TEAM Trenglish are the champions of the Kepson Pundu chairman’s independence cup competition.
Trenglish defeated Pacific Dragons 4-3 in the pool grand final played at the Arena of the Lamana Hotel in Port Moresby on Saturday.
In front of a pool crowd, the win by Trenglish did not come easy as they had to pull off the plug with a consistent performance in the semifinals against Team Mining. They sent Mining away to dig more gold with a mesmerising 4-1 victory to book the grand final spot.
While in the other semifinal between Pacific Dragons and Auditor General, the Auditors ran away with a good lead 3-1 but the Dragons led by Jacky Woo came from behind and sent Auditors packing with their books to win 4-3.
The cup challenge for the first time saw all 23 teams take on each other with winner proceeding and loser bowing out.
The grand final saw fireworks with Team Trenglish evenly fighting it out with Jack Woo’s Dragon. The Tom and Rhonda English family team from the big village of Hanuabada came out victorious in the end by defeating Dragons 4-3.
It was a well deserved win for the family team, who are now tagged as the champions of the 2024 Kepson Pundu Independence Cup.
The cup challenge ended on a very high note with Trenglish taking out the cup and K3000 and Dragons K2000 – presented by Linda from LJ Hooker.
The third price of the K1500 went to Mining while Auditors settled with K1000 – presented by Amerlyn from Lamana.
Other consolation prizes sponsored by Lamana were presented by Dr Sam Yockopua and chairman Tony Dindillo.
The founder of the chairman’s cup, Kepson Pundu, delivered a very fitting message on stability and solidarity while current chairman Dindillo promoted national unity through the cue sport.
The chairman thanked LJ Hooker, Lamana Hotel, Harry Kore, Jacky Woo, Lemeki Ila and RaeCo Limited for making the Independence cue challenge the bigger and more successful event.
“Thank you all for participating and have a blessed and safe Independence celebrations,” said chairman.
