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A brilliant all-round performance from Guyana under-15 player Shailendra Shameer helped Port Mourant to victory against Johanna Young Ivory (JYI) in the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) organized Spready’s Bakery Under-19, limited overs cricket competition recently.

Steven Embrack became the latest batsman to score a century when the  2009 New Building Society Second Division limited overs cricket competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board continued recently with several matches.

National Chess Champion Wendell Meusa took the lead in the Keishars/Fide Qualifiers after play continued Friday and Saturday at the KeiShar’s Sports Club.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods is unsure when he  will play golf again after a painful neck injury forced him to  quit the Players Championship in Florida on Sunday.

Guyana’s national female football team the `Lady Jags’  Will take on Barbados this afternoon in the second round of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Women’s World Cup qualifiers in Trinidad and Tobago.

-says WADA MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao should remove  the chief stumbling block to a highly anticipated bout with  Floyd Mayweather by agreeing to Olympic-style drug testing, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief John Fahey said yesterday.

SAN ANTONIO, (Reuters) – Playing with his right eye  nearly swollen shut, Phoenix’s Steve Nash helped lead his team  to a series-clinching win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday and a spot in the Western Conference final.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – New Zealand completed a clean sweep of their preliminary round campaign when they crushed luckless Pakistan by six wickets in their final game of the Women’s World Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Hot on the heels of their 14-run, Super Eight triumph over India at Kensington Oval on Sunday, West Indies captain Chris Gayle and his teammates have been hit with a hefty fine for their slow over rate.

-The West Indies inched one win closer to the semi-finals of the ICC T20 World Cup competition after captain Chris Gayle blasted India almost out of the tournamentBRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies followed typically enterprising batting from Chris Gayle with an improved performance in the field that carried them to a 14-run victory over India in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies suffered a blow ahead of Thursday’s semi-final of the Women’s World Twenty20 Championship when they went down by nine runs to Australia yesterday.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida, (Reuters) – South African  Tim Clark ended an eight-year title drought on the PGA Tour by  charging past overnight leader Lee Westwood to win the Players  Championship by one shot yesterday.

By Tamica Garnett Following the presentation of their five-year strategic plan, the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) conducted its awards ceremony for last year’s outstanding athletes.

By Floyd Christie Georgetown’s supporters were ecstatic Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall after Albouystown-Charlestown silenced the spirited cheers of the Linden fans and crushed all hopes of a Central Mackenzie comeback win in game one of the Mackeson National Super Ward Basketball Championship best of three finals.

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Australia took a huge step  towards the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a crushing 81-  run win over Sri Lanka yesterday that demonstrated once again  the impressive depth of their strength.

-Months after winning a gold medal at the 2009 World Championships and being forced to take a gender test by the IAAF, South Africa’s Caster Semenya’s career remains in limbo as the results of the tests are still to be disclosed PRETORIA, South Africa, (Reuters) – Caster Semenya, picked out by a bright moon as yet another long training session comes to an end, does not look like an athlete with the cares of the world on her shoulders.

While players receive accolades for their performance on the field, there are a number of persons off the field who make it all possible, and so the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday last honoured three men who operate behind the scene.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The red-hot Orlando Magic are  one win away from advancing to the Eastern Conference finals  after a dominating victory Saturday that left the Atlanta Hawks  on the brink of elimination.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – England trounced South Africa by 56 runs yesterday, as they ended an extremely disappointing campaign in the Women’s World Twenty20 Championship on a winning note.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Mark Webber’s dogs will be  hearing all about the Spanish Grand Prix after a win yesterday that the Red Bull driver ranked alongside his emotional first in Formula One.