Sports

Former national champion Ransford Goodluck maintained a slim ‘X’ Class lead at the end of day one on Sunday in the ongoing National Rifle championships held at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.

Agricola Red Triangle were crowned the EBFA/Lens Craft Optical u-13 Champions, defeating Kuru-Kururu Warriors in their final fixture Saturday at the Grove Community ground.

Customs, Bank of Guyana, Transport and Harbours and John Fernandes Limited secured group stage wins when the inaugural Inter-Ministry/Corporation Banks Beer Futsal Championship continued on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Two of the country’s top darts players, Sudesh Fitzgerald and Lallchand Rambharose will wing out for Barbados this weekend to participate in the Barbados Darts Festival.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England were 222 for four wickets in reply to Pakistan’s 234 all out at the end of the second day of the third and final test in Sharjah yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Kansas City ended a 30-year wait for a World Series title as the Royals reigned over Major League Baseball with a 7-2, 12-inning victory over the New York Mets on Sunday.

Avinash “Ganguly” Persaud retained his title while Shanella Webster won her first title as the Digicel Guyana Open Golf Classic concluded its two-day tournament yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Team Coco’s Carlos Ospina was a winner on the road but a loser before he entered the drug testing room.

Regal Masters trounced Floodlights XI by six wickets to clinch the title of the Masters category of the Guyana Cup 5 three-day tournament which concluded last evening.

(Reuters) – Triple Crown winner American Pharoah won the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky on Saturday to end his career as horse racing’s first-ever Grand Slam champion.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Tail-ender Ajantha Mendis swatted part-time medium pacer Johnson Charles over long on for six to break West Indies’ hearts and hand Sri Lanka a dramatic one-wicket victory with seven balls remaining, in the rain-shortened opening One-Day International here yesterday.

(Reuters) – James Anderson claimed four wickets as England made a good start to the third and final test in Sharjah by bowling out Pakistan for 234 yesterday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – West Indies Women came from behind to stun Pakistan Women in a nerve-jangling super over and make a clean sweep of their three-match Twenty20 International series here yesterday.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-West Indies Women romped to a comfortable 11- run victory over Pakistan to secure the T20 International series, taking an unassailable two –nil lead at the National stadium here on Saturday.

Alanzo Greaves (Team Roraima) claimed his first stage win in this year’s Tour of Guyana with an impressive sprint in the penultimate stage yesterday in Essequibo, but Team Coco’s Carlos Ospina still has a firm grip on the leaders jersey.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- West Indies will attempt to rebound from a battering in the test series to prove that they are still a major force in One Day International cricket when they face Sri Lanka in the first of Three ODI’s here today.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC-Phil Simmons will be reinstated as head coach of the West Indies Cricket team weeks after his suspension, a top Newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago has reported.

By Tony Cozier NOTHING is as it seems in West Indies cricket.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago captain Rayad Emrit, opening batsman Evin Lewis and all-rounder Kevon Cooper have signed to play in the Bangladesh Premier League which is scheduled to start next month.

A new champion will be crowned in the fourth annual Courts Pee-Wee Under-11 football championship as Enterprise, St.