As the prestigious 2024 Lagos international polo tournament enters its grand finale week, host Lagos has tightened its hold on the medal table adding Lagos A+/A one and Lagos MSD Baby Bear teams as top third week of the fiesta.
Olumide Agboola mounted Lagos A+/ A One pulled off the biggest upset of the third week, defeating favourites, Lagos MSD Baby Bear 6-3 to win the Low Cup in a fierce final match on Sunday.
MSD Baby Bear had earlier out-paced the Golden Alchemy 41/2-4 to earn their first ever Chief of Naval Staff title.
The international polo festival which is being hosted to mark the 120 years anniversary of polo in Lagos, galloped off with fanfare January 23, 2024 with record thirty nine teams vying for four major prizes and other trophies, enters its final week with fourteen teams jostling for the glittering Silver Cup.
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According to Muyiwa Oni, the Lagos polo Captain, the teams comprising seven Lagos based teams and visiting teams from Kano, Kaduna, and Ibadan are grouped into four streams, would played each other in the group games for the four top performers to meet in the semi- final stage that would produce the two finalists.
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, would be 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.