Goodluck leads charge on second day Guyana’s Ransford Goodluck led his country’s charge as first day leader Dylan Fields dropped to fourth place at the end of day two of the West Indies Full Bore Shooting championships ‘X’ Class Individual competition at the Twickenham Rifle Range in Jamaica.
– Move over Michelle John and Trenace Lowe. There is a new kid on the block and his name is Nigel Bryan By Donald Duff Their battles have been epic ones and have taken place at home here in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean, but there is a new face of table tennis in Guyana and the name is not Lowe nor John but Bryan.
Amelia’s Ward United Football Club got their 2008 season off to a successful start when they defeated Winners Connections 2-1 in their first game of the Upper Demerara Football Sub Association 2008 League competition at the Mackenzie sports Club (MSC) ground Tuesday night.
– Courts to sponsor tourney By Kizan Brumell A `blast from the past’ has returned in the form of the once annual Peewee football competition.
The Kennard Memorial Turf Club will bed a buzz of activity when it runs off its annual pre-independence Race meet next Sunday with seven events carded for the day including the feature race for `C’ and Lower Class horses.
By Kiev Chesney The first stage for the 2008 Inter-Guiana Games blossomed yesterday morning as host country Suriname put on a cultural extravaganza at the Parima Swimming facility for the other two participating countries, Guyana and French Guiana- who collectively completed a journey of more than 36 hours.
– Heyliger misses out on ton By Calvin Roberts Keon Greavsande (66) Stephen Latcha (5-53) and Sahadeo Somai (4-66) were the outstanding performers on the second day of the first three-day Under-19 trial match at the Malteenoes Sports Club ground organized by the Guyana Cricket Board.
Athletics will retain unbeaten run, says Wilson By Kiev Chesney Manager of this year’s Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) athletics team, Lynden Wilson, is confident that the athletics team will maintain its winning streak at the 2008 IGG which starts today in Suriname.
By Kiev Chesney President of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) Gokarn Ramdhani, donned his playing apparel and teamed up with Mark Chang to win the men’s doubles final of the (GBA) Open doubles tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last Friday.
Vice-captain of the Guyana Fullbore shooting team, Dylan Fields, led the first day’s aggregate at the West Indies Rifle Shooting Champion-ships at the Twickenham Rifle Ranges in Jamaica yesterday.
By Calvin Roberts An unbeaten 81 from Essequibo all rounder Dellon Heyliger, helped guide Eugene La Fleur’s XI to 262-8 at the end of the first day of the first three-day trial match organized by the Guyana Cricket Board against Royston Alkins’s XI at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) ground Thomas Lands yesterday.
Led by solid half centuries from Steven Jacobs and Shemroy Barrington, the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) blew away Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar by 88 runs yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground (GCC) in the Carib Beer Pepsi Cup Tournament.
By Calvin Roberts The size and weight advantages held by Trinidad and Tobago’s rugby players caused defending champions Guyana to go down to their opponents in the final of the North American West Indies Rugby Association (NAWIRA) 15’s World Cup qualifying competition in the Grand Cayman last Sunday.
By Calvin RobertsAmericas Development notched up their first victory in the knock out phase of the CLICO Under-15 International cricket tournament when they defeated Holland by 75 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis system in their rain ruined match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground yesterday.
By Calvin Roberts Canje Secondary and Skeldon High have advanced to the semi- finals of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club/Kool Kidz- sponsored inter-secondary schools under-19 twenty20 cricket competition, after scoring contrasting victories over their quarterfinal opponents last Friday.
The first leg of the semi–final in the Barakat Brothers 20/20 Knockout Cricket Competi-tion was decided last weekend as Parika Warriors and Cornelia Ida recorded victories over Ruby and Rangers respectively at the Meten-Meer-Zorg ground, West Demerara.
GCC scores 3-1 win over Old Fort Georgetown Cricket Club men’s second division team signalled its intention of repeating their dominance of last year when they scored a 3-1 win over Old Fort in the opening match of the John Fernandes Insurance second division men’s hockey league played Monday at Bourda.
Athletes compete for medals and trophies, not crockery Last Sunday at the President’s Invitational Grand Prix, the ‘crème de la crème’ of local athletic talent was on show at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.
A celebrity cricket tournament involving a former Test player, four former first-class players and an ex-Guyana under-19 batsman will be the feature attraction on May 5 when the Diocese of Guyana Mothers’Union holds its Family Fun Day at the YMCA ground in Thomas Lands.
The Everest Cricket Club ground will come alive once again tonight when managing director of Unipart’s and Roti Plus of Sheriff Street, Mohabir Dudnauth sponsors a 25 overs-a-side match featuring an Everest and Unipart’s XI team with the latter being selected by Dudnauth himself.
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