Sports

By Rawle Toney The Queen’s Baton which is making its journey through Guyana en-route to the 19th Commonwealth Games in India was relayed across Georgetown in style yesterday.

Veteran player Michael Pereira has taken the lead in the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Topco Juice Mash Chess Tournament as the tourney reached the half way stage.

U15 one day tourney launched The ninth annual Inter-County Castrol Under-15 limited-overs tournament will begin on March 9.

By Marlon Munroe East Coast Demerara (ECD) thoroughly outplayed defending champions Georgetown in the Demerara Cricket Board DCB NALICO/NAFICO under-15 limited overs tournament at the Malteenoes Sports Club ground yesterday.

South Ruimveldt Secondary School’s (SRSS) female team lifted the Guyana Cricket Board/Ministry of Education trophy when they defeated Corentyne Comprehensive Secondary School (CCSS) by five wickets at the Demerara Cricket Club ground yesterday.

Coming hot on the heels of the Mashramani Stableford competition, local golfers will tomorrow compete in the Toolsie Persaud Limited  Hardware Division Medal Play tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Twenty two teams will compete in a specially arranged four-overs-a-side “One Tip, Two Tip”  Invitational Cricket competition.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan was nearing a century in his first match back from injury as Guyana fought back strongly on the first day of their final round, WICB regional first class clash against the Windward Islands yesterday.

(Cricinfo) Pakistan cricket plunged itself into wholesale confusion as the sniff of match-fixing rolled around once again, this time as a particularly nasty smell.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Teenaged batsman Jahmar Hamilton narrowly missed out on a century while pacer Lionel Baker wrecked Combined Campuses and Colleges’ top order, to leave the Leeward Islands in command on day one of their final round WICB regional first class match yesterday.

GRENVILLE, Grenada,  CMC – Showing a very healthy appetite for runs, Danza Hyatt and Brenton Parchment enjoyed a batting feast and both scored hundreds to propel title-chasing Jamaica to a solid score against Trinidad and Tobago on the opening day of their crucial final round WICB Regional first class match yesterday.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Kraigg Brathwaite and Nekoli Parris failed to trump a hundred from Tatenda Taibu that set up a five-run victory for Zimbabwe in their opening tour match against a University of the West Indies’ Vice Chancellor’s XI yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe A historic night of fistic action is expected tonight when the first installment of the Pro/Am ‘Friday Night Fights’ is staged at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hal(CASH) l by the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) and the Guyana Boxing Board of Control.

By Marlon Munroe The second Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League tournament gets underway on Sunday under the auspices of the  WIN IN CONCACAF WITH CONCACAF pilot programme that was launched last September.

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) has shortlisted 28 junior players to form two training squads in preparation for the annual Junior Caribbean Championships in the Cayman Islands in July.

– Jets and Kings in must-win match The Amelia’s Ward Jets and Kashif and Shanghai Kings will clash tonight in a game where both teams must win to advance to the semi-finals in this year’s Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) under-19 tournament.

A five-member team from the Harpy Eagle Martial Arts Academy returned to Guyana with a total 16 medals after attending  the 2010  Martial Arts Festival hosted by the Association of Professional Martial Arts at the Rex Hotel in Rodney Bay, St Lucia.

Brian Allen was elected president of the Roraima Bikers Club at the annual general meeting on Saturday.

Top cyclist Christopher Holder will be going all out to repeat the double when the annual Mashramani 40-mile cycle road race takes place on Sunday.

The Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice will stage a Mashramani four lap round the town race on Sunday.