Sports

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.

Guyana’s top rifle shooters Lennox Braithwaite and Mahendra Persaud were outstanding on day one of the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (CSF) rifle shooting championships along the Gold Coast of Australia.

(The Sports Xchange) – LeBron James had the second-highest scoring performance of his career with 57 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 130-122 win over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, CMC – Head coach, Stuart Law has lauded the determination of the West Indies seam attack on the flat track at Queens Sports Club and has urged authorities here to improve the standard of their pitches in order to aid the development of the Zimbabwe side.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies A’s hopes of levelling the three-match one-day series against Sri Lanka A were scuppered as wet conditions, resulting from rain, wrecked the second one-dayer at Sabina Park here Friday night.

The numbers are in. Sixty-three of the Caribbean’s best road runners will compete in the second leg of the South American 10k Classic today on the streets of Georgetown.

For the past two years when the calendar flips to November, health and fitness enthusiasts circle the dates for the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Health and Fitness Expo.

West Ruimveldt will oppose Marian Academy in the final of the Courts Guyana Incorporated, Pee Wee Football tournament following semi-final wins yesterday over Sophia and Enterprise respectively at the Thirst Park ground.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies Twenty20 star Andre Fletcher helped raise the curtain on the 2017 edition of the Bangladesh Premier League in style when he stroked a handsome half-century to steer Sylhet Sixers to a comfortable victory here yesterday.

Blairmont Cricket Club, behind Most Valuable Player Zainul Ramsammy will look to defeat city side Georgetown Cricket Club when the two sides meet today at the Demerara Cricket Club ground in the final of the Well Teen, Trophy Stall, Nauth Motor Spares and Tropical Springs Under-13 final.

The qualifying round for the 2017 Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Zone has been rescheduled to November 17th with the deadline for the submission of registration forms  ending November 16th.

Rain had the final say on match-day two of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) 2017/2018 senior league washing out the scheduled doubleheader at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.

Horse racing action continues today at the Budhan’s Memorial Turf Club with the staging of a grand six-race card at the Club’s NO.66 Village track on the Corentyne.