“College Cosmos team retain title for a 4th consecutive year”.

A jam packed 9 teams making up a total of 43 players were present for this years Friendship
Cup. The blind draw was made and from the offset favoured St. Joseph’s ‘A’ as favourites as
2 of the other favourites College Cosmos and R&J Varyl Begg were drawn against each other
in the 2nd round.


Pictured on left (left to right – winners “College Cosmos”)
Amos Bosano, Dylan Duo, Christian Tosso, Justin Broton, Henry Zapata
Pictured on right (left to right – runners up “St Josephs A”)
Dayle Ramirez, Carl Thomas, Jadrian Pecino, Danny Peach, Dyson Parody.


All games contested were rather one sided up until the final itself. Christian Tosso (College
Cosmos) lost 1-2 against Jadrian Pecino (St Josephs) and Dyson Parody (St Josephs) also
saw off Amos Bosano (College Cosmos) in a close 2-1 game. This meant that St. Joseph’s
were 2-0 up and the title was in their line of sight (only needing 1 win out of the 3 remaining
games).

However Dylan Duo (College Cosmos) had a fantastic game to beat young Carl Thomas (St
Josephs) who played his heart out and Henry Zapata’s (College Cosmos) game against
Dayle Ramirez (St Josephs) was seen by some as the critical game as they favoured Justin
Broton (College Cosmos) to win the last game but Henry Zapata held his nerve and levelled
the score 2 – 2.

The last game was played between Justin Broton (College Cosmos) vs Danny Peach (St
Joseph’s). Both players had not played an official match the whole evening and it must have
felt for both of them that they had been thrown into the frying pan. It went to the last leg but
Justin managed to play a good last leg to secure the win for the College Cosmos by 3 –2.

Well done to the winners, College Cosmos, in retaining the title for a 4th
consecutive year and to all the players that turned up for making it a very
entertaining evening in support of one of our oldest team competitions.