Sports

The first scrabble tournament for the year is set to be staged next Monday when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) will host a Phagwah Open Tournament at  Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC), beginning at 10AM.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – Liam Sebastien will be missing in action for Windward Islands, when they face England Lions in the sixth round of the WICB Regional first-class championship, starting today at Windsor Park.

INDIAN WELLS, California, (Reuters) – Spaniard  Tommy Robredo, despite being hampered by a hamstring strain,  crushed American Sam Querrey 6-1 6-3 yesterday to become the  first player through to the Indian Wells quarter-finals.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Joe Johnson dug himself out  of a shooting slump with 36 points to lead the Atlanta Hawks to  a 110-85 rout of the struggling Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chelsea joined Manchester  United and Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League  quarter-finals yesterday, increasing the chances of an  English team reaching the final at Wembley Stadium.

CHENNAI, India, CMC – West Indies will not be having a restless nights of the threat posed by England marquee spinner Graeme Swann.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt should concentrate  on retaining his Olympic 100 and 200 metres titles before  considering a move into other events, nine times Olympic  champion Carl Lewis said yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago batsman Runako Morton and Leeward Islands all rounder, Tonito Willet, were released from police custody yesterday after the West Indies Players Association met conditions for their bail on drug related charges.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Silencing Kieron Pollard will be winning half the battle when England, the architects of  their own predicament, take on West Indies today’s  must-win World Cup Group B match in Chennai.

The National Park is the favourite haunting ground for many persons not least of all some of the nation’s finest athletes.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A disappointed Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga says changes will have to be made to the side following another inept batting which led to a 29-run defeat to Leeward Islands on Monday.

The Guyanese pair of Neil Williams and Devon Clements continues to grab the headlines in Trinidad and Tobago with their batting exploits.

West Indies allrounder Kieron Pollard jumped 15th places to a career-best 73rd in the latest Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Batting Ranking following his violent 94 of 55 balls against Ireland in Mohali last week.

Ground conditions last Sunday again caused problems for some players participating in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) 10/10 softball tournament at the Diamond Ground  forcing the games to be stopped by the National Democratic Council (NDC).

Players from Georgetown and its environs are set to pay tribute to the late former junior national player Kevin Lawrence on March 26, when the Ravens Basketball Club hosts a one-night extravaganza in his memory at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

INDIAN WELLS, California, (Reuters) – World number  two Roger Federer and Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic  each stormed into the fourth round of the Indian Wells ATP  tournament with lop-sided victories yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Javier Hernandez  enhanced his burgeoning reputation with two predatory goals to  lift Manchester United into the Champions League quarter-finals  with a 2-1 win over Olympique Marseille yesterday.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat banished memories  of their worst loss of the season by returning the favour to the  San Antonio Spurs in a 110-80 thrashing of the NBA leaders on  Monday.

Several of Guyana’s former cycling stars, including Olympians, came together last Saturday when the Guyana Cycling Association of North America held  an innovative cycling reunion and  fundraiser  at the Woodbine Ballroom in Brooklyn, New York.

Albion No.1 defeated Rollers of New Amsterdam in the final of the Volleyball ‘B’ competition organized by the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) last Sunday.