Lagos A+/ A One Wins Lagos Low Cup, MSD Baby Bear Clinches CNS Trophy
As the prestigious 2024 Lagos international Polo Tournament enters its final week, host Lagos has tightened its hold on the medals table, adding Lagos A+/A One and Lagos MSD Baby Bear teams as top third week of the fiesta.
Olumide Agboola led Lagos A+/ A One to pull off the biggest upset of the third week, defeating hot favourites, Lagos MSD Baby Bear 6-3 to win the Low Cup in a fierce final match on Sunday.
MSD Baby Bear paid dearly for underrating their final game opponents who had earlier out-paced the Golden Alchemy 41/2-4 to earn their first ever Chief of Naval Staff title.
The international polo festival that is hosted to mark the 120 years anniversary of polo in Lagos, galloped off with fanfare January 23, 2024 with record 39 teams vying for four major prizes and a handful trophies, enters its final week with 14 teams jostling for the glittering Silver Cup.
According to the Lagos Polo Captain, Muyiwa Oni, seven Lagos-based teams and visiting teams from Kano, Kaduna, and Ibadan are grouped into four streams to play each other in the group games for the four top performers to meet in the semi- final stage to produce the two finalists.
Mayowa Ogunnusi, Tournament Manager who applauded all the sponsors and partners for making the 120th anniversary tournament such a huge success, added that apart from individual awards to be given out to the best performing teams, and players, the biggest subsidiary prize of the last week is the Sani
Dangote Memorial Cup.
The Sani Dangote Cup was introduced two years ago to be played annually in memory of the late President of the Lagos Polo Club, as one of the major prizes during the prestigious polo fiesta.
Apart from the Adedapo Ojora Cup which was won by Kaduna Sublime/ Dangote team in the opening week of the grand fiesta, Lagos-based teams have continued to dominate the victory podium, carting home the event's biggest prize, the Majekodunmi Cup, the Lagos Open Cup and the Lagos Low Cup decided last weekend.