Sports

The Pepsi Cup National Under-17 Inter-Association competition continues this weekend with three matches at three venues around the country.

The twinning of Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) could augur well for both clubs, according to secretary of RHTY&SC, Hilbert Foster.

Defending champions Georgetown and East Bank Demerara, recorded easy wins as action in the NALICO/NAFICO-sponsored Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) At the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Georgetown easily defeated West Demerara by 160 runs to complete their second successive victory which virtually guaranteed them a spot in tomorrow’s finals.

The Guyana Squash Association’s Bounty Farm Mash Handicap Squash Tournament which started last Monday has begun to heat up with players already qualifying for the quarterfinal matches.

Table tennis fans (including those who follow the game closely and those who have just a cursory interest) and even the players themselves, have struggled with the dilemma of knowing just exactly who are the country’s champions.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) yesterday suspended the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team indefinitely following an off the field incident that brought a premature end to Wednesday evening’s quarter-final matches in the Banks Premium Beer Cup at Tucville Playfield.

Scotiabank in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday launched the 2008 Kiddies Cricket programme at a simple ceremony held in the boardroom of the GCB.

The West Indies Rugby team and its five Guyanese players have concluded the International Rugby Board 2008 Sevens World Series in San Diego held from February 9th-10th with mixed emotions.

Preparations are going apace for Sunday’s 25-race Mashramani Motor Racing Championships sponsored by telephone giant GT&T, and Ansa McAl, distributors of Carib Beer at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri.

The planned Annual general Meeting (AGM) of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) which was to have been held on Tuesday was postponed owing to a lack of a quorum, but outgoing President Philip Fernandes disclosed that March 1 had now been set as a new date for the meeting.

Led by an explosive batting display from Anand Bharat who stroked an unbeaten 108, the sixth hundred of the competition that included 12 sixes, Ruimzeight XI made an unassailable 235-2 from their 15 overs to defeat Bourda Market XI by 66 runs in their second game of the day as the Trophy Stall 15 overs softball cricket competition continued on Sunday at the Providence ground.

The country’s top athletes along with the aspiring ones will be able to commence the track season this Sunday at Eve Leary Sports Club ground in the National Senior Trials.

President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association, has made a decision to push back the Bryden’s 2nd division league that was scheduled to start tonight.

Lance Hinds was returned unopposed as president of Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) when the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers was held at the club’s Ferdinand Pavilion last Friday.

Mayor Hamilton Green’s 73rd birth anniversary will be marked by a grand Inter-Ward, Street/Village football tournament beginning with four intriguing matches today from 6pm at Thirst Park.

Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) yesterday launched its Banks DIH Sprite Twenty20 cricket competition for first division teams in Berbice which is being sponsored by the beverage giant on the local market to the tune of $806,000.

Defending champions Guyana scored an easy nine-wicket win over Bermuda who were held to a record low score to complete the quarterfinal line-up at the 2008 Stanford Twenty20 tournament when they met at the Stanford Cricket Ground in Antigua on Sunday.

St. John’s College point guard Keith ‘Bull’ Tute, led his team to two convincing victories this weekend in the second round of the Guyana Secondary Schools Basket-ball Association (GSSBA) league, combining for 52 points for the weekend.

National Under-17 cricketer Ryan Rajmangal and national Under-20 football player Lumumba Hinds were the latest beneficiaries of sporting gear and sports supplements compliments of Universal Sports.

President of the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) Ashraf Jafferally says he intends to revamp the game in the county and get it back to the days when persons used to come out and support the game regardless of the status of the match being played.