Sports

Beacon Ministries-West Demerara Athletics Club in collaboration with the Enmore Athletics Club will be hosting a road relay and a development meet today at the Wales Community Centre Ground, West Bank Demerara.

By Tony Cozier in Port-of-Spain They stood in a minute’s silence before play at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday and wore black armbands in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore on Wednesday.

By Rawle Toney Guyana’s bid to host the Caribbean Basketball Con-federation (CBC) championships has to be followed up with  a letter of commitment signed by the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federa-tion (GABF) and the Government of Guyana or the National Olympic Commit-tee.

The Guyana Hockey Board has organised a  Coaches’ Development Workshop at the Thomas Lands YMCA as the board pushes its new initiative to revive hockey in schools.

The fast-growing Guyana Karate College (GKC) will at 10am today stage a demonstration at the Marian Academy School.

By Tony Cozier In Port-of-Spain Given the record at the Queen’s Park Oval, Joey Carew’s pronouncement that there will “most definitely” be an outright result in the decisive fifth Digicel Test starting today was simply stating the obvious.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Gafoors sponsored 20/20 round robin first division cricket competition will resume today with six round six matches in the two zones  from 14:00 hrs.

– Bishoo and Crandon brothers out of team With a record of five defeats and two draws, host Guyana would be looking to redeem themselves when they face the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) in their ninth round clash of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day competition at the famous Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground from today.

International boxing referee/judge Eion Jardine will leave Guyana this morning for Trinidad and Tobago where he will officiate in the world title fight between Trinidadian Lisa `Bad News’ Brown and Maribel Santana of the Dominican Republic.

Tonight marks the fifth day of the competition in the annual Mayor’s Cup Knockout Tournament powered by Digicel where four teams are set to collide in a quarterfinal round double header at the Georgetown Football Club ground.

-Lowe and Bryan dominate The various winners of the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani table tennis competition were rewarded for their efforts at a simple prize giving ceremony which was held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Wednesday.

By Rawle Toney Starting this evening the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will be the venue of one of the biggest basketball tournaments in Guyana.

By Rawle Toney The Linden Foundation Secondary School (LFS) narrowly defeated New Silver City Secondary (NSS) 45-41 to book a place in today’s semi-finals when the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport sponsored Inter-School Basketball Tournament continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court in Linden.

By Rawle Toney The Banks DIH and Ministry of Sport sponsored Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) First Division league is set to resume from this evening with a double header at the MacKenzie Sports Club ground.

At least play for the pride of being “Guyanese”The display by the Guyana cricket team in this year’s regional cricket competition shows just how far this country has retrogressed in the sport.

An 11 race cycling card sponsored by R&R International takes place tomorrow at the National Park circuit.

– Broad LONDON, (Reuters) – International Cricket Council  (ICC) match referee Chris Broad said he and colleagues were left  like “sitting ducks” by a lack of security in Tuesday’s attack  on Sri Lanka’s team bus in Lahore that left six players injured.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Pakistani police were  searching yesterday for a breakthrough in their investigation  nearly 48 hours after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan cricket  team and then melted away.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Manchester United were given an  early scare at Newcastle United yesterday before hitting back  for a 2-1 victory that restored their seven-point cushion at the  top of the Premier League.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The 2010 Commonwealth Games  will adopt security methods similar to those used at the Beijing  Olympics, its chief said yesterday, allaying fears the attack  on the Sri Lanka cricket team could scupper the event.