Sports

Old basketball foes will collide tomorrow night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when  Courts Pacesetters and Ravens basketball clubs clash in the finals of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National Club Championships.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Bharat Chipli smashed  an unbeaten 61 off 35 balls to power Deccan Chargers to their  first victory in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League  (IPL) yesterday.

CHUNCHEON, South Korea, (Reuters) – Embarrassing  revelations about Tiger Woods’s personal life and the golfer’s  subsequent decline in form have done little to quell Asia’s  adulation for the former world number one, Nike’s head of golf  has told Reuters.

Annjee’s Fashions announced yesterday that it will be sponsoring the upcoming Twenty/20 Arrival Cup Tournament which will be held on May 1 at the Albion Sports Complex Ground, Berbice from 09:00hrs.

Team One, the Guysuco Training Centre (GTC) volleyball team of Port Mourant, Corentyne, proved its dominance when it carted off Trophy Stall’s seniors volleyball title.

The longstanding cricket rivalry between the Rose Hall Town, Youth & Sports Club and the Albion Cricket Club will continue on Sunday at the Area ‘H’ Ground when the two teams meet in the finals of the 2010 Berbice Cricket Board/Spready’s Under-19, 50-Overs Cricket Tournament.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Under-19 coach Roddy Estwick said that his side’s upcoming series against Australia Under-19s in the United Arab Emirates gives some of the players a head start towards gaining a place in next year’s Youth World Cup on home soil.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Head coach Brian Wickham said that Trinidad & Tobago has enough depth of talent to capture the CARIFTA Championship title for a third straight year.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Bermuda were relegated to Division 3 of the ICC World Cricket League, after crumbling to a 43-run defeat against unbeaten the United Arab Emirates yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat completed their  regular season with a confident 97-79 win over the Toronto  Raptors on Wednesday, the star-studded lineup now able to shift  their focus to a tilt at the NBA championship.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester City would ease some  of the hurt inflicted on them over the last four decades by  Manchester United if they were to win their FA Cup semi-final at  Wembley Stadium tomorrow and end United’s treble hopes.

By Treiston Joseph The Colgrain Swimming Pool on Camp Street finally reopened yesterday after a nine-month closure due to a filtration problem.

– Claudio Alvarez Manager of the visiting River Plate Football Club Claudio Alvarez yesterday stated that his team was ready to play Guyana’s top team Alpha United in two matches in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championships at the Guyana National Stadium and GCC Ground.

Guyana Amateur Boxing Association’s ‘Road to London Olympics 2012’ programme got underway yesterday at the National Gymnasium with Director of Sport Neil Kumar urging participants to make the best of their opportunities.

Veteran Rudy Grant on Tuesday showed that not even a two year lay off could affect his play when he defeated Steve David-Longe in men’s 35 years and over singles of the Macorp Tennis Open competition at the Pegasus courts.

Caribbean Container Inc. are the exclusive sponsors of  the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) 2011 Easter Chess Tournament which commences  Saturday at the Keishar’s Sports club, Camp and Hadfield Streets.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – One new cap, as well as recalls for Marlon Samuels and Lendl Simmons, and the return of Dwayne Bravo are the features of the West Indies team picked for the first two One-day Internationals against Pakistan later this month.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers  snapped a five-game losing streak with a 102-93 victory over the  San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday, but the win was marred by a knee  injury to starting center Andrew Bynum.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – Nine players from last year’s squad have been retained in the Dominica Under-15 national team for the Windward Islands tournament, which opens today here.

MONACO, (Reuters) – Fourth seed David Ferrer opened  his claycourt season in emphatic fashion with a 6-2 6-0  trouncing of fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in the second round  of the Monte Carlo Masters yesterday.