Sports

Neal and Massy put a halt to Banks DIH  recent cricket success with a 40-run win in a  high scoring 20-overs-a-side  tapeball cricket match Friday evening at Thirst Park.

It was a great day for the Guyanese athletes competing in this year’s South American 10k race as Guyana’s Cleveland Forde, fresh of winning the Antiguan 10k, claimed first place while top female distance athlete Alika Morgan won the female category when the event was run off in Suriname on Saturday.

-acting president of BCBC “The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) should establish a cricket museum so that our younger generation can have some knowledge on our players of yesteryear.”

The Georgetown Basketball Association and the organisers the 2008 Supligen All-Star weekend are requesting that players and coaches of Georgetown’s junior and senior teams to report to the Burnham Basketball Court today at 4:00 pm for an important meeting.

By Rawle Toney President of the Linden Amateur basketball Associa-tion (LABA) Uburn Smith has decided to stay on in the post.

Errol Tiwari, Roy Sharma at loggerheads over outcome of match Controversy erupted during the fourth round of the national Chess Open qualifiers at the Tower Hotel on Main Street yesterday which resulted in one of the players Roy Sharma refusing to continue in the tournament.According

Three players lead going into final day’s play Three players are on five points out of a possible six at the end of the penultimate day’s play of the national Open chess qualifiers at the Hotel Tower.

The London International Court of Arbitration (LICA) has made its ruling.

Guyana’s national Under 21 hockey team participating at the this year’s Junior Pan-American tournament in Trinidad and Tobago was handed a 15-0 thrashing by power houses Canada in their opening match on Friday.

-AAG Since the launching of the annual South American 10K almost two weeks ago the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has been moving ahead with plans for a successful staging of the event.

Guyana’s bantamweight boxer Clevon Rock Guyana’s hopes of a gold medal went down at the third junior Commonwealth Games in Pune, India were dashed when Clevon Rock lost his bantamweight  encounter with Englishman John Quigley.

In the boardroom of the Guyana National Milling Company (NAMILCO) yesterday the 2nd annual Fruta Conquerors organized NAMILCO Football Festival knockout competition was officially launched in the presence of the Managing Director of the Milling Company Bert Sukhai and employees and members of the Fruta Conquerors (FC) and Guyana Football Federation (GFF).

The eagerly anticipated final of the Banks DIH 15-overs Softball Tournament organized by Guyana Softball League (GSL) culminates this evening on an illuminated Banks DIH Thirst Park ground, with Regal XI of Georgetown clashing with Rangers Sports Club (RSC) of West Coast of Demerara.

Former head coach of the Canadian National Sevens Men’s Rugby Team and International Rugby Board (IRB) Staff Coach Spencer Robinson arrives in Guyana today to join the coaching staff of Guyana’s National Men’s and Women’s Rugby team in preparation for the forthcoming NAWIRA 2009 Regional Rugby World Cup (RWC) Sevens Qualifier in the Bahamas on October 25 and 26.

– GFA awaiting referee’s report By Rawle Toney Executives of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) are yet to make a decision after last Wednesday’s boxing match between players of the Western Tigers and Flamingo Football Clubs respectively, when the two sides clashed in a GFA/Banks DIH sponsored first division league game at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground.

The Banks DIH Thirst Park Sports Club, Banks DIH will come alive on October 26 when the Guyana Amateur Power Lifting Federation’s (GAPLF) annual Banks DIH-sponsored Senior Power lifting Championships lift off at 10:00hrs.

By Rawle Toney It was two days of electrifying performances from schools in the mining town of Linden, when the Ministry of Education held their annual Inter Primary and Secondary schools athletics championships at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

-pumps $350,000 into second division 20/20 competition The Guyana Beverage Company Incorporated (GBC) has joined forces with the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) when they became that entity’s latest list of sponsors, pumping over $350,000 into a twenty20 second division competition.

-Elite six are first inductees Finally, the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) Hall of Fame was launched on Thursday, with an elite six being the first set of inductees at the simple ceremony held in the BCBC boardroom, following the spirited efforts of the Special Events Committee (SEC).

– renamed the “Kevin Worrell Memorial” By Rawle Toney Two weeks after the tragic passing of former Courts Pacesetters player Kevin Worrell, the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Ass-ociation (GABA) will resume their five-a-side basketball tournament in his honour.