Sports

The Ravens Basketball Club paid tribute to its former teammate and comrade, Kevin Lawrence in winning fashion Saturday night after they toppled a strong Georgetown All-Star team during the Kevin Lawrence Memorial Extravaganza at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

By Treiston Joseph The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will most likely send six athletes along with two officials to the 40th edition of the Junior Carifta Games to be held in Jamaica this month end.

Alonzo Greaves rode to victory in the final race of the Dr Cheddi Jagan Memorial series of 50-mile cycle road races held yesterday at Essequibo.

Jessica Stephenson produced another personal best time on Friday which helped her finish fourth overall in the 200m breaststroke final at the CONSANAT Youth Championships in Lima, Peru.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh rang the changes in a  14-man squad named yesterday for next month’s one-day series  against Australia following their disappointing World Cup  campaign.

Businessman Shiv Nandalall was yesterday elected president of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) when the body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Defiant batting, led by Chadwick Walton and Brendan Nash, helped three-time defending champions Jamaica earn a draw with the England

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Lewis Hamilton had to settle for the runner-up spot, after reigning World champion Sebastien Vettel opened the Formula 1 season with a resounding victory yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – An unbeaten 78 from their captain Omar Phillips propelled Combined Campuses & Colleges to a five-wicket victory over Barbados yesterday, and first place as the preliminary competition in the WICB Regional first-class championship draws to a close.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – A maiden hundred from Gavin Williams led the Leeward Islands back from the doldrums against Windward Islands in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

A systematic attack to the body and head snapping uppercuts by the new light heavyweight champion Kwesi ‘Lightning Struck Assassin’ Jones resulted in a fifth round TKO over Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes on Friday Night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has been given the green light to stage this year’s senior Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) championships and president of the association Henry Greene wants it to be the biggest ever staged locally.

Written off by fickle fans following their 0-1 defeat at home to Linden’s Intermoengotapoe at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in the first game of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championships, Milerock are today basking in their historic win in Suriname which advances them to the second round.

Guyana’s Jessica Stephenson yesterday qualified for the final of the 200m breast stroke event at the CONSANAT Youth championships in Lima, Peru.

Captain Eon Murray and the rest of his executive are expected to be installed into office today when the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers for the 2011/12 term takes place.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – A drained Tillakaratne Dilshan was helped out of the park but not before his all-round show had taken Sri Lanka closer to their second World Cup title while prolonging England’s agonising wait for their first yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies A batsman Jonathan Carter agonisingly missed out on a maiden first class century yesterday as the clash between Barbados and Combined Campuses and Colleges remained tantalisingly poised heading into today’s third day.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Lendl Simmons gave West Indies selectors plenty food for thought ahead of the Pakistan series next month when he pummelled a remarkable, unbeaten double century against Guyana yesterday.

The Pepsi Hornets Rugby Club ran through the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rugby team to win the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) season opener 27-0 when the two teams bumped heads yesterday at the National Park.

Defending champion Randolph Morgan and Dawn Barker struck gold for Guyana on the opening day of the fifth IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting Championships in Cayman Islands on Friday.