Sports

The Management committee of the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (formerly Silver Park Turf Club) will run off a one-day horse racing meet on December 9 at the Number 6 Village West Coast Berbice.

Toucan Industries Sports Club TISC) on the back of an unbeaten even century from Daniel Sarjoo, began their campaign in the Georgetown Cricket Association/ Steve’s Jewellery World sponsored Over-40 limited overs cricket competition on a high note when they scored a convincing 10-wicket victory over Police Sports Club at the Transport Sports Club ground last Sunday.

While the Guyanese hockey players are settling down in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for the start of the Caribbean Hockey Cup, the hosts’ chances of lifting the inaugural men’s title were dealt a severe blow with the news that nine of their overseas players will be unable to make the journey home.

A five-wicket haul by GYO off-spinner Ken Alphonso and a blistering hundred by Malteenoes’s Lennox Cush highlighted the start of the fifth round of the GCA/Cellink Plus first-division cricket competition on Sunday.

Malteenoes Sports Club [MSC] inflicted a crushing innings defeat on Third Class when they squared off in the Raymond Panday Memorial second-division cricket competition over the weekend at the GYO ground.

Colin Ming won last Saturday’s A.H. and L Kissoon Group of Companies-sponsored golf tournament but a 12 year-old-newcomer created a stir in the one-day event at the Lusignan Golf course.

The South Dakota Circuit came alive yesterday for the International and Caribbean Race of Champions meet with Mark Vieira dominating the marquee Group Three category, copping two wins and a second place finish with his fire-spitting, Digicel sponsored Mazda RX7.

Former West Indies Under-19 captain Leon Johnson’s unbeaten half century propelled Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) to its first Division One title in five years after they scored a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Albion Community Centre cricket team in the Neal and Massy limited overs final yesterday at the National Stadium at Providence.

Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) gained sweet revenge over arch-rivals Enterprise Cricket Club (ECC) when they defeated them in a feature Twenty/20 match at the LSC ground, East Coast Demerara, on Saturday.

The East Coast first-division team drew first blood by defeating Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) by 17 runs in the first game of the East Coast zone of the ANSA McAL/Pepsi Twenty/20 first – division cricket competition.

Beacon are the winners of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) De Sinco Under-17 league competition following their comprehensive 4-0 whipping of Pele at the Camptown ground on Saturday.

Taurus Dominoes Club, with 82 games romped to victory in the final of the seventh annual Tony Kissoon Memorial dominoes competition held recently at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC).

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has arranged practice sessions for the squad selected to represent Demerara in the Inter-County four-day cricket competition which starts this week-end.

Dolphin Secondary School won yesterday’s Schools Under-14 Touch Rugby Tournament at the National Park.

Darren Allen destroyed a strong field and put a stop to the winning streak of Alonzo Greaves when he captured the feature event of the Fern leaf-sponsored 11-race card yesterday at the National Park.

Given all the expectations, supporters are at a loss to comprehend the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) decision to appoint John Dyson as new coach of the team.

The stage is set for an exciting clash today at the National Stadium, Providence when defending champions Albion Sports Club of Berbice takes on Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in the final of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Neal and Massy sponsored 40 over first division competition.

The inaugural Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Pepsi/ Carib Beer sponsored Twenty/20 first division competition got started in Berbice on Friday with three matches.

Andy Roberts could not conceal his sense of utter hopelessness for the future of West Indies cricket when he spoke after the completion of the KFC Cup last week.

At any time, but more especially when so many international sports are making a concerted effort to expunge the still evident curse of racism, the Jamaica Daily Gleaner’s reaction to John Dyson’s appointment as West Indies cricket coach made for alarming reading Here is how one of the oldest and most respected newspapers in the Caribbean railed against the choice in its editorial: “Like Bennett King and David Moore immediately before him, John Dyson, an Australian, is a foreigner, a white foreigner at that, and many former players (and) a vast number of fans are against it and justifiably so.”