Sports

Reigning Georgetown Pre-mier League champions Alpha United endured a tough battle to squeeze past Beacons 2-1 while Uprising nipped Flamingo by a similar score as play continued in the Banks Premium Beer Cup 16-team knockout football tournament Wednesday evening at the Tucville Playfield in La Penitence.

President of the Georgetown Basketball Association (GABA), Chris Bowman yesterday launched the Brydens Second Division Basketball league which is set to begin on Wednesday.

After a seven-year hiatus from the Guyana Table Tennis Association’s (GTTA) calendar of events, the National Table Tennis Championships will serve off next Thursday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) competitions will resume today with a series of matches that will see the completion of some 2007 competitions.

Cyclists will get their first taste of road competition this year when the National Sports Commission (NSC) organized Mashramani Road Race takes place on Sunday from the Demerara Harbour Bridge to Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo and back to the starting point for the finish.

Fourteen Guyanese nationals are currently playing in the domestic cricket league in Trinidad and Tobago.

Internationally renowned bodybuilder Hugh Ross says he is fully behind the proposed Hugh Ross Classics which will see the best bodybuilders in Guyana vying for the Mr.

Esaun Crandon with (4-16) was the shining star on a cloudy night before rain had the final say in the practice game between the Guyana Stanford twenty20 team and a Rest XI at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground last night.

The Guyana Telephone &Telegraph (GT&T) sponsored National six-a-side Indoor Championships will get cracking with defending champions Georgetown Cricket Club “A” set for an explosive start against lowly-rated Carib Degenerates in one of six matches carded for this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is to many sports-loving Guyanese a hero. To others he is a cricket icon, an idol, worshipped by fans the world over.

Former Guyanese and West Indies `A’ team opener Azeemul Haniff was in fine form last Saturday, stroking a quickfire 67 for Clico Preysal Sports in a massive effort of 377 for four of just 50 overs against Joe Public Invaders in the Carib Sunday league at Inshan Ali Park in Preysal.

Georgetown Cricket Associa-tion vice-president Alfred Mentore was on Monday elected president of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) when the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers was held at the club’s pavilion.

Country Side softball team of Lusignan and Street Boys of Providence, created upsets whilst Rocky XI remained the lone unbeaten team when action in the Trophy Stall 15-overs-a-side softball cricket competition continued last week end with a series of matches.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Carl Davidson captioned “Mr.

Dear Editor, As a sports loving person it pains my heart to see any kind of injustice meted out to any athlete especially when it is time to reap the sweet for their sweat.

Dear Editor “As a member of the general council I urge other associations to come out and write about the negative things persons say in the newspapers about the GFF and some of the decisions we all made.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Claude Blackmore yesterday cleared up the misconception of the National 6th Form Schools Championships being a competition only for Sixth From students and emphasized that the championships would cater for all students of Sixth Form schools.

The Confederation for North, Central American and Caribbean Football (CONCACAF) has confirmed the referees for the Caribbean Futsal Qualifying Tournament billed for next month at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Spectators came out in their numbers last Sunday at the National Gymnasium to witness a sport predominantly played by men in Guyana.

L’Adventure Secondary School captured the Al Sport and Tour/Region Three tennis sub-association mixed team circle tennis competition when they defeated Uitvlugt Secondary School in the final played last Friday.