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| The Sri Lanka Navy women’s hockey team. |
Sri Lanka Navy women’s hockey team trounced Air Force by four goals to nil in the final to emerge champions at the Colombo Hockey Association invitation inter-club knock-out hockey tournament 2012 worked off at the Malay CC Grounds in Colombo.
At the breather Navy led 2-0 with left inside Buddhika Gunaratne scoring both goals. After the change of ends Buddhika netted her third successive goal to compete the hat-trick while right inside Madushani Jayaneththi scored the final goal in favour of Navy to seal the 4-0 victory.
In the run up to the final Navy (one goal each from Chaturika Wijesooriya, Maneesha Dissanayake, Madura Dharmaratne and Nadushani Jayatilleke) beat BRC 4-0 while Air Force (Koshila Pathirana and Susanthika Themiyadasa one each) beat Colombo Colts (Dinesh Perera one) 2-1 in the respective semi-finals.
The Navy women’s team was skippered by former Seetha Devi Girls, Kandy sticker and National player Pradeepa Nandasena and was coached by Sri Lanka’s National Coach M.A.M. Ashroff, a product of St. Sylvester’s College Kandy.
Sri Lanka women’s team excelled to win both league and knock-out championships 2012 conducted by the Colombo Hockey Association. |
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