Sports

Fiery fast bowling from Jeremy Gordon (6-35) and a blistering unbeaten 48 from Royston Crandon helped Berbice take control of their Inter-County four-day cricket match against Essequibo at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground, yesterday.

A helmet trick from Guyana’s Stanford Tw-enty/ 20 star Lennox Cush and a belligerent 98 from Chris Barnwell were the highlights of the third round of matches of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi-sponsored Twenty20 first-division competition played yesterday.

The National Closed chess championships will resume today at the Ocean Spray Hotel with two rounds of play each in the senior and junior divisions.

Following a sterling performance on the opening day, defending champion Ransford Goodluck will be looking to extend his lead when action resumes on day two of the National Rifle Shooting Championships today at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

Fresh off the announcement that President Bharrat Jagdeo would be picking the 750,000 dollar first prize and the incurred Valued Added Tax for the Kashif and Shanghai tournament, the Ministry of Sport has said that it is considering requests from the organizers regarding the ministry’s involvement this year.

The Neal and Massy Sports Club has organised a Day of Sports today at Thirst Park the highlight of which, will be a feature 15-over softball cricket match between a Management team and a Rest side.

Carlon Halley of Corentyne/ District Six, stunned crowd favourite Dennis Horatio in the final of the male U-20 1500m metres yesterday at the National Schools Track and Field championships in what was the most exhilarating day of competition in this year’s event.

With the continued promise of sponsorship for the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Under-17 Inter-County competitions for 2008 and beyond, insurance giants CLICO (Guyana) Limited handed over jerseys to the Guyana/CLICO under -17 team at the GCB office on Tuesday afternoon.

The Caribbean island of St Lucia has latched on to an idea which, if successful, could change the very future of Caribbean sports.

The Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) nationwide Carib Beer/Pepsi Twenty/20 cricket competition will continue today with six third round matches divided between zones ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Berbice begin their campaign in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior four-day Inter-County cricket competition today when they take on the hapless Essequibo team at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground under the captaincy of fast bowler Esaun Crandon.

Local golfers are preparing for a massive foreign invasion as more than 65 golfers will tee off this weekend in the Smirnoff Guyana Open Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) on the East Coast of Demerara.

In the shadowland of unsolved murders, unexplained disappearances and uninvestigated police killings, the recent remarks of Police Commissioner Mr Henry Greene cast little light and held out scant hope for the bereft families of the victims.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenager who admitted that he had 30 kilos of ganja for trafficking to three years imprisonment and fined him $30,000 when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.

A boxing coach accused of raping a 20-year-old woman appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded to prison.

At the end of the opening day of the National School’s Athletics, Cycling and Swimming Championships defending champions District 10 (Upper Demerara Upper Berbice) were out in front amassing 186 points in the track and field events, 38 points in the cycling events and 62 points in the teachers’ events for a total of 286 points on the day.

But for the difference of a few days, Ottis Gibson might well now be in Barbados, overseeing the preparation of the West Indies team for the forthcoming tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa as head coach.

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The next breed of champion cyclists should be determined sometime in the next few weeks.

Spin Killers Elishaba Johnson and Joshua Sue-Ho held it together against Mae’s “C” team to clinch the Division `E’ title of the Dennis Patterson memorial table tennis league on Friday.