In what will go down as one of the scrappiest games of rugby, a butter-fingered St. Joseph’s College beat Wesley College 3-0 in their match played at the Royal Complex ground at Reid Avenue yesterday.
The scoring was done within the first five minutes of play through a penalty and nothing more was needed by the Joes to win as Wesley blew up many opportunities of crossing the line for what would have been a match-winning try in the final ten minutes of play.
Wesley set up camp just feet away from the try line for as long as seven minutes when the Joes were reduced to 13 players with two yellow cards, but all they did was squander the ball without any creative moves merely hoping to shove through the defence.
The Joes despite playing without the two forwards who were in the sin-bin, held strong in their defence while their line was ever alert to prevent a change in opposing tactics.
Until the final ten minutes of play the Joes indulged in some poor ball handling dropping several passes that made matters easy for Wesley who ran the ball at every given opportunity in the first half.
Joes burly forward Naveen Marasinghe was a marked man and could not cover much ground as he would have liked which was an indication that depending on one player would take them nowhere near their targets this season.