Sports

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Captain Chris Gayle said his embattled West Indies were focussed on regrouping for the second Test after plunging to a 163-run loss to South Africa in the first Test.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Captain Kumar Sangakkara  challenged his team to fill the void left by absence of 2008  heroes Sanath Jayasuriya and Ajantha Mendis as Sri Lanka bid to  retain the Asia Cup trophy on home soil.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics rode the  outside shooting of Paul Pierce and a superior inside game to  beat the Los Angeles Lakers 92-86 in the NBA Finals on Sunday  and move within one victory of a record 18th championship.

DURBAN (Reuters) – Germany began their quest for a fourth World Cup in devastating style yesterday with a thumping 4-0 victory over Australia in their opening Group D match.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Chris Gayle led an improved West Indies batting performance that failed to spare his side from a 163-run defeat inside four days at the hands of South Africa in the first Test yesterday at Queen’s Park Oval.

– race for post heats up Commissioner of Police Henry Greene will be challenging for the post of president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) when that body stages its annual general meeting sometime later this year.

-Aracari Beach Volleyball Classic Young Achievers ‘B’ volleyball team lived up to its name by achieving a spot in the semi-finals of the Aracari Beach Volleyball Classic after  spiking out their competitors when the tournament continued Saturday at the Aracari Resort.

Courts Guyana Inc. Country Manager Lester Alvis was elected president while five members of the previous executive were returned to office at the Lusignan Golf Club’s annual general meeting Saturday evening at the clubhouse.

Local celebrities in the fields of sports and entertainment displayed their ball-handling skills and proved they can also entertain fans on the basketball court Saturday Night when the Fire Basketball Club staged its inaugural Celebrity Charity Game at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Former Caribbean Under-15 table tennis champion Nigel Bryan yesterday won the Under-21 Open singles title as the National Sports Commission annual Independence anniversary tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton drove a superb  tactical race to hold off his McLaren team mate Jenson Button  and win yesterday’s Canadian Grand Prix and jump to the top of the  Formula One drivers’ championship.

Batsmen Herrell Greene and Anthony Adams and fast bowlers Andre Stoll and Keon Joseph, all members of last year’s national Under-19 team, were yesterday named by the junior selectors of the Guyana Cricket Board in the 14-man squad for next month’s tournament in St Lucia.

By Tamica Garnett Georgetown’s `Flex Text’ and East Coast’s `Flex Checks’ yesterday condemned East Bank’s `Top Up’s’ to two defeats as the Digicel Summer Smash Twenty20 cricket tournament continued at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.

LEICESTER, England,  CMC – Imran Khan, Gavin Tonge, and Lionel Baker indulged themselves, but they failed to save West Indies-A from defeat, when India-A won the opening four-day “Test” by six wickets yesterday at Grace Road.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Ghana gave Africa a  much-celebrated first victory in the continent’s inaugural World  Cup though it was a bitter-sweet moment for their Serbian coach  to have masterminded defeat of his homeland yesterday.

Netherlands vs. Denmark (7.30am) Japan vs. Cameroon (10.00am) Italy vs. Paraguay (2.30pm)

-hands U.S. draw with England RUSTENBURG, (Reuters) – A shocking schoolboy howler from England goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States a goal as the two sides tipped to qualify from Group C battled to a 1-1 stalemate at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium yesterday.

– says Kit Nascimento By Floyd Christie Rugby was played at the National Stadium for the first time yesterday as the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) began its  trials for the selection of Guyana’s National Sevens Rugby Team which will participate in the Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Rugby Sevens Games.

Algeria vs. Slovenia 7:30am Serbia vs. Ghana 10:00am Germany vs. Australia 2:30pm

Experienced golfer Robert Hanoman emerged winner of the Banks Light Beer Medal Play golf tournament played yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Club.