In last year’s Inter-County limited overs tournament, Demerara lost their first round game to Berbice at the Blairmont Community Centre round but they rebounded to defeat the Berbicians in the final of the same tournament at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
Caribbean number two junior girls’ player Trenace Lowe copped two titles last weekend at the Tobago Open table tennis tournament held in the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
– GCB president Chetram Singh President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh said yesterday that Guyana was in an excellent position to host the regional one-day tournament scheduled for later this year.
In a tournament missing stars such as Guyana’s national champion Norman Madhoo and top-ranked local player Sudesh Fitzgerald, Anil Latchman turned back a strong challenge to walk away with the Guyana Darts Association (GDA) sponsored singles tournament Friday last.
Eagles United recorded a 1-0 victory over Amelia’s Ward United while Winners Connections and Blue Berry Hill played to a 1-1 stalemate when the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA)/ Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) sponsored premier league competition continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground on Wednesday night.
Bank of Guyana will be looking to stop the marauding Banks DIH cricketers when the two teams clash today in a feature 20-overs-a-side tapeball cricket match at Thirst Park ground under floodlights.
– over treatment of Simon Pures; calls for international help for amateur boxing to return to the glory days of yoreOne day after castigating sports officials for not having the boxers preparing for the upcoming Junior Commonwealth Games train at the Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis gym, Mayor Hamilton Green was still seeing red yesterday despite the fact that the boxers had moved their training base.
The 2008 Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC)/New Building Society Challenge second-division limited overs cricket competition continued recently with Berbice under-19 cricketer Krishendat Ramoo’s fine all-round performance guiding Bush Lot to a massive 232-run victory over Union in their encounter.
The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday received a timely boost for its team when the Middle Street Plaza came on board with a donation of uniforms.
The boxing team that will represent Guyana at the upcoming 2008 Junior Commonwealth Games in Pune, India had a surprise visit from sports enthusiast and Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green.
The Guyana Taekwondo Association (GTA) has selected two athletes to represent Guyana at the 16th Pan American Taekwondo Championships to be held in Caguas, Puerto Rico from October 1 – 6.
The National Park Circuit is the venue again for yet another race meet.
The winners of the recently held Entertainment Source Futsal five-a-side football competition in Linden sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd.
Stalemates order of the day Stalemates were the order of the day when action in the East Coast Demerara/Mackeson Stout-sponsored Premier League competition continued at the Beterverwagting ground last Sunday.
In cricket, catches, they say, win matches. In football, it is brilliant saves from goalkeepers.
Twelve teachers who represented three Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) sports districts in Berbice concluded the ‘Event Organizers Workshop’ on Thursday last conducted by German sports scientist Uwe Wenzel at the All Saints Primary School ground in New Amsterdam, Berbice.
Members of Guyana’s Junior Commonwealth Games team yesterday paid to visit to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds at his Wight’s Lane, Kingston office yesterday.
– ECDFSA League Bakewell Buxton Stars and Buxton United both recorded victories when action in the East Coast Demerara Football Sub Association (ECDFSA)/Mackeson Stoute-sponsored Premier League competition continued at the Plaisance Community Centre ground Thursday night.
-will meet Demerara in final Not even two rain interruptions which took away 112 minutes play and caused the encounter to be reduced to a 39 overs-a-side affair could prevent Berbice from coming away with a three-wicket victory over Essequibo in their final round clash of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ El Dorado-sponsored Inter-County limited overs match at the Wales Community Centre ground yesterday.
The Guyana Football Federation is offering to repay the Surinaamse Voetbal Bond (SVB) the sum of US$3,500 for expenses incurred during the Suriname national football team’s visit to Guyana for the second leg of the World Cup 2010 qualifiers which was held at the National Stadium at Providence.
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