School Sports Festival: Lagos Athlete Eyes Tennis Gold

•10-Year-Old Oyinlomo Quadri in action at the tennis event. of the Kwara 2013 Sports Festival

•10-Year-Old Oyinlomo Quadri in action at a tennis event

Oyinlomo Quadri of Team Lagos is good to win her second gold medal in the ongoing Kwara 2013 National School Sports Festival sponsored by Sterling Bank in Ilorin in the lawn tennis event.

Quadri, who only yesterday won a surprise gold medal in Fives event, is scheduled to play against the host in the final of tennis event, the result which is still being expected as at press time.

Quadri, a 10-year-old pupil of Maryanne College, Lagos Island defeated Aderemi Omolade from Ondo State 9-4 in the semi final tie played yesterday at the Ilorin Township Stadium.

The cool-headed girl, whose siblings are champions in Nigerian junior tennis is favoured to  win the gold medal of the girls’ category of the school sports festival junior tennis.

She won the preparatory tournament for the festival, the Lagos Inter-Clubs Competition which was held at the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Complex, Yaba.

•10-Year-Old Oyinlomo Quadri in action at the tennis event. of the Kwara 2013 Sports Festival
•10-Year-Old Oyinlomo Quadri in action at the tennis event. of the Kwara 2013 Sports Festival

Meanwhile, Team Lagos are second on the medal table with 24 gold as at this morning with more events expected to be decided today.

Cross River and Anambra State have so far dominated in the athletics event.

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Both states seem to have swept virtually all the medals in both the track and field events of the competition.

In some of the results made available to journalists, in the 800 metres final U-13 boys category, Cross Rivers claimed the gold medal through Godwin Ashia, while the duo of Ugurouwa Johnson and Izuakor Kingsley of Anambra state got the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Also in the 800 metres finals for U-15 girls, the gold went to Ogun State through Ogunmola Sarah as Cross Rivers’ Patience Udeme and Ohiero Maria won the silver and bronze medals.

The 800 U-13 for girls saw Cross Rivers again clinching the gold and silver medals through Eziume Iroha and Theresa Sunday, as Osita Chinyere of Anambra made do with the bronze medal.

In the U-15 high jump for boys, Ondo State won gold through Yusuf Rasheed, while Hamza Tajudeen and Bassey Miracle from Niger and Anambra States shared the silver and bronze medals.

—Taiwo Adelu

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