Sports

By Calvin Roberts Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) and Young Warriors Cricket clubs will meet in the final of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC)/ Sprite- sponsored Twenty20 final after they both scored resounding victories over their opponents on Sunday.

The Banks DIH Thirst Park ground will come alive tomorrow with the staging of the quarter-finals of the Mayor’s Cup Inter-Village/Ward/Street seven-a-side, knockout football competition which is sponsored by AH Sports, Beepat & Sons and Banks DIH Ltd.

By Kizan Brumell Guyana’s most recognized bodybuilder, Hugh Ross, who is from the town of Berbice was honoured by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) and the sports club also donated over $125,000 in educational and hygienic kits  to the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF)  on Tuesday April 15 at the Club’s Office, Area ‘H’ Ground, Berbice.

-but GNIC declared league champions By Kizan Brumell The Guyana Industrial Corporation and the Malteenoes Sports Club were yesterday declared joint champions of the 2007 four-day Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Cellink Plus first-division competition after the grand finale which ended yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground, failed to produce an outright winner.

By Kiev Chesney The Venezuelan Embassy has decided to aid in the development of amateur boxing and has donated a quantity of boxing equipment to the governing body for the sport locally and also to a promising young boxer.

By Calvin Roberts DeSinco Trading Limited became the latest business entity to join forces with the Georgetown Cricket Assoc-iation (GCA) when they handed over trophies and a cheque worth $350,000.00 for sponsorship of their Under-19 limited overs competition to the GCA on Friday.

By Calvin Roberts The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) through its Ramnaresh Sarwan Educational Trust Fund held its second annual presentation ceremony on Thursday where 14 students drawn from seven schools in the Lower Corentyne area received educational materials plus financial assistance at the Lower Corentyne Secondary school.

By Kiev Chesney A swashbuckling innings on 93 not out from Berbice skipper Eugene La Fleur led his team to the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Inter-County limited overs title after theydefeated arch rivals Demerara by 143 runs at the National Stadium at Providence yesterday.

Bhojnarine Persaud was adjudged the best lifter when the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) held its Novices Championships recently at the Rosignol Primary School, West Coast Berbice.

Two Guyanese coaches are currently attending the English Football Assoc-iation’s level three coaches course in Trinidad and Tobago.

Alonzo Greaves, in a time of one hour, 26 minutes and 16 seconds, won the schoolboys and novices category of the Universal Auto General Supplies-sponsored cycling programme on Saturday around the inner circuit of the National Park.

– $200,000 for  champion team The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) Invitational Twenty 20 first division club tournament will be officially launched today at the club’s pavilion, Thomas Lands from 10:30hrs.

By Kizan Brumell After the considerable hype over the inaugural Hugh Ross Classic, the day of reckoning is finally here and come tomorrow, the winners of the two categories will be basking in undoubted glory.

By Calvin Roberts That’s the scenario when Demerara takes on Berbice in the final round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ GTM-sponsored Under-19 limited over competition at the National Stadium today.

By Kizan Brumell Half-centuries from Imran `Taliban’  Hussain and Danny Narayan  ensured Malteenoes gain a first innings lead over Guyana National Industrial Corporation in the final of the  Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Cellink Plus first-division three-day final at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Bourda ground yesterday.

That man ChanderpaulIt was probably a good thing that Shivnarine Chanderpaul was rested for the rained out final One Day International between the West Indies and Sri Lanka in St Lucia.

By Tony Cozier Introduced with a budget exceeding that of several West Indian governments and pay packets for principal players unimaginable even in an age when millionaires in professional sports proliferate, cricket’s universal attention has been riveted these past few months on the Indian Premier League (IPL).

I remember Mark Harris with love Dear Sir, The death of Mark Harris in February 2008 left me with mixed feelings at the time.

By Kizan Brumell Alpha United and Pele Football Club bulldozed their way to victories in matches of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFA) Guyana Telephone and Telegraphy (GT&T) Cellink Plus Premier League first division competition at the Tucville Playfield Friday night.

By Calvin Roberts Reigning national softball champions Scottsburg United of Corriverton will take on Floodlights XI of Georgetown in a 25 overs softball match at the Crabwood Creek cricket ground today for the Bier Singh Memorial Trophy from 13:00hrs (1:00pm).