Sports

The venue for the Spanish Invasion boxing card has been shifted from the National Park tarmac to the more crowd friendly Banks DIH Thirst Park ground.

Ian Jackson secured two dominant victories in the Alliance For Change/ Continental Cycle Club’s Maxi Perreira & Marlis Archer memorial criterium event held last Sunday on the outer Circuit of the National Park.

A Dion Alfred hat-trick for Alpha United, which helped his team defeat GFC 3-1 was the major highlight of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby U-13 league which continued with another five matches at the Tucville ground on Saturday.

Defending champions South Essequibo retained the title of Essequibo zone champions of the nation-wide Neal and Massy limited overs cricket competition when they defeated Leguan by 57 runs in their zone final at the Anna Regina ground on Saturday.

A surprising twist of events left National junior sprinter Kevin Haynes out of the male U- 20 100m of this year’s National Secondary schools Championships after he failed to qualify in yesterday’s Champion of Champions athletics meet held at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

A masterful knock of 114 off 139 balls from former Guyana and West Indies Under-19 batsman Gajanand Singh, was not good enough to prevent Lennox Cush’s XI from going down to the Guyana KFC squad by 37 runs in a practice game at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

An all-round effort from captain Rawl Lewis enabled the Windward Islands to defeat a Rest Team by 120 runs in a specially arranged practice game at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday.

National all-rounder Lennox Cush has been selected to lead a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) XI against the Windward Islands in a 50- over-a-side practice game tomorrow at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda.

You know what bothers me? The rift between the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA) and the majority of clubs that make up its constituency.

Guyana and West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan was yesterday full of optimism about his team’s chances in this year’s KFC regional one-day tournament which commences next week.

National opening batsman Royston Crandon warmed up for the upcoming KFC regional limited overs tournament by hitting the first hundred of the Berbice Cricket Board TELENEC sponsored 50 overs first-division knock-out cricket competition.

North Georgetown also known as District 11 will stage the heats for the second annual Champion of Champions athletics meeting from 8.30am today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

Guyana ‘s Kristian Jeffrey roared into the quarter-finals of the Under-19 boys’ singles event at the sixth Pan American Junior squash championships with a hard-fought win over Peru’s Andres Duany at the Liguanea Club, Jamaica, yesterday.

They had it, lost it, and now it’s back in their possession.

The Guyanese fighters on this week-end’s fight card are not taking any cheap talks from their Santo Domingo counterparts lightly.

Today, Stabroek Sport looks at the 14-man Guyana team which will attempt to win limited overs title number 10 when they compete in the KFC Cup regional cricket competition which bowls off next Tuesday at several venues here.

Bowlers stole the spotlight in the latest round of matches in the Georgetown Cricket Association P&P/ Cummings Electrical Raymond Panday Memorial two-day Second Division competition with three ten-wicket hauls being recorded against seven fifties.

It was a splendid finale. A large, well-behaved crowd was in attendance; the participating teams were well turned out, particularly the New Opportunity Corps [NOC] and the ladies of the Blazers’ Sports Club of Kabakaburi.

When the preliminary round of the KFC Cup regional limited overs cricket competition commences next Tuesday in Guyana, the Ramnaresh Sarwan-led Guyana side will try to continue the proud tradition set by their predecessors.

Jamie Spencer hasn’t given up hopes of regaining the jockeys’ championship and has several excellent chances of reducing the deficit of six at Pontefract this afternoon; Geordieland should be a ‘penalty-kick’ in the Phil Bull Stakes over two-and-a-quarter miles.