It was a one-two finish Saturday for Guyanese athletes Lionel D’Andrade and Kelvin Johnson in the fourth series of the Kiss Company 5k races in Trinidad with D’Andrade edging compatriot Johnson by the narrowest of margin for first place.
Guyana’s squash teams captured the overall team title when the curtain came down on the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Senior Squash championships Saturday night at the Georgetown Club courts.
The international motor racing meet set for Sunday, August 31 at Bushy Park in Barbados will see an invasion of Guyanese drivers and riders led by Group Four driving aces Andrew King and Kevin Jeffrey, Group Three stars Kamal Seebaran and Canadian Shawn King and Group 2B champion Gavin Gouveia.
– Chubby Under-14 Championship At the Tucville football playfield yesterday, Strike Again Football Club trashed their Georgetown counterparts Sunburst Camptown Football Club as action in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA)/Guyana Beverage Company sponsored Chubby Under-14 round robin competition continued.
A soggy Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Queenstown ground, caused by heavy overnight rains, prevented any play in one of the penultimate round matches between leaders Georgetown and East Bank in the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/ Gizmos and Gadgets/ GT&T sponsored Inter-Association under-17 50 overs competition yesterday.
With two new sponsors onboard, cricket on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) is set to reach new heights when the W&H Rambarran Marine and R&W Supermarket sponsored Twenty20 competition commences shortly.
A two-day trial match to be played next Tuesday and Wednesday will decide the composition of the Berbice Under-17 squad that will do battle with Demerara and Essequibo in the CLICO Under-17 Inter- County Championships slated to commence on September 6.
The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) recently held its seventh cricket academy under the theme ‘Cricket, a healthy way to life’ at the Lusignan Community Centre ground yesterday.
Georgetown’s Regal XI defeated their Berbice’s opponents Untouchables XI at the Eve-Leary ground by seven runs in a brilliant display of cricket in the Guyana Softball League (GSL) organized Banks DIH 15 over softball tournament played this past Sunday.
Santos Football Club ad-vanced to the next round while the Sunburst Camptown and Pouderoyen Football Clubs encounter ended in a controversy when action in the Alpha United Carifesta 2008 organized $2.2 million football extravaganza continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Thursday night.
As football fans gear-up for the Digicel Caribbean Championships, Digicel, proud sponsor of Caribbean Football, is leaving “no stones unturned” in making sure that the Cayman football experience is thrilling!
A miserly spell of fast bowling from Seon Daniels (3-16) backed by a workmanlike innings of 40 from Quincy Ovid steered Georgetown Under-17 to their second successive victory over West Demerara Under-17 when action in the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/ Gizmos and Gadgets/ GT&T sponsored Under-17 Inter–Association competition continued at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.
The Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) has called up 38 cricketers to trial for the upcoming senior El Dorado Inter-County 50 overs cricket competition that is set to commence on Saturday, 6th September.
Although the male and female individual titles have already been won by Shawn Simpson of Barbados and Guyanese Nicolette Fernandes, the team component of the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Squash Championships was officially opened yesterday.
A responsible innings by captain Dexter Solomon (56, 2×4) guided Georgetown under-17 to a crushing 103 runs victory over their East Coast counterparts as action in the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/ Gizmos and Gadgets/GT&T sponsored Inter-Association under-17 limited overs competition commenced yesterday.
An all-round performance from Guyana/Stanford Twenty20 star Dion Ferrier, enabled Dutch Fort to come out on top over Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) in the final of the fifth Annual Asgar Ally Memorial Twenty20 competition held last Sunday at the Dutch Fort ground.
Local cyclists will again be showcasing their abilities when they pedal up the road Sunday in the Ocean View International 60-mile cycle road race organized by national cycling coach Hassan Mohammed from 07:30hrs.
Lower Corentyne drew first blood from Upper Corentyne, thanks to Guyana under-15 left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie who had a first innings haul of four wickets.
GFC dusts aside Santos The Georgetown Football Club (GFC) on Wednesday gained its second victory of the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Chubby Under-14 round robin Competition when they defeated Santos Football Club at the Tucville Playfield on Day Two of the tournament.
The Guyana Cricket Umpires Council (GCUC) now has six new faces added to its ranks following their successful participation at their preliminary examinations held earlier this year.
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