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Demerara opened their Guyana Cricket Board/Bel Air Rubis Under-17 Inter-County campaign with a four-wicket win over the Select U15 while Berbice defeated Essequibo by 142 runs yesterday.

Following his team’s heartbreaking exit from the CONCACAF men’s U20 Qualifying competition, Golden Jaguars head-coach Wayne Dover said yesterday that the campaign was very competitive  adding that  his charges were unlucky to be eliminated from the competition.

SV Ratio FC of Paramaribo, Suriname, defeated Team Guyana 1-0 to level the three-match series 1-1 when the Goodwill International Masters Football Championship continued on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.

Reigning boys U – 21 national champion Elishaba Johnson continued to top his counterparts in that category and copped another under – 21 crown, this time in the annual Forbes Burnham Memorial Table Tennis tournament on Monday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH). 

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Despite heading into today’s second match of the One-Day International (ODI) series one down, West Indies is not overly worried and will be focused on levelling the series, says batting star Shai Hope.

The rapid spread of the coronavirus in South Korea has prompted the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) to postpone the 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea scheduled to be held March 22-29. 

CANBERRA, Australia,  CMC – When Pakistan go up against West Indies in their first match of this year’s Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup today, they plan to make the Caribbean side’s proclivity for hitting big work in their favour.

CANBERRA, Australia,  CMC – West Indies vice-captain Anisa Mohammed has called for her batsmen to give more support to the bowlers in today’s Group B clash with Pakistan, after a tight tournament opener against minnows Thailand.

Khris Middleton scored 40 points as the visiting Milwaukee Bucks overcame Bradley Beal’s career-high 55-point performance to earn a 137-134 overtime victory over the Washington Wizards on Monday.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Top batsman David Warner reckons Australia’s Twenty20 team are well on course for World Cup success later in the year as they go into the last game of their three-match T20 series in South Africa yesterday.

NAPLES,  (Reuters) – Antoine Griezmann’s second-half equaliser handed Barcelona a vital away goal and earned them a 1-1 draw at Napoli in their Champions League last-16 first leg meeting yesterday.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh crushed Zimbabwe by an innings and 106 runs in the one-off test yesterday to register their first victory in this five-day format in 15 months.

The score-line read 4-3 at the sound of the final whistle in Guyana’s favour on Sunday as a Veteran hockey team secured an empathic triumph over host Canada Red in the final of the Field Hockey Canada International Masters indoor tournament.

 Guyana’s badminton aces and siblings Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani were presented with the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) awards Saturday.

A career-best gross of 77 from Joaan Deo saw her winning the inaugural Sterling Products-sponsored Igloo tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club Saturday.

Albion Community Center Cricket Club has built a reputation of producing some of the best spinners in Berbice and Gourav Ramesh is the latest to come through the ranks.

Canje and Friendship secured easy victories, when the eighth annual Milo Secondary Schools football competition  resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Four more track and field athletes potentially booked their tickets to compete at the 49th edition of the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda Easter weekend following the second trials on Saturday at the National Track and Field Centre.

Team Evolution defied the odds to finish first and second in yesterday’s Linden Forbes Burnham Memorial Two-Stage road race.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Shai Hope, who made his ninth ODI hundred in the series opener which the West Indies lost to Sri Lanka, is aiming to repeat his outstanding performance but hoping for a different result when his side takes on the hosts in their second match tomorrow.