Sports

A whopping nine records were broken and one equalled by swimmers who participated in the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) 2010 Independence Meet which was held at the Castellani Pool from last Friday to Sunday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – St. Lucia has emerged as the frontrunner ahead of Trinidad & Tobago to host the matches between West Indies and South Africa almost certain to be relocated from the violence-torn Jamaica capital of Kingston.

The Faculty of Technology reaped a much needed win yesterday when they matched skills with the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall as the University of Guyana Inter-Faculty Basketball Competition continued.

BRIGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Six players with West Indies experience have been named in a 37-man training squad for the regional Twenty20 tournament slated for July.

National Chess Champion, Wendell Muesa, will stage an Independence Youth Challenge chess tournament today at the American University of Peace Studies on Sheriff Street.

-selectors include Kaneria, Akhtar, Khan and Malik in 35-man squad KARACHI, (Reuters) – All-rounder Shahid Afridi will  captain Pakistan on their tour of England this year after announcing at the weekend he was available again for test cricket following a four-year absence.

North Sound, Antigua: South Africa were able to dodge a Darren Sammy bullet and escape with a 17-run win to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match Digicel One Day International Series at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe Following three postponements Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) President Ryan Wissow  and head of BrisO Promotions Seon Bristol are looking to appease fight fans that the eagerly anticipated rematch between Corrinne `Sexy Panther’ Van Ryck De Groot and Shondell `Mystery Lady’ Alfred will come off next month.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  endorsed his hometown Chicago Bulls as a great destination for LeBron James should the National Basketball Association MVP  decide to leave Cleveland as a free agent this year.

The first regional Twenty20 tournament since the lucrative Stanford Series ended with the imprisonment of its sponsor in the United States on “massive fraud” charges has been scheduled by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) from July 22 to 31.

By Tony CozierJustifiably concerned with he frailty of the batting, the West Indies selectors are bringing back Darren Bravo early from the current ‘A’ team tour of Bangladesh to be available for the last three One-Day Internationals of the current series against South Africa.

-eyes CAC Games By Floyd Christie Nineteen-year-old Continen-tal Cycling Club cyclist Geron Williams has his eyes fixed on participating at the upcoming CAC games after a splendid stint of racing in Trinidad and Tobago.

-says Jeffrey Wong By Marlon Munroe In order to stage a successful 11th International Shotokan Federation (ISKF) Pan American Karate Championships, the Guyana Karate College (GKC) says they are in need of a healthy injection of corporate funds.

SAVAR, Bangladesh,  CMC – Test left-hander Brendan Nash missed out on a century as the second four-day “Test” between Bangladesh A and West Indies A remained evenly poised after the second day yesterday.

By Tamica Garnett The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) yesterday afternoon officially launched the Under-23 Games in the boardroom of sponsors Digicel.

The Guyana Martial Arts Masters Association will be hosting their second annual Hall of Fame ceremony tomorrow from 7pm at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

-National champion excels but Guyana lose Goodwill series Current national champion Ransford Goodluck continued his excellent form in Antigua ahead of the West Indies fullbore shooting championships when he captured three gold medals and three trophies at the Goodwill shooting competition over the weekend in St.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – The Phoenix Suns turned up the  heat in the Western Conference finals by beating the Los  Angeles Lakers 118-109 in Game Three on Sunday.

Ashton Bovell showed that skill rather than size is what counts as he dominated the male six-to-eight-years-old category in both the kata and kumite competitions when the Guyana Karate Federation (GKF) held its 2010 National Junior Karate Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last weekend.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, (Reuters) – The final one-day  international and the first test between West Indies and South  Africa next month could be moved from Kingston to another  Caribbean island due to violence in the Jamaican capital.