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.
HYDERABAD, India, CMC-IANS – Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Auckland Aces by two runs in their qualifying match of Pool-B in the Champions League Twenty20 yesterday.
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.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has terminated the contract of the Indian Premier League’s Kochi franchise for a breach of terms, newly elected board president N.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – The prospect of a long awaited mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Filipino Manny Pacquiao seemed as distant as ever after the flamboyant American’s fourth-round knockout of Victor Ortiz.
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.
HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Sherwin Ganga blasted 39 not out from 15 balls, firing Caribbean champions Trinidad & Tobago to a five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka’s Ruhuna in the Champions League Twenty20 qualifying competition yesterday.
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.
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.
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.
Distance queen Alika Morgan was handed her first 10 kilometres defeat for the year on local soil when she competed at the 2011 Courts revival 10k road race yesterday.
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.
Guyana’s most productive junior athlete this year, Stephan James, will return to the international circuit this weekend when he makes his debut at the South American Junior Championships in Guarne, Colombia.
In a small ceremony at the Georgetown Club Cricket (GCC) pavilion Saturday afternoon during the Demerara and Essequibo clash, Uiniversal Sports Club donated cricket equipment and items to National Under-19 cricketers Ronsford Beaton, Amir Khan and Chanderpaul Hemraj.
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.
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.