Baptist All Stars Subdue Joecasters In Port Harcourt

The Baptist All Stars FC of Port Harcourt has defeated the Jeocaster Football Club 3 – 2 in the final match of the 2nd Round Open Competition played at the Number Six-Field Mini-Stadium in Port Harcourt Township.

The encounter which was seen as one of the best in the competition saw Jeocasters FC scored two quick goals within 20 minutes of play in the first half.

With 13 minutes remaining, Baptist All Stars reduced the tally to 2-1 before the stroke of the first half. On the 56 th minutes, Baptist Stars mounted more pressure and got the equalising goal.

Jeocasters however, responded, but their efforts went wide and seven minutes later, the Baptist boys stepped up their superiority and made it 3-2 to carry the day.

In an interview with Tidesports immediately after the match, the team manger of Jeocasters FC who doubled as the team manager of Ambassador FC in pro-league division one, Mr. Emeka Levi said that despite the loss, his team was still in the competition as the best losers.

“We still have a match  to play subsequently so we are still in the competition as the best losers,” Emeka enthused.

He also said that apart from the local competition, the national pro-league division one competition was on-going and getting involved in all these competitions caused a lot of fatigue in players, so a team could lose to an opponent under the condition.

“Only last Wednesday, we went to Enugu for our pro-league match which we won 3-0 and we came back today to face this match, you can see the effect though our loss today was really very unfortunate”, Emeka said.

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