It was an amazing final match as freshmen of Faculty of Administration defeated Faculty of Arts, the defending champions with two goals to one.
On Tuesday, 28th of November, 2023, within the hours of 4:00pm to 6:00pm, the OAU Sport Mainbowl was full with numbers of students and football lovers, especially from the two faculties involved in the final race to lift the Freshmen Cup.
The winning faculty’s team scored their opponent twice with free kicks awarded to them at the 4th and 12th minutes of the match.
However, Faculty of Arts, despite having many chances to win, the Faculty of Arts lost to the Faculty of Administration, who narrowly retained the lead with one goal. This was not enough to win, and the Faculty of Administration ultimately won the freshmen cup.
Moreover, gold and silver medals were awarded to the finalists respectively,ll by the distinguished guests and sponsors of the tournament. Afterwards, Prof. Rufus Adedoyin and Hajiya Omobolanle Tijani, the Directors of Sports Council, OAU presented the trophy to the new emerged champions.
Furthermore, medals were also awarded to the winners of other games, such as 50metres swimming (freestyle) and 50meters track race, Chess, Scrabble and Table Tennis for both male and female categories played in the Freshmen Sport Fiesta 2.0, organized by the Students Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Bisibiu Basit Olalekan, an 100L student of Management and Accounting department and the captain of Faculty of Adminstration team while speaking with NCB correspondent, expressed his full excitement and surprise as his team were able to work diligently and in high spirit to defeat the Faculty of Arts who happened to be the defending champions.
In his words he said, ” though the game was tough from the scratch. We faced Law at first and beat them 3-1. The game was sweet at Pharmacy, when they were leading us with 3 goals but we didn’t relent and by second half we came back defeating them 3-6. We played 1-1 with Technology in semi final, which led to penalty shoot outs and we won. I know final with Faculty of Arts is going to be a tough tournament but I didn’t take them lightly. I told my team, ‘we are going to do it in the first half and once we have it, second half will be a minor work for us.’ I am happy we won against the defending champions as they truly slept in it.”
He also moved on in giving acknowledgement to the Students Union who organized the events and urged them to keep up the good work so as to make the students happy and fall in love with sports.
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