Royston Alkins

Abosaide Cadogan defeated her rival Madison Fernandes in the most exciting match on the third evening of the Woodpecker Products Junior Nationals Squash tournament at the Georgetown Club Squash Court last evening.

The second evening of the Woodpecker Products junior national squash championships witnessed a few of the sport’s national junior players working their way to easy wins at the Georgetown Club courts.

Guyanese football icon Alex Bunbury recently purchased Portuguese Third Division Club, ‘Primeiro Dezembro.’

Eighteen-year-old Guyana Jaguars footballer Jeremy Garrett is buoyant about his chances of getting into the under – 23 programme of American Soccer Club, DC United after completing an audition with the club on Friday last.

The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) says it is looking into the matter where national players from Guyana are required to sign contracts given to them by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB.

Former West Indies skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan came out swinging against President of Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Fizul Bacchus for casting culpability on West Indian fast bowler Ronsford Beaton for being called for throwing by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The 2018 edition of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) National Junior and Senior Table Tennis championships which will serve off from May 20, comes at an opportune time to reignite interest in the sport once again.

Golden Jaguars Center Back Jeremy Garrett, is banking on his maturity and preparations ahead of an audition with American Football Club, DC United on Friday, in the United States.

Nineteen-year-old Taylor Fernandes is already back on the squash court after her participation at the recent  Commonwealth Games, maintaining her desire to hone her skills to match her counterparts on the international stage.

Outside attacker Juan Velazquez is urging his fellow volleyball teammates to back themselves to spring a few surprises in the upcoming South American Olympic Qualifiers set to spike off in Bolivia from May 26 to June 4.

The Police Sports Club (PSC) continued their impressive run in this year’s Noble House Seafoods second-division, two-day tournament, after compiling 323 before being dismissed on the stroke of stumps on day one in their final group match against the University of Guyana (UG) at the Gandhi Youth Organization ground, yesterday.

Guyana’s Table Tennis delegation which competed at the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast of Australia is back on home soil and have already begun to charter the way forward.

A superb spell of left-arm spin bowling from Kelvin Umroa spearheaded an eight-wicket win for Berbice over defending champions, Demerara in second round action of the Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance/Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U19 Inter-County three-day competition at Lusignan, yesterday.

Defending champions Demerara and arch-rivals Berbice were  locked in a close tussle with Berbice ending day one of their Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance/Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U19 Inter-County three-day competition on 102-5, trailing Demerara by 46 runs at Lusignan, yesterday.

Guyana’s Miguel Wong, for the second day running, failed to get past Jordanian Khaled Khader in the qualifiers of the Youth Olympics which was played in Paraguay over the weekend.

A clinical spell of left-arm spin bowling from skipper Devon Lord helped guide the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) to first innings points over the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) in the Noble House Seafoods/Georgetown Cricket Association, two-day, second-division competition at the GYO ground yesterday.

Seventeen-year-old Miguel Wong, who is currently participating at the Youth Olympics lost his lone match on day one of the qualifiers in Paraguay.

Fifteen-year old off-spinner Dwain Dick, spun Demerara to a comfortable innings and 56 runs win over the National Under-17 team on the final day of Guyana Cricket Board/ Hand-In-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Under-19 Inter-County three day tournament at Everest, yesterday.

National junior player Miguel  Wong is heading to the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) qualifiers, to be held April 14-15, in Paraguay, free of any pressure to perform.

Orchestrated around a ferocious batting performance, hosts, the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) defeated Transport Sports Club (TSC) by 86 runs in the final of the Guyana Diabetic Association/Georgetown Cricket Association U17 T20 competition Saturday evening.