Category: Sports

Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) on Tuesday launched their eight edition of the National Schools Basketball Festival and the third edition of the Regional Conference Championships at Marian Academy Sports Office, Carifesta Avenue. The tournament, which has become the nationwide testing ground for school basketball teams, will feature four conferences namely: Ancient Conference (Berbice), City Conference (Georgetown), Diamond Conference (East Bank) and the Country Conference (East Coast). Linden, which already has a school tournament of their own, will feature in the tournament when the Conference finals roll around on May 26.…

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Ransford Goodluck was crowned the 2013 national rifle shooting champion, but Ryan Sampson upstaged the front runners in the ‘X’ Class on the final day of competition at the Timehri rifle ranges on Sunday. Sampson recorded 128 points with six Vs to edge out Goodluck, Lennox Braithwaite and Dylan Fields in a closely-fought final day. It was a battle of nerves as Sampson dropped just one point out of a possible 35 at 300 yards and followed up with 48 points and three Vs at 500 yards and 46.2 at…

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By Avenash Ramzan – With the Princess Hotel towering in the background and the swimming pool adding to the tranquil ambience, a fair-sized crowd was treated to an exhibition of classical boxing last  Saturday evening when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) staged its “Firestorm” boxing card at the Princess Hotel and Casino. At the end of the seven-fight card in the wee hours of Sunday, four men etched their names into the annals of boxing history, becoming World Boxing Council (WBC)/Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and local champions. Touted…

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If the West Indies cricket tour of Australia in 1960/61 was dramatic and entertaining, it wasn’t just the quality of play that was superb; it was the sportsmanship that was rigorously testing, yet mutually admiring. No wonder the tour produced the (then) unique result of a tied Test in the first match at Brisbane, and also contrived to evoke a spontaneous outpouring of people on the streets at Melbourne to bid goodbye to the tourists as they were about to depart from Australia at the end of the tour. In…

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– GT& T Berbice take first innings points from President’s XI By Rajiv Bisnauth – Demerara looked on course for an outright victory after Essequibo stumbled to 45 for 5 batting a second time in their second round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) NEW GPC Inc-sponsored Inter-County two-day Under-15 tournament at the Wales Community Centre ground on Wednesday. After being bowled out for 66 in 35.4 overs in their first innings that gave Demerara a lead of 83 runs, Essequibo were still with a deficit of 38 runs with…

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Ivan Madray’s demise in 2009 brought back memories of a spectacular catch which he took some sixty years ago. I can see in my mind’s eyes that catch as if it occurred only yesterday. Madray was about 16-years-old and attending Corentyne High School. It was some time in the mid-1950s in the Rohlehr Cup final between City Stars, a little club at Miss Sibi (Miss Phobe) and Police Sports Club (PSC) at Parade Ground, New Amsterdam some exciting cricket prevailed. Perhaps, I should tell you a little more about the…

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By Treiston Joseph – The national table tennis team returned home with seven bronze medals while copping fourth position in the process after participating in the 18th Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championships, which recently concluded in Trinidad and Tobago. At a press briefing held at the National Gymnasium, president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Godfrey Munroe deemed the team’s performance a success but insisted that there is still room for improvement. “I’m pleased by the performance of the team giving certain circumstances; our team only got to…

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