Sports

The new coach for the West Indies team, the ninth in the 15 years since the post was first established in 1992, was to have been chosen by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at its meeting at the Turtle Beach Hotel here yesterday.

Revenge could not have come any sweeter for the Guyana male basketball team which stunned the French Guiana side 64-60 in front of their home crowd at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday night.

Fruta Conquerors secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over defending champions Alpha United in the feature match of a triple header in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Premier League competition on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) will stage its senior powerlifting championships today at the Critchlow Labour College auditorium.

The History Division of the Department of Social Studies of the School of Education and Humanities of the University of Guyana has recently published a book on the history of Guyanese cricket by one of its members Professor Winston Mc Gowan.

Harold Taylor, FIFA Development Officer with responsibilities for the Caribbean says government should do a lot more for football in Guyana with respect to facilities.

Barbados, led by a patient 71 from Jonathan Carter and a five-wicket haul from Man-of-the-match Fidel Edwards, defeated Leeward Islands by 14 runs in their KFC preliminary round match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda, yesterday despite a fighting 65 from Runako Morton.

A typically explosive innings of 71 from skipper Chris Gayle enabled Jamaica to inflict a crushing nine-wicket defeat over the West Indies U-19s at the Enmore Community Centre ground, yesterday.

This year’s GT&T sponsored National Indoor Hockey tournament has been rescheduled and is likely to take place early next year at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Philip Fernandes has disclosed.

Ministry of Housing with 228 games won the all-female three-way aggregate Dominoes series which ended Thursday evening at Neal and Massy Sports Club at Ruimveldt.

Suriname edged French Guiana 36-34 in a thrilling women’s basketball matchup as the Inter-Guiana games swung into action yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Another keen contest is anticipated at today’s Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) sponsored Golf tournament at the Lusignan Course.

It might not be the size of the original Spanish Armadas which ruled the high seas, but a three-man strong Spanish contingent arrived in the country Wednesday night to do battle with their local counterparts.

With all the hoopla surrounding basketball, Stabroek Sport sought an interview with President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) and retired Guyana Defence Force Lieutenant Colonel Godwin McPherson about the problems plaguing the game.

Guyana opener Travis Dowlin was in a class of his own yesterday and it was not one that the Combined Campuses and Colleges players were accustomed to.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Premier League and Supligen round robin action continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Bourda, with three exciting matchups.

Defending champions Trinidad and Tobago sent the Windward Islands crashing out of this year’s KFC Cup competition with a comfortable seven-wicket win at the GCC ground, Bourda, yesterday.

A twelve-member team from the Harpy Eagle Martial Arts Academy of Beterverwagting under the leadership of Sensei Troy Bobb left Guyana on Tuesday to compete in the Third Annual Pan Caribbean Martial Arts Championships in Trinidad and Tobago from October 20- 21.

The Leeward Islands got off to a bad start in their opening game against Jamaica in the KFC Cup Competition at the Providence Stadium, yesterday.

An impressive spell of swing bowling from Barbados and West Indies left-arm fast bowler Pedro Collins, piloted Barbados to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over the West Indies Under-19 team in their KFC Regional Limited overs match at the Blairmont Community Centre ground yesterday.