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(The Sports Xchange) ———- Austin Daye scored a season-best 22 points as the Spurs won their 14th consecutive game while handing the Sixers their 25th straight defeat Monday night.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Spin duo Ryan Austin and Akeem Dewar shared eight wickets to propel Combined Campuses and Colleges to a seven-wicket victory over Guyana in the Regional Four-Day tournament on Monday here.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Windward Islands staged an intelligent run chase to beat Jamaica by three wickets in their fourth round, Regional Four-Day match here yesterday.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – Captain Merissa Aguilleira has praised the heroics of all-rounder Deandra Dottin, after she bowled West Indies Women to victory in their opening game of the Women’s World Twenty20 here Monday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s highest court called on the country’s cricket board (BCCI) chief N.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh,  (Reuters) – A dominant West Indies thumped a sorry Bangladesh by 73 runs in a lop-sided super 10 stage match to revive their World Twenty20 title defence today.

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Dynas Ravens were crowned Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (GABF) Road to Mecca National Club Champions, crushing Linden unit Retrieve Raiders 85-57 in the grand finale at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Sunday.

Pele FC defeated Bakewell Topp XX 2-0 to seal a quarterfinal berth when the Fruta Conquerors Football Club Namilco sponsored knockout festival commenced on Sunday at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Gladwin ‘The Tiger’ Dorway will be the second local pugilist to take the ring when the Wray and Nephew Caribbean Contender Boxing Series continues tomorrow night in Jamaica.

SYLHET, Bangladesh,  CMC – The mercurial Deandra Dottin produced one of her moments of brilliance, rocking England Women with an incisive spell to set up a nine-run victory, as West Indies Women made a winning start to their World Twenty20 campaign here yesterday.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K.Juman Yassin voiced his disappointment at the mediocre showing of the local athletes and pugilists that participated at the recently concluded South American Games in Santiago, Chile.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Defending champions West Indies remained bullish ahead of today’s crucial World Twenty20 clash against hosts Bangladesh, refusing to be daunted by Sunday’s defeat to India that triggered criticism of their running between the wickets.

(Reuters) – Everton must put an end to their awayday blues at Newcastle United today to keep alive their outside hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League, said manager Roberto Martinez.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The mayor of Porto Alegre has warned the city may drop out of the World Cup unless it makes a crucial decision this week on financing for temporary structures at the Beira Rio stadium.

The Mayor’s All-Stars Football team completed their Surinamese Tour on winning note, defeating Suriname’s U-20 side by a 2-1 score line.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Speedster Fidel Edwards is anxious to make a comeback to the West Indies team but says that path is being frustrated by Barbados selectors.

(Reuters) – England captain Stuart Broad has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for criticising the officials after his side’s rain-affected World Twenty20 defeat to New Zealand, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Sunday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy said Sunday there was no need to press the panic button, in the wake of his side’s loss in their opening match of the World Twenty20 Championship.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Leon Johnson and Tagenarine Chanderpaul staged a fight-back for Guyana, after Chadwick Walton collected his third first-class century to put the Combined Campuses in command in the Regional Four-Day Championship here Sunday.