Sports

The Petra Organisation yesterday afternoon launched their season-ending marquee tournament, the fourth KFC Goodwill Football Championship, at the Cara Lodge Hotel on Quamina Street.

(CMC) – Openers Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Zachary McCaskie batted resolutely through four overs before the close and ensured West Indies A safely began their chase of 224 to win the first “test” against South Africa A yesterday.

Power-lifting standout Carlos Peterson-Griffith will become the first Guyanese to be outfitted with official SBD apparel customised with the nation’s colours.

(CMC) – Former West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels was handed a ban from all cricket for six years on November 11 after he was found guilty of anti-corruption code violations related to the Abu Dhabi Ten10 tournament four years ago.

After a prolonged absence from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League, Slingerz Football Club is within five matches of returning to the highest level of club football locally.

Gold is Money, North East La Penitence, and Minions recorded hard-fought wins when the Devon ‘Worm’ Charles Benefit Futsal tournament concluded last evening at the National Gymnas-ium,  Mandela Avenue.

 (Reuters) – Marlon Samuels has been banned from all cricket for six years after the former West Indies batter was found guilty of four breaches of the Emirates Cricket Board Anti-Corruption Code, the sport’s governing body (ICC) said today.

Tournament dark-horse LA Ballers and emerging outfit Young Gunners secured their respective semi-final berths following contrasting wins when the ExxonMobil/New Era Futsal Championship continued last night at the Retrieve Tarmac in Linden.

Another historic moment was achieved by the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), as the entity sent a two-member fight roster to the World Junior’s Boxing Championship in Yerevan, Armenia, which is pencilled to commence today.

Nine clubs from across Guyana’s length and breadth gathered at the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) National Training Centre (NTC) in Providence yesterday as the 2023-2024 Elite League Promotional Playoffs were launched and the respective groups drawn.

(Reuters) – Nicolas Otamendi scored with a towering header to give Argentina a 1-0 away win over Brazil in a bad-tempered World Cup qualifier that was delayed by half an hour on Tuesday after police clashed with fans at a sold-out Maracana Stadium.

(CMC) – Half-centuries from Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Kavem Hodge enabled West Indies A to gain a 27-run, first-inning lead against South Africa A in the first ‘test’ yesterday.

The Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Inc. received a timely shot in the arm yesterday for its flagship National Senior Championships next Saturday, thanks to the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sports (MCYS).

Guyanese national basketball player Israel Yaw recorded his second win of the season as the University of Maryland defeated the University of Pennsylvania 83-30 on Saturday in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) at the Hytche Centre, Maryland.

The prestigious Run Barbados Marathon, which has evolved into one of the island’s premier sporting activities, returns on Friday, December 8th.

In a world today where more and more women’s teams, athletes, and officials are pushing for their wages, perks, and overall treatment to be on a level playing field with men, Guyana is, as usual, decades behind.

International volleyball will return to the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, tomorrow (Friday), when the Road to Recovery Championship, which features participation from Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) clubs, kicks off at 16:00 hrs.

The inaugural ‘One Guyana’ Basketball Premier League continues on Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, with three group matches from 17:00hrs.

Guyana’s qualification to League A in the CONCACAF Nations League was sealed in a sublime manner, as they crushed Antigua and Barbuda 6-0 yesterday at the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Chairman of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Electoral Committee, Marcel Bobb, remains silent as to whether the process to determine the voting eligibility of the respective members of the Congress has commenced ahead of the entity’s December 9th elections.