SUVA: Ba are once again the champions of Fiji after dominating Rewa in the second leg of the Champion versus Champion series at Govind Park last weekend.
In front of a 6500 home spectators, the men in black proved too strong scoring two late goals to win 2-0 and also the series 4:2 on aggregate.
Rewa went into the tie with the advantage having drawn 2:2 at Ratu Cakobau Park the previous weekend. But after holding the rampant Ba frontline to nil all at half-time of the second leg, they succumbed late in the game with the class of Manoa Masi and Osea Masi proving the difference as they notched up brilliant goals for the home team.
The win means the CVC title remains again with Ba for a record tenth time heading into this weekend’s opening round of the Fiji Football Association national league, which will give the club loads of of confidence.
Ba are currently fighting a decision last year to award the national league title to a non-club team, the Puma Olympians, who were the national under 23 team which has since been disbanded. Ba beat the Olympians in their final match of 2003 to defend their national league crown, but just days after were stripped for fielding an ineligible player.
Ba enters the 2004 national league minus their rising young striker Osea Vakatalesau who has transferred to Lautoka and will now be playing for the Blues.