Sports

Fifteen-year-old table tennis star Nigel Bryan continued from where he left off last year to snatch two divisional titles in the Guyana Table Tennis Association/National Sports Commission junior tournament sponsored by the West Indies sports complex which ended yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Football fans can expect an keen encounter when Guyana’s Golden Jaguars clash with Grenada this afternoon in their second friendly international in as many weeks at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground starting at 15:30 hours.

Even at times when the only ones stirring were newspaper pressmen, shady characters with malice aforethought and resilient night club stragglers, it was impossible to nod off for even a ball.

Three of the five Guyanese players in the West Indies Rugby team to participate in the upcoming Sevens World Series Rugby tournament scheduled to be hosted in San Diego, California, next month, received their rebate tickets yesterday from Reservation Supervisor of Caribbean Airlines (Guyana) Limited, Ms Taiwo Worrell.

Alpha United head coach Wayne Dover has been lauded by Georgetown Football Association (GFA) President Troy Mendonca for his team’s success during the 2007 football season at the GT&T Cell Link Plus Premier League presentation last Wednesday.

The Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Associa-tion (GSSBA) season resumes today with most of the teams having just two to three games to complete their regular season play before “March Madness”.

The F&H shipping establishment will host a big dominoes tournament today at the Milrox Sports Bar which is situated at Breda and Hadfield Streets (behind the Brickdam Police Station).

The curtains will come down on the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2007season with the inaugural Banks Premium Beer Cup 16-team knockout tournament sponsored by local beverage company Banks DIH Ltd.

Director of Sport Neil Kumar yesterday disclosed that a Chinese table tennis coach and an interpreter will be arriving in the country tomorrow for a one-year stint.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has a new general secretary. He is former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and current president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis.

With no points in the bag following two outright losses Guyana’s captain Ramnaresh Sarwan is looking to leave Jamaica with some points at the end of his team’s clash with the joint tournament leaders.

Commodore Gary Best, Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force was elected President of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) at the Association’s Annual General Meeting held Wednesday evening at the Bank of Guyana Roof Garden.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) are promising a bigger and better GT&T Cell Link Plus Premier league in 2008 at a new venue.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is not aware of any dispute with Guyana over proceeds from the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) will stage the West Indies Sports Complex mini cadet, cadet and junior table tennis tournament from today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

To say that the majority of cricket loving fans have been disappointed with the performance of the national senior team would be nothing but an understatement.

Chief Coach of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Elton Smith said there was no significant development in athletics locally during 2007, and despite the lack of facilities local athletes must share some of the blame for the lack of progress.

A very eventful and exciting second stage of the Digicel Kick Start football Clinic was successfully wrapped up in Haiti last Monday, with local players fiercely going after the six coveted spots to Sunderland AFC’s Academy of Lights.

Leon Cort, a footballer of Guyanese parentage, who plays for Crystal Palace has been signed by Stoke City for a record 1.2m pounds (US$2.4m) Sky Sports website reported yesterday.

Regional long distance sensation Alika Morgan and training partner Janella Jonas, stole the top two spots at the Fatum Wisselbeker Bigi Broki Waka 10 Km last week in Suriname.