Sports

The Annual Presentation of Awards of the Guyana National Rifle Association will take place today at Police Officers Mess at Eve Leary starting at 2 pm.

Four days before the first of their three Tests against South Africa, the West Indies should have been engaged yesterday in their last chance for meaningful match practice against the strong opposition of South Africa ‘A’ in East London.

Crisis follows crisis for West Indies cricket with unrelenting frequency and the latest, already formed, has become more pressing four days before the first Test against South Africa here on Boxing Day.

Born November 17, 1982, Albert La Rose has overcome many obstacles during his 10-year rugby career in his quest to become one of, if not the region’s top scrum half.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) will shortly embark on a comprehensive four-year programme which will include bidding to host a major regional women’s tournament, acquiring its own ground and administrative office and working towards qualifying for the 2009 World Cup Sevens championships in Dubai.

On Thursday, former West Indies Cricket Board, (WICB) CEO Bruce Aanensen slammed the board saying its many directors were interfering with the management of the game even as the board.

One of Georgetown’s leading football teams Camptown has landed sponsorship from Continental Group of Companies and will now be known as Sunburst Camptown Football Club.

Western Tigers began their redemption path in the 18th annual Kashif and Shangai football tournament with a convincing 4-1 victory over Silver Shattas in the feature match of the double-header opener at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Wednesday night.

The Guyana national junior badminton squad finished superior to the 27-member Barbadian contingent in the first ever Guyana Classic International junior badmminton tournament which ended on Tuesday evening at the Queen’s College auditorium.

Once again, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its El Dorado brand rum, will be running off its ‘Day at the Races’ on December 26 in collaboration with the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) at the club’s venue Bush Lot, Corentyne, Berbice.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday expressed shock over the news of the death of former national footballer Neil Hernandez who died tragically on Monday.

Action in the 18th annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament which happens to be the marquee event on the local football calendar commences tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground with a double header as the hunt for the $750,000.00 first prize begins.

It has taken only a few brief encounters, a couple as brief as a single over, to appreciate that fast bowling will be a prominent factor in the West Indies’ forthcoming Test series against South Africa.

After taking a sound beating in the younger age categories, the Barbadian Under -17 and Under-19 players took revenge by eliminating all of the local favourites from the semi-final round of the Guyana Classic International Badminton singles tournament against Barbados.

Hockey in Guyana could face a further decline or even death should the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) fail to acquire an artificial pitch in the not too distance future.

“We refuse to roll over and die, we will not go quietly into the night.”

On the basis of performances in 2007, the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) has identified their top 10 cyclists for the year and plans to introduce a classification and a relegation system in the new year.

NOW a weakling frequently roughed up by the contemporary powerhouses of world cricket, the West Indies last night engaged in a little of the bullying that once made them the most feared team in the game.

The Ravens’ Basketball Club Saturday night proved itself to undoubtedly be George-town’s best when they swept aside the Nets in two straight games to become the last team standing in the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association/Next Level Entertainment/Banks DIH Super-Eight Knockout competition.

Narayan Ramdhani, Darius Ali and Rose Mendes each secured a pair of impressive wins when they competed against players from Barbados in the singles event of the Guyana Classic International Junior Bad-minton Tournament on Saturday at the Queen’s College auditorium.