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Rookies Peters, Hector in WI Women’s World Cup training squad ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Uncapped Akeira Peters and Shawnisha Hector have been named in a 20-member training squad to prepare for the Women’s Cricket World Cup in June. The 23-year-old Peters is an all-rounder from Grenada who was part of the training setup ahead of last year’s home series against England, in Jamaica, but failed to gain selection. She was also a member of
the Windward Islands squad for the Women’s Regional Championship in Guyana last year. Seventeen-year-old Hector, meanwhile, is a fast bowler who hails from Antigua and who captained Leeward Islands during the Regional Championship. The call-up represents her first to the West Indies setup. The duo will join the likes of mainstays Stafanie
Taylor, Deandra Dottin and Merissa Aguilleira in the squad which will undergo camp from March 7 to 20 in Antigua. Later this year, West Indies Women will have a twoweek camp in England to further prepare them for the Women’s World Cup which is also being staged in England from June 24 to July 23. At the last 50-overs World Cup in India four years ago, West Indies Women were
good enough to reach the final before losing to Australia Women. West Indies Women are the reigning World Twenty20 champions following their triumph last April at the T20 World Cup in India. SQUAD – Merissa Aguilleira, Shemaine Campbelle, Shamilia Connell, Britney Cooper, Shanel Daley, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Erva Giddings, Shawnisha Hector, Chi-
Stafanie Taylor nelle Henry, Kycia Knight, Kyshona Knight, Hayley Matthews, Anisa Mohammed, Chedean Nation, Akei-
ra Peters, Shaquana Quintyne, Tremayne Smartt, Shakera Selman, Stafanie Taylor.
Thompson lowers women’s St Kitts, Haiti suffer heavy 60m indoor record CONCACAF Under-20 losses IT’S shaping up to be another phenomenal season for Olympian Brenessa Thompson who last week clocked a time that, once sanctioned, would be a new national indoor record in the women’s 60 metres. Despite coming fourth in the women’s 60m sprint last Saturday at the Texas A&M Aggie Twilight meet, the 7.40 seconds Thompson ran superseded the 7.41 seconds standing record, which she herself had set last year December. This record comes within weeks after the Texas A&M University athlete set the women’s 200m indoor record at 23.36 seconds. This brings up Thompson’s
total national records to four, two indoor and two outdoor, and no doubt the 20-year-old is just getting started. Thompson already has the 100m and 200m outdoor national records to her name, both of which she set last year. She clocked the 22.99 seconds in the 200m last year May, while she made history as the first athlete to make a track event at a local venue when she set the 11.14 seconds women’s 100m record at the Aliann Pompey Invitational. Thompson was among only four Guyanese athletes who qualified to participate at last year’s Rio Olympics,
Olympian Brenessa Thompson
and the only one who qualified to participate in more than one event. Thompson was in the women’s 100m and 200m events.
Brazilian designer wins Hamilton helmet challenge By Alan Baldwin
SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - A competition to design Lewis Hamilton’s 2017 helmet has been won by a Brazilian who incorporated a tribute to Ayrton Senna in it along with three stars for the Formula One titles won by both the late Brazilian and the Briton. Hamilton, who will unveil his new Mercedes race car to the world at Silverstone today, announced Rai Caldato, a professional designer, as the winner to his 3.8 million Instagram followers. “Rai evolves my layout by adding new stripe elements on the sides. As a tribute to my hero, Ayrton Senna, the helmet features the colours of Brazil green, yellow and blue,” said the 32-year-old. “These are accompanied with
Lewis Hamilton
the three stars that represent my Championship wins. “There’s yellow throughout that reminds me of my helmets in the past. The candy apple red balances with the yellow very well,” he added. The design had 52 000 ‘likes’ within four hours.
Hamilton challenged fans last month to design his race helmet for the season starting in Australia on March 26, with the winner meeting the driver and receiving a full-size replica. Hamilton is the clear pre-season favourite following the surprise retirement of German teammate and world champion Nico Rosberg last month. He has changed his helmet design several times over the years, racing with a yellow helmet in tribute to Senna in his early years and at McLaren. The colours changed when he moved to Mercedes in 2013. Under Formula One’s regulations, a driver’s helmet design must be substantially the same for the entire season -- to ensure drivers can be distinguished easily -- but one special version is allowed at a race of his choosing.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CMC) – St Kitts and N e v i s s u f f e re d t h e i r second straight heavy defeat in the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship when they slumped to a 4-0 defeat at the hands of Panama. Playing in Group B here Tuesday, the Kittitians held out well in the opening half but then conceded three second-half goals to lose their second game, following on from their heavy 5-1 thumping to Haiti last Saturday. In the other Group B encounter, Haiti went down 4-1 to United States, stunned by a h a t - t r i c k b y B ro o k s Lennon who scored in the 28th, 53rd and 58th minutes. The results left Panama as the only unbeaten team with six points, with United States second on three points – only ahead of Haiti courtesy of a superior goal difference. St Kitts are bottom without a point or win. The Caribbean side fell behind six minu t e s b e f o re t h e h a l f
Ricardo Avila scores twice in Panama’s win. when Andres Andrade teamed up with Isidoro H i n e s t ro z t o g e t h i s shot past goalkeeper Akimbah Francis, who only managed to get a hand to it. Three minutes after the resumption from half-time, Panama doubled their lead when Leandro Avila got on to the end of a through ball from Ricardo Avila and finished clinically. And St Kitts were fur-
ther in trouble when Leandro Avila beat Francis from the spot in the 57th minute for the first of his two back-to-back goals. His second goal – eight minutes later – was a long range volley set up by Andres Peñalba. To add insult to injury, the Kittitians finished the game with 10 players after Xavier French was sent off in the dying seconds.
CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Thursday February 23, 2017) COMPLIMENTS OF THE TROPHY STALL-Bourda Market & The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230) & CUMMINGS ELECTRICAL COMPANY LTD-83 Garnett Street, Campbellville, Georgetown (Tel: 225-6158) Answers to yesterday’s quiz: (1) Rovman Powell (Jam vs T&T) (2) Shai Hope (Bar vs Lee) Today’s Quiz: (1) Who was declared Man of the Match in the final of CWI/ Nagicor Super 50, 2017? (2) Who took most catches in the tournament/ (non-wicket keeper) ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S ISSUE