The competition was organized by Ogun State Cricket Foundation and started on Thursday 19th July, 2018 at about 10.00am with all invited schools teams present, the Technical representative Mr. Taiwo Oladunjoye welcomed all the participating teams and quickly informed all the teams about the rules and regulation with the game format which was a round robin, and overs to be played in the preliminaries and also in the finals. 5 schools participated in the competition. The teams were balloted and the captains given the opportunity to pick for the fixtures to be drawn.
THE 5 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS WERE
- St Anne’s RCM Nursery & Primary School, Ibara, Abeokuta. (ST ANNE’S) – (A)
- St Paul’s Demonstration School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta. (ST PAUL’S) – (B)
- Our Lady of Apostle, Ibara, Abeokuta. (O.L.A) – (C)
- UBE model Nursery and Primary school, Olorombo, Abeokuta (U.B.E) – (D)
- St John’s School II, Kuto, Abeokuta. (ST JOHN) – (E)
The fixture is as follows:
Thursday 19th July, 2018. (Day 1)
Game 1 ST ANNE’S VS ST PAUL’S
Game 2 O.L.A VS U.B.E
Game 3 ST JOHN’S VS ST ANNE’S
Game 4 ST PAUL’S VS O.L.A
Friday 20th July, 2018. (Day 2)
Game 5 U.B.E VS ST JOHN’S
Game 6 ST ANNE’S VS O.L.A
Game 7 ST PAUL’S VS U.B.E
Game 8 ST JOHN’S VS O.L.A
Saturday 21st July, 2018. (Day 3)
Game 9 ST ANNE’S VS U.B.E
Game 10 ST PAUL’S VS ST JOHN’S
FINALS FIRST VS SECOND
RESULTS
Game 1 (ST ANNE’S vs ST PAUL’S)
St Paul’s demonstration school won the toss and chooses to field first sending St Anne’s School to bat scoring 26 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the allotted 8 overs while St Paul’s demonstration school played 27 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 6 overs.
St Paul’s Demonstration School won by 4 wickets.
Game 2 (O.L.A vs U.B.E)
UBE model Nursery and Primary school won the toss and choose to bat scoring 45 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 8 overs while Our Lady of Apostle scored 16 runs all out in 8 overs.
UBE won by 29 runs.
Game 3 (ST JOHN’S vs ST ANNE’S)
St Anne’s RCM nursery and primary school won the toss and chooses to bat scoring 23 runs for loss of 2 wickets in 8 overs while St John School II played 18 runs all out in 6.2 overs.
St Anne’s School won by 5 runs.
Game 4 (ST PAUL’S vs O.L.A)
St Paul’s demonstration school won the toss and chooses to field first sending Our Lady of Apostle to bat scoring 13 runs all out in 8 overs while St Paul’s demonstration school played 14 runs for the loss of 1wicket in 3.2 overs.
St Paul’s Demonstration School won by 6 wickets.
Game 5 (U.B.E vs ST JOHN’S)
UBE model Nursery and Primary school won the toss and choose to bat scoring 31 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 8 overs while St John school scored 29 runs for loss of 4 wickets in 8 overs.
UBE won by 2 runs.
Game 6 (ST ANNE’S vs O.L.A)
Our Lady of Apostle won the toss and chooses to bat scoring 34 runs for loss of 3 wickets in 8 overs while St Anne’s School played 13 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 8 overs.
Our Lady of Apostle school won by 21 runs.
Game 7 (ST PAUL’S vs U.B.E)
St Paul’s demonstration school won the toss and chooses to field first sending UBE Nursery and Primary school to bat scoring 27 runs all out in 8 overs while St Paul’s demonstration school played 28 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 7.3 overs.
St Paul’s Demonstration School won by 3 wickets.
Game 8 (ST JOHN’S vs O.L.A)
Our Lady of Apostle won the toss and chooses to bat scoring 25 runs for loss of 4 wickets in 8 overs while St John’s School II played 18 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 8 overs.
Our Lady of Apostle School won by 7 runs.
Game 9 (ST ANNE’S vs U.B.E)
St Anne’s school won the toss and chooses to bat scoring 31 runs for loss of 4 wickets in 8 overs while UBE Nursery and Primary School played 32 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 6.5 overs.
UBE Nursery and Primary school won by 6 wickets.
Game 10 (ST PAUL’S vs ST JOHN’S)
St Paul’s demonstration school won the toss and chooses to bat scoring 47 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 8 overs while St John’s school II played 13 runs all out in 3.3 overs. St Paul’s Demonstration won by 34 runs.
FINALS
(ST PAUL’S vs U.B.E)
UBE Nursery and Primary school won the toss and chooses to bat scoring 50 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 10 overs while St Paul’s demonstration school played 49 runs all out in 10 overs.
UBE Nursery and Primary school won by 1 run.
POSITIONS
- 1ST UBE model Nursery and Primary school, Olorombo, Abeokuta
- 2ND St Paul’s Demonstration School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta.
- 3RD Our Lady of Apostle, Ibara, Abeokuta.
- 4TH St Anne’s RCM Nursery & Primary School, Ibara, Abeokuta.
- 5TH St John’s School II, Kuto, Abeokuta.
AWARDS
BEST BOWLER
Shomuyiwa Kazeem – (St Paul’s Demonstration School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta).
BEST FIELDER
Oladipupo Samuel – (St Paul’s Demonstration School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta).
BEST BATSMAN
Daniel James – (UBE model Nursery and Primary school, Olorombo, Abeokuta).
BEST WICKET-KEEPER
Adeoye Juwon – (St Paul’s Demonstration School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta).
UPCOMING CRICKETER
Ode Paul – (St Paul’s Demonstration School, Onikolobo, Abeokuta).
MAN OF THE SERIES
Bankole Ayodele – (UBE model Nursery and Primary school, Olorombo, Abeokuta).
The competition was concluded with the awards presentation and the Trophy donated by the Nigeria Cricket Federation represented by the south-west Regional Development officer in person of Mr. Abiola Cardoso who also donates a tracksuit that was presented to the Man of the series.