Sports

Edward B. Beharry and Co. Ltd Champion brand yesterday renewed their support for the National Schools Basketball Festival organized by the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) at the company’s head office in Charlotte Street.

A six member Guyanese Karate contingent surprised a host of their Trinidadian counterparts when they captured twelve trophies and three medals at the Tiger Claw International Sport two day Championships held at the Central Regional Indoor Sport Arena in Trinidadearlier this month.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) in tandem with the National Sports Commission (NSC) kicked off their Club Futsal Football competition last Tuesday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – West Indies were fighting to stay alive in the first Test against India after their brittle batting was again exposed on the second day at Sabina Park yesterday.

Bermuda will face Guyana on their home territory this evening in what is expected to be an intriguing showdown as the two zone champions lock horns in the final of the NACRA Men’s 15s rugby Championship at the Guyana National Stadium from 6pm.

Sprinter, hurdler and triple jumper, Iana Amsterdam will join Kadecia Baird as part of the two-member team to represent Guyana in the 100 metres dash and hurdles events at the upcoming World Youth Championships to be held in Lille, France from July 6-10.

By Colin Benjamin Led by a mesmeric spell of leg-spin bowling by national and West Indies Under 19 spinner Amir Khan, Demerara closed yesterday’s opening day at 58 for 3, after bowling Cellink Berbice out for a paltry 141 in the final round of the 2011 Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Under 19 Inter County three-day competition at Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Ottis Gibson reckoned that West Indies still have a chance to win the opening Test against India, after his side suffered another batting meltdown, and conceded a first innings lead of 73.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company yesterday extended the period for teams to be registered for the Fastball competition that will kick off on July 6 in Linden.

By Treiston Joseph Hot out of the fire of the RAMPAGE fight card last month, Mark Austin and Revlon Lake will headline the regular Fight Night card for the lightweight title of Guyana come June 24 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) commencing from 20:00hrs.

Asks Colin Benjamin What does Darren Sammy’s continued presence as captain and the absence of opening batsman Chris Gayle along with a few other senior players mean for the West Indies team?

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) Monday called on the Commissioner of Police to continue the probe into bribery allegations against Works and Transport Minister Austin Jack Warner, who tendered his resignation as vice president of the International Football Federation (FIFA).

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Regional players union, WIPA, have given West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire a seven-day ultimatum to apologise to their head Dinanath Ramnarine for remarks made at a stormy meeting in Jamaica last week.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Fast bowler Fidel Edwards grabbed a four-wicket haul in his first Test in two years as West Indies managed to subdue India’s batting juggernaut on the opening day of the first Test here yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Jack Warner, who had threatened  a “tsunami” of revelations about the way soccer is run, quit as  FIFA vice president yesterday, prompting the sport’s governing  body to drop an investigation into bribery allegations against  the Trinidadian.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Fidel Edwards erased many of the questions that his international career may have come to an abrupt end, following a career-threatening back injury.

Western Union continued their support of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) yesterday for the third consecutive year as they supplied five Berbician under-19 cricketers with $300,000 in cricketing gear at the company’s head office on Water Street.

Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Hilbert Foster has resigned from the organization in protest over the state of Guyana’s cricket and the expulsion of a player from the county team.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) in tandem with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will stage the annual Olympic Day walk, run and jog exercise on Sunday from the YMCA ground commencing at 06:30hrs.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Sports Minister Anil Roberts has described Jack Warner’s resignation from FIFA as a serious blow to the country and the Caribbean.