{"id":2418,"date":"2025-02-10T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pillartoday.ng\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2025-02-10T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T10:20:21","slug":"national-u17-cricket-championship-edo-boys-emerge-champions-in-south-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"National U17 Cricket Championship: Edo Boys Emerge Champions in South South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By A<strong>kanimo Kufre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edo State boys again became Champions of the South South Zonal eliminations in the NCF\/PwC U17 Championship when they defeated their arch-rivals, Akwa Ibom State by 75 runs.<\/p>\n<p>The South South Zonal elimination was held in Asaba, Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>Princewill Chigozie won Player of the Match Award after taking 4 Akwa Ibom wickets. Chigozie&#8217;s biggest hunt was a dreaded batter, Bright Edem, who earlier batted 126 runs against Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>In the South East Zone, Ebonyi girls have shown dominance over other contenders by winning all games.<\/p>\n<p>Ebonyi girls\u00a0 in earlier fixtures defeated Anambra and Abia State as the look set to tackle Enugu in their last game on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Abia State players,\u00a0 Ifeanyi Uzoamaka and Angel John have recorded outstanding performances. Uzoamaka batted 30 runs after two games while Angel took 4 wickets in two games.<\/p>\n<p>The South East Zone finals games would be played on Monday at Government Secondary School, Afikpo for both male and female categories.<\/p>\n<p>The South East Zone, NCF Board Member, Surveyor Chika Okoro was physically impressed with the girls&#8217; performance plans, a big reward for the Zonal best performing players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Akanimo Kufre Edo State boys again became Champions of the South South Zonal eliminations in the NCF\/PwC U17 Championship when they defeated their arch-rivals, Akwa Ibom State by 75 runs. The South South Zonal elimination was held in Asaba, Delta State. Princewill Chigozie won Player of the Match Award after taking 4 Akwa Ibom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}