Sports

Aliann Pompey clocked her fastest 400 metres time for the season yesterday at the United States of America (USA) Club Nationals at the Icahn Stadium in New York City.

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) played out to a draw against Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ‘B-Team’ in the only game that bowled off yesterday in either of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), Brainstreet under-15 or Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup 1st Division competitions.

The Georgetown Technical Institute (GTI) claimed a convincing 2-0 victory over Charlestown Secondary in the Region 4 finals of the inaugural Digicel’s Schools Football Championship, at Carifesta Sports Complex yesterday.

Berbice High School (BHS) won the inaugural Shurland Hetmyer and Shaun Nurse Inter Secondary School Independence Anniversary Football tournament for schools in the New Amsterdam area that was played on Friday at the All Saints Scot Church ground.

Kumar Sangakara, that most erudite of modern cricketers, chose as his topic for the annual MCC Cowdrey lecture at Lord’s last week “the spirit of Sri Lanka’s Cricket”.

AIGURANDE, France, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins, who crashed out of the Tour de France on Friday, will undergo surgery on a broken left collarbone and is expected back on his bike within 10 days, Team Sky said yesterday.

SUPER-BESSE, France, (Reuters) Portugal’s Rui Alberto Costa held the peloton at bay to win the first medium mountain stage of the Tour de France in the Super-Besse ski resort yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies were already facing the prospect of fighting to save the third Test after India took control on the third day with a strong batting performance at Windsor Park yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt comfortably won the 200  metres at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Friday despite  Christophe Lemaitre running a season’s best of 20.21 seconds.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Houston Rockets center Yao  Ming, China’s most recognisable athlete, has announced his  retirement from the National Basketball Association (NBA),  according to several media reports yesterday.

The Berbice Cricket Board at a well attended press conference and presentation ceremony on Thursday described the first half of 2011 as highly successful and progressive.

Beacon Football Club president Mark Phillips says his team did not participate in Wednesday night’s Fastball match, organised by GT&T, because it was in solidarity with three city teams that were banned from playing in the tournament by the Guyana Football Federation.

Sterling Products Limited last Saturday under their Igloo Ice Cream brand committed to sponsoring the 2011 National Schools Basketball Festival at the company’s head office at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

The Inter-Guiana Games are now scheduled to take place from October 21-23 in Paramaribo, Suriname, following a number of postponements.

The Guyana Football Federation and FIFA administration and management five-day course at the Convention Centre of the Ocean View Hotel will conclude today.

The Georgetown women completed a hat-trick of victories with a commanding 254-run victory in the 4th and final round of the 2011 Female Inter-Association 50-overs cricket tournament at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, yesterday.

Dominic Vincente dropped 31 points to lead Trust College to a comeback win against Queen’s College in a semifinal playoff of the National Schools  Basketball Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

The Berbice Cricket Board and the Rose Hall Town, Youth & Sports Club on Thursday made financial contributions to the Guyana Cricket Umpires Council.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester City announced a  hugely lucrative naming rights deal with Etihad Airways yesterday which will see their City of Man-chester Stadium immediately renamed the Etihad Stadium.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Melbourne Renegades named  Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi as one of their two overseas  recruits for Australia’s revamped domestic Twenty20 league yesterday.