Sports

Defending nation-wide Neal and Massy champions Albion Community Centre advanced to the national semi-final of the 2007 competition when they defeated West Berbice by nine wickets yesterday at the Bush Lot ground in their semi final encounter.

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) thrashed Santos 4-0 in one of the five matches of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) U-17 League played on Saturday at the GFC ground.

Sunrise Cricket Club (SCC) of the USA defeated International Business Education (IBE) by 75 runs at the Lusignan Community Centre ground in a Twenty20 fixture yesterday.

You know what bothers me? The possibility of the Kashif and Shanghai year-end football tournament not being held this year.

Defending champions Alpha United and Camptown secured victories over Santos and the Guyana Defence Force respectively when first round action of the Georgetown Football Association cell Link Plus, Premier League competition continued on Sunday at the Georegtwon Football Club (GFC) ground.

Patrick Prashad playing at a seven handicap recorded a gross score of 74 with a net 67 to win last Saturday’s GBTI sponsored Golf tournament at the Lusignan course.

Continental Cycle Club will honour two of its former members who died tragically last year with three major activities.

Ramnaresh Sarwan has been appointed skipper of Guyana’s 14-member squad which will contest the preliminary rounds of this year’s KFC regional limited overs championship from October 16 – 22 here.

Guyana’s `Deadly’ Denny Dalton is the new World Boxing Emporium (WBE) welterweight champion of the world.

Carol Humphrey and Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan will square off in the ladies’ Open final at Le Meridien Tennis championships later this week following contrasting semi-final wins at Pegasus courts, Kingston, last week-end.

The 2007 Berbice Cricket Board/TELENEC limited overs first-division round robin competition commenced Saturday with three first round matches which resulted in wins for Scottsburg United, Albion Community Centre and Blairmont Community Centre.

A determined batting display from national middle-order batsman Travis Dowlin led Demerara to a two-wicket victory over Berbice in the final of the Guyana Cricket Board/El Dorado-sponsored limited-overs Inter-County championship at the National Stadium Providence ground yesterday.

Manager and coach of middle distance athlete Alika Morgan, Leslie Blacks yesterday expressed his disappointment at the decision taken by the National Sports Commission (NSC) in giving the Junior Sportswoman of the Year award to table tennis player Trenace Lowe ahead of Morgan.

President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Asso-ciation (GABA), Chris Bowman said that the recently-concluded GABA super league tournament was handicapped by the growing level of indiscipline in the sport, lack of sponsorship and poor officiating.

For the fourth time in four separate ODI series in the past three months, the West Indies enter the last match in the Pepsi Cup against India here today with the outcome hanging on the result.

“The saddest moment in my career as a cyclist was back in 1980 when I was riding very strongly and did not get to participate in the Moscow Olympics.”

It is not every day that a schoolboy gets to play a first-class cricket match in front of his class-mates.

The National Inter-Secondary School Mashramani Indoor Futsal (Football) tournament is set to kick-off on February 20 at the National Gymnasium from 5:00 pm.

When the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) held their Annual General Meeting on Saturday, John Edwards was re-elected as president.

Dear Editor, Tell me how in heaven’s name Cleveland Forde was named Sportsman of the Year (2006) over Gairy St Clair.