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l-r President of Lusignan Golf Club Brian Hackett, Chatterpaul Deo, Nature Valley Representative Nickalva Washington, Alfred Mentore (winner), Seven Seas Representative Karen Connell and Brian Glasford.
l-r President of Lusignan Golf Club Brian Hackett, Chatterpaul Deo, Nature Valley Representative Nickalva Washington, Alfred Mentore (winner), Seven Seas Representative Karen Connell and Brian Glasford.

Mentore warms up for Guyana Open

Former national champion Alfred Mentore warmed up for the Guyana Open golf championships billed for mid next month with a scintillating victory in the Seven Seas/Nature Valley Medal Play golf tournament Saturday at the Lusignan Golf course.

Matches likely to be shifted from Eden Gardens

KOLKATA, India,  CMC-IANS – Eden Gardens is set to lose all three Champions League Twenty20 matches with the Cricket Association of Bengal favouring the shift of the matches due to monsoon rains lashing the city almost daily.

Sherwin Ganga

Spinners did trick for us: Daren Ganga

HYDERABAD, India,  CMC-IANS – Trinidad & Tobago captain Daren Ganga yesterday praised his spinners for the victory against Ruhuna in the opening game of the qualifying round of Champions League T20, and said the win will improve confidence of the team in the games ahead.

Phil Hughes

Hughes takes Australia to overall lead

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Australia opener Phil Hughes scored his first test hundred in 2-1/2 years  yesterday as Sri Lanka pressed for a series levelling victory in the third and final test.

Jonathan Foo about to hit Amir Khan through the off-side during the Demerara/Berbice clash at Everest yesterday.

Demerara humble rival

Demerara and the President’s XI hardly broke a sweat, as they both recorded clinical victories over opponents Berbice and Essequibo, in the latest round of the 2011 El Dorado Senior Inter-County limited overs competition, at the Everest Cricket Club and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) grounds respectively, yesterday.

Guyanese Fernandes stopped in Open Final

PHOENIX, Arizona, CMC – Caribbean champion Nicolette Fernandes failed in her bid for a second WISPA Tour title on Saturday, when top-seed Latasha Khan of the United States beat 3-1 in the Final of the Southwest Open.

Premature end to some Intermediate bouts

By Emmerson Campbell The second night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) National Intermediate Championships Saturday last at the National Gymnasium saw almost half of the fights ending prematurely.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. (L) of the U.S. watches as dethroned WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, also of the U.S., falls to the canvas during their title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday night. REUTERS/Steve Marcus.

Mayweather controversially stops Ortiz

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Floyd Mayweather Jr took the WBC welterweight title from Victor Ortiz with a controversial fourth-round knockout on Saturday that prompted an angry response from the crowd and raised questions about his conduct in the ring.

Steady Sri Lanka build lead over Australia

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Angelo Mathews moved to within 15 runs of a maiden test century as Sri Lanka steadily extended their first innings lead against Australia in the third and final test  yesterday.

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