ComBank stickers become Mercantile A-Division Knockout Champs

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Commercial Bank of Ceylon won the Mercantile A-Division Knockout Hockey Tournament recently, defeating HNB by 3 goals to 1 in the final and achieving a rare feat in the history of mercantile hockey with three Commercial Bank strikers each scoring a hat trick in the three matches played by the Bank. In the final, Commercial Bank’s Anju Hewage scored all three goals for the Bank, while in the quarterfinal Milan Ariyawansa scored all four goals in the Bank’s 4 - nil defeat of Sampath Bank, and in the semi-final, Devshan Thilanka scored three of the Bank’s four goals against the fancied MAS Holdings team, the Mercantile League champions. Pictured here is Commercial Bank’s champion hockey team.