Sports

Winners of the Queen’s College Annual Lower and Upper School Boys and Girls Singles Tournament received their trophies for outstanding performance during the competition in the lower and upper school category.

Rudoldph Mitchell warmed up for his marathon race/walk event later this month by coasting to victory in the William France-organized five-mile walk on Saturday.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/National Sports Commission (NSC) in collaboration with the Regional Democratic Council of Region Three successfully hosted a Day of Interaction last Sunday at the Goed Fortuin Community Centre ground, West Bank Demerara.

Abigail McDonald was crowned champion at the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Diwali Scrabble Championship held Saturday at the  Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC).

By Marlon Munroe A fluent unbeaten 99 from Narsingh Deonarine and miserly bowling from Devendra Bishoo of Albion conspired to cause the quick demise of the Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) in the final of the Neal and Massy 40-over first division tournament.

BK International Western Tigers outplayed Alpha United in the final of the sixth Mackeson English/ Kashif and Shanghai Futsal Competition to be crowned new champions at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night.

-Dick wins female road race By Rawle Toney in Suriname Suriname’s Jair Tjon En Fa outsprinted a bunch of four cyclists to capture the 60K road race event as the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) cycling events ended yesterday in Paramaribo, Suriname.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Batting all-rounder Ryan Hinds, who was Barbados captain two years ago, has been reinstated as the country’s skipper for the WICB President’s Cup starting later this month in Guyana.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Captain Chris Gayle belted an aggressive 94 on Friday but his side lost by two wickets to David Bernard’s XI in Jamaica’s second practice match for the 2009 WICB President’s Cup tournament starting later this month in Guyana.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Teenager Adrian Barath cracked a marvellous half-century on debut as sensational Trinidad and Tobago thumped the Eagles by 24 runs and stormed into the Champions League Twenty20 semis as the top League A team.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Jenson Button and his Brawn GP  team were crowned Formula One champions with a race to spare in  an action-packed Brazilian Grand Prix won by Red Bull’s  Australian Mark Webber yesterday.

Roraima Bikers Club will stage the 12th Annual Troy Humphrey’s Memorial Cycling Extravaganza on Saturday at the National Park circuit.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Opener David Warner blazed a rapid 40 and propelled New South Wales (NSW) to a fluent six-wicket whipping of Somerset with more than eight overs to spare in their Champions League Twenty20 Super 8 match yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Nekoli Parris tuned up for the WICB President’s Cup with a solid hundred Saturday for UWI against YMPC in the Barbados Division One championship at 3Ws Oval.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – It was fitting that Nikolay Davydenko should get his biggest win of the year yesterday at a  Shanghai Masters tournament dominated by injury retirements and  a debate over the length of the season.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, CMC – Veteran Pamela Lavine smashed a rapid 44 for West Indies but the Caribbean side slumped to a rare loss to South Africa in the second match of their four-match Women’s One Day International (ODI) series yesterday.

Gavin Todd continued his remarkable form this season when he carted off the Sanjay Jewellery Medal Play Golf tournament played on Diwali holiday on Saturday at Lusignan Golf Club.

Santos Football Club was crowned champions of the Chubby Under-13 football competition organized by the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) after they defeated Sunburst Camptown 1-0 in the final at the Tucville Playfield yesterday.

As impressively composed off the field as on it, Daren Ganga has made a few significant and obviously deliberate points as his amazing Trinidad and Tobago team has overcome one supposedly superior opponent after another on their way to the semi-finals of the high profile Champions League trophytournament in India.

Hikers and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) shared honours as the curtains came down on the Banks DIH Night hockey tournament Friday evening at Thirst Park Hikers dethroned GCC in the men’s ‘A’ division final with a pulsating 2-1 win as they maintained their unbeaten run in the tournament  while the Bourda side turned the tables in the men’s ‘B’ division final beating Hikers 3-0.