Sports

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Not a ball was bowled in the WICB Regional first-class match between Guyana and Leeward Islands yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados were made to endure a long, hard toil, when the England Lions, led by James Taylor and James Hildreth, batted resolutely in their WICB Regional first-class match yesterday.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – A memorable all-round performance from newcomer Carlos Brathwaite brought Combined Campuses & Colleges back into their match against Trinidad & Tobago in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

A new executive body was elected to run the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) yesterday afternoon when GABA held its Annual General Meeting and elections at the National Gymnasium.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – Their bowlers, led by Jerome Taylor, helped three-time defending champions Jamaica to capture first innings points from Windward Islands, and take control of their match in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

The St. Stanislaus College Mash basketball competition gets underway today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Roraima Bikers Club cyclist, Alonzo Greaves defeated  his opponents in the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored 40-mile cycle road race yesterday at West Bank Demerara.

Akecia Nedd brought Saturday night’s action of the annual Mashramani table tennis competition to a stunning climax with an upset win over Chelsea Edghill in the final of the girls’ 18 years and under division at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Gareth Davies scored 19 points from one try and seven conversions while Matthew Morgan added 10 points from two conversions as Wales defeated Guyana’s national Sevens team 54-0 yesterday in the quarter finals of the plate division.

It hasn’t taken long in the 2011 regional first-class tourmament for cricket’s usual regional bullies to throw their weight around.

The first shot has been fired, a process has begun. President of the Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United Football Club Odinga Lumumba yesterday warned his players to get in line or face the axe from Guyana’s number one team.

Support continues to pour in to the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association ahead of their upcoming tour of Florida, United States of America next month.

Guyana’s National Rugby Sevens side failed to make the expected impact crashing to two heavy defeats against England and Argentina on the opening day of the International Rugby Board (iRB) HSBC World Sevens Series tournament in Las Vegas, United States of America.

The developmental work for boxers and officials attached to the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) continues with the selection of two female boxers and national Coach Wincel Thomas for the World Youth and Junior championships in Antalya, Turkey from April 18-29.

A number of sponsors have come onboard for the Rising Sun Turf Club pre-Mashramani horse race meet scheduled for February 20 at the club’s facility at Arima Park, West Coast Berbice from 13:00 hours.

Several of the nation’s leading dominoes players are expected to compete in the Banks Premium Beer `Last Man Standing’  dominoes competition organized by Forever Youth Dominoes Club on February 23 (Mash Day) at Merriman’s Mall.

Heavy rainfall last Thursday forced the postponement of the Oasis Café Team Golf tournament but organizers are hoping to stage the event on Wednesday, a public holiday at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Play will get underway in the second round of the WICB Four-Day tournament between Guyana and the Leeward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda, today, weather permitting.

The Bissondyal Singh faction of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) issued a statement late last night urging members of the public to disregard the tape that was aired on CNS Channel 6 about the Special General Meeting on January 17 at the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) boardroom.

The recently resuscitated Linden Himara Aquatic Club has been reinstated as a member of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA).