Courts Guyana Inc. Country Manager Lester Alvis was elected president while five members of the previous executive were returned to office at the Lusignan Golf Club’s annual general meeting Saturday evening at the clubhouse.
Local celebrities in the fields of sports and entertainment displayed their ball-handling skills and proved they can also entertain fans on the basketball court Saturday Night when the Fire Basketball Club staged its inaugural Celebrity Charity Game at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Former Caribbean Under-15 table tennis champion Nigel Bryan yesterday won the Under-21 Open singles title as the National Sports Commission annual Independence anniversary tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton drove a superb tactical race to hold off his McLaren team mate Jenson Button and win yesterday’s Canadian Grand Prix and jump to the top of the Formula One drivers’ championship.
Batsmen Herrell Greene and Anthony Adams and fast bowlers Andre Stoll and Keon Joseph, all members of last year’s national Under-19 team, were yesterday named by the junior selectors of the Guyana Cricket Board in the 14-man squad for next month’s tournament in St Lucia.
By Tamica Garnett
Georgetown’s `Flex Text’ and East Coast’s `Flex Checks’ yesterday condemned East Bank’s `Top Up’s’ to two defeats as the Digicel Summer Smash Twenty20 cricket tournament continued at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.
LEICESTER, England, CMC – Imran Khan, Gavin Tonge, and Lionel Baker indulged themselves, but they failed to save West Indies-A from defeat, when India-A won the opening four-day “Test” by six wickets yesterday at Grace Road.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Ghana gave Africa a much-celebrated first victory in the continent’s inaugural World Cup though it was a bitter-sweet moment for their Serbian coach to have masterminded defeat of his homeland yesterday.
-hands U.S. draw with England
RUSTENBURG, (Reuters) – A shocking schoolboy howler from England goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States a goal as the two sides tipped to qualify from Group C battled to a 1-1 stalemate at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium yesterday.
– says Kit Nascimento
By Floyd Christie
Rugby was played at the National Stadium for the first time yesterday as the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) began its trials for the selection of Guyana’s National Sevens Rugby Team which will participate in the Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Rugby Sevens Games.
By Floyd Christie
After riding intensely for 35 laps under the scorching mid-day sun, Alonzo Greaves captured the winning trophy in the feature event of the 10th annual P&P Insurance Brothers, Consultancy and Travel Agency cycling programme held yesterday around the inner circuit of the National Park.
Guyanese women cricketers Indomatie Goordial-John and Candacy Atkins were named in the United States team to oppose Canada in the ICC Americas Women’s World Cup Qualifier tournament billed for next month in Toronto, Canada, the USA Cricket Association announced over the weekend.
All-rounder Marc Singh slammed a century and captured three wickets in piloting Neal and Massy cricketers to a 94-run victory over Tiger Sports Complex in their feature Twenty20 tapeball cricket match played Wednesday under lights at the National Park tarmac.
Junior player Krystal Sukra highlighted Friday’s opening day’s play of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) sponsored lawn tennis tournament at the GBTI Sports Club’s courts, Bel Air Park.
The Enmore Triple Stars Sports Club is taking competitive softball cricket to the fields once again as they host yet another Grand softball competition today at the Enmore, Hope West Primary School ground.
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – The West Indies team will be thankful that sports fans in the region are more than likely distracted by the football World Cup.