Sports

Arjune smashes 170 for Bamboo Sports

Guyanese Krishna Arjune smashed a massive 170 to lead Bamboo Sports Club to first innings points over Police Sports Club in the North Championship of the T&T Cricket Board of Control last weekend.

Dreadful week ends on positive note

IT took the composure of tailenders not reputed for such level-headedness to secure it but the draw that the West Indies eeked out in the fading light here yesterday brought a dreadful week to a positive end.

T&T sweating over Barath fitness

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago are sweating on the fitness of key opener Adrian Barath while bottom-of-the-table Guyana will look to build on their draw in the last round, when the two teams clash in their WICB Regional four-day match starting today.

Georgetown demoralises W/Dem

Defending champions Georgetown under astute leadership from Shaquille Williams, along with a solid all round performance from Chanderpaul Hemraj, demoralized their host West Demerara to come away with a 96-run victory in their first round clash of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Nalico/Nafico-sponsored Under-15 Inter-association match yesterday.

Beverly McDonald, secretary of Victory Valley Royals Basketball Club is seen handing over the James Brusche Trophy to LABA president Uborn Smith in the presence of other officials of the association. From left assistant secretary Quincy Cummings, organizing secretary Abdulla Hamid and public relations officer Floyd Martindale.

LABA/Pioneer Construction Senior Club Championship

– Second round to resume this evening with double header By Rawle Toney Second round action in the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) senior club championship is set to resume this evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court.

All far from lost

Five years ago, the ground that has hosted more record-breaking West Indies’ performances in its relatively brief existence witnessed its most unexpected and uplifting.

Wayne Dover

Klass: Not prudent to retain technical director now

– Dover offered job as head coach President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass said on Tuesday that it was “not prudent or economically viable to retain a technical director at the moment,” since Guyana will not be engaging in any international tournaments for approximately two years.

A dejected looking Brian Hussain of Berbice High School (BHS) leaves the field after being bowled by Queen’s College’s Neil Barry Jnr., (not in picture), as wicketkeeper Avion Rodrigues and other Queen’s College teammates celebrate. (An Aubrey Crawford photograph)

Mustapha steers QC to five-wicket win

A man-of-the-match performance from Feaz Mustapha (2-28 and 51) steered Queen’s College (QC) to a five-wicket victory over Berbice High School (BHS) in the National Sports Commission (NSC)/Allied Arts Department 40-overs-a-side cricket match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Part of the action at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall between Central High and GTI who went on to win 122-23 (Aubrey Crawford photo)

Charlestown Secondary and GTI book semi-final berth

Ministry of Sport Inter-School Basketball tournament By Rawle Toney Charlestown Secondary and the Government Technical Institute (GTI) were the first two teams to advance to the semi-finals of this year’s Ministry of Sport Mash-ramani Inter-School Basket-ball Tournament, after recording remarkable victories on Tuesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Scotia Bank/WICB/GCB/MoE Kiddy Cricket launched

– 200 schools this season Eight lucky teams representing the eight zones of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Ministry of Education(MoE)/Scotia Bank-sponsored Kiddy Cricket competition will have the opportunity to showcase their skills when the second-one day match between West Indies and England is contested at the Providence National Stadium next month.

 Darwin Christian

“Our chances are good”

-says T&T coach Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) cricket team Kelvin Williams yesterday described his country’s chances against Guyana in their seventh round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day encounter scheduled to commence tomorrow as “good.”

Mayor’s Cup kicks off tomorrow

-Alpha United to face stern test from Pele The annual Mayor’s Cup Invitational Inter-Club knockout football tournament gets underway tomorrow with a double header at the Georgetown Football Club ground (GFC) with the usual Georgetown versus Linden rivalry.

Natural Sciences are Inter-Faculty TT champs

– Dwayne Dick earns  Best Individual Player Award Dwayne Dick copped the Best Individual Player Award as he led his Natural Sciences team in the inaugural Farfan and Mendes Inter-Faculty Table Tennis Tournament which took place in the Cafeteria Building at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.

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