Eight teams will battle for supremacy as the Guyana Hockey Board relaunched its Under-14 Indoor League under new sponsors Oceaneering International which will get underway yesterday at St. Stanislaus College auditorium. The competing teams are Richard Ishmael Secondary, St. Joseph’s High, Cummings Lodge Secondary, Marian Academy, Saint Hockey Club, Hikers, GCC and North Ruimveldt Multilateral.
This tournament was initiated in 2017 and was the first of its kind being held in schools and provided a huge boost to the development of the game with more than 100 children in competition each year.
The board said in a statement that unfortunately, some momentum was lost as the tournament has not been held in the last three years due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
“Despite this gap, the tournament has proven successful in its goal to further junior development of players. Baraka Garnett and Tahrea Garnett who winners of the Most Goals and MVP prizes respectively in 2017, recently represented Guyana at the Junior PanAm Championships held in Barbados last April. Abosaide Cadogan, who also won the Most Goals prize in the Girls category in 2017 has represented Guyana on both the Junior and Senior National teams since her debut in this tournament.
The tournament will be played as 4-a-side format with a maximum of 10 registered players per team.
Matches will be played at the auditoriums of Saints Stanislaus College, St Joseph’s High School and Marian Academy with a different venue being used each week.
The league will be held every Friday with games starting at 4:00pm and ending at 7:00pm.
