Shell Cup quarterfinalists emerge

The quarterfinalists for the All Nigeria Secondary Schools Football Championship tagged NNPC / Shell Cup have been confirmed.
Ten schools emerged from the zonal preliminaries in nine cities across the country to battle for the semifinals ticket.
Katsina zonal centre produced two schools, namely Government Secondary School in Kwankaso, Kano, and Government Day Secondary School in Samaru Ibrahim, Gusau, while the Fosla Academy Secondary School in Abuja emerged from the Minna zone of the preliminaries.
The Government Secondary School in Goniri booked a quarterfinals ticket from the Jalingo zone at the expense of schools from Gombe, Borno and Adamawa states.
At Ilorin, Bauchi state represented by Government (senior) Secondary School, Darazo emerged as qualifiers for the quarterfinals just as Excel Education Centre, Port Harcourt edged her opponents at the Uyo zone to clinch the quarterfinals ticket.
The Owerri zone produced National Grammar School, Nike, Enugu state as the champions of the zone and a ticket to play in the quarterfinals.
Other quarterfinalists are St Marys High School, Ifitedunu, Enugu State, Pakoto High School, Ifo, Ogun state and Asegun Comprehensive High School, Ibadan, Oyo state that qualified from the Ughelli, Osogbo and Akure zones respectively.
The quarterfinals matches are to take place at four centres namely Katsina, Ilorin, Benin and Osogbo from May 21-24.