Sports

Dear Editor, The two major Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows, was a ‘tale of two sisters.’

New Amsterdam’s Bermine Cricket Club of Zone A joined Zone B’s Albion and Port Mourant Community Centres respectively in the Berbice semi-finals of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Neal and Massey 40 overs-a-side competition last weekend.

Alpha “the Hammer” United stamped their authority on Sunburst Camptown with a 2-0 win to capture the Alpha United 16-team Carifesta X Football final last Sunday at the National Stadium at Providence.

– Boxers say expect gold fest in IndiaPresident of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Affeze Khan was all smiles yesterday  afternoon after he was successful in securing in-transit United States visas for his four boxers.

Action in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Cellink Plus Premier League competition will continue tonight at the Tucville playfield from 18:00hrs (6:00pm).

– says Wayne Dover “We worked very hard and stuck to the game plan and that’s what brought this victory.”

In another entertaining evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Old Fort High Flyers pulled ahead of all challengers the top of the table in the senior division as the Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Competition continued Friday night.

Local athletics coach Leslie Black, who coaches Alika Morgan  yesterday reported that two Guyanese athletes outshone Caribbean long distance champion Pamenos Ballentyne over the week-end in  Trinidad and Tobago.

Two three-day seminars will be conducted with primary school teachers from numerous schools throughout Guyana by Uwe Menzel who is a sports scientist and coach and a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (GOSC).

Alika Morgan, Janella Jonas, Letitia Myles and Carlwyn Collins had nothing short of an excellent day as they were victorious in each event they competed in at the 2008 National Youth/Junior Championships at Enmore Sports Club ground on Sunday.

The Special Events Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) took some time out during the Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) and Port Mourant clash in the Busta Champion of Champions 50 overs-a-side final yesterday to honour five members whose sterling contribution to cricket helped with the development of the game in the county, under its Tribute to Heroes programme.

Defending champions Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) easily retained their Busta Champion of Champions championship for the fourth time when they defeated beaten finalists on all four occasions Port Mourant (PM) by 47 runs in the final at the Albion Community Development Centre ground yesterday.

Of all the awards that he has won in his distinguished career, the accolade of being voted the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) `Cricketer of the Year’ must surely rank amongst the most treasured for the dependable Guyana and West Indies middle-order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Alonzo Greaves proved to be too strong for Christopher Holder surviving a puncture to win the ninth annual De Sinco/Milkaut cycle race on Saturday.

Guyana’s middle-order batsman Travis Dowlin was belatedly rewarded for his form in the Twenty20 form of the game when he was called up as a replacement for the injured Dwayne Bravo in the Stanford Twenty20 squad.

Gavin Todd won Saturday’s Medal Play Golf tournament sponsored by the New GPC Inc.

A Man-of-the-Match performance from Ghandi Youth Organization’s 16-year-old off-spinner Ricardo Devers who claimed match figures of 9-46, enabled Demerara to defeat defending champions Berbice by an innings and 45 runs in their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Clico sponsored 2008 Under-17 Inter County two-day tournament at the Wales Community Centre ground yesterday.

The distance between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and the rest in the ICC’s annual Cricketer of the Year award last week was every bit as absolute as Usain Bolt’s in the 100 metres at Beijing a fortnight earlier.

The die has been cast and  the stage set for the final of the Alpha United Carifesta football extravaganza at the Guyana National Stadium Providence, from 6pm today when the question of who will win the $1M,  Sunburst Camptown or tournament host Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will be answered.

An 82-run unbeaten partnership between Man-of-the-Match Satesh Harrinandan and Mervyn Belle enabled the Banks DIH cricket team to score a convincing nine-wicket win over Republic Bank Ltd.