Sports

Alonzo Greaves and the other top finishers will finally get the opportunity to lay their hands on their coveted prizes won in the recently-concluded ‘Tour de Guyana’ five-stage cycle road race.

Alpha United and BV/ Triumph United are the first teams through to the semi-finals of the NAMILCO knockout football Festival following tough quarter-final matches Tuesday evening at the Tucville Playfield.

The Berbice Cricket Board TELENEC 50-over first division cricket competition continued last week-end with five matches in the sixth round.

The Essequibo Cricket Board has selected a 14-man squad that will contest the upcoming Senior Inter-County 20/20 competition scheduled to begin on Saturday at the National Stadium, Providence.

The Kashif and Shanghai organization on Tuesday received the sum of $500,000 from Bosai Mineral Group Guyana Inc.,

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Supligen U-20 competition will continue today with two Group `B’ matches at different venues.

This year’s national championships might have been affected by a lack of cooperation between the government, the Guyana Teachers Union and the regional representatives but it did not lack talent.

Guyana, led by a flambouyant innings from opener Sewnarine Chattergoon defeated Team USA/Guyana by three wickets at the Albion Community Development Centre ground yesterday.

West Indian Rugby Union’s two development teams dominated the Carib International Rugby Sevens over the weekend in Trinidad and Tobago.

Berbice spoilers Monedder-lust will be looking to continue their fairy tale run when they oppose the Guyana Defence Force in the second set of quarter-final matches in the NAMILCO knockout Football festival this evening at the Tucville Playfield.

The Georgetown Super Eight divisions one and two knockout basketball tournament will resume this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with the remaining first round matches.

Fearless Flyers, a female netball team from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) made their debut in the national netball championships last week-end at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Alika Morgan ended her international running season for this year on an immensely successful note with two victories at the 25th Annual Run Barbados event held last week-end in the Flying Fish island.

In one of the most lop-sided finals, Guyana’s Everest Hikers hammered Malvern Hockey Club of Trinidad and Tobago 11-2 to win the men’s final, while Georgetown Cricket Club made it a Guyanese double when they dethroned Raiders in the ladies’ final of the Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Today’s matches of Mayor Hamilton Green’s 73rd birth anniversary inter-ward, street/village seven-a- side football tournament have been postponed because of the inclement weather organizer Lennox Arthur said yesterday.

Young Warriors Cricket Club and Albion Community Centre have advanced to the semifinals as action in the Berbice leg of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored national 20/20 cricket competition for first division clubs continued last weekend with five matches played.

Yesterday’s final day of the 2007 National Swimming Championships ended as it began with more records falling and lots of exciting races.

Leer Nunes captured the fifth and final stage of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport five stage event but Alonzo Greaves won the overallevent and the first prize of $200,000 when the event climaxed yesterday morning on Homestrectch Avenue.

Top local men’s first division Club Everest Hikers have booked a place in the final and seem set to win their second title in three years when the curtains came down on the fourth Annual Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival last night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A whirlwind unbeaten 40 from middle-order batsman Keiron Pollard helped Trinidad and Tobago defeat Guyana by eight runs at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday to cart off the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Cup.