-Rose is new three point shooting champ; Hamid retains dunk title After losing to Linden for the past two years in the Junior All-Star game, Georgetown regained the Junior All-Star title when they defeated Linden 83-67 Friday night as the Wildfire Entertainment’s All-Star Basketball Weekend commenced at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
He has developed a reputation as a ball handling wizard and despite his small stature AND 1 Streetball star, Grayson Boucher A.K.A.
The Eight Annual All-Star weekend is now only days away and the Georgetown and Linden Amateur Basketball Associations are all set for this weekend’s All-Star showdown which will run from Friday to Sunday.
-AND 1 team arrives for All-Star weekend The much talke about AND 1 Streetball team arrived on Guyana’s soil for the first time yesterday to begin their stint which will highlight the annual All-Star basketball weekend.
-Ride for Life 4 fifth stage ends in photo finish The fourth annual Ride For Life cycle road race came climaxed yesterday at Homestretch Avenue with Miami-based cyclist Frank Travieso clinching victory over Godfrey Pollydore and Alonzo Greaves in a photo finish in the fifth and final stage.
The female senior national basketball team continues to work towards their participation in the 11th Annual Gillian Brazier Basketball Shoot-Out for females in Antigua from November 24 – 28, with weekly practice sessions and fundraising activities to assist with purchasing airline tickets.
Colin ‘Mr. Clean’ Chesney is the new heavyweight champion after he won the division at the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Association (GAPF) championships yesterday at the Critchlow Labour College.
The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will bounce off two more competitions on their events calendar for 2010 when they stage a Division Two and Division Three knockout tournament under lights from Saturday at the Burnham basketball court.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) launched the National Schools Table Tennis Programme yesterday by donating 22 brand new tennis tables to 22 schools in various administrative regions across Guyana.
-team should and could have done better; some players were not focused- Nascimento President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), Kit Nascimento feels that the national Sevens team could have performed better at the just concluded Commonwealth Games in India.
-Chef de Mission of Guyana’s Commonwealth Games team Garfield Wiltshire says that Guyana’s athletes have potential, but need the required training to be able to compete with world class athletes Chef-de-Mission of Guyana’s contingent to the recent Commonwealth Games and Treasurer of the Guyana Olympic Association, Garfield Wiltshire says that the results obtained by Guyana’s athletes at the Games can be improved in the future with the proper training.
President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Kit Nascimento said yesterday he will brief the media on Wednesday on the performance of the national rugby Sevens team at the just concluded Commonwealth Games in India.
Ravens Basketball Club doubled its championship title holdings in the Pepsi Street Playoff Series when they won the Series’ Open Division final a night after their Division Three team bagged the top spot in that competition.
—- Force game three in Open division Saturday night’s games in the finals of the Pepsi Street Playoff Series undoubtedly belonged to the Ravens Basketball club as they won the Division Three finals and later forced a game three in the series’ Open division.
It is often said in the basketball community that free-throws win games and this was exemplified on Thursday night when the Ravens defeated the Scorpions 77-75 in overtime in game one of their three-game series in the Division Three final of the Pepsi Street Playoff Series.
The Court Pacesetters drew first blood in the finals of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association Pepsi Street Playoff Series with a 74-70 point win against the Ravens last night at the Burnham basketball court.
The two finalists in the Open Division of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Pepsi Street Playoff Series were decided on Thursday night at the Burnham Basketball Court after the Courts Pacesetters tossed aside the Macabees 77-60 and Ravens outscored Beepat Scorpions 68-53.
The private meeting between Minister of Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, and the management of Guyana’s Amazon Conquerors cricket team at the ministry’s office on Main Street yesterday was described as “very fruitful.”
Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under their El Dorado brand in collaboration with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) launched the 2010 edition of their Inter-County 50-over round robin competition yesterday at the Head Office of the GCB.
The Guyana National Stadium at Providence is already, in many instances, a multi-sport venue with the hosting of cricket, rugby and football matches there and it will potentially host another discipline as cycling may be taken to the venue in the near future.
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