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Taylor Fernandes captured her first national squash  title when she defeated Larissa Wiltshire 3-2 to win the girls’ under 13 category as the Woodpecker Products sponsored national junior championships ended last Sunday.

After 10 years blocked from West Indies selection mainly by a suspect action, Shane Shillingford has come into the reckoning for the current home series against South Africa.

Guyana’s bantamweight champion and multiple holder of international boxing titles Leon ‘Hurry Up” Moore has leapt to number three in the world ratings.

Scores of young karatekas are expected to converge today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the 2010 National Independence Youth Week Junior Karate Championships which gets underway from 11am.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Inter Milan reached the summit of  European soccer for the first time in 45 years when Diego Milito scored two superb goals to give them a 2-0 win over Bayern  Munich in the Champions League final yesterday.

–  Games to clash with CAC Juniors By Tamica Garnett Following its postponement because of general elections, the Hampton International Games will now be held from July 2 – 4 at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago.

LAUDERHILL, Florida, CMC – Batsman Marlon Samuels struck a half-century and grabbed two wickets to help fire Jamaica to a solid 47-run victory over United States in their Twenty20 game here yesterday.

Guyana’s international track star Marian Burnett has, again, run herself into the history books by being part of the seventh known, all-time photo-finish of an international middle distance or greater race.

By Tamica Garnett General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Godfrey Munroe and Mayfield Taylor-Trim, Counsel Member of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG)  along with Dr Karen Pilgrim are the officials who will accompany Guyana’s four member team to the inaugural World Youth Championships in Singapore later this year.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Hard-hitting West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard has been slapped with a fine for his run-in with South African fast bowler Dale Steyn during the second Twenty20 International here Thursday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies will seek a drastic turnaround in fortunes when they face South Africa in the opening One-Day International of the five-match series here today.

A team of amateur boxers from St Lucia is expected here for a Goodwill tour of Guyana sometime later this year.

Winners of the Trophy Stall Doubles Tennis Tournament were yesterday presented with their trophies when the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) held the  presentation ceremony in the Cambo Room of the Georgetown Sports Club.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Batsman Travis Dowlin and off-spinner Shane Shillingford have been omitted from a 14-man West Indies A squad for next month’s tour of England and Ireland, prompting speculation they will be part of the selection shakeup for the three-Test series against South Africa.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Favourite Rafael Nadal must  negotiate a tricky path in his bid for a fifth French Open title  after the draw for the claycourt grand slam starting tomorrow.  

Sunburst Camptown, currently seventh in the point’s standings with 10 points, will engage Liquid Gold when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF Super League continues today with three matches at two venues.

LAUDERHILL, Florida,  CMC – Marlon Samuels failed on his return to the national team but Jamaica still overpowered United States by 132 runs to win the first one-day match of the three-game series yesterday.

(Cricinfo) Kamran Akmal, the Pakistan wicketkeeper, has defended his shoddy performance in the Sydney Test during Pakistan’s disastrous tour of Australia, following speculation that there may have been more to his misses than just cricketing errors.

The launch of the Athletic Association of Guyana’s Under-23 event will now be held on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,  CMC – South African cricket authorities, and kit supplier Reebok have apologised for the national team’s tattered limited-overs outfit worn in Wednesday’s first Twenty20 International against West Indies.