By Floyd Christie
The rugby community came out in support of the national men’s rugby Sevens team on the opening day the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games yesterday at the National Stadium, Providence and were not disappointed.
DENNERY, St Lucia, CMC – A late order century stand between Evin Lewis and Akeal Hosein rescued Trinidad and Tobago from a total collapse against Guyana on the opening day of their final round match in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.
Nicolette and Keisha win silver medal
Local squash pair Nicolette Fernandes and Keisha Jeffrey claimed a silver medal in the Women’s doubles at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Bogota Columbia on Friday evening.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Xavier Marshall stroked his second half-century of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship to propel Jamaica to a nine-wicket victory over Canada yesterday.
– 4th matchBRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sensational, exciting, and thrilling are just some of the adjectives that could be used to describe Barbados’ victory over the Combined Campuses & Colleges in a one-over eliminator in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship just past Friday midnight.
The Norman Singh Turf Club, West Coast Berbice will come alive again today when horses compete in seven events for over three million dollars in prizes in the St.
PAUILLAC, France, (Reuters) – Spaniard Alberto Contador was poised to win his third Tour de France yesterday after he extended his lead over Andy Schleck to 39 seconds following the 52-km individual penultimate stage time trial.
PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s 23-member World Cup squad have been suspended for the country’s next game after their first-round exit from this year’s tournament, the French Football Federation (FFF) said Friday.
LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – Pakistan scrambled the 40 runs they required to beat Australia in a test for the first time in 15 years yesterday, winning the second test at Headingley by three wickets to draw the series 1-1.
The stirring performance by the team from Cave Hill in the extraordinary regional T20 double-tie with Barbados at Kensington Oval that ran through Friday night and into the witching hour should not have come as a surprise.
MONACO, CMC – Jamaican Jermaine Gonzales stormed to victory in the 400 metres but it was his 20-year-old countryman Yohan Blake who grabbed the headlines with a blistering run in the 200 metres at the 10th IAAF Diamond League meet here Thursday night.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Barbados let their advantage slip as Jamaica hit back strongly, on a competitive opening day of their final round TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge clash yesterday.
HOCKENHEIM, Germany, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel snatched pole position for his home German Grand Prix yesterday after beating Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso by barely the blink of an eye.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Left-arm orthodox spinner Kavem Hodge bagged five wickets as leaders Windward Islands restricted lowly Leeward Islands on the opening day of their final round, TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge encounter yesterday.
Guyana’s male Under-17 footballers yesterday defeated Aruba 7-0 in their final match of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualifiers in Dominica yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Travis Dowlin followed-up penetrative spells from Lennox Cush and Davendra Bishoo with a purposeful half-century that anchored Guyana to a five-wicket victory over Windward Islands in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship yesterday.
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Five of the six teams participating in this year’s TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge can still capture the title but Windward Islands will start the fifth and final round in pole position when it bowls off here today.
-but falls short of medal round
The Guyana national men’s table tennis team just missed qualifying for a medal when they lost 0-3 to Guatemala in their quarter final clash last evening at the Inter-American University in the village of San German.
The Guyana Karate College (GKC) received a sponsorship cheque of $500,000 from Ansa Mc Al under the Smalta brand yesterday in aid of the college hosting the 11th International Shotokan Federation (ISKF) Pan American Karate Championships scheduled for Guyana from August 12-15.
The Guyana Junior Jaguars under-17 team takes on Aruba today in their final Group C match of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualifying competition in Dominica.