air Force and Arpico. Air Force was the runners up in the Open event while Arpico were the Plate champions last year. Hatton National Bank who is also the defending champions in the mixed division are favourites to lift the title again. Dainichi were the winners of the Division 'C' while Reckitts & Colman was the runner up.At the conclusion of the tournament individual awards will be presented to the best centre, best defence, best shooter, best male player and the netball queen which were won by Arunika Karawitage of Ceylinco, K.N. Dilrukshi of HNB, Neluka Priyadharshani of Arpico, Gayan Meedeniya and Sashika Amarasinghe of HNB. The events which get underway on December 11 and 12 may go on for two afternoon sessions during the two days, and the finals are due to be held on January 6 2005 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium with special guests from Sri Lanka and Singapore gracing the Olympic standard closing ceremony. |
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