Sports

Following the Republic Bank Right Start Inter-Secondary School Cricket Competition trials for Under-15 players from the North Georgetown District, held last Thursday at the YMCA ground, the selectors have short-listed 22 players to further participate in physical conditioning and practice sessions.

Esan Shamshudin with a handicap 17, gross 83 and net 66 has taken the lead in the Le Meridian Pegasus two-day golf championships at the end of play on the opening day yesterday at the Lusignan golf course, East Coast Demerara.

Demerara was shakily placed on 86-5 when bad light stopped play on the rain-affected first day of the opening match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County four-day competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

Officials were expecting a baptism of fire in Guyana’s opening match against Barbados, but both men and women’s teams are feeling the heat in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Caribbean Hockey Cup tournament at the National Hockey Centre in Port-of-Spain.

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday defeated Young Warriors Cricket Club of Berbice by 21 runs to win the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) `Sixes’ cricket competition at the MSC ground yesterday.

The main prize is worthy of a trip to the Lusignan Golf Course this weekend by local golfers who will compete in the annual Le Meridien Pegasus two-day golf tournament which tees off today at noon.

The highly-anticipated Sec-ondary Schools Basketball League got underway yesterday at the Burnham Court on Carmichael and Middle Streets but rain threw a damper on the proceedings.

The 2007 Busta Champion-of-Champions final will be played today at the Area ‘H’ ground between two of Berbice power house teams in Albion Cricket Club and Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB).

Manager of Guyana’s Lennox Allen, Carwyn Holland feels that his boxer has finally hit the big time.

Every Sunday scores of Guyanese travel south of Georgetown to picnic or relax at the creeks and resorts along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Assad Fudadin and Royston Crandon warmed up for the Inter County tournament which starts today with outstanding individual performances for Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) against Port Mourant on the first day of the Berbice Cricket Board/Isaac Bissoon three-day first division match against Port Mourant.

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) will stage the annual Vita Malt National Senior championships sponsored by Banks DIH tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Two cricketers, whose lights illuminated the cricket fields all over the world during their playing days, will tonight get an opportunity to regale cricket fans with details of their exploits when the second annual “Evening of Nostalgia” hosted by the `Reds’ Perreira Sports Foundation takes place at the Savannah Suite of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel.

Defending champions Alpha United, who are in second place in the race for the GFA Cellink Plus Premier League championships will oppose bottom-of-the-table Police this afternoon at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

After weeks and weeks of ‘no comment, we’re in discussions, we’re looking to set up meetings’ and the like, the Kashif and Shanghai Organization has formally announced that this year’s tournament is indeed on and will feature entirely local teams.

The Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored nationwide Twenty/20 cricket competition for first division clubs will continue today with six matches in the two zones.

The largest ever school’s basketball project will get underway tomorrow with the inaugural Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Association (GSSBA) league.

The Flying Stars Cycle Club will tomorrow stage a road race to help raise HIV/Aids awareness in Guyana.

With the first prize and virtually a Value Added Tax (VAT) waiver locked up courtesy of President Bharrat Jagdeo, the 18th edition of the Kashif and Shanghai tournament will be launched today with a press conference in the boardroom of major sponsor Banks DIH Ltd.

A Man-of-the-Match performance from Safraz Esau (40 and 2-21) led West Bank Combined Branch to a comfortable 58-run victory over West Coast Combined in the West Demerara zone final of the Guyana Cricket Board/Republic Bank Right Start Under-15 school cricket competition played at the Cornelia Ida Community Centre ground yesterday.