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Guyana’s debutant Sherwin Felicien hoisted the Golden Arrowhead as the local shooters joined their regional counterparts at the 2014 West Indies Fullbore shooting championships which opened yesterday at the Twickenham Park ranges in Spanish Town, Kingston, Jamaica.

Andre Millington yesterday won the Flying Ace Cycling Club 60-mile cycle road race for cyclists in Berbice.

The Guyana Baseball League (GBL) Easter Baseball Camp series concluded yesterday with camps in New Amsterdam, Cornelia Ida and Tuschen.

Nichosie Barker and Javed Rasheed’s performances highlighted play in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Noble House Seafood’s Second Division Two-Day tournament on Saturday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies A team player Jonathan Carter has blasted his first century in the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Sagicor General Twenty20 championship.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia bowling coach Craig McDermott, who has been credited with turning his country’s pace attack into one of the most potent in the world, has signed a new two-year deal, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

Apology! The Printer’s Devil was at work in yesterday’s issue where Floyd Mayweather’s record was given as 40-6 and not 46-0.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – A new franchise-based soccer league with celebrity owners will kick-off in India later this year but not everyone is convinced that it will help lift the country out of the lower echelons of the world game.

(Cricinfo) Gautam Gambhir had hoped Kolkata Knight Riders had learned from conceding winning positions in multiple matches this season, but losing six wickets for two runs after 70% of the target of 171 had been mowed down by a century stand between himself and Robin Uthappa indicated there was still a lot of work left to do.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC- West Indies spin bowler Sunil Narine picked up two wickets but his side Kolkata Knight Riders lost by ten runs against Rajasthan Royals in an Indian Premier League (IPL) cliff hanger yesterday.

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association conference semi-finals which kicked off later yesterday followed one of the wildest and most exciting starts to the playoffs in years.

(The Sports Xchange) -Two weeks into the NBA playoffs, the San Antonio Spurs finally produced a performance befitting a team that accumulated the league’s best record during the regular season.

Unified tag team work from the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) duo of Chris Barnwell and Paul Wintz steered their team to a 33-run win over the Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) team yesterday in the final of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) double-wicket festival, played at the Albion Sports Complex ground.

Glenroy Smith shone the brightest of all the up and coming stars of the fistic sport and lifted the best boxer award of this year’s two-night Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) novices championships.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson says several performances in the Regional first class season has offered hope the regional side can make amends for last year’s poor showing in New Zealand, when the Black Caps arrive in the Caribbean later this month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies Twenty20 off-spinner Ashley Nurse lashed an aggressive hundred to inspire LIME to a 64-run victory over Barbados Defence Force Sports Programme in the opening series of the domestic T20 League here Saturday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Rasheed Dwyer and Hansle Parchment were the only Caribbean winners on a night when Americans Francena McCorory and Christian Cantwell produced two world-leading marks at the Jamaica International Invitational meet here Saturday.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has launched their official www.guyanacricketboard.com website which the body wants to make the go-to website for cricket information in Guyana.

West Demerara businessman Lalta Digamber was reelected as President of the West Demerara Cricket Association (WDCA) at the organisation’s biannual general meeting which was held at the Wales Community Centre on Wednesday.

-Mayweather finishes strongly to edge out Maidana (Reuters) – Undefeated welterweight Floyd Mayweather did all his hard work in the second half of the bout to overcome a stiff challenge from the fast-starting Marcos Maidana and unify two world titles in Las Vegas on Saturday.