Sports – Page 88 – Guyana Times International

Cox topples Bess in opening round

December 23, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Saturday night boxing returned to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with a bang at the weekend with Barbados’ World Boxing Council (WBC)/CABOFE cruiserweight champion Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox toppling local cruiserweight and heavyweight champion Kurt Bess in the first round to retain his title. The pair were meeting in the feature clash of the 18th ProAm Guyana Fight Night, organised by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) in collaboration with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association and the Sport Ministry. The 36-year old Cox was purposeful and attacking from the…

Sensei Bobb on US National Team for China next year

December 23, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Guyanese karate sensation, Sensei Troy Bobb, has been selected by famous kick-boxer Billy Blanks and NAFMA Director, Master Jose Rorres II, to be a part of the U.S. national team that will tour China in 2012. Bobb was the only Caribbean representative at the National Karate Championship in New York this year. In preparation for this tour, Bobb was under training five days a week in New Jersey, Long Island and Manhattan with Banks. Bobb said he is honoured to be in such a recognised team and is even more…

Young Achievers win volleyball tourney in Suriname

December 23, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Guyana’s top volleyball club, Young Achievers, recently participated in the Inter-Guiana Club volleyball tournament in Suriname and emerged victorious. The competition was hosted by Lyzecks Volleyball Club of Suriname with four teams competing for top honours: Achievers of Guyana, Montjoly of French Guiana, and Yellowbirds and Yelleco of Suriname. All games were played for 20 minutes with Achievers defeating Lyzecks 42-33; Montjoly 38-30; and Yellowbirds 34-33, and earning a tie with Yelleco 31-31. In the three set final, Achievers defeated Yelleco 25-20, 23- 25, 15-6. The outstanding players for Achievers…

Cozier gets MCC honour

December 23, 2011 TIMES INT'L

In his typically witty style, Tony Cozier had just one wish after he was made an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The noted West Indies correspondent was given the award on Tuesday for his huge contribution to the game for over half a century. “Knowing the illustrious company I now join, I am truly flattered by the honour cricket’s foremost club has bestowed on me,” he said in an MCC media release. “My first Test match at Lord’s was the thrilling lastover draw in 1963, after which…

Bishoo, Munroe cop male and female Cricketer of the Year awards

December 15, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Devendra Bishoo and Subrina Munroe were crowned male and female Cricketer of the Year when the Guyana Cricket Board held its 15th Annual Awards Ceremony at the Umana Yana last evening. In his opening speech, president of the GCB, Ramsey Alli declared that the board has received funding for two major events next year. These are the national secondary schools tournament and the establishment of a professional league. He said the national secondary schools tournament will feature 175 secondary schools across Guyana. Alli sees the event as an ambitious programme…

Three Guyanese to participate in T&T swim meet

December 15, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Three Guyanese swimmers, Athena Gaskin, Britany van Lange and Onika George, will represent Guyana at the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago’s (ASATT) Invitational Age Group Championships to be held at the Marlins Swimming Pool, Trinidad, starting today (Thursday). George will participate in the 11- 12 age group, Gaskin in the 15 and over group, and van Lange will participate in the 13-14 category. George, the youngest participant, will hit the pool in the 50m backstroke today. She will also participate in the 100m freestyle tomorrow and the 100m…

‘It came as a surprise’- Ivan

December 15, 2011 TIMES INT'L

BY RAJIV BISNAUTH The news of his selection to the senior team came as a surprise to all-rounder Rajiv Ivan, but the 25-year-old Berbician said it is the reward for hard work over the years. Ivan is joined by Essequibo’s big-hitting batsman, Dilon Heyliger, as the two uncapped players in Guyana’s 14-man squad for next month’s Caribbean T20 Cup slated for Antigua and Barbados from the January 9-22. During an exclusive interview with Guyana Times International, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club cricketer revealed that while the selection…

Cricketing turmoil

December 15, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Sportsview by Neil Kumar, director of sport Guyana’s cricket administrators are certainly bungling with the national sport. While I feel that president of the Guyana Cricket Board, Mr. Ramsey Ali, has good intentions and he certainly wants to see cricket develop in Guyana, there are some elements that are working against the development of cricket in the country. Mark Harper’s miserable failure as coach of the national team and the recent questions raised by the cricketing fraternity, at home and in the diaspora, about the non-selection of Ramnaresh Sarwan in…

Cricket must respect the fan – Dravid

December 15, 2011 TIMES INT'L

Rahul Dravid has called for cricket’s players and administrators to tackle the game’s challenges by taking decisions that would always “respect the fan.” He was delivering the annual Bradman Oration on Wednesday, the first cricketer from outside Australia invited to do so in the ten-year history of the event. The 40-minute speech, delivered at the Anzac Hall at the National War Memorial, Canberra, urged the game’s stakeholders to remember that “everything that has given cricket its power and influence in the world of sports has started from that fan in…

Kashif and Shanghai football tournament kicks off this weekend in Guyana

December 9, 2011 TIMES INT'L

BY AVENASH RAMZAN Twenty (20) teams will throw down the gauntlet from Saturday when action in the 22nd Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament gets into gear at the world famous Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda. A double-header will get the tournament underway with Mill Ballers of Bartica taking on Kuru Kururu Warriors at 17:30h and city side Pele clashing with Timehri Panthers. In the break between games, the organisers will host the official opening ceremony, which is expected to be colourful with the march past of the participating teams.…