Sports

Defending champions Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) stayed on course for a successful title defence when they defeated West Berbice by 32 runs in the semi final of this year’s Busta Champion-of-Champions tournament last Sunday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago will be one of the dozen sides taking part in this year’s Champions’ League Twenty20 championship later this year.

Evergreen table tennis champion Colin France just keeps getting better. Last year France toppled a star-studded field which included two former Caribbean champions on the way to winning the prestigious Realty and Maintenance Super singles tournament in Trinidad and Tobago.

South Ruimveldt was booted Sunday evening by Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust who won their second consecutive game of the best-of-three semi-finals 71-62 of this year’s Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) and Lens Craft inter-ward basketball tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars played to a goalless draw with an Upper Demerara selection on Sunday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground.

Both manager Alvin Johnson and coach Hubern Evans were impressed with the work ethic shown by the 20-man national under-19 team during their first encampment last weekend.

Berbicians will have another chance to test their volleyball skills today when former national volleyball player Charles “Wheels” Henry organizes a grand one-day tournament for teams in Berbice.

Rajesh Adhar slams 115 n.o. for No. 65 The 2008 New Building Society (NBS) Challenge Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board for teams in the Ancient County continued last weekend with wins for Adelphi and Tain.

The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will be buzzing today when the second annual Beepat Scorpions Inter-organization basketball tournament bounces off.

The second annual Theo Morris and Kwesi Nkofi Memorial dominoes competition will be contested today at the Pieces Club at Middle Walk, Friendship, and East Coast Demerara.

Albion Community Centre’s test players Narsingh Deonarine and Sewnarine Chattergoon stamped their authority by spearheading their team to an easy nine-wicket win over Scottsburg United when the 2009 Berbice Cricket Board organized Telenec Inc.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – West Indies players hope to bring a wretched tour of England to a successful close and are aiming for a victory in the third and final One-day International today.

ORLANDO, (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 99-89 in a sometimes spiteful clash on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in their Eastern Conference finals series.

PARIS, (Reuters) – World number ones Rafael Nadal and  Dinara Safina dazzled their opponents in the Parisian sun on  Monday to blaze into the second round of the French Open.

GSA/Woodpecker Products Jason Ray Khalil emerged as the most outstanding player when the Guyana Squash Association Woodpecker Products-sponsored national junior squash championships ended yesterday at the Georgetown Club courts.

William Walker started Saturday as the proud sponsor of the inaugural Oasis Café Stableford Golf tournament but at the end of the contest had  emerged as one of the top prize winners after another intriguing day of golf at the Lusignan Golf Course.

The Guyana  Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) national scrabble championships is set to commence tomorrow at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) Thomas Lands pavilion, where 24 other competitors will be competing against defending champion Fred Collins.

Riddim Squad and Huston Stars won their opening matches on the opening day of the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA)  Western Union-sponsored first division league tournament at the Camptown ground yesterday.

House in  order so North G/town win – forces final game against Charlestown/Albouystown “We just had to get our house in order,” were the words of defending champions North Ruimveldt’s point guard and captain Darcel Harris after his side had inflicted a 19-point whipping (75-56) on Charlestown/   Albouystown to force a third and final game in the HJTV Inter-Ward tournament.

Georgetown were crowned champions of the 2009 Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Inter Association U-15 competition when they defeated  East Coast in the final yesterday at the Tucville Playfield.