Sports

Order & Discipline and Fruta Conquerors contrasting wins, when the Georgetown Football Association [GFA] ‘Stag Beer Revival Cup’ continued yesterday at the Tucville Community ground.

Police Sports Club (PSC) collected first innings points and ended day one of their Georgetown Cricket Association, Noble House Seafoods two-day contest against the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in the ascendancy at the Police Sports Club (PSC) Ground.

West Indies Under-19 left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd yesterday produced a Man-of-the-Match performance with both bat and ball to spur Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) to a 49-run win over-arch rivals Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in the final of the sixth New Building Society/ Georgetown Cricket Association 40-overs second-division tournament at their Queenstown club ground.

Kirstin Gomes and Nicholas Verwey will come up against each other in a highly anticipated category ‘A’ final of the Lucozade Handicap Squash Tournament after earning semi-final wins last evening at the Georgetown Club Squash Court. 

Middleweight, Royden Grant was one of several boxers who recorded wins on Friday’s opening night of the Blackmore Intermediate Championships at the National Gymnasium.

The annual Hamilton Green Inter-Ward/Village Cup Football competition is billed to commence October 21 at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground.

Four athletes have been selected to don the National colours at the Youth Olympic Games currently underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Michael Anthony continues to show sublime late season form. One week after sprinting away with the Lezo Vacations Dash for Cash 30-lap event at the National Park, the wheelsman from Linden returned to the venue yesterday and took the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the Hand in Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance 11-race programme.

Defending champion West Ruimveldt, St. Pius, Marian Academy and Golden Grove secured convincing wins when the Courts Pee Wee Primary Schools Football competition continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The Ballerz Entertainment coordinated GT Beer-sponsored 5-a-side Soft Shoe football competition will resume tonight at the Mocha Community Centre ground, East Bank Demerara.

A Most Valuable Player [MVP] performance from eventual awardee Anthonio Wallace, propelled Guyana Police Force to the Limacol football championships after they defeated Pouderoyen 4-2 Friday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Left-hander Nich-olas Pooran continued to excite the senses with a second straight half-century as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force strolled to their second successive victory of the Regional Super50, with a 35-run win over Guyana Jaguars here Friday night. 

RAJKOT, India, CMC – A familiar capitulation saw West Indies lose 14 wickets in just over two sessions, as India romped to an emphatic innings and 272-run victory inside three days of the opening Test here yesterday to record their largest-ever win in Tests. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Superstar Chris Gayle fittingly lowered the curtain on his domestic 50-overs career with an audacious hundred as Jamaica Scorpions brushed aside Barbados Pride by 33 runs in their Group B clash of the Regional Super50 here yesterday. 

RAJKOT, India, CMC – West Indies suffered a now familiar batting collapse after India captain Virat Kohli struck his 24th Test hundred and Ravindra Jadeja his first, as the Caribbean side left themselves with an enormous task of saving the opening Test after only the second day here yesterday. 

Junior national players Abosaide Cadogan and Kirstin Gomes continued their winning ways to work their way into the semi-finals of the Lucozade handicap squash tournament last evening at the Georgetown Club while senior national player Taylor Fernandes went down in her first bonafide match of the tournament. 

Enterprise Cricket Club will battle Strathavon in the final of the Bargain Supermarket T20 powered by Carib Beer as the curtains come down tomorrow at the Enmore Community Centre Ground.

The longstanding rivalry between Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will be renewed when the two clash in the final of the sixth Georgetown Cricket Association/New Building Society second-division 40-overs tournament today at DCC, Queenstown.

Attorney-at-law Yolander Persaud has been elected by the 89th FIDE Congress to sit on the FIDE Ethics Commission effectively resulting in her becoming the first person from Guyana to hold a position on any FIDE committee.

Pacesetters basketball teams secured convincing wins in the first and Under-23 divisions when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association [GABA] ‘League Championship’ continued on Thursday at the Burnham Court, Middle and Carmichael Streets.