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The Leslie Amsterdam Memorial U-17 limited overs cricket competition will begin as soon as the composition of the five Zonal teams is confirmed and the weather holds.

From Calvin Roberts @ Lester Vaughn Secondary School, Cane Garden, St.

-Forde can no longer clutch unqualified status as a result By Kiev Chesney Overseas-based Guyanese athlete Adam Harris will be attending the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games as Guyana’s only qualified male athlete, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has revealed.

Weather permitting, golfers will tee off in the Neal and Massey 40th Anniversary sponsored tournament tomorrow at the Lusignan Golf Course.

By Ravendra Kishore Guyana’s junior welterweight boxer Akeem Alexander became the first of seven Guyanese boxers to reach the semi-finals of the Junior Caribbean Amateur Boxing Championships currently being held in Trinidad.

By Ravendra Kishore Leading group three racer Ryan Rahaman plans to extend his championship point’s lead when he takes on a strong field this coming Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit in the third race meet of the year dubbed the `Ultimate Race of Champions.’

-28 players in training, final 12 will be named in 10 weeks By Kiev Chesney Guyana’s quest to successfully defend their male basketball championship title this November at the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) in French Guiana will be aided this year by a relatively large pool of players who have begun training according to President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Chris Bowman.

The Apex-funded second annual exhibition Martial Arts tournament held last weekend saw Black Hawks walking away with the lion’s share of the trophies and medals with host Harpy Eagles also excelling.

-National Squash Coach Carl Ince gives the secrets to Guyana’s dominant year at the CASA Caribbean Junior Championships By Kiev Chesney The Guyana Junior Squash team was clearly the most successful team at the 2008 Caribbean Squash Area Caribbean Junior Champion-ships having captured the most individual titles and winning both male and female team events to convincingly wrap up their 16th overall title.

-Defending champions in must win situation in order to successfully defend title From Calvin Roberts in Barbados Compliments of Smalta, Cummings Electrical, Life-time Realty, P&P Insurance, Cellular Plus and Hanes (Guyana) Limited Defending champions Guyana find themselves in a must-win situation if they want to retain their West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/TCL sponsored Regional Under-19 three-day title when the final round commences today.

Persaud promises motor racing fans a treat President of the Guyana Motor Racing Sports Club Vishok Persaud has promised motor racing fans a treat this Sunday when round three of the 2008 Motor Racing championships takes place.

The Future Star Cricket Camp which began last week at the National Insurance Scheme ground under the watchful eyes of Programme Coordinator Edwin Seeraj and coach Oswald Waldrond yesterday attracted president of the Georgetown Cricket Association Bish Panday.

– Gaskin and Jackson-sponsored national Open boxing c/ships postponed The scheduled third night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) national open boxing championships at the National Gymnasium was knocked out by a blackout.

– Regal XI turn tables Dare Devils XI thrashed Eccles Sports Club XI and Tradesmen XI in their first and third matches but Regal XI gave them a dose of their own medicine in their second match at the National Insurance Scheme ground when the Banks DIH 15-Overs Softball Tournament continued.

-Roberts to carry torch on final leg By Kiev Chesney In order to raise awareness of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games in Guyana, Banks DIH Ltd, as the authorized distributor of Coca Cola locally, has decided to partner with the Guyana Olympic Association to put on the Coca Cola Caravan beginning at the 9:30am this Saturday at the National Stadium, Providence.

Led by Trinidad and Tobago trained Sensei Garfield Newton, the Black Hawk Martial Arts club, based at the South Ruimveldt Secondary School, took home 29 medals at the recently concluded two-day martial arts show at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Four Guyanese cricketers including West Indies vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and all rounders Travis Dowlin and Lennox Cush have been named in a preliminary 32-member Stanford Twenty20 squad that will take on England for a US$20M prize on November 1 in Antigua.

By Kizan Brumell Roy Franker of the Harpy Eagle Gym turned in a crowd pleasing performance when he stopped Edwin Jones on Monday night in their lightweight contest as the Gaskin and Jackson Jewellers-sponsored National Open amateur boxing championships continued at the National Gymnasium.

The Guyana Karate College is celebrating its 40 th anniversary and yesterday the college held a Press conference at Sleep Inn International to highlight the planned activities of the college.

By Calvin Roberts At Yorkshire Cricket Ground, Barbados Compliments of Smalta, Cummings Electrical, Lifetime Realty, P&P Insurance, Cellular Plus and Hanes (Guyana) LimitedA defiant 85 from captain Eugene La Fleur prevented Jamaica from scoring an outright win over the defending champions as their fourth round match in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/TCL sponsored 2008 under-19 tournament ended in a tense draw at the Yorkshire Cricket Club ground, yesterday.