Sports

You know what bothers me? The rift between the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA) and the majority of clubs that make up its constituency.

Guyana and West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan was yesterday full of optimism about his team’s chances in this year’s KFC regional one-day tournament which commences next week.

National opening batsman Royston Crandon warmed up for the upcoming KFC regional limited overs tournament by hitting the first hundred of the Berbice Cricket Board TELENEC sponsored 50 overs first-division knock-out cricket competition.

North Georgetown also known as District 11 will stage the heats for the second annual Champion of Champions athletics meeting from 8.30am today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

Guyana ‘s Kristian Jeffrey roared into the quarter-finals of the Under-19 boys’ singles event at the sixth Pan American Junior squash championships with a hard-fought win over Peru’s Andres Duany at the Liguanea Club, Jamaica, yesterday.

They had it, lost it, and now it’s back in their possession.

The Guyanese fighters on this week-end’s fight card are not taking any cheap talks from their Santo Domingo counterparts lightly.

Today, Stabroek Sport looks at the 14-man Guyana team which will attempt to win limited overs title number 10 when they compete in the KFC Cup regional cricket competition which bowls off next Tuesday at several venues here.

Bowlers stole the spotlight in the latest round of matches in the Georgetown Cricket Association P&P/ Cummings Electrical Raymond Panday Memorial two-day Second Division competition with three ten-wicket hauls being recorded against seven fifties.

It was a splendid finale. A large, well-behaved crowd was in attendance; the participating teams were well turned out, particularly the New Opportunity Corps [NOC] and the ladies of the Blazers’ Sports Club of Kabakaburi.

When the preliminary round of the KFC Cup regional limited overs cricket competition commences next Tuesday in Guyana, the Ramnaresh Sarwan-led Guyana side will try to continue the proud tradition set by their predecessors.

Jamie Spencer hasn’t given up hopes of regaining the jockeys’ championship and has several excellent chances of reducing the deficit of six at Pontefract this afternoon; Geordieland should be a ‘penalty-kick’ in the Phil Bull Stakes over two-and-a-quarter miles.

The chorus was unanimous. From manager Michael Pratt and trainer Brian Barker to the man who matters most, new World Boxing Empire (WBE) welterweight champion, `Deadly’ Denny Dalton, the same tune was being sung, “We want Zab Judah.”

For a young fighter without a ten-round fight to his credit, Lennox Allen could come across as very brash, maybe even arrogant.

It was supposed to be a keenly contested affair but the final of the boys’ Under-18 division of the Le Meridian Pegasus Hotel tournament turned into a one sided rout as Anthony Downes defeated Jeremy Miller 6-1, 6-1 on Friday evening at the hotel’s courts.

Guyana’s weightlifters are expected to give a good account of themselves against top regional opposition when they take part in this year’s Criollo Cup weightlifting championships in Puerto Rico later this month, a top official of the local weightlifting body disclosed.

For those who worry that cricket as we know it is under threat from the game’s newest manifestation, the matches that have immediately followed on the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup have brought no joy.

Everest Cricket Club defeated Sunrise Cricket Club (SCC) from New York by 117 runs to easily retain their America’s Cup for the sixth consecutive time at the Everest ground yesterday.

Unbeaten Pele Football Club are the new leaders of the Georgetown Football Association Cell Link Plus Premier League competition after the edged out rivals Santos 1-0 in the feature match of a double header on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

West Indies senior team’s captain Ramnaresh Sarwan and captain of the Under-19 team Steven Jacobs rattled up centuries in the latest round of the Demerara Cricket Board’s Neal and Massy limited overs competition yesterday.