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Shabika Gajnabi followed up her 152 in the opening round with an unbeaten 90 to lead Rose Hall Town Metro to a 96-run win over New Amsterdam/Canje and win the Berbice Cricket Board/ Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club/ Nand Persaud Company Limited female 50-over competition  Sunday.

The Kares Caribbean Fitness Challenge is in the books. Here is a recap and some facts following the sixth edition of the CrossFit-style event which was staged on Sunday at the National Park.

The annual Lennie Shuffler male and female senior volleyball tournaments will serve off at the weekend in observance of the stellar contribution of the former national captain and adminstrator. 

A solidarity ride along with a candlelight vigil were observed by cyclists, family and friends of Jude Bentley on Sunday following his untimely death in a fatal accident during early morning training on Saturday on the Rupert Craig Highway.

Stung by their narrow, seven-run defeat to the Jamaica Scorpions in their fourth  round clash when they failed to chase down a below 200-run second innings score the Guyana Jaguars has decided to bolster their batting line up  by including  out-of-favour, West Indies batsman, Shimron Hetmyer.

At the Annual General Meeting of Enterprise Busta Cricket Club recently, Parmanand Dindyal was re-elected to lead the club for the new term.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Wimbledon and U.S. Open doubles champion Robert Farah has escaped a doping ban after an ITF investigation accepted his claim that he ingested a banned steroid through contaminated beef cooked by his mother.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – New Zealand women’s cricket captain Sophie Devine became the first player to pass 50 in five successive Twenty20 internationals yesterday when she scored 105 in her side’s 69-run win over South Africa in Wellington.

LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard and James Harden are among the 44 finalists for the 12 spots on the 2020 U.S.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan needed less than 90 minutes yesterday to claim the last four Bangladesh wickets and steamroll the tourists by an innings and 44 runs inside four days in the opening test in Rawalpindi.

Bojan Bogdanovic hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift the Utah Jazz to a 114-113 victory over the host Houston Rockets on Sunday.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – West Indies stars Nyeem Young and Jayden Seales have been named in the ICC’s Under-19 World Cup team of the tournament.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride have stormed to the top of the standings in the Regional Four-Day Championship following their crushing innings win over Leeward Islands in Basseterre on Sunday.

Dillon Mahadeo has done it again On the  asphalt of the National Park tarmac, the CrossFit 592 standout out ran, out lifted, out jumped and outlasted his worthy challengers to be once again crowned with the prestigious title of the fittest man in the 592.

In less than half-an-hour, Guyana Jaguars lost their final wicket falling seven runs short on the final day of their fourth round clash of the West Indies regional Championships against the Jamaica Scorpions at the Providence National Stadium yesterday.

Wicket-keeper/batsman Dexter Solomon grafted well for a century in a drawn encounter between the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) and the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) while the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) secured triumphs yesterday in the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Noble House Seafoods, second-division, two-day tournament. 

Swag Entertainment won the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Zone, squeaking past Quiet Storm on sudden death penalty kicks on Saturday at the Christianburg Hardcourt.

Bent Street, Rio All-Stars, Kingston and Leopold Street are the semi-finalists in the Magnum Tonic Wine Mashramani Cup Futsal Championship after quarter-final victories Saturday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Romello Crawford stormed to victory yesterday in the 28th R&R International, 40-mile road race which was held in honour of former national cyclist, Jude Bentley who died on Saturday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Andre Fletcher just missed out on a hundred in his first domestic four-day game in nearly three years as the rain-hit fourth round encounter between Windward Islands Volcanoes and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force finished in a predictable draw here yesterday.