Sports

– Denzel Hopkinson’s rise in the sport of table tennis has been nothing short of meteoric By Donald Duff At first glance, Denzel Hopkinson appears to be your average teenager, now discovering the joys of life and sport.

By Orin Davidson The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)  cannot help shooting itself in the foot even if euphemism is  eliminated completely from the English language.

The Neal and Massy Group of Companies will sponsor the 2008 National Independence Intermediate Amateur Boxing championships billed for next Friday to Sunday at the National Gymnasium.

In a last minute push towards qualification for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, current national sprint champion Rawle Greene and overseas-based Guyanese Lee Powell secured comfortable victories in their respective 100m heats on Friday to qualify for the 100m final of the Hampton International Games at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, Trinidad.

Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), with an overall tally of 234 games, stamped its authority on Banks DIH with 206 and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) with 196 games, to win the three-way aggregate female dominoes series when the curtain came down on the tournament Friday evening at Thirst Park.

By Calvin RobertsBlue Berry Hill United created an upset whilst Topp XX continued their fine showing in the Upper Demerara Football Sub Association Banks DIH Coca Cola sponsored first division competition when they scored victories over Eagles United Blue and Silver Shattas respectively at the Mc Kenzie sports Club ground last Friday night.

Wonder boy Jean-Claude Jeffrey suffered his first defeat whilst Raphael de Groot continued on his path to a match up with top seed Kristian Jeffrey as action in the Woodpecker Products national Junior squash championships continued at the Georgetown Courts Friday night.

– Woodpecker Products National Junior Squash Championship, 2008 By Calvin Roberts   Seventeen-year-old Raphael de Groot continued his dream run whilst Kristian Jeffrey steamrolled his opponents when action in the 2008 Woodpecker Products-sponsored National Junior Squash Championships continued at the Georgetown Club courts Thursday evening.

By Calvin Roberts Just over a week ago the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) launched its second-division limited overs competition under the sponsorship of Edward B.

The Everest Cricket Club ground will be a buzz of activity from 17.30 hrs today when national softball champions Scottsburg United of Corriverton and Ganesh Singh and Brothers of Crabwood Creek invade Georgetown to take on two Floodlights XI select squads in two 20-overs-a-side softball matches.

Asks Tony Cozier When Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined by the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) for providing “routine pitch and weather details” to bookmakers during Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka in 1994 (an incident that took four years to come to light), both acknowledged that they had been “naïve and stupid.”

The presentation ceremony of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) which was held on May 2 at the Georgetown Cricket Club will  be broadcast tonight  on the National Communications Network (Channel 11) from 9.05pm.

By Calvin Roberts Siblings Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani and Anissa Rodrigues came out champions in their respective divisions when action in the West Indian Sports Complex sponsored Guyana Badminton Association Junior badminton championships at the Queen’s College badminton courts continued on Wednesday.

Heavy rainfall in the mining town of Linden left the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground in an unplayable condition thus forcing the postponement of the Upper Demerara Football Association Banks DIH Coca Cola sponsored first division competition.

By Calvin Roberts Pint-sized, 11-year-old Jean Claude Jeffrey proved to all and sundry that he will be a force to reckon with in the boys’ under-15 division of the Woodpecker Products 2008 National Junior Squash competition when he pulled off a stunning upset  win  over his more illustrious opponent Nyron Joseph at the Georgetown Club, Wednesday night.

-but Jeffrey, Arjoon and Khalil score easy wins By Calvin Roberts Raphael de Groot was pushed to the limit but Kristian Jeffrey, Alex Arjoon and Ashley Khalil scored easy wins as action in the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) Woodpecker Products Limited-sponsored National Junior Championships got underway at the Georgetown Club courts Tuesday night.

Peter Grimes (85), Michael Kendall (52 and 4-0) and Ravi Narine 5-5 highlighted the first round of the Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Neal and Massey sponsored 40 overs first division cricket competition which got under way last Sunday in the Ancient County.

Untouchables of Berbice played unbeaten last Sunday when action in the Banks DIH sponsored Guyana Softball Cricket Association (GSCA) 15 overs a side competition continued.

– The latest tour of the West Indies by the world’s best cricket unit could be an eye opener for cricket in the West Indies in several ways asks Donald Duff After securing a creditable 1-1 series draw with Sri Lanka  in the 2008 Digicel Home series and then winning the One-Dayers 2-0, cricket fans in the region are awaiting with bated breath the arrival of the `Awesome Aussies’ and the subsequent three-test series.

Shuttles took flight last Monday at the Queen’s College badminton facility when more than 40 players competed on the courts at the West Indies Sports Complex Junior Badminton tournament organized by the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA).