Marlon Munroe

Reittie: ‘I’ll do my talking in the ring’ It’s a small percentage of fighters who leave the bravado and bluster of the fistic sport to the confines of the ring.

It was the shortest fight since the concept of the Friday Night Fights (FNF) Pro-Am card was birthed in February this year.

– sidelined by leg injury By Marlon Munroe Two-time Caribbean best lifter in the 82.5kg weight class Randolph Morgan due to a minor injury in his leg will not be competing in the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation’s (GAPF) Banks Power Stout National Powerlifting Championships at the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) tomorrow from 10:00 hours.

“It was the coming together of two champions,” according to Public Relations Officer of the Berbice Cricket Board(BCB) Hilbert Foster yesterday at the canteen of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) company yesterday.

-cites lack of transparency and apprehension at working among power-hungry people as reasonsBy Marlon Munroe While acid burnt Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Assistant Treasurer Pretipaul Jaigobin is back at work at the Ministry of Finance, his work at the GCB is uncertain as he is apprehensive about working among “power-hungry persons.”

Former national swimmer Asantie Mickle yesterday lit up the University of Guyana Inter-Faculty Track and Field Championships yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Axed West Indies middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan told  Stabroek Sport yesterday that he has been getting mixed signals about his non-selection for the tour to Sri Lanka next month and this has prompted him to focus his energies on assisting the development of Guyana’s cricket.

-criticises dropping of experienced players Guyana captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has pinpointed inconsistency among reasons for the national team crashing out of another West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 50-over tournament in the preliminary rounds and he also lamented the dropping of experienced players Sarwan, who has his own battles with the WICB at the moment, and manager Carl Moore related to Stabroek Sport yesterday that the team’s all-round performance in Jamaica was “disappointing” and the batting “poor”.

– Guyanese trio in senior WI teamWith all the negative factors that have been enveloping Caribbean and local cricket, one of the recent counters to this scourge has been the senior West Indies Women’s team.

By Marlon Munroe World-ranked Guyanese boxer Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore has won 78 percent of his fights by the TKO route and now he wants to enrich his legacy by also being a promoter.

The Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) lifted the Haier Cup 40-over second division title yesterday after they defeated the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) by 66 runs at the DCC ground.

Berbice comfortably retained their El Dorado 50-over Inter-County title at the Guyana National Stadium last night although Demerara played some good cricket in the preliminary rounds before stumbling at the final hurdle.

By Marlon Munroe Half centuries from Travis Dowlin, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Rajendra Chandrika and a four-wicket haul from Kellon Carmichael ensured  Berbice went down by 71 runs to Demerara in the second round of the El Dorado 50-over Inter-County tournament at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground yesterday.

-number of records broken The Guyana Police Force (GPF) returned to the throne after beating out their nemesis Guyana Defence Force (GDF) by a whopping 202 points in the Joint Services Track & Field Championships at the Eve Leary ground yesterday.

  “He was a gentleman and gave Jack his jacket,” is the way in which Sherlock Atwell will remember  his friend and former teammate Lennox Joseph Hunte who died at 20:00 hours on Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

-capture Leslie Amsterdam trophy from home team The Demerara Under-23 cricketers yesterday captured  the Leslie Amsterdam Memorial trophy with a five-wicket triumph over Berbice at the Albion Community Centre ground.

After the Government of Guyana doled out US$100,000 (GYD$20M) prior to the Amazon Conquerors’ departure three weeks ago for the Airtel Champions League in South Africa, today will be the day of accountability to Sports Minister Dr.

A majority of the players seemed least interested yesterday in what was going at the Demerara senior trials at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.

After a year away from the fistic sport Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman returned to the ring and produced a lacklustre performance in his loss against Kwesi ‘Lightning Hitman’ Jones on Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) will now meet Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in the final of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Digicel Twenty20 competition after beating Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) by seven wickets at the Camp Ayanganna ground yesterday.