Sports

The Guyana National U-19 male basketball team overcame all the odds to end Suriname’s reign as champions in a 57-54 thriller in the final of the 2007 Inter-Guiana Games competition on Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

All the glitches have been repaired, the kinks in the system ironed out and the early teething problems solved.

After a hectic three days, the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall was a picture of peace and tranquility late Sunday evening as the curtain was pulled on a very eventful second and final stages of this year’s Inter Guiana games with Suriname retaining their title as overall champions.

Fresh off his third round stoppage of Edison Morillo, Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore is adamant that he is not afraid of Vincent ‘The Kid’ Howard.

Ian Gouveia with a 16 handicap a gross 85 and net 69 won last weekend’s Guyoil sponsored Medal Play golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf course.

New-york based Guyanese businessman, Ravi Etwaroo, has unveiled a project to ‘adopt’ young West Indian cricketers.

Two goals each from Sheldon Gurrick and Keoma Gravesande paced Pele to a 4-0 drubbing of Police on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club ground as play in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus Premier league competition.

Roberto Duran of ‘no mas’ fame would have been proud. A first round quitter and a third round stoppage was the best that the Dominican Republic had to offer on Saturday night last, at the Thirst Park ground much to the disappointment of the small crowd in attendance.

Guyana won the cycling competition of the annual Inter-Guiana Games when the event climaxed with the 60km cycle road race yesterday.

Vice-President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Rudolph Torrington said yesterday he expected each member of Guyana’s three-man boxing team currently in Chicago, USA to qualify for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Victory Valley Royals (VVR) moved to the top of the points standings with 18 points after defeating New Ballers 90-68 on Friday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt in a match of the Linden Amateur Basketball Associa-tion/National Communi-cations Network second division tournament.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Supligen U-20 tournament continues today from 4pm at different venues today.

After an agonising 1-3 defeat to Suriname last year, Guyana’s male volleyballers came from behind to dethrone Suriname in the final of the Inter-Guiana games volleyball competition yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A workman-like half century from Kieron Pollard helped to guide Trinidad and Tobago to a four-wicket victory over Guyana in their final preliminary round match of the Regional KFC limited overs competition at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

The new coach for the West Indies team, the ninth in the 15 years since the post was first established in 1992, was to have been chosen by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at its meeting at the Turtle Beach Hotel here yesterday.

Revenge could not have come any sweeter for the Guyana male basketball team which stunned the French Guiana side 64-60 in front of their home crowd at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday night.

Fruta Conquerors secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over defending champions Alpha United in the feature match of a triple header in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Premier League competition on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) will stage its senior powerlifting championships today at the Critchlow Labour College auditorium.

The History Division of the Department of Social Studies of the School of Education and Humanities of the University of Guyana has recently published a book on the history of Guyanese cricket by one of its members Professor Winston Mc Gowan.

Harold Taylor, FIFA Development Officer with responsibilities for the Caribbean says government should do a lot more for football in Guyana with respect to facilities.