Sports

—DC Jammers sweep international series By Floyd Christie The Washington DC Jammers  team swept the three-game international basketball series and claimed the Godwin McPherson Memorial Trophy when they defeated the national President’s XII 68-77 in the final game, Tuesday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

By Tamica Garnett Charged with the paramount task of ensuring the grooming of Guyana’s national cricket team to top notch standard for the Airtel Champions League in South Africa next month, the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was yesterday extended some financial assistance from US-based Guyanese businessman, Dave Narine.

Guyana’s Adielle Rosheuvel and her partner Rodrigo Tapia of Ecuador  were defeated 0 – 2 by the Europe6 team of Alex Galic and Stefan Leitgeb in the final preliminary round  matches of the World Youth Olympic Games in Singapore yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Roger Federer already has it  all. The Swiss master has nothing left to prove and hardly  anything to lose.

PARAMUS, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – American Jim Furyk  was disqualified from the first of four lucrative FedExCup  playoff events after sleeping late and missing his tee at the  Barclays Pro-Am  yesterday.

St John’s Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board offers its support to the people of Pakistan as the country battles to recover from floods which have caused death, destruction to homes and property, and have left millions of people without shelter and other basic needs.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Regional players union WIPA has maintained that the proposed International Cricket Council’s mediation in their impasse with the West Indies Cricket Board, lacked the power to broker a solution.

BERNE,  (Reuters) – Peter Crouch struck a hat-trick yesterday to  help Tottenham Hotspur complete a great comeback against Young  Boys and reach the Champions League for the first time while  Luis Suarez led Ajax Amsterdam back to the elite in a 2-1 win  over Dynamo Kiev.

PARAMUS, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods said yesterday the break-up of his marriage was far more difficult  for him than he had let on and that the fallout from his string  of infidelities had poisoned his golf game.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England will undergo another  searching examination at the hands of an increasingly potent  Pakistan attack in the final test starting at Lord’s today.

DAMBULLA, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag smashed 110 off  93 balls to carry India to the final of the one-day tri-nation  final with a comprehensive 105-run win over New Zealand yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Out-of-favour Test batsman Devon Smith has been included in a High Performance Centre squad for next month’s tour of Canada.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Barbados continued their march towards a successful defence of their title when they reeled off their third successive win in the St Kitts Under-13 tournament here Tuesday.

—missed free throws cost President’s XII game two By Floyd Christie The National President’s XII basketball team literally had a free shot at defeating the visiting Washington DC Jammers but missed the game-winning opportunity, Monday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, in game two of the International Basketball Series for the Godwin McPherson Memorial trophy.

By Marlon Munroe Local law enforcers took a commanding lead over the lawmen and women of Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago on the first day of competition at the Eve Leary ground yesterday in the 56th edition of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Track & Field Championships yesterday.

The move by four national chess associations which resulted in plans for the formation of a regional chess federation must be commended.

By Kizan Brumell The third annual Inter Guiana Club Football Championship Cup kicks off today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda after the official launching of the tourney yesterday in the office of the Guyana Football Federation.

Opening on the best of notes all three of Guyana’s budding tennis stars – Aretta Dey, Nicola Ramdyhan and Daniel Lopes –  recorded wins in the opening events of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) 13-and-Under Caribbean Development Championships that began on Monday in Curacao.

Guyana’s two-time CARIFTA Games gold medalist Jevina Straker on Monday finished fourth in her ‘B’ finals of the girls 1000m at the World Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

PARAMUS, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – Tiger Woods begins a  new chapter at the Barclays tournament tomorrow, competing  for the first time since his divorce and scrambling to qualify  for the remainder of the FedExCup playoff series.