NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Captain Shai Hope’s composed half-century kept Barbados Pride dreaming before fast bowlers Nicholson Gordon and Odean Smith wiped out the lower order to hand Jamaica Scorpions an emphatic 64-run victory in the Super50 Cup here late Thursday night.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – New Zealand became the first team to reach the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a victory over Ireland yesterday but Australia face a wait to see if they will be staying in the tournament despite a nervy win over Afghanistan.
With the GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers U18 Secondary School Football League slated to conclude on Sunday, tournament coordinator, the Petra Organization, staged a pre-match press conference yesterday at the Brandsville Hotel, Pike Street with the competing Christianburg/Wismar outfit and Golden Grove unit.
Western Tigers earned their berth to the semi-final round in the Georgetown Football Association Super-8 Knockout Championship, defeating the Guyana Police Force 3-1 in extra time on Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.
Botofago and Winners Connection secured easy wins when the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Senior Men’s League continued on Wednesday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.
CARIFTA Games gold medallist, Attoya Harvey, along with rising sprint star, Ezekiel Newton, will headline Guyana’s 30-member track and field team for this year’s Inter Guiana Games (IGG) scheduled for November 25 to 27.
The quarterfinal section in the ninth edition of the Courts Pee Wee Boys U11 Football Championship will commence tomorrow at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue in Georgetown.
(Reuters) – Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian to win the women’s individual all-around title at the world gymnastics championships in Liverpool, England yesterday.
(CMC) – Darren Bravo’s half-century went in vain as reigning champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force slipped to a narrow three-run defeat to Guyana Harpy Eagles in the Super50 Cup late Wednesday night.
(Reuters) – World number one Carlos Alcaraz swept aside Grigor Dimitrov 6-1 6-3 to book his place in the Paris Masters quarter-finals yesterday and reigning champion Novak Djokovic advanced with a 6-4 6-1 win over Karen Khachanov.
(Reuters) – Pakistan kept alive their slim hopes of reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a 33-run victory over South Africa in a rain-shortened Super 12 match yesterday, bringing the tournament’s only unbeaten record to an end in the process.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) will make a ruling on the issue of the president of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) after duly elected president Frankie Farley was ousted by the board recently.
The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s International Race-of-Champions returns to the South Dakota Circuit on November 12-13 and Torginol Paints Inc.,
The Berbice Shotokan Karate Association (BSKA) via the Berbice, Albion and Canje, and New Amsterdam Dojos, commenced its final examination for the year on October 30th at the Albion Sports Complex.
After two years, the Guyana Fitness Expo makes it grand return on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Boxers get ready, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is set to host its Lennox Blackmore Intermediate Boxing Tournament from November 18-20 at the National Gymnasium.
Qualfon defeated the Georgetown School of Nursing to clinch the Cummings Electrical Company Super 6 cricket championship which was hosted Saturday at the Durban Park tarmac.
(Reuters) – South Africa batsman David Miller said they will need to bring their “A-game” when they face 2009 champions Pakistan in a Twenty20 World Cup clash in Sydney today.
(Reuters) – A stoppage-time goal by Joao Mario completed a stunning 6-1 win for Benfica at Maccabi Haifa yesterday which lifted the Portuguese side top of Champions League Group H ahead of Paris St Germain.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Alick Athanaze carved out a second successive hundred and Kavem Hodge notched the second of his career but rain had the final say in condemning Combined Campuses and Colleges to a 50-run defeat here yesterday.
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