Sports

The Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar cricket club was yesterday the recipient of two cheques totalling $230,000 from David Burgess, proprietor of Windies Sports Bar.

The Kashif and Shanghai football tournament yesterday received one of its major prizes for its year-end football extravaganza when Faizal Khan of Temptation Promotions Ltd.

Most of the foreign players have arrived and the stage is set for the fourth annual Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival which gets cracking this afternoon with four matches at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Enterprise Sports Club (ESC) humbled Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) when the two arch-rivals clashed at the Enterprise Community Centre ground on Sunday.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday made a sizeable donation to the West Indies Rugby Union (WIRU) to jump start preparation for the 2008 Rugby World Series in San Diego, California USA.

A stellar performance by Sultan Safdar powered Enterprise Sports Club (ESC) to a crushing win over North Soesdyke in the semi-final of the Hand-in-Hand first-division limited-overs cricket competition on Saturday.

Guyana’s hockey teams will be looking to change their fortunes at this year’s Diamond Mineral Water (DMW) Hockey Festival which opens tomorrow evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A 14-man squad has been named to represent Guyana in the Twenty/20 cricket match against the visiting Daren Ganga led Trinidad and Tobago side at the National Stadium, Providence, on Sunday.

Eight sub-associations of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will battle for supremacy in the Pepsi Cup Under-17 football championship billed to kick off on December 8 with four matches at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The fourth round of matches in the Berbice Cricket Board Isaac Bissoon three-day first division cricket competition ended recently with the highlight of the round being the innings of Young Warriors Damodar Daesrat and Paul Wintz.

Kriskal Persaud first came to attention on the local chess scene as a diminutive 12-year-old junior player from Berbice.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis has made a call to the local corporate community to offer support to Guyana’s rugby efforts since the local men’s side is likely to represent the region at the World Cup Sevens championships in 2009.

Dwayne Bravo’s upgrade to the vice-captaincy for the forthcoming West Indies tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa places a new responsibility on a dynamic, richly talented all-round cricketer whose game has begun to drift into the worrying underachievement that has overcome so many others in the team.

Hosts Fruta Conquerors will go into action tomorrow as play in the fourth annual Fruta Conquerors Knockout Football Festival sponsored by the National Milling Company (Namilco) continues at the Tucville playfield under lights.

By Troy Peters The national men’s Under-21 squad will participate in this year’s Diamond Mineral Water (DMW) Hockey Festival and they will collide with Malvern of Trinidad and Tobago in the opening match of the tournament on Thursday afternoon at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The much talked-about Olympic-size swimming pool to be constructed by the Guyana government seems one step closer to realization with the recent announcement that tenders for its construction would soon be out.

The Mildred Mansfield Youth Club (MMYC) on Durban Street will stage its annual general meeting tomorrow at the club’s headquarters.

The scheduled three-day cricket trial match arranged by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) which was set to commence today has been postponed.

Alonzo Greaves continued his winning ways when he won the eighth annual Diamond Mineral Water-sponsored 50-mile cycle road race on Sunday on the West Bank of Demerara.

Ann’s Grove, led by a double from Orlando Otto, defeated Uprising 3-0 in a Group `A’ match of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Supligen U-20 football match at the Camptown ground on Saturday.