Sports

Spearheaded by national women’s singles champion, Trenace Lowe, Guyana’s women’s team looped and smashed their way to a silver medal at the 54th annual Caribbean table tennis championships in Santo Domingo yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell The National Men’s Sevens Rugby team (The Guyana Jaguars) currently in Canada, will look to roar today as they open their defence of their NACRA Caribbean Rugby Title at the Twin Elm Rugby Park.

By Iva Wharton The election of a new executive to manage the affairs of cricket in Guyana is being held up by the ongoing court matter involving the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB).

By Neil Barry The eagerly-anticipated Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) New Building Society limited overs competition for second division teams will finally bowl off this today in Georgetown.

Guyana’s women’s squash team will play Barbados in today’s final of the senior Caribbean squash championships currently being held in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) tournament sponsored by Mikes Pharmacy, Ariel Enterprise, Trophy Stall, Survival, Ramchand Auto Spares, Motor Trend, and Petama Enterprise, begins tomorrow.

By Neil Barry A combined bowling effort from the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) spurred them to victory over the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) on Thursday as the Georgetown Cricket Association’s David Persaud Investments Cup limited overs competition continued at various grounds in the city.

By Iva Wharton It will be a clash of the titans on September 15 when Guyanese Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil and American Carlette Ewell battle for the UBO World Heavyweight and WIBA Heavyweight titles in North Carolina.

Riders from this year’s ‘Teach Them Young’ cycling programme will be on show at the inner circuit of the National Park today when national cycling coach Hassan Mohamed and Banks DIH Limited under the Malta Supreme brand team up to host an 11-race youth cycle programme.

TOWNSVILLE, Australia, CMC– Despite a defiant century from John Campbell West Indies lost to England by 13 runs in their  fifth place play-off of the ICC under 19 World Cup yesterday.

AUSTIN, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Lance Armstrong Foundation said yesterday that by the middle of the day, donations were up 30 percent over Thursday as fans of the cancer-fighting nonprofit pledged support for its founder after the cycling champion was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – India spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha scythed down New Zealand’s top half to put the hosts in firm control of the opening test at the close of the second day yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chief executive Hamid Shinwari has appealed to cricket’s leading teams to offer greater support so their remarkable rise can continue.

(BBC) Rain forced the first one-day international between England and South Africa to be abandoned yesterday after only 5.3 overs were possible in Cardiff.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan have appointed former pace bowler Mohammad Akram as their new bowling coach, senior Pakistan Cricket Board official Intikhab Alam said yesterday.

After 14 years Guyana has finally secured a win over Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean Scrabble Championship, prevailing in twenty of the 36 games played yesterday at the Bank of Guyana.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland,  CMC – Olympic legend Usain Bolt and his Jamaican heir apparent Yohan Blake both set new meet records as they swept both sprints at the Lausanne Grand Prix here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong said yesterday he would no longer fight doping accusations by the U.S.

Winston Stoby and John ‘Big John’ Edwards, two of Guyana’s recurring podium finishers at Masters Powerlifting Championships the world over will have a chance to once again make Guyana proud at the World Masters Powerlifting Championships in October in Killen, Texas.

JACA-FUERTE DE RAPITAN, Spain, (Reuters) – Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez strengthened his hold on overall race lead in the Vuelta a Espana with a last-minute surge for the line at Fuerte de Rapitan’s uphill finish to win yesterday’s sixth stage.