Sports

With all the hoopla surrounding basketball, Stabroek Sport sought an interview with President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) and retired Guyana Defence Force Lieutenant Colonel Godwin McPherson about the problems plaguing the game.

Guyana opener Travis Dowlin was in a class of his own yesterday and it was not one that the Combined Campuses and Colleges players were accustomed to.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Premier League and Supligen round robin action continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Bourda, with three exciting matchups.

Defending champions Trinidad and Tobago sent the Windward Islands crashing out of this year’s KFC Cup competition with a comfortable seven-wicket win at the GCC ground, Bourda, yesterday.

A twelve-member team from the Harpy Eagle Martial Arts Academy of Beterverwagting under the leadership of Sensei Troy Bobb left Guyana on Tuesday to compete in the Third Annual Pan Caribbean Martial Arts Championships in Trinidad and Tobago from October 20- 21.

The Leeward Islands got off to a bad start in their opening game against Jamaica in the KFC Cup Competition at the Providence Stadium, yesterday.

An impressive spell of swing bowling from Barbados and West Indies left-arm fast bowler Pedro Collins, piloted Barbados to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over the West Indies Under-19 team in their KFC Regional Limited overs match at the Blairmont Community Centre ground yesterday.

A record 21 local and international teams are expected to participate in the fourth annual Diamond Mineral Water indoor hockey festival billed for November 29 – December 2 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

With the arrival of the Dutch and French delegations Guyana appear to be in a complete state of readiness to show its neighbouring visitors a grand weekend full of sporting excitement when they host the second stage of the 2007 Inter-Guiana Games.

The Guyana weightlifting team left one day late as another lifter, through lack of funds, was dropped from the team which will participate in the Criollo Cup weightlifting championships in Puerto Rico.

Sixteen players and two standbys have been named by the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) for the inaugural Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Caribbean Cup women’s championships billed for next month in Trinidad and Tobago.

A Man-of-the-Match innings of 70 from captain Ramnaresh Sarwan led Guyana to a three-wicket victory over the Windward Islands in their opening 2007/2008 KFC limited overs match at the Albion Community Centre ground yesterday.

Dear Editor, Success, as the saying goes, breeds, its own enemies.

Mc Gill Superstars will clash with Zeeburg Cricket Club in the final of the New Line Aqua Farm limited overs cricket tournament on Sunday at Canal Number Two Sports Club ground, West Bank Demerara.

Camptown Football Club produced a stunning upset over Premier League powerhouse Fruta Conquerors in a GFA Cellink Premier League match on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club ground.

Three days, three sporting disciplines, approximately 156 athletes and just about 45 officials and the twenty third edition of the Inter-Guiana is set to be launched on Friday.

Guyana’s three-member weightlifting team will depart today for Puerto Rico to participate in the Criollo Cup Weightlifting championships scheduled to open tomorrow.

A Herculean effort by experienced, Barbados left-handed batsman, Floyd Reifer, almost took the Combined Campuses and Colleges [CCC] to a major upset victory over defending champions, Trinidad & Tobago, as the 2007 KFC Cup 50-over tournament bowled off yesterday at the Providence Stadium.

Alika Morgan did not spare a soul as she dominated all of her events to once again qualify for the national secondary schools athletic championships.

Guyana, a country which has won the regional limited overs competition on nine occasions faces the Windward Islands, finalists of the 2006 competition today at the Blairmont Community Development Centre ground in the opening round of the KFC Cup limited overs cricket competition.