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The Guyana cricket team are very disappointed following their defeat to Jamaica in the semi final of the KFC limited overs competition at the Three Ws’ Oval at Cave Hill, Barbados, on Thursday.

Local table tennis players will begin trading serves, loops and smashes today when the Dennis Patterson Memorial League serves off at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

It took extra time but eventually Lodge Community High claimed this year’s Edwin ‘Chow’ Sealy Memorial tournament.

Guyana’s lone participants at this year’s Criollo Cup weightlifting championships in Puerto Rico encountered weight problems on the day of competition in a nightmare tour that saw two weightlifters and an official being dropped from the initial team due to financial woes.

Courtesy of P&P Insurance and Cummings Electrical Ltd An Australian-born Jamai-can sent Guyana crashing out of the KFC Cup yesterday.

The Mc Gill Superstars of Canal Number One defeated Zeeburg Cricket Club last Sunday at Canal Number Two to win the 2007 New Line Aqua Farm 40-over competition at the Sports Club Ground, West Bank Demerara.

Seven nations have planned a November assault on Guyana with the South Dakota Circuit as the battle field.

The Banks DIH Thirst Park ground will come alive this evening when the inaugural Banks DIH/Claytons Kola Tonic Masters international football tournament commences from 6pm.

Come tomorrow cyclists from around the country will take to the National Park circuit in the Troy Humphrey/James Fowler Memorial cycling extravaganza.

There was wide participation in the beach volleyball seminar recently held by the Guyana Volleyball Federation [GVF] in collaboration with the International Volleyball Federation [FIVB] at the Guyana Table Tennis Association Training Centre in the National Park.

Regional limited over giants Guyana will begin their quest to regain the KFC Cup they last won in 2005 when they take on Jamaica today in their semi final clash at the Three Ws’ Oval, Cave Hill, here.

A presentation of autographed copies of the book of poetry, “Moongazer”, written by Lorri Alexander, was presented to each of the visiting representatives of FIFA -the world governing body of football, who officiated at the three (3) day COM – UNITY Seminar, jointly hosted by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and FIFA at the Cara Lodge, Quamina Street , on Thursday.

With its eyes on the Senior Inter-County four-day cricket competition, the Essequibo Cricket Board says it will be staging a three-day trial match to gauge the level of fitness of prospective selectees.

Timehri Panthers, Mocha Champs and Grove Hi-Tech all chalked up their first wins in the 2007 East Bank Football Association season.

Ten local teams, 2 Barbados clubs and a selection from Washington D.C

Tutorial High School and Lodge Community High will bang heads today in the final of the Edwin ‘Chow’ Sealy Memorial School indoor football competition being played at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Guyana’s middleweight Beijing Olympic Games hopeful Markember Pierre crashed out of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Boxing Championships in Chicago, United States of America (USA) when he lost to a Hungarian fighter 7-23 yesterday.

With the Rugby World Cup just ended in France the action will now switch to Guyana for the eagerly anticipated one-off match between arch-rivals Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago Over 35s on Saturday at the National Park rugby field.

The Athletics Association of Guyana’s (AAG) local organizing committee last Wednesday launched the fifth annual South American 10km Road Classic at Olympic House which will be held on Sunday.

Four players who were on Guyana’s bronze medal winning team the last time a Caribbean men’s hockey tournament was staged back in 1989 have been named on an 18-man squad to compete in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Caribbean championship billed for next month in Trinidad and Tobago.