Sports

By Kizan Brumell It was a proud group of participants which turned up at the National Gymnasium on Friday evening where they were awarded certificates signifying that they were successful at the inaugural examination of the Guyana Karate College held on April 15.

Roberts back in top form after injury By Kiev Chesney   Top under-18 male swimmer Niall Roberts was in excellent  form yesterday at the Colgrain pool breezing to three commanding victories in the Guyana Amateur Swimming Assoc-iations (GASA) Independ-ence swim meet. 

Garth Wattley Kingston As he left the field yesterday afternoon, captain Ricky Ponting looked pleased with the state of play at Sabina Park.

By Tony Cozier It is five years now since the selectors identified Fidel Edwards and Jerome Taylor as two young men with the potential to develop into a combination in the grand tradition of West Indies fast bowling.

By Calvin Roberts National club champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United by virtue of topping the League in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2006 /2007 Cellink Plus sponsored Premier league competition has been chosen to represent Guyana at the Cope de Guiana’s football tournament scheduled for French Guiana from June 4-9.

A new basketball tournament for first-division clubs in the mining town of Linden will bounce off this evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, hard court from 7:30pm.

A sterling performance from Mark Richards who had a game-high 22 points along with 13 rebounds and two steals enabled Prospect Jammers to lift the East Bank Demerara 14th Annual Basketball championship with a 43-39 victory over Herstelling Magic at the Burnham Court last Sunday.

Jason-Ray Khalil brushed aside Narayan Ramdhani in the boys’ Under-15 final while his sister, junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year, Ashley Khalil, won the girls’ U-17 title when the finals of the West Indies Sport Complex badminton tournament ended recently at the Queen’s College badminton courts.

By Calvin Roberts Exclusive Styles Boutique and Farfan and Mendes Limited, became the latest corporate entities to join forces with the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation for this weekend’s Novices and Intermediate championships in Berbice.

The first Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will be held tomorrow at the Board’s office Cheddi B.

Rose Hall Community Centre (RHCC) created a big upset when they defeated defending champion and pre-game favourite Albion Community Centre by 31 runs to advance to the final of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Isaac Bissoon three-day first-division cricket competition.

Beepat’s Scorpions and Maccabees Basketball Clubs will be the hosts of the inaugural Inter–Organization one-day knock-out basketball tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Monday.

– Australia, led by a superb 158 from skipper Ricky Ponting took  control of the first Digicel test at Sabina Park yesterday cruising to 301-4  with the  fiery Fidel Edwards picking up two wickets Garth Wattley in Kingston Ricky Ponting’s excellence at Sabina Park yesterday has given his Australian side immediate control of the first Test of this Digicel series.

By Tony Cozier In KINGSTON It is hardly coincidental that the West Indies’ decline to the depths of world cricket has been accompanied by an interminable spate of injuries.

By Calvin Roberts Points leaders Sunburst Camptown Football Club (13 points) and second place Guyana Defence Force (11 points) will face each other tonight at the Tucville ground as action in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Premier League competition continues.

Guyana Football Federation  (GFF) president Colin Klass along with GFF general secretary Noel Adonis and Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major will leave Guyana this morning for Sydney, Australia where they will attend a Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Congress which starts  on Wednesday, and an International Football Federation (FIFA) Congress which will be held May 29 and 30 also in Sydney, Australia.

Several of the country’s promising amateur boxers will be on show this weekend in the Neal and Massy-sponsored National Independence Intermediate Championships billed for the National Gymnasium.

By Calvin Roberts Heavy rainfall which left the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in an unplayable condition combined with  heavy winds left the organizers with no other position than to temporarily suspend the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Banks DIH Coca Cola-sponsored first-division league for teams in the mining town.

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) yesterday selected a squad of 15 players to keep the Golden Arrowhead flying at the 2008 Caribbean Area Squash Associations (CASA) Junior Squash Championships scheduled to take place from July 12-19 in Bermuda.

By Calvin Roberts Local telephone giant Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) yesterday recommitted itself to Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) when at a simple ceremony held in the boardroom of the Guyana Cricket Board they handed over a cheque for $400,000 towards the publication of the ninth edition of the club’s Youth Magazine.