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Georgetown, Guyana – After two rounds of matches in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 three-day tournament, left-arm spinner Derone Davis has emerged as one of the leading bowlers.

Seventeen-year-old Carlos Petterson won the Banks Malta one-day Rapid Chess Tournament Sunday at the West Demerara Secondary School, Pouderoyen.

CARIFTA Games Swimming Championships gold medalist Jessica Stephenson yesterday opened Guyana’s performance in the swimming segment of the 14th annual FINA (International Swimming Federation) World Championships, being held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre in Shanghai, China.

Guyana women’s hockey players will go into action on Sunday against Paraguay in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) five-nation Challenge tournament in Brazil as they seek a place in the PAHF 2013 World Cup qualifiers.

The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA)P&P Brokers Limited annual tennis camp concluded Friday at the Pegasus Hotel courts with the presentation of certificates to 76 children aged 6 to 18 years who participated in the two-week programme at the Pegasus Hotel tennis courts.

There finally was play on the third and final day of the West Indies Cricket Board, Under-19 top-of-the-table clash between Guyana and Jamaica at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground yesterday.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Britain’s Amir Khan knocked  out Zab Judah in the fifth round to add the IBF junior  welterweight title to his WBA super lightweight crown in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

NUERBURGRING, Germany, (Reuters) – McLaren’s Lewis  Hamilton produced a monumental drive to take his second win of  the season in the German Formula One Grand Prix after an  enthralling battle with Ferrari’s second-placed Fernando Alonso  and Mark Webber yesterday.

Guyana’s Rolyce Boston jumped his way to a bronze medal last Friday evening at the Junior Pan American Championships in Miami, Florida.

Distance queen, Alika Morgan comfortably won the first of three marathon events when she defeated all and sundry in the Westshore sponsored 5K event last Saturday in Trinidad.

The Demerara Cricket Club clinched the Brainstreet- sponsored Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Under-15 Cup final, with a convincing six-wicket victory over Malteenoes sports Club at the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO), yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Cadel Evans might not be the most  sparkling rider, yet he won the most spectacular Tour de France in years.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Mark Cavendish polished his  reputation as one of cycling’s best ever sprinters when he  became the first Briton to win the Tour de France green jersey  and the first man to win the classic finish on the  Champs-Elysees three times yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Booed by fans at the start of the  Tour de France, Spain’s Alberto Contador won back their  affection by the end despite losing his invincibility on grand  Tours.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England required nine further  wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series against world number one side India at the close of the penultimate day of the first test at Lord’s yesterday.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Home favourite Alexander  Noren battled freak winds as he cruised to a seven-shot victory  at the Scandinavian Masters yesterday.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Mohammed Bin Hammam’s  lifetime ban from soccer is likely to transform Friday’s  scheduled Asian Football Confederation (AFC) executive committee  meeting into a platform for prospective candidates to campaign  for votes to fill his presidential role.

Controlled spells of slow bowling from Trinidad’s duo of left-arm spinners Derone Davis and Jovan Ali put the boys from the twin island republic on the verge of a morale boasting second-round victory over defending three-day champions Windward Islands, in their West Indies Under-19 encounter at Providence Stadium, yesterday.

Overnight showers and poor drainage caused the abandonment of the second day’s play of Guyana’s second round match against Jamaica in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 Championships at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda yesterday.

Asks Marlon Munroe Cricket is back in court. For how long however, is yet to be ascertained.