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HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Guyana came to Bermuda for the first time confident they could avenge defeat at home last year but left a well-beaten side after losing the Caribbean Rugby Championship final 18-0 at the National Sports Centre on Saturday.

THE VALLEY, Anguilla,  CMC – CARIFTA Games bronze medallists quarter-miler Dee Ann Rogers and sprinter Zharnel Hughes will spearhead Anguilla’s track and field team at the 19th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in El Salvador starting Friday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Petrotrin easily brushed aside Angostura White Oak by nine wickets to win the inaugural Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board Powerplay tournament here Sunday night.

GALLE, Sri Lanka,   (Reuters) – Sri Lanka paceman Chanaka Welegedara will miss the rest of the three-match series against Pakistan because of a torn shoulder muscle in his bowling arm.

By Emmerson Campbell A collective gasp was heard at the National Park by the thousands of local supporters when St Vincent scored its first goal against the Back Circle Stallions (Team Guyana) but it was the second dagger that sent them to the exits.

Niron Bissu, who was selected by the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) to participate at next month’s Pre-Cadet tournament in Jamaica, on Saturday received sponsorship from Digital Technology Incorporated.

By Iva Wharton Santa Rosa Secondary School was yesterday adjudged champions of Region One in the Digicel Schools football competition when their opponents in yesterday’s final Hosororo were disqualified for fielding an over age player in the semi-final match against Port Kaituma.

Lindener Orville Hinds is the new national Road Race champion after he blitzed a star-studded field to pedal off with the winner’s trophy of the Road Race Championships yesterday.

GALLE, (Reuters) – Pakistan were facing defeat at 36 for three wickets in their second innings at the close on the third day of the first test against Sri Lanka yesterday after being set a formidable winning target of 510 runs.

The finals of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) Under-15 junior badminton tournament will take place this afternoon from 4.30pm at the Queen’s College Auditorium.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – A dejected Darren Sammy has lamented West Indies’ inconsistent displays, after they slipped to another loss  yesterday to finish their tour of England empty handed.

Despite the presence of a number of IPL players, the Indian ‘A’ team could not defeat the West Indies ‘A’ team in their first T20 match at the Queen’s Park Oval on Saturday night.

EUGENE, Oregon, (Reuters) – Justin Gatlin is back. So is Tyson Gay.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – Scintillating half-centuries from Dwayne Smith and Dwayne Bravo were not enough to save West Indies from a seven-wicket defeat in their one-off Twenty20 International as they completed a wretched, winless tour of England here  yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Having picked himself up after the disappointment of failing to complete his grand slam collection in Paris, Novak Djokovic begins his Wimbledon defence looking for a repeat of last year’s “perfect tournament”.

VALENCIA, Spain, (Reuters) – Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso thrilled home fans by winning an incident-packed European Grand Prix in Valencia yesterday to take the overall championship lead and become Formula One’s first repeat winner of the season.

KIEV, (Reuters) – Alessandro Diamanti scored the decisive spot kick as Italy beat England 4-2 on penalties after their action-packed Euro 2012 quarter-final finished goalless after extra-time yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Uncapped leg-spinner Samuel Badree has been called up for West Indies’ two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand which bowls off next week in Florida, United States.

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Ian Henderson scored 13 of Bermuda’s points, despite being sin-binned, as they maintained their regional supremacy by beating Guyana 18-0 in  yesterday’s Caribbean Rugby Championship final at the National Sports Centre.

VALENCIA, Spain,  CMC – Championship leader Lewis Hamilton has never won the European Grand Prix but will look to change all this when he starts from second in the grid on Valencia’s street circuit here today.