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The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will bring its curtain down on the 2017 domestic season with the National Open championships from November 27-30.

Floodlights softball Masters, watched by a fair sized crowd, retained the Guyana Softball Seven Masters Cup after defeating Regal by nine wickets in the Masters final played at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) last evening.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Vincentian stroke-maker Sunil Ambris has been rewarded for his recent prolific scoring and named in a West Indies 15-man squad for the two-Test tour of New Zealand starting later this month.

Guyana’s Mahendra Persaud is in excellent position to win the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (CSF) rifle shooting championships held at the Belmont Shooting Centre, Brisbane going into today’s final day.

Guyana got off to the perfect start in the Central American and Caribbean Games 2018 Hockey Qualifiers defeating Panama and Puerto Rico in the women and men’s division respectively yesterday.

FLORENCE HALL, Jamaica, CMC – Man-of-the-Match Sheldon Cottrell conjured up a lethal spell to fire West Indies A to a series-levelling 45-run win over Sri Lanka A in the final one-dayer of the three-match series here yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) – For the first time since the 2008-09 season, the Detroit Pistons are off to a 7-3 start following a 108-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Just six months after Cristiano Ronaldo racked up 25 league goals to propel Real Madrid to the Liga title, the Portuguese hitman seems to have lost his scoring touch.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Leg-spinner Imran Khan snatched his 19th five-wicket haul in first class cricket but it proved in vain as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force were held to a draw by Jamaica Scorpions on the final day of their second round contest here yesterday.

Santos and Northern Rangers secured hard-fought wins when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2017/2-18 Senior League continued yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

Oops! They did it again. Cleveland Forde, Cleveland Thomas and Winston Missigher’s dream run continued yesterday in the second leg of the South American 10k Classic as they swept the podium a week after pulling off the same feat on the streets of Paramaribo, Suriname.

(Reuters) – Paceman James Anderson picked up four wickets as England’s opening warm-up game of their Ashes tour against a young Western Australia XI ended in a draw in Perth yesterday.

The Ministry of Public through its Department of Adolescent Health, staged the second annual Inter-Schools Fitness Challenge recently at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Stable owners get ready, the provisional race programme for the Jumbo Jet’s Guyana Cup Rematch scheduled for December 3 has been released.

(Reuters) – Opener Colin Munro smashed a career-best 109 not out to help secure New Zealand’s series-levelling 40-run victory in the second Twenty20 International against India on Saturday.

Guyana’s Shemar Britton whipped reigning Caribbean men’s singles champion Samuel Galvez 3-1 Friday when the WASA Invitational Table Tennis Tournament commenced at the WASA club, Farm Road, St Joseph, but his team Gladiators was beaten 2-4 by Invaders in the opening encounter.

(WICB) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Selection Panel of Cricket West Indies has announced a 15-member Windies squad for the two-Test series on the Tour of New Zealand, starting later this month.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Guyana Jaguars made it a little messy in the end but rattled off their second straight win in the Regional four-day championship when they defeated Windward Island Volcanoes by seven wickets inside three days here yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Jason Holder stumbled across success earlier than most.

The rivalry between the country’s top two softball cricket teams is set to continue today when Floodlights and Regal Masters meet in the final of the Masters category of the seventh annual Guyana Softball Cup tournament following semi-finals wins yesterday.