The Guyana national football team will play a friendly match against the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors today at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva from 4.00pm, a press release from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) said yesterday.
Kelvin Johnson endured the rough, murky waters of the Berbice River, and the gruelling cycling and running segments to outdo the rest of the field in defending his 2007 Triathlon title and winning the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport 2008 Triathlon this past weekend.
– The West Indies came out on the wrong end of several umpiring decisions yesterday and face an uphill task to save the second test Garth Wattley St John’s Catches, they say, determine matches.
By Tony Cozier in St. John’sThere have been innumerable umpiring errors that have altered the course, if not determined the outcome, of Test matches down the years.
Local martial arts expert Troy Bobb gained his fifth title at the United States Karate Alliance National Champion-ships which was held from March 27-30 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the USA.
The Golden Warriors won the under-13 category, while the Rockers won the under-17 category of the Scotia Bank junior hockey tournament which concluded on Sunday at the National Gymnasium.
`We are not living a champagne life’ By Calvin Roberts Technical Director of the Guyana national football team now preparing for its first World Cup qualifying match against Suriname, Trinidadian Jamaal Shabbaz, yesterday appealed to corporate Guyana for financial assistance to aid the team’s preparation.
GT B/ballers send both visitors packing; U-20 punish Linden by 31; Seniors brush off NA by 22 Georgetown dominated the first night of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Federation’s Inter Sub-Association Senior and U-20 Championships Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, recording mammoth victories against their New Amsterdam and Linden Association counterparts by a combined margin of 53 points.
By Kiev Chesney Wang Jin, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Jungao, paid a visit and actively participated in one of the training sessions of the Guyana Wushu Association yesterday afternoon at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The nationwide Kazak dominoes competition organized by the Guyana National Dominoes Federation (GNDF) and sponsored by beverage giants Banks DIH Limited under its Kazak brand, has reached the play-off stage.
By Calvin Roberts Once again, the heavy rainfall associated with this time of the year has prevented any play in the two semifinal matches of the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC)/TELENEC-sponsored 2007 50 overs a side first division semifinal matches that were scheduled for last weekend.
By Calvin Roberts An impressive spell of medium-fast bowling from national all-rounder Christopher Barnwell, who took 5-12, enabled Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) to inflict a thrashing on West Demerara’s New Line Cavaliers and claim the $50,000 first prize and a trophy in a specially-arranged Twenty20 cricket match at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground Friday night.
Meusa wins men’s singles Paul Meusa defeated Colin France 3-2 on Friday to claim the men’s singles title of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) and National Sports Commission (NSC)-sponsored In-dependence tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
– Australia held up by rain, West Indies batsmen Garth Wattley in St John’sFor two sessions yesterday, moisture would not leave the turf at the US$22 million Sir Vivian Richards Stadium here.
Ronald Bulkhan, playing with a handicap 21, recorded a gross 89 to finish with a net 68 and triumph in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) golf tournament played last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course.
By Tony Cozier In ST.JOHN’S It is the finest of the fine, new and reconstructed stadiums prepared for last year’s World Cup, but in the year-and-a-half since its opening, the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium has become an expensive embarrassment.
-sponsor promises bigger and better competition next year By Calvin Roberts Competition winners Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) carted off the bulk of the awards when the Georgetown Cricket Association held its Lifetime Realty and Construction Under-15 presentation even as the sponsor promised a bigger and better competition next year.
National table tennis player Matthew Khan produced the best performance of his career in the USA by winning his first Open singles event, the Annual Spinnathon Table Tennis tournament.
– Alpha and Pele play to a draw A Michael Rowe double enabled Georgetown Football Club (GFC) to turn back the challenge of Uprising while defending champions Alpha United and Pele Football Club played to a 0-0 stale mate when action in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus-sponsored Premier League competition continued at the Tucville ground last Friday.
– believes Windies can level series By Calvin Roberts Guyana’s latest Test player Sewnarine Chattergoon is ready to have a go at world champions Australia in the present Digicel home series against the West Indies.
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