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Cowrie
RFC on Sunday emerged winners of the Lagos Rugby Union League and
etched their name in the record books by becoming the first side to
finish the season unbeaten.

The air was thick
with anticipation on Sunday at the main bowl of the National Stadium,
Lagos as fans of the sport waited to see how Cowrie would end the third
edition of the Lagos Rugby Union League organised by the Friends of
Rugby (FOR). This was because Cowrie went into the match at the summit
of the league table with an unbeaten run. And their opposition in their
final game was second-placed Addax RFC.

Cowrie, however,
cruised to victory, deafeating Addax 15-0 to maintain their unbeaten
streak, and successfully defending their title for the second year
consecutively. They accumulating 56 points, 21 points ahead of Addax,
who finished the season with 35 points.

In other matches
decided earlier on Sunday, Young Lions, inspired by their coach-player
Ntiense Williams, who is also the coordinator of the league, defeated
fifth-placed Gosar 12-0. The victory took their points tally to 11 but
it wasn’t enough to lift them out of the sixth position. Lagos RFC lost
8-5 to Police Machine but retained third spot on the table with 29
points, a spot above the Police team who ended the campaign with 18
points.

Something for everyone

For their efforts,
Cowrie got a cash award of N250,000, in addition to N50,000 for
emerging as the league’s most disciplined side, while second place
Addax got N100,000 and an additional N25,000 after they were adjudged
as the most improved team of the season.

The Cowrie duo of
Jojo Jafar and Azeez Ladipo respectively emerged as highest tries and
points scorer and were each given a cash prize of N25,000. Samson
Yahaya also emerged as the season’s MVP and was rewarded with a cash
prize of N30,000.

The Rugby League
final had a capacity crowd of over 2,000 spectators and players with a
full support of over 250 workers & friends of CMB Buildings &
Maintenance Investment Company Limited, which is owned by Kelechi
Mbagwu, chairman FOR.

With the National
Sports Festival scheduled to take place sometime next year, no kick off
date has been fixed for the next season.

“This is because of the National Sport Festival,” Williams said. “We
do not want our programmes to affect that of the National programme. We
are also hoping to accommodate more clubs. For now we have told the
interested club to go and register their interest and our board would
look into it.”