By: Dynamite
The Geology/Chemistry team on Friday, 14th of March, 2025 defeated the Political Sciences/Psychology team by a lone goal to emerge the new champions of the Survival Cup tournament.
The tournament, which started on the 26th of February, 2025, had ten teams in total who participated. Given that the rules allowed two departments to combine to form a single team, the departments of Physics and Petroleum Engineering, IPE and Civil Engineering, KHE and ASSE, Microbiology and Zoology, and Political Sciences and Psychology combined to form single teams. While the departments of Computer Science, Pharmacy, Economics and Sociology came as their own teams. The competing teams were separated into two groups of five teams each, with the top two from each group progressing to the semifinals.
The Geology/Chemistry team defeated the Physics/Petroleum Engineering team while the Pos/Psych team defeated the Computer Science team to get to the finals.
In the keenly contested final, Geology/Chemistry took the narrow lead through a penalty in the second half. A penalty that came through a foul made on Sammy, their number 14 player in the penalty box, a penalty which their number 2, Kadasa, converted.
Political Sciences/Psychology subsequently increased the intensity of their attacks, but their efforts were further frustrated when their number 11 got a red for a reckless tackle, an action which confirmed the Geology/Chemistry team's win.
At the end of the match, awards and medals were presented to some of the players. Dayo from the Political Sciences/Psychology team was awarded the player of the tournament. Uthman (Political Sciences), Mide (Geology/Chemistry), Kadasa (Geology/Chemistry), Bayo (Geology), Paul (Computer Science), Obinna (Political Science), Demilade (Political Sciences/Psychology), Ozil (Geology/Chemistry), Dayo (Political Sciences/Psychology), and Somod (Physics/Petroleum Engineering), as well as Salam the goalkeeper of Geology/Chemistry team, were announced as part of the team for the tournament.
Speaking to Zikpress after the tournament, the UI'SU sports secretary, Victor Kolawole described the tournament as a interdepartmental competition for 200 level students, stating that the competition started four years ago as an initiative of former SU sport secretary, Olawale Joshua Bamidele (OJB).
