HOS Cup: It’s Sports, Power For Final

The bookmakers favourites for the final match of the 2012 Rivers State Civil Servant Football Competition, tagged, Head of Service, HOS up, defending champions, the Ministry of Special Duties and their Information and Communications counterparts have suffered upsets in the semi final stage.

On Friday in the first semi final match, Ministry of Power, which lost to Special Duties in last year’s final came from behind to upstage Special Duties 4-3 on penalty shoot out.

Special Duties were heading for goal  but their opponents pounced on to snatch a late minute equalizer via a well taken free kick.

The equalizer took the tie to penalty shootout in which Ministry of Power prevailed to book a second consecutive final appearance.

In the second semi-final game later that day, former champions, Might Sparrows of Ministry of Information and Communication fall to an own goal to gift the final’s ticket to Ministry of Sports.

It was a game comprehensively dominated by Mighty Sparrows in both halves of the match, but poor marksmanship robbed them of the scoring opportunities they created.

Now, both the Mighty Sparrows and Special Duties are condemned for fight for the crumbs on the competition, today.