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BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine weaved a web around New Zealand to once again deceive their batsmen as West Indies kept up the pressure to win the final One-Day International here by 20 runs yesterday.

The Lusignan Golf Club received a donation of a tractor from newly elected President Attorney-at-law Jerome Khan who had made the pledge to provide the club with one during his acceptance speech at the recently  held Annual General Meeting.

The Next Level Sports Club will stage its fourth annual Inter-Corporation Domino Competition at Banks DIH Limited, Thirst Park, and Georgetown later this month.

-From Iva Wharton in Trinidad compliments of Digicel Despite their best efforts Guyana’s national netball team still went down  8-124 to Jamaica, former champions of the Americas Federation of Netball Associations yesterday at the Jean Pierre Complex in the compound of the Hasley Crawford Stadium.

De Sinco Trading aided the 2012 National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) champions Kwakwani with a supply of Degree deodorant on Saturday  at the National Gymnasium before the team departed Sunday to participate in a development tournament in Antigua.

Western Union Central Mackenzie became the final team to make it into the semifinal round of the National Basketball Community League (NCBL) with a 61-54 win over Kwakwani last Saturday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Courts in Linden.

Guyana will be departing this Friday for the seventh edition of the Pre-Cadet Caribbean Table Tennis Championships in Jamaica from July 21-24.

Sponsor Soomdat ‘Rico’ Jeet, with the maximum 18 games, led International Six to victory over Canal Six and Wild Bunch in the annual Jeet Brothers domino tourney held at Everest Sports Club pavilion recently.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. world indoor 400 metres champion Debbie Dunn has withdrawn from the U.S.

St John’s, Antigua – Defending champions Jamaica will clash with Barbados in the opening round of the West Indies Cricket Board Regional Under 15 Tournament in St Kitts.

PAU, France, (Reuters) – Pierrick Fedrigo left a rotten season behind him yesterday when he won the 15th stage of the Tour de France in Pau, the site of his last major victory two years ago.

Power, size and speed trumped skill and technique yesterday evening when Wismar/Christianburg Secondary, led by five goals from Marmalique Davidson, hammered Waramadong Secondary to a 5-2 defeat in the final of the Digicel Schools Football Championships at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

From Iva Wharton in Trinidad compliments of Digicel Guyana The America Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA) tournament opened on Saturday in Trinidad and Tobago with Guyana one of nine teams that participated in the march past at the indoor netball facility of the Hasley Crawford Stadium.

Undefeated Guyanese Super-Middleweight Lennox “2 Sharpe” Allen continued his winning ways in the USA with a fifth round stoppage of American Michael Walker Saturday night at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Andre Erksine on Saturday eliminated Mario Niamatali from the men’s singles category of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open when the ongoing tennis tournament continued at the GBTI Recreational Centre, Bel Air.

By Neil Barry Everest Cricket Club yesterday defeated the Friends and Former Guyana Cricketers (FFGC) team in the second of the two memorial T20 games organized by the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in honour of the late DCC and Guyana opening batsman Andrew Lyght.

Kadecia Baird is making a run at the Guyana Olympic team, though the odds are against her.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A 50-member contingent, boasting a large track and field component, will represent world powerhouses Jamaica at the London Olympic Games beginning at month end.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Fast bowler Tino Best said he knew his second spell in Saturday’s fourth One-Day International against New Zealand would have been crucial to West Indies’ hopes of a victory.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Off-spinner Sunil Narine says he had recognised the importance of Saturday’s fourth One-Day International and had seized the moment.