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Rain had the final say on the opening day of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Castrol sponsored Inter-county Under-15 cricket competition at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground in Essequibo yesterday.

The winners of the National Sports Commission junior singles competition were presented with their prizes on Friday at the Queen’s College Auditorium.

Grove Hi Tech maintains unbeaten run Only one of three scheduled matches was contested when the Fruta East Bank Football Association Under-13 league competition resumed yesterday at the Grove ground.

By Tony Cozier at Kensington Oval Mark Twain’s assertion that there are three kinds of lies, “lies, damned lies, and statistics”, was hardly made with cricket in mind but it was accurately borne out by Fidel Edwards’ figures in England’s mammoth first innings here.

Boxers ready to set Sports Hall ablaze Twelve boxers, 32 rounds, one ring.

Says Rawle Toney Tonight on the Burnham Basketball Court two of Georgetown’s top clubs, Dyna’s Ravens and Courts Pacesetters, are scheduled to go head-to-head with the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) First Division League title at stake.

Defending champions to face E’bo today Defending champions Demerara will open the defence of their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol sponsored Under-15 Inter-county cricket competition today when they face Essequibo at the Anna Regina ground.

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Pepsi Sonics point guard Aubrey Henry has been banned for life from the sport by the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) after a feud involving a referee during his team’s clash with Dyna’s Ravens on Thursday evening at the Burnham Basketball Court.

First day honours in the eighth-round West Indies Cricket Board’s regional four-day competition went to Guyana who dismissed the Windward Islands for 215 and then reached 73-2 at stumps at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Rabindranauth Seeram, coach of the Guyana national cricket team is a pleased man.

– McPhersonIt’s just over a week since Guyana sent in its bid to host the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships and to date there is no word as yet, says president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball  Federation (GABF) retired Col.

FOR four barren hours yesterday, West Indies appeared to have given up something for the Lenten season – taking wickets.

SO severely tested on the last day of the ARG Test, the West Indies’ resilience was again placed under severe strain at Kensington yesterday.

Ravens still undefeated as climax nears By Rawle Toney Dyna’s Ravens remain on course to cop the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) First Division league after scraping past the Beepat Scorpions 78-72 on Wednesday at the Burnham Basketball Court.

– organizers up prize money By Rawle Toney The top teams from Linden and Georgetown will now have to wait one more week before they can go at each other since the Next Level Entertainment basketball tournament which was proposed to start on  March 1 will now get underway on Friday, March 5 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Make no mistake, whether the opponent is Lennox `Too Sharp’ Allen, Howard `Battersea Bomber’ Eastman or whoever else, Leon `The Lion’ Gilkes is ready to roar.

-Seeram hopes his bowlers get it right Coach of the Windward Islands national team Ian Allen is looking for a repeat result  while Guyana’s Rabindranauth Seeram hopes his bowlers get it right when the two teams clash in their eighth round encounter of   the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four-day competition at the Guyana National Stadium from today.

Action continues tonight with double header By Rawle Toney Second round action in the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Senior Club Championship is set for tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court with a double header which should be interesting.

Former Guyana under-19 player Krishna Deosarran struck 69 yesterday in a losing effort against PowerGen in the round of 16 of the Carib Twenty/20 league.