Category: Sports

Curtains fall on 2010 cycling season

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– Walter Grant-Stuart wins final road race The 11th Annual Diamond Mineral Water 50-mile Cycle Road Race, the final event for the 2010 Cycling season, was held on Sunday on the West Coast of Demerara, with cyclist Walter Grant-Stuart clinching victory and ending the 2010 cycling season in a resounding and emphatic fashion. Grant-Stuart won in a time of one hour 58 minutes 22 seconds. The race commenced at 09:00hrs from the Wales Police Station, and proceeded to Bushy Park, Parika, before returning to the Demerara Harbour Bridge for the…

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Final horse race event set for Boxing Day

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By Avenash Ramzan Over $5 million will be at stake when the 2010 horse racing seasons comes to an end on December 26 (Boxing Day) with the staging of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club’s (KMTC) grand one-day meet at Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice. Nine exciting races are carded for the day, with the feature event being the ‘B’ & Lower winner-take-all (W/A) race which carries a winning purse of G$1 million. This race is being sponsored by the Kharag family of New York for the second year in succession. …

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‘Cricket broadens my outlook on life’

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Former Guyanese West Indies cricketer and coach, Roger Harper on his game Guyanese off-spinner Roger Harper had his training on the rough and bumpy field at the Demerara Cricket club outfield, and became known from that humble beginning as one of cricket’s finest players. Roger Andrew Harper was born March 17, 1963 in a home in Georgetown which nurtured his passion and love for cricket. “My very early years were spent in Newtown, Kitty then I moved to Queenstown. Well, my elder brother was a cricket fanatic, and my father…

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New GPC pumps G$2m into Kashif & Shanghai football

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The New GPC Inc is the latest corporate entity to throw its support behind the 21st staging of the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament, which kicks off on December 12 at the National Stadium, Providence. The company yesterday presented its contribution of G$2 million in cash and kind to directors of the K&S organization, Kashif Muhammed and Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major, at its head office at Farm, East Bank Demerara. Among other things, the sponsorship will cover the fourth place prize of G$250,000 and a trophy. According to Marketing Manager Trevor…

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Flora GCC Spartans complete three-peat

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The Flora GCC Spartans Female Hockey Team created history last Sunday evening when they won their third consecutiveUnder-21 female Magnolias Indoor Championships at the Wood brook Youth Centre in Port-of-Spain,Trinidad.The Guyanese side  flew into the twin-islandrepublic on November12, 2010 to contest the weekend tournament foronly the third year sincethe under-21 competition started.In the inaugural competitiontwo years ago,an inexperienced GCC had shocked the teams of Trinidad, the highly ranked hockey-playing island, by carting off the2008 trophy.Their repeat of thissuccess in 2009 was justas surprising and unexpected,but a third andunprecedented victoryin all…

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Basketball team manager expects to win big

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Team manager of the basketball delegation for the Inter-Guiana Games(IGG), Chris Bowman,has all confidence that the junior national male team, which will be competing at the game’s basketballtournament thisweekend, will not only win the IGG title this year, but do so comfortably.The games begin this Friday, and the male basketball team will playFrench Guiana in their  first match that evening at the Cliff AndersonSports Hall. Their eagerly-anticipated contestagainst defending champions Suriname isscheduled to take placeon Sunday evening.The last time the secondleg of the tournament was held in Guyana(2007), Guyana’s male…

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Guyana take on Guatemala in friendly soccer showdown

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Guyana take on Guatemalathis Sunday in Atlanta, Georgia, inthe first of four soccer matches in the ElPatron International series, which kicks off at the Kennesaw State University soccer stadium, home fieldof the Atlanta Beat Professional Women’sSoccer team.Colin Klass, president of the Guyana Football Federation,made the initial arrangements with Atlanta Beatto include the Guyana National Men’s team inthe series.Colin Baker, president of the Guyana Sports Foundation inFlorida, selected themembers of the team,called Golden Jaguars,who are currently activemembers of severalCaribbean and European soccer clubs.The Guyana Association Of Georgia(GAOG) has been actively planning…

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Poonai’s Pharmacy U- 13 Inter- zone

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Brilliant Hetmyer leads NA/ Canje to title. New Amsterdam/ Canje finally defeat ed a team from the Lower Corentyne area when on Sunday they won by 157 runs to lift the second annual Berbice Cricket Board ( BCB)/ Poonai’s Pharmacy Under- 13, Inter- zone title at the Port Mourant ground.Lower Corentyne had prevailed in the Under- 15, Under- 17, and Under- 19 Inter- zone tournaments, but this time around it was NA/ Canje’s chance to rejoice as the highly talented Shimron Hetmyer and off- spinner Leon Andrews carried them to…

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Motie- Kanhai received a trophy and $ 5,000 as his man- of- the- match prize.

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Meanwhile, Chairman of the BCB Junior Selection Committee, Leslie Solomon, has announced an 18- man Elite Squad to start preparation for an Under- 17 Inter- county match against Demerara. The team will be led by Shawn Perreira with Loydel Lewis as his deputy. The rest of the squad reads: Kandasammy Surujnarine, Trevor Thomas, Verapen Permaul, Romario De Jonge, Parmanand Narine, Linden Austin, Devendra Jainabi, Shailendra Shameer, Kevin Ramdeen, Collis Cort, Gudakesh Motie- Kanhai, Jamal Jarvis, Shimron Hetmyer, Bisham Persaudie Deodat, Grisean Grant, and Akeem Bowling.

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BCB/ Republic Bank U- 17 Inter- zone cricket

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Spinners lead Lower Corentyne to title. Inspired by spin twins Gudakesh Motie- Kanhai and Shawn Perreira, Lower Corentyne defeated New Amsterdam/ Canje by 57 runs to lift the 2010 Republic Bank Under- 17 Inter- zone trophy. The Berbice Cricket Board ( BCB) organised two- day final was played at the Albion Community Centre ground last weekend. Upon winning the toss, Lower Corentyne batted first and posted 157 from 55 of the allotted 60 overs. Shailendra Shameer topscored with 48 ( 5x4s, 1×6), while opener Kandasammy Surujnarine made 30. Off- spinner…

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