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SUNDAY CHRONICLE, December 23, 2018
Timehri Panthers are EBFA/Ralph Green U-11 League champions … Keron Williams is MVP; Omar Sam ends with 23 goals TIMEHRI Panthers continued their dominance of East Bank football when they captured the 3rd annual East Bank Football Association/Ralph Green Under-11 League yesterday with a 2-0 win over Friendship All Stars. The Young Panthers won the championship by a single point ahead of Grove Hi Tech who ended with 29 points. Taking the 3rd place in a thrilling final match to this year’s league were Agricola Red Triangle, who out-hustled Swan FC 4-3 coming back from two goals down. Diamond Upsetters ended in 5th followed by Samatta Point/Kaneville, Diamond United, Mocha Champs, Friendship All Stars, Kuru Kururu Warriors, Herstelling Raiders and Hauraruni Eagles rounding out the twelve teams which participated. In the final three matches yesterday, Samatta Point/
Kaneville and Diamond United battled to a 1-1 draw. Diamond United had taken the lead on five minutes through a Ricky Ramotar goal but that advantage was cancelled on in the 25th
win to take the top spot and that they did via a 2-0 margin over Friendship All Stars. Their captain and the league’s leading goalscorer Omar Sam netted the first goal in the 7th minute with
day and league was a thriller with Swan in their first tournament at this level after joining the EBFA, taking on Agricola Red Triangle who had won the first two editions of this
Differently-abled goalkeeper of Swan, Hedan Nazir, is presented his trophy by coach Levi Braithwaite.
Captain of champions Timehri Panthers, Omar Sam, collected the winners’ prize from Franklin Wilson in the presence of his excited clubmates.
minute when Troy George scored for Samatta Point. Timehri Panthers then took to the field cognizant that they needed to
Keeron Williams rounding out the win whilst sealing the league with his 25th minute goal. The final match of the
league. Behind Agricola on goal difference, Swan sailed to a 2-0 advantage with just two minutes on the clock, their leading marksman and
league’s Most Promising Player, Anderson Webber, heading both goals in, in the 1st and 2nd minutes. But Agricola, who had squandered a two-goal advantage against Timehri Panthers when they met a few days ago, showed admirable determination and fired back with a beautiful shot off the boot of Trevor Gordon to reduce the deficit in the 5th minute.
But in the 12th minute, Webber completed his hat-trick and 20th of the league to increase the lead for Swan. However, the experienced captain Jonathan Andries tapped in Agricola’s second goal to reduce the deficit in the 13th minute and his teammate, Mikel Morris, netted the first of his double in the TURN TO PAGE
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donia United headline the list of teams from overseas which also features ZV AllStars from Suriname, and a Brazilian side from the state of Sau Paulo. The Guyana Select side will also come up against a team from Linden, East Bank Demerara, East Coast Demerara and West Demerara football associations. On December 27, the tournament will open with a female encounter, followed New GPC Inc.’s Elizabeth Ram presents tickets to Aubrey by the March Past of the ‘Shanghai’ Major at the agency’s Ruimveldt headquarters. participating teams. Morvant Caledonia UnitAS the countdown con- as an undisclosed monetary ed will face the Linden unit tinues to the start of contribution, which will go from 20:00hrs, then make GFF-ExxonMobil Inter- towards airline tickets for the way for Brazil versus West national Futsal Festival, international participating Demerara, Georgetown scheduled to take place teams. against Suriname and Guyat Cliff Anderson Sports Elizabeth Ram, the comana versus East Coast clash Hall from December 27 to pany’s Marketing Assistant, 31, the New GPC Inc. is on presented the contribution will bring the curtain down board and has joined the on behalf of New GPC Inc. on night one of the four-night list of partners in support while Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ fiesta. The winning side team of the inaugural tourna- Major, one of the tournawill pocket $1.2M, while ment. ment’s organisers, received second- through fourthThis commitment was on behalf of the GFF. made last Thursday in the The tournament, a first place will go home with form of the printing of in- in Guyana, will see Trinidad $600 000, $300 000 and vitations and tickets as well and Tobago’s Morvant Cale- $100 000 respectively.
(REUTERS) - Incoming Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) managing director Wasim Khan has said he hopes Australia will come to the South Asian nation to play at least part of a one-day series currently scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates in March. Most cricket nations have avoided touring Pakistan since 2009 when gunmen attacked a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, injuring six players and killing six security personnel and two civilians. Australia have not toured Pakistan since 1998 but Khan hopes they can be persuaded to play there. “I will ask the question,” Birmingham-born Khan told ESPNcricinfo. “We will continue to offer them the highest level of security and, if they have any concerns, we will act to meet
Recently-appointed PCB managing director Wasim Khan
them.” Sri Lanka returned to Pakistan in 2017 for a oneoff Twenty20, while West Indies played a three-match Twenty20 series in Karachi in April this year. Khan said he wanted to speak with other boards to see how he could help get
regular international cricket back to Pakistan. “It will probably be a process of baby steps,” Khan said. “I need to sit down with other boards and ask them: where are the gaps in our plans that worry you? What can we do to assure you? What will it take to get you to come back? I want to hear what concerns they have and find a way of meeting them.” English county teams would be invited to use the PCB academy in Lahore for pre-season training, said Khan, who remains Leicestershire chief executive until the end of January. “We have excellent facilities. We have a great passion for the game. If we can get more foreign players coming to Pakistan more often, hopefully we can normalise playing in the country again.”