Sports

By Calvin RobertsThe 5th Annual St Lucia Kashif and Shanghai football competition is set to kick off on Sunday in the island with teams from neighbouring St.

Skeldon High School emerged top of their Upper Corentyne group when action in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Republic Bank sponsored Right Start under-15 Inter secondary school cricket competition continued in the county of Berbice recently.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association in collaboration with the National Sports Commission will be staging its annual Independence tournament starting this Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

  Defending champions Everest Hikers came from a goal down to squeeze past arch-rivals Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) 4-3 in the opening  match of the 2008 Farfan and Mendes first division men’s hockey league last Sunday at Bourda.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has opened  a new boxing gym at the Parika Mora ‘Community Development Centre’ (CDC).

Cyclists who are interested in participating on the upcoming 26th Annual Independence three stage cycle road race that is scheduled to pedal off this weekend are being reminded that registration for the event closes today at 1600hrs.

The Lusignan Golf Course will buzz with activity this weekend when furniture giant Courts Guyana Inc.

By Kiev Chesney Initiator of the Benschop Foundation, Mark Benschop, yesterday secured a range of sporting equipment valued at approximately $200,000 from the proprietor of West Indies Sports Complex, Mohamed Feroze Khan.

-calls on government to do more for basketball By Kiev Chesney After shinning as one of the premier scorers in the Asian Basketball League, Andrew ‘Mr.

Guyana’s Under-20 footballers are expected to begin their quest for a spot in the 2009 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship tomorrow when the Caribbean Zone qualification kicks off in Grenada.

By Calvin RobertsAn impressive spell of leg spin bowling from former national under-15 leg spinner Abdel Fudadin helped Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) defeat Leguan Community centre by 55 runs to claim the third position behind winners Malteenoes Sports Club and runners up Albion Community Centre Cricket Clubs respectively when the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored national first division Twenty20 competition climaxed at the Albion Sports Complex on Sunday.

By Calvin Roberts A destructive spell of leg spin bowling from Berbice under-15 leg spinner Shawn Pereira  enabled Corentyne Compre-hensive High School (CCHS) to inflict a 7 wicket victory over Canje Secondary when the two met in the final of the inaugural Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club organized Kool Kidz Twenty20 tournament sponsored by the Guyana Beverage Company.

Rose Hall Community Centre (RHCC) resisted the arrest of Berbice Police Sports Club to romp to a 53-run victory in their replayed (originally rained out) preliminary round match in the 2007 Telenec Inc.

– Alpha United and Santos play to draw By Kizan Brumell Sunburst Camptown blew away Pele ‘Football Club’ (FC)  2 – 1 in their  showdown on Sunday night at the Tucville Playfield whilst Santos FC had a ‘plaster for every sore’ against Alpha United drawing their encounter 0-0 on Mother’s Day (evening) as the Guyana Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus first division league continued.

By Kizan Brumell The East Coast cricket team led by Mark Harper came out victorious at the inaugural Celebrity Cricket Softball Tournament held during the annual Mothers’ Union Family Fun Day and Fair at the Young Men Christian Association Ground, (YMCA) Thomas Lands recently.

(reprinted from FIFA.com) Since founding their FA in 1920 Guyana’s Golden Jaguars never left much of a footprint on CONCACAF football.

By Calvin Roberts A man of the match performance from Guyana /Stanford Twenty 20 star Orin Forde, helped Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) defeat Albion Community Centre by eight runs to win the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Carib Beer/ Pepsi sponsored national Twenty20 championship for first division clubs, yesterday, at the Albion Sports Complex ground.

The Nets pushed aside Maccabees 70-54 in the semifinal of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Associa-tion’s (GABA) Bryden’s second division league on Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Maverick cricket team won twice as Zone `B’ matches of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Neal and Massy 40-overs-a-side national club competition continued at several venues recently.

The Guyana Badminton Association West Indian Sports Complex-sponsored boys and girls’ singles tournament will commence this afternoon at the Queen’s College badminton Courts.