By: Faith Adediran
After defeating the Science boys to earn a spot in the final, Faculty of Arts have defeated Basic Medical Sciences to overthrow the Faculty of the Social Sciences as new Inter-faculty champion.
Basic Medical Sciences have constantly pulled up surprises from the group stages where they qualified in a group where any regular would have written them off. BAMSSA’s four points were enough to qualify them in their group over faculty of Technology. Their surprising run of form continued as they edged past Education by a lone goal in the semi-finals.
In the final match which took place at the University of Ibadan New Stadium, BAMSSA were able to keep AFAS’ talisman, Sellica quiet over both halves.
The match came alive in the first half when the referee awarded a penalty kick to the Faculty of Arts after a handball by a defender of Basic Medical Sciences with Arts’ captain, Awolowo easily slotting home.
Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, however, gave a quick response at the death of the first half courtesy a long-range shot goal by BAMSSA’s midfielder, Timi, to reignite his team’s hope.
There were no separating the two, taking the game to a penalty shootout where the faculty of Arts’ boys emphasized themselves as champions of UI for the 2022/2023 session Inter-faculty champions.
Also, in the female category, the Faculty of Education females became champions after a resounding 4-0 victory against Faculty of Science.
Trophies were also presented to the overall second runner-up, first runner-up, and winner of the Inter-Faculty Sports Competition which are Faculty of The Social Sciences, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources and Faculty of Education, respectively.
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