Sports

Well the plot surrounding this year’s Kashif and Shanghai football tournament is thickening.

A last ditch effort by Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) president Chris Bowman to save himself and his executive from a no-confidence resolution might be too little too late.

Guyana’s weightlifters are cutting it tight for their participation in the Criollo Cup Weightlifting championships this week in Puerto Rico.

Rugby lovers can follow the progress of their teams throughout the semi-finals and finals of the Rugby World Cup via DirecTV which is broadcasting the games live.

If you are a lover of the sport of dominoes, then the place to be today will be the Blue Moon Disco Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, where the country’s best domino players will face off in a one-day country-wide aggregate domino competition.

Local golfers will tee off today in the Neal and Massy Guyana Group sponsored Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Through superb batting and bowling from opener Sewnarine Chattergoon and fast bowler Esaun Crandon, the Ramnaresh Sarwan-led Guyana KFC team proved too strong for the Rest Team defeating them by 89 runs in their second practice game at the National Stadium, Provid-ence, yesterday.

The first edition of the Caribbean Boxing Classic which will showcase the region’s top pugilists to the rest of the world has been postponed.

“It’s now history, both countries have accepted the ruling,” said Suriname’s Minister of Education and Community Development Edwin T.

With unbeaten points leaders Uprising on 19 points enjoying a healthy five-point lead over Fruta Conquerors and Santos respectively, both of whom are on 14 points, the winner of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby U-13 League competition can be decided today when the leaders take on Pele in one of four matches at the Tucville ground.

The National male and female hockey squads have stepped up preparation for next month’s inaugural PAHF Caribbean Hockey Cup in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago next month and the female squad could be named by early next week.

Led by an aggressive knock of 41 off 44 balls by West Indies all-rounder Darren Sammy, the Windward Islands swept aside a Guyana Cricket Association [GCA] XI to record their second win in as many practice games at the GCC ground, Bourda, yesterday.

The venue for the Spanish Invasion boxing card has been shifted from the National Park tarmac to the more crowd friendly Banks DIH Thirst Park ground.

Ian Jackson secured two dominant victories in the Alliance For Change/ Continental Cycle Club’s Maxi Perreira & Marlis Archer memorial criterium event held last Sunday on the outer Circuit of the National Park.

A Dion Alfred hat-trick for Alpha United, which helped his team defeat GFC 3-1 was the major highlight of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby U-13 league which continued with another five matches at the Tucville ground on Saturday.

Defending champions South Essequibo retained the title of Essequibo zone champions of the nation-wide Neal and Massy limited overs cricket competition when they defeated Leguan by 57 runs in their zone final at the Anna Regina ground on Saturday.

A surprising twist of events left National junior sprinter Kevin Haynes out of the male U- 20 100m of this year’s National Secondary schools Championships after he failed to qualify in yesterday’s Champion of Champions athletics meet held at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

A masterful knock of 114 off 139 balls from former Guyana and West Indies Under-19 batsman Gajanand Singh, was not good enough to prevent Lennox Cush’s XI from going down to the Guyana KFC squad by 37 runs in a practice game at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

National all-rounder Lennox Cush has been selected to lead a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) XI against the Windward Islands in a 50- over-a-side practice game tomorrow at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda.

An all-round effort from captain Rawl Lewis enabled the Windward Islands to defeat a Rest Team by 120 runs in a specially arranged practice game at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday.