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Plaisance Guardians defeated Eagles by an 82-61 score line in an U23 fixture when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League qualifying knockout tournament commenced on Friday.

The Guyana Darts Association’s Emancipa-tion tournament will take place today at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

Guyana’s Calvin Thomas Friday captured the gold medal in the 5000m event at the Special Olympics World Games competition in the United States of America.

Technical Director of the Guyana Wado-Ryu Karate Federation Sensei Winston Dunbar left Guyana yesterday for Ontario, Canada where he will participate in an international training seminar with the Canadian Wado-Ryu Federation.

Yesterday they had a chance to see and place their hands on the beautiful trophy that the winning team in this year’s Digicel nationwide schools football tournament will take home and one is sure that the respective captains of Wismar/Christianburg and Chase Secondary Schools have been motivated to be in sole possession of that coveted trophy come tomorrow.

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) has not upheld the protest by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) that the St Vincent and the Grenadines national football team fielded an ineligible player in their World Cup Qualification match in June.

MANDEVILLE, Jamaica, CMC – Guyana confirmed their place in tomorrow’s final of the Regional Under-19 Championship when they brushed aside minnows Canada by four wickets in their final round game here yesterday.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) on Thursday handed over a quantity of gloves and head guards to the newly formed Ann’s Grove Boxing Gym.

A battle between a teacher and student will be on full display when Kristian Jeffrey clashes with his father Kevin Jeffrey on August 9 at the highly anticipated Race of Champions event.

Former national rider, Robin Persaud has won the Reagan Rodrigues Memorial 50-mile road race on three consecutive occasions.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The former chairman of an Argentina-based sports marketing business, one of 14 people indicted in a corruption case that has roiled the soccer world’s governing body FIFA, pleaded not guilty in a U.S.

BIRMINGHAM, (Reuters) – England would love to regain the Ashes in the next test at Trent Bridge but the loss of leading bowler James Anderson to injury is a disappointment they must overcome, captain Alastair Cook said.

SPANISH TOWN, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica made sure of their place in the final of the Regional Under-19 Championship when they defeated Barbados by 39 runs in their final round contest here yesterday.

EWARTON, Jamaica, CMC – Rain ruined Trinidad and Tobago’s chances of overhauling Jamaica and reaching the Regional Under-19 Championship final, when it forced a no-result in their contest against Leeward Islands here yesterday.

BIRMINGHAM, (Reuters) – Ian Bell guided England to an eight-wicket victory over Australia in the third test at Edgbaston yesterday to put the hosts 2-1 up in the series with two matches to play.

BIRMINGHAM, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke conceded his side’s middle-order woes were down to his poor form with the bat and vowed to get among the runs in the last two Ashes tests after Australia lost the third match yesterday to trail England 2-1.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The entire second day’s play in the second and final test between Bangladesh and South Africa was wiped out yesterday as rain continued to wreak havoc in the series.

Defending WICB Regional Under-15 champs Guyana, yesterday romped to a commanding 98-run win over the Windwards, compliments of MVP Kelvin Umrao’s five-wicket haul in the final round of the tournament which concluded at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Despite selecting St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the next round in the official 2018 World Cup draw, FIFA is yet to formally contact Guyana on the result of the entity’s complaint against the former for allegedly fielding an ineligible player during their qualifiers.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, CMC – Jamaican star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce dipped below 11 seconds again as she captured the 100 metres while rising Trinidadian star Machel Cedenio won the 400 metres, at the Stockholm Diamond League meet here yesterday.