Sports

If all goes according to plan the tender process for the construction of a modern swimming facility complete with warm up pools will begin sometime in the next few days.

Local distance queen Alika Morgan and long distance junior sensation Dennis Horatio comfortably won the female and male 10km road races yesterday morning which kick started the 47th Annual National School’s Athletics, Swimming and Cycling Championships.

Travis Dowlin led a Demerara batting recovery with an unbeaten century which along with a four-wicket haul from off-spinner Zaheer Mohammed enabled Demerara to secure first innings points over Essequibo in the first game of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior Inter-County competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground, yesterday.

Just as they did last year, North Georgetown/ District 11, dominated the 40Km Open male cycle race of the 2007 National school’s cycling Championship, which began yesterday morning.

President of the West Indian Rugby Union (WIRU) Kit Nascimento yesterday urged Caribbean governments to provide financial support to their respective national teams preparing to compete in this week-end’s North America and West Indian Rugby Association (NA-WIRA) Sevens International tournament in The Bahamas.

Defending champion Ransford Goodluck has taken the lead and won the first trophy on offer after the opening day of competition in the National Rifle Shooting championships Sunday at the Timehri ranges Goodluck dropped just one point and tallied 135 points with 18 V-bulls out of a possible 135 points and 27 V-bulls.

The national men and women’s rugby squads for the NAWIRA (North American, West Indies Rugby Association) Sevens championships billed for this weekend in the Bahamas have been named.

Sean Cozier emerged as the best lifter when the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) held its senior championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Sunday night.

The Guyana Teachers Union’s (GTU) 47th annual schools athletics, cycling and swimming championships get underway this morning amidst concerns not over the weather but of sponsorship.

A double century from Young Warriors all-rounder Paul Wintz, highlighted the final day of the rain-affected third round of matches in the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) Isaac Bissoon first-division competition.

Former national fast bowler Robert `Pacer’ Adonis has been named manager of a 14-member Under-17 squad which will represent Guyana in the quadrangular under-17 cricket competition which begins in Trinidad and Tobago this week-end.

Young Warriors, Blairmont Sports Club, Bermine, Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB), Albion and Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) all registered victories when the second round of matches in the Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored national first division Twenty/20 cricket competition continued on Thursday in that area.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will be holding an Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) at the Everest Cricket Club pavilion tomorrow from 17:00hrs (5:00pm) sharp.

Darren Allen won Saturday’s Ride for Life with Christ and Prevent AIDS 50-mile cycle road race from Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara to Mahaicony old road and back.

Guyana men’s hockey team scored a golden goal in extra time to beat Jamaica 3-2 and cop the bronze medal at the Caribbean Hockey Cup tournament at the National Hockey Centre in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

Esan Shamshudin continued from where he left off on the opening day to win the prestigious Le Meridien Pegasus Open two-day golf championship which ended yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.

For the second day in succession rain has affected the opening Inter-County cricket match between Demerara and Essequibo at the Everest Cricket Club ground, but unlike the first day when some amount of play was possible, the weather had the final say yesterday as no amount of mopping up could make any impact on the state of the ground.

It was probably just as well that questions about the current state of West Indies cricket were not encouraged.

Concerned with the prolonged degeneration of West Indies cricket, as so many outside the Caribbean appear to be, Mark Nicholas recently made an earnest call for help to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to prevent, as he put it, its “drift into mediocrity and underachievement.”

The National Rifle-shooting championships will fire off today at the Timehri Rifle ranges with the country’s leading rifle shooters vying for the title of Top Gun and several prizes at stage.