Sports

The Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) nationwide Carib Beer/Pepsi Twenty/20 cricket competition will continue today with six third round matches divided between zones ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Berbice begin their campaign in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior four-day Inter-County cricket competition today when they take on the hapless Essequibo team at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground under the captaincy of fast bowler Esaun Crandon.

Local golfers are preparing for a massive foreign invasion as more than 65 golfers will tee off this weekend in the Smirnoff Guyana Open Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) on the East Coast of Demerara.

A boxing coach accused of raping a 20-year-old woman appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded to prison.

In the shadowland of unsolved murders, unexplained disappearances and uninvestigated police killings, the recent remarks of Police Commissioner Mr Henry Greene cast little light and held out scant hope for the bereft families of the victims.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenager who admitted that he had 30 kilos of ganja for trafficking to three years imprisonment and fined him $30,000 when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.

At the end of the opening day of the National School’s Athletics, Cycling and Swimming Championships defending champions District 10 (Upper Demerara Upper Berbice) were out in front amassing 186 points in the track and field events, 38 points in the cycling events and 62 points in the teachers’ events for a total of 286 points on the day.

But for the difference of a few days, Ottis Gibson might well now be in Barbados, overseeing the preparation of the West Indies team for the forthcoming tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa as head coach.

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The next breed of champion cyclists should be determined sometime in the next few weeks.

Spin Killers Elishaba Johnson and Joshua Sue-Ho held it together against Mae’s “C” team to clinch the Division `E’ title of the Dennis Patterson memorial table tennis league on Friday.

If all goes according to plan the tender process for the construction of a modern swimming facility complete with warm up pools will begin sometime in the next few days.

Local distance queen Alika Morgan and long distance junior sensation Dennis Horatio comfortably won the female and male 10km road races yesterday morning which kick started the 47th Annual National School’s Athletics, Swimming and Cycling Championships.

Travis Dowlin led a Demerara batting recovery with an unbeaten century which along with a four-wicket haul from off-spinner Zaheer Mohammed enabled Demerara to secure first innings points over Essequibo in the first game of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior Inter-County competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground, yesterday.

Just as they did last year, North Georgetown/ District 11, dominated the 40Km Open male cycle race of the 2007 National school’s cycling Championship, which began yesterday morning.

President of the West Indian Rugby Union (WIRU) Kit Nascimento yesterday urged Caribbean governments to provide financial support to their respective national teams preparing to compete in this week-end’s North America and West Indian Rugby Association (NA-WIRA) Sevens International tournament in The Bahamas.

Defending champion Ransford Goodluck has taken the lead and won the first trophy on offer after the opening day of competition in the National Rifle Shooting championships Sunday at the Timehri ranges Goodluck dropped just one point and tallied 135 points with 18 V-bulls out of a possible 135 points and 27 V-bulls.

The national men and women’s rugby squads for the NAWIRA (North American, West Indies Rugby Association) Sevens championships billed for this weekend in the Bahamas have been named.

Sean Cozier emerged as the best lifter when the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) held its senior championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Sunday night.

The Guyana Teachers Union’s (GTU) 47th annual schools athletics, cycling and swimming championships get underway this morning amidst concerns not over the weather but of sponsorship.