Sports

Dwayne “Brown Suga” Roberts dunked his way to MVP in the just-concluded Linden Amateur Basketball Association/104.3 POWER FM Mash basketball championship at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Hard-court.

The ascension of Elton ‘The Bully’ Dharry in the world bantamweight ranks continued in TKO fashion on Saturday night at the Giftland Mall.

At least eight athletes made sure that their tickets could be booked for the CARIFTA Games in Grenada next month when they triumphantly competed at the ‘Smalta National Youth and Junior Championships’ over the weekend at the National Track and Field Centre.

Guyana T20 batting star Johnathan Foo said he plans to use the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (HCPL) as a way of resuscitating his Professional career in his quest to again represent Guyana and (with Any luck) the West Indies.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Leaders Guyana Jaguars remained on course for a title repeat when they trounced Wind-ward Islands Volcanoes by six wickets on a dramatic third day when 17 wickets fell here yesterday.

  Mae’s Secondary maintained its unbeaten run heading into the knockout round, dismantling St.

Retrieve Raiders were crowned the LABA/104.3 POWER FM Mash champions, downing Half Mile Bulls 80-78 in the final Saturday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Hard-court, Linden.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Leg-spinner Hayden Walsh Jr and fast bowler Miguel Cummins wrecked Jamaica Scorpions to propel Barbados Pride to an uncomplicated six-wicket victory inside three days here yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) – Point guard John Wall had 21 points and 13 assists as the Washington Wizards took advantage of LeBron James resting to record a 113-99 home win over the Cleveland Cavaliers yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia skipper Steve Smith is determined to secure the one major international cricket trophy his country has never won but thinks India are going to be tough to beat when they host the World Twenty20 next month.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia skipper Steve Smith is determined to secure the one major international cricket trophy his country has never won but thinks India are going to be tough to beat when they host the World Twenty20 next month.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Left-hander Leon Johnson sent a strong message to selectors with his second hundred in three games as leaders Guyana Jaguars took a firm grip of their eighth round clash with Leeward Islands Hurricanes here yesterday.

Team Alanis’ Paul DeNobrega out rode Team Gillette Evolution’s (TGE) Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams in a thrilling two-man sprint finish to cart off the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the BR Investment/Dookie Construction criterium programme yesterday.

Spinners Michael Puran and Andre Seepersaud starred as Demerara edged Berbice by four runs in yesterday’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Dave West Indian Exports Inter-county U15 final played at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Bourda Ground.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Gianni Infantino’s election as FIFA president should give soccer’s governing body the time it needs to begin tackling the corruption and other problems that have dragged it into the worst crisis in its 112-year history, current and former officials said.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Virat Kohli scored a confident 49 to prop up India in a tricky chase as they defeated neighbours Pakistan by five wickets in a low-scoring Asia Cup match yesterday.

Christ Church and Bishops’ High sealed their places in the knockout round of the fourth annual Milo Schools U20 football championships yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Silver Shattas suffered their first defeat in the Upper Demerara Football Association First Division League, losing to Topp XX 1-0 on Friday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Linden.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Roston Chase struck a defiant half-century but left-arm spinner Nikita Miller’s eight-wicket haul limited Barbados Pride to a slender first innings lead on the rain-hit second day of their Regional four-day contest here yesterday.

THE lawyers advising delegates of the 41 member states of football’s North, Central America and the Caribbean Confederation (Concacaf) on the need for change might just as well have been Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments addressing the directors of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on the same theme.