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Golden Grove and Melanie will face-off in the semi-final round of the 592 Beer ‘Skills for Cash’ seven-a-side football tournament, following contrasting quarterfinal wins last evening at the Victoria Community ground.

Guyana has commenced preparation in Cayenne, French Guiana, for their two-match international friendly series which starts tomorrow, in an effort to ramp up their preparation for the CONCACAF Nations League in June.

The local CARIFTA Games athletes had a feel of the track and the pit yesterday at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica ahead of this weekend’s event.

The Mayor’s Cup inter-ward nine-a-side knockout football tournament will resume on Sunday at the Buxton Community Centre ground, East Coast Demerara, with another round of elimination fixtures.

(Reuters) – Holder Stefanos Tsitsipas moved into the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals with a 7-5 7-6(1) victory over Laslo Djere yesterday while fourth seed Casper Ruud was knocked out in straight sets by Grigor Dimitrov.

(CMC) – The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) will be implementing a paperless solution for the collection of doping control data.

(Reuters) – Former Colombia captain Freddy Rincon has died after he sustained severe head injuries in a car crash that occurred in the city of Cali earlier this week, doctors said late on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – England’s World Cup-winning bowler Anya Shrubsole has announced her retirement from international cricket at the age of 30, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Britain’s men’s 4x100m relay team have been told to hand back their Tokyo 2020 silver medals after Chijindu Ujah’s doping violation, the British Olympic Association (BOA) said yesterday.

SV Ratio FC of Paramaribo, Suriname will arrive on local shores tomorrow to compete in the final match of the best-of-three series in the Goodwill International Masters Football Championship.

(CMC) – Shimron Hetmyer’s cameo was short of what was required as Rajasthan Royals produced a botched run chase to crash to a 37-run defeat to Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League yesterday.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K Juman-Yassin along with head of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson were full of optimism that the CARIFTA Games team will perform at its optimum level during this weekend’s Games in Jamaica.

Overwhelming elation and a sense of patriotism was felt by standout middleweight pugilist, Desmond Amsterdam after his promotion to Sergeant following his heroics at the American Boxing Confederation (AMBC) Elite Championships in Ecuador.

Nineteen year-old Ethan Lee Tuesday emerged victorious in the Guyana Chess Federation’s De Sinco-sponsored junior chess qualifiers at the Providence National Stadium.

Pouderoyen FC came from two goals down to defeat West Demerara All-Stars 4-3 when their pre-season campaign continued Sunday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Castrol Strikers clinched game one of their best of three semifinal series against the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), prevailing 3-1 Tuesday evening in the Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) senior men’s league.

Brief Scores: Punjab Kings 198-5 (Shikhar Dhawan 70, Mayank Agarwal 52; Basil Thampi 2-47) beat Mumbai Indians 186-9 (Dewald Brevis 49, Suryakumar Yadav 43; Odean Smith 4-30) by 12 runs The Punjab Kings (PBKS) were back to winning ways in the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 defeating the Mumbai Indians (MI) by 12 runs yesterday at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti have advanced to the final round of the Women’s World Cup qualifiers after victories in the last group games on Tuesday night.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, CMC – The Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago Under-19 women’s teams will face each other in a series of five T20 matches here, starting today.

Kyrie Irving put on a dazzling shooting display en route to 34 points, powering the Brooklyn Nets to a hard-fought 115-108 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers Tuesday in an Eastern Conference play-in game at New York.