Sports

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.

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.

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

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.

A five-wicket haul by GYO off-spinner Ken Alphonso and a blistering hundred by Malteenoes’s Lennox Cush highlighted the start of the fifth round of the GCA/Cellink Plus first-division cricket competition on Sunday.

Malteenoes Sports Club [MSC] inflicted a crushing innings defeat on Third Class when they squared off in the Raymond Panday Memorial second-division cricket competition over the weekend at the GYO ground.

The South Dakota Circuit came alive yesterday for the International and Caribbean Race of Champions meet with Mark Vieira dominating the marquee Group Three category, copping two wins and a second place finish with his fire-spitting, Digicel sponsored Mazda RX7.

Colin Ming won last Saturday’s A.H. and L Kissoon Group of Companies-sponsored golf tournament but a 12 year-old-newcomer created a stir in the one-day event at the Lusignan Golf course.

Former West Indies Under-19 captain Leon Johnson’s unbeaten half century propelled Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) to its first Division One title in five years after they scored a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Albion Community Centre cricket team in the Neal and Massy limited overs final yesterday at the National Stadium at Providence.

Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) gained sweet revenge over arch-rivals Enterprise Cricket Club (ECC) when they defeated them in a feature Twenty/20 match at the LSC ground, East Coast Demerara, on Saturday.

The East Coast first-division team drew first blood by defeating Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) by 17 runs in the first game of the East Coast zone of the ANSA McAL/Pepsi Twenty/20 first – division cricket competition.

Beacon are the winners of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) De Sinco Under-17 league competition following their comprehensive 4-0 whipping of Pele at the Camptown ground on Saturday.

Taurus Dominoes Club, with 82 games romped to victory in the final of the seventh annual Tony Kissoon Memorial dominoes competition held recently at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC).