Anambra SWAN Week: Ogene FM, Daily Times For Table Tennis finals

SWAN

By; PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The day-two of events marking the Anambra State Sports Writers Association week on Thursday recorded winners and losers in table tennis and scrabble category.
In the table tennis category, Mr. Ikem Asika of Ogene FM, Awka qualified for the finals of the Table Tennis Competition and will slug it out with Philip Balepo of the Daily Times.
In Scrabble event, a former national officer of SWAN and a renown script writer, Tai Obasi defeated Tony Oji of Orient Daily with 284 against 258 points to get to the final .
In the second game, Uche Ezeadigwe of Orient Daily scored 258 points to beat Okey Maduforo of New Telegraph newspapers to qualify for scrabble finals.
Asika defeated Okey Onuegbu of Blueprint Newspapers by 2-0 while Balepo had the better part of Chimezie Anaso of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) 2-0 to reach the finals.
The football match between SWAN selected sides ended one goal a piece in a 5-aside game.
Speaking at the event held at H-Place, Amenyi, Awka, the Technical Director of Anambra Table Tennis Association, Bonny Akunna, hailed the sports writers for their beautiful display despite not being professional players.
Akunna who provided the Table Tennis board and bats said H-Place will continue to promote Table Tennis and was ready to partner SWAN to grow the game.