Sports

Every Sunday scores of Guyanese travel south of Georgetown to picnic or relax at the creeks and resorts along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Assad Fudadin and Royston Crandon warmed up for the Inter County tournament which starts today with outstanding individual performances for Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) against Port Mourant on the first day of the Berbice Cricket Board/Isaac Bissoon three-day first division match against Port Mourant.

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) will stage the annual Vita Malt National Senior championships sponsored by Banks DIH tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Two cricketers, whose lights illuminated the cricket fields all over the world during their playing days, will tonight get an opportunity to regale cricket fans with details of their exploits when the second annual “Evening of Nostalgia” hosted by the `Reds’ Perreira Sports Foundation takes place at the Savannah Suite of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel.

Defending champions Alpha United, who are in second place in the race for the GFA Cellink Plus Premier League championships will oppose bottom-of-the-table Police this afternoon at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

After weeks and weeks of ‘no comment, we’re in discussions, we’re looking to set up meetings’ and the like, the Kashif and Shanghai Organization has formally announced that this year’s tournament is indeed on and will feature entirely local teams.

The Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored nationwide Twenty/20 cricket competition for first division clubs will continue today with six matches in the two zones.

The largest ever school’s basketball project will get underway tomorrow with the inaugural Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Association (GSSBA) league.

The Flying Stars Cycle Club will tomorrow stage a road race to help raise HIV/Aids awareness in Guyana.

With the first prize and virtually a Value Added Tax (VAT) waiver locked up courtesy of President Bharrat Jagdeo, the 18th edition of the Kashif and Shanghai tournament will be launched today with a press conference in the boardroom of major sponsor Banks DIH Ltd.

A Man-of-the-Match performance from Safraz Esau (40 and 2-21) led West Bank Combined Branch to a comfortable 58-run victory over West Coast Combined in the West Demerara zone final of the Guyana Cricket Board/Republic Bank Right Start Under-15 school cricket competition played at the Cornelia Ida Community Centre ground yesterday.

The Mayor’s Cup Football tournament has a twist this year and that twist will mean four less players on the field.

Nicholas Ali and Anissa Rodrigues ran out winners of the Lower school boys and girls’ singles titles, as the Queen’s College Lower & Upper School singles badminton tournament, which was sponsored by DeSinco’s Trading ended on Tuesday at the Queen’s College auditorium.

Six members of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) seven-man team returned yesterday from Chicago, United States of America (USA) where they participated in the World Amateur Boxing championships.

The musical chairs at the top of the Cellink Plus Premier League leaderboard continues and with just three weekends of the Premiership remaining, it’s still a toss up on who will be the winner.

Defending champions Berbice have short-listed a 20-man squad to defend its four-day Inter-County title, with notable omissions being regional record holder for wickets and former West Indies leg break bowler Mahendra Nagamootoo and former Guyana Under-19 captain Andre Percival.

The Management committee of the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (formerly Silver Park Turf Club) will run off a one-day horse racing meet on December 9 at the Number 6 Village West Coast Berbice.

Toucan Industries Sports Club TISC) on the back of an unbeaten even century from Daniel Sarjoo, began their campaign in the Georgetown Cricket Association/ Steve’s Jewellery World sponsored Over-40 limited overs cricket competition on a high note when they scored a convincing 10-wicket victory over Police Sports Club at the Transport Sports Club ground last Sunday.

While the Guyanese hockey players are settling down in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for the start of the Caribbean Hockey Cup, the hosts’ chances of lifting the inaugural men’s title were dealt a severe blow with the news that nine of their overseas players will be unable to make the journey home.

Amidst the hype and tension of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Elections, the Guyana men’s and women’s hockey teams arrived in the twin-island republic yesterday for the inaugural PAHF Caribbean Hockey championships set to bully off tomorrow at the National Hockey Centre in Port-of Spain.