By S. Siapha Mulbah
The preliminary struggle for both Lofa and Rivercess Counties has been laid to rest as both sides stand to be the first to take a space each in the quarter final of the National County Sports Meet 2022/23.
The decedents from the Wologizi Mountain in Lofa County again qualified the football team to the quarter finals of the country’s biggest unification sporting tournament topping her group with six points.
The joyous event for the white and green flag bearers covered the stadium of Voinjama City yesterday when River Gee tasted the agony of football like Nimba County in opening.
River Cess as well after supremacy over Grand Bassa County in the opening stage of the preliminary round again demonstrated tremendous sportsmanship over Grand Gedeh who suffered a last minute 2-1 at the biggest soccer center in Buchanan City.
Maryland County, the host toped group ‘D’ over Grand Kru and Montserrado. The host of the group drew with Grand Kru putting Montserrado in a position to fight for a compulsory win in order to join the train to the capitol.
Bong also defeated Sinoe 2-1 yesterday to even points with Margibi that defeated Gbarpolu 2-1 to take the two top spots of group ‘B’ with four points each followed by Gbarpolu County that has three points from two matches.
Nimba was again unable to collect straight win and will have to struggle if there be a possibility to see the defending champions make their way to town in the ongoing edition of the National County Sports Meet.
They first lost to Lofa in the opening of the campaign and yesterday drew with Bomi two goals at peace. As it stands Nimba advancement will be decided over the weekend only if Bomi that is currently second to Lofa lost her last match.
Grand Bassa made a comeback to the tournament after a controversial penalty was awarded them against Grand Cape Mount who struggled 10 men against their full team on the field of play with a 2-1 score.
