Sports

Unstoppables table tennis team comprising Anthony Niles and Ronaldo Bharrat failed to live up to their name going down 0-3 to the Golden Girls team of Trenace Lowe and Michelle John in Division B action when play in the Dennis Patterson memorial table tennis team competition got underway on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Team Rahaman figures to be a major force at this weekend’s Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club Race of Champions meet.

Guyana’s Clyde Duncan has been nominated by the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association to serve as instructor for an umpiring workshop in Peru later this week.

Jacob Thompson, Chairman of the Jamaica Rugby Union, has been awarded the 2007 IRB’s Development Award, the highest such honour world-wide this year.

Hard work! That’s all it will take to get the West Indies team back to the top of world cricket.

If teen boppers such as Christopher Franklin and Trenace Lowe think they have a monopoly on local table tennis, they had better think again.

The visiting Caribbean Cougars Rugby Over-35 players of the United States with the help of a few younger friends scored a 10-0 win over Guyana Over-35 team in their feature match played Tuesday at the National Park rugby field.

It’s one thing to call a press conference, ask for meetings with top government officials and then ask for privacy until these meetings are held.

Milton Clarke, manager of the two-member Suriname team which participated in Sunday’s fifth annual South American 10k event said yesterday he was satisfied with most aspects of the staging of the Guyana leg of the race, with the exception of the arrangements for water.

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) officially launched its 2007/2008 basketball season yesterday at a press conference held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Ransford Goodluck with 103 points out of a possible 105 won last Sunday’s Crown Mining Shield when the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) ran off its weekly shoot at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

A match winning unbeaten knock of 64 runs by Basil Bedessie piloted Demerara Power Company (DPC) to a convincing nine-wicket win over Neal and Massy Group in their feature 25-over softball cricket match played Monday evening at Thirst Park.

You know what bothers me? The Olympics and Guyana’s inability to make any significant mark on this most prestigious athletics meet.

There’ll be no shortage of high powered machinery at the South Dakota Circuit this Sunday, that’s for sure.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) will today hold trials for secondary school cricketers in the north, south and east Georgetown areas.

Jamaica’s captain Chris Gayle expressed his delight at winning the 2007 Regional KFC Limited overs title for his country, the first limited overs triumph for the Jamaicans since 1999.

They say catches win matches and Shawn Findlay was the embodiment of that saying on Sunday taking two brilliant catches as Jamaica won their first regional limited overs championship since 1999 when they defeated Trinidad and Tobago by 28 runs at the 3 Ws’ Oval, Cave Hill, Barbados.

Antonia Silva and Gustavo Altez, the dangerous distance-running duo of Brazil, continued their dominance in this year’s event as they swept the male and female Open categories of the second stage of the fifth annual South American 10km yesterday which started and ended at the Police Sports Club ground Eve Leary.

An aggressive half-century by Under-19 opening batsman, Rajendra Chandrika, enabled Enter-prise to defeat Lusignan by 11 runs in the final of an East Coast Cricket Board [ECCB] organised Twenty/20 competition on Saturday.

Defending champions Alpha United secured a hard-fought 1-0 win over Camptown while Fruta Conquerors and Santos played to a draw as the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Premier League competition continued on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.