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By Emmerson Campbell Super bantamweight boxer Mandessa Moses will now face heavyweight Pauline London on Friday night in a six –round catch weight contest after her two previous opponents Venezuelan Anys Cedillo and Trinidadian Tianna Sosa became unavailable because of unforeseen circumstances.

As one recalls the West Indies impressive 2-2 series tie against the four-time World Cup champions and number one ranked one-day International team Australia, one has to quantify some basic realities.

By Emmerson Campbell Three-time 83kg men’s Caribbean Championships Powerlifting Gold Medalist Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan is brimming with confidence and is pushing the envelope ahead of the 6th annual Caribbean Powerlifting Championships scheduled for St Thomas, U.S.

By Emmerson Campbell Rising boxing star and potential London Olympian, Imran ‘Magic’ Khan continued his successful march to the London Olympics after he recorded two impressive victories in his two bouts at the recently completed invitational boxing tournament in Trinidad and Tobago.

Hikers Boys, Georgetown Cricket Club Girls and Marian Academy won their respective categories last weekend at the Hikers Annual Junior Indoor Festival at the National Gymnasium.

Smallbore vice-captain Ryan McKinnon upstaged a competitive field to win last Sunday’s three-stage Practical Pistol Shoot at the Timehri ranges in the first competition for 2012 featuring members of the Small bore section of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA).

Top veteran rider Robin Persaud outsprinted first leg winner, junior rider Raynauth Jeffrey to claim the third and final leg of the fifth annual El Dorado Trading and S.

The 2012 Carifta team is stuck in a financial crisis and will need approximately $G2.9 if the 10-member contingent selected by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is to participate at the April 7-9 games in Bermuda.

The national Sevens men’s rugby team lost four of their five games at the  three-day Cathay Pacific/HSBC Sevens World Series which ended in Hong Kong on Sunday.

The Guyana team participating in the North/Central America and the Caribbean Pre-Qualifying Junior Fed Cup ended on a high note after winning their final match against Trinidad and Tobago when the competition ended Saturday in the Dominican Republic.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – It took Jamaica only 13 balls to complete a crushing 154-run win over Combined Campuses & Colleges on the fourth and final day here yesterday, for a remarkable clean sweep in the Regional Four-Day Championship ahead of the semi-finals this weekend.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – New Zealand were in dire straits at lunch on the fifth day of the third and final test against South Africa, reaching the break at 26 for two, still 66 overs from the scheduled end of play.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – A valiant West Indies fought to the end but their dreams of beating Australia in a one-day series for the first time in nearly two decades, ended in disappointment with 30-run loss in the fifth and final match here yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Combined Campuses and Colleges, chasing 321 for victory, reached 162 for eight at the close on the third day of their final round Regional Four-Day match against Jamaica at 3Ws Oval here yesterday.

ORLANDO, Florida,  (Reuters) – Tiger Woods ended his two and a half year drought on the PGA Tour when he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational by five strokes yesterday, sending a warning signal to his rivals ahead of next month’s Masters.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh have reacted too late in trying to have the result of the Asia Cup final overturned, the Pakistan Cricket Board’s chief operating officer said yesterday.

After sitting out last week-end’s final round of matches hoping for favourable results, a 71-run victory by Barbados over the Windward Islands on Saturday confirmed Guyana’s progress into the semi-finals of the West Indies Cricket Board’s 2011/12 Regional Four-day competition.

Linden’s Shane Webster had 21 points Saturday evening as Linden came out victorious over Georgetown at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) in the Kelvin Lawrence memorial basketball game.

Guyana’s sprint queen Alisha Fortune made her debut run for the 2012 season yesterday producing a phenomenal 11.6s performance to blow away a field consisting of mainly juniors at the Guyana Defence Force ground, Camp Ayanganna.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Martin Guptill and Daniel Flynn battled hostile pace bowling to guide New Zealand to 65 for no loss at the close of play on the third day of the final test against South Africa at the Basin Reserve yesterday.