A double century from Young Warriors all-rounder Paul Wintz, highlighted the final day of the rain-affected third round of matches in the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) Isaac Bissoon first-division competition.
Former national fast bowler Robert `Pacer’ Adonis has been named manager of a 14-member Under-17 squad which will represent Guyana in the quadrangular under-17 cricket competition which begins in Trinidad and Tobago this week-end.
The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will be holding an Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) at the Everest Cricket Club pavilion tomorrow from 17:00hrs (5:00pm) sharp.
Darren Allen won Saturday’s Ride for Life with Christ and Prevent AIDS 50-mile cycle road race from Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara to Mahaicony old road and back.
Young Warriors, Blairmont Sports Club, Bermine, Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB), Albion and Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) all registered victories when the second round of matches in the Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored national first division Twenty/20 cricket competition continued on Thursday in that area.
Guyana men’s hockey team scored a golden goal in extra time to beat Jamaica 3-2 and cop the bronze medal at the Caribbean Hockey Cup tournament at the National Hockey Centre in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.
Esan Shamshudin continued from where he left off on the opening day to win the prestigious Le Meridien Pegasus Open two-day golf championship which ended yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.
For the second day in succession rain has affected the opening Inter-County cricket match between Demerara and Essequibo at the Everest Cricket Club ground, but unlike the first day when some amount of play was possible, the weather had the final say yesterday as no amount of mopping up could make any impact on the state of the ground.
It was probably just as well that questions about the current state of West Indies cricket were not encouraged.
Concerned with the prolonged degeneration of West Indies cricket, as so many outside the Caribbean appear to be, Mark Nicholas recently made an earnest call for help to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to prevent, as he put it, its “drift into mediocrity and underachievement.”
The National Rifle-shooting championships will fire off today at the Timehri Rifle ranges with the country’s leading rifle shooters vying for the title of Top Gun and several prizes at stage.
Following the Republic Bank Right Start Inter-Secondary School Cricket Competition trials for Under-15 players from the North Georgetown District, held last Thursday at the YMCA ground, the selectors have short-listed 22 players to further participate in physical conditioning and practice sessions.
Esan Shamshudin with a handicap 17, gross 83 and net 66 has taken the lead in the Le Meridian Pegasus two-day golf championships at the end of play on the opening day yesterday at the Lusignan golf course, East Coast Demerara.
Demerara was shakily placed on 86-5 when bad light stopped play on the rain-affected first day of the opening match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County four-day competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.
Officials were expecting a baptism of fire in Guyana’s opening match against Barbados, but both men and women’s teams are feeling the heat in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Caribbean Hockey Cup tournament at the National Hockey Centre in Port-of-Spain.
Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday defeated Young Warriors Cricket Club of Berbice by 21 runs to win the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) `Sixes’ cricket competition at the MSC ground yesterday.
The highly-anticipated Sec-ondary Schools Basketball League got underway yesterday at the Burnham Court on Carmichael and Middle Streets but rain threw a damper on the proceedings.
The 2007 Busta Champion-of-Champions final will be played today at the Area ‘H’ ground between two of Berbice power house teams in Albion Cricket Club and Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB).
The main prize is worthy of a trip to the Lusignan Golf Course this weekend by local golfers who will compete in the annual Le Meridien Pegasus two-day golf tournament which tees off today at noon.
Manager of Guyana’s Lennox Allen, Carwyn Holland feels that his boxer has finally hit the big time.
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