Tiger Rentals under-13 football Action underway in Rupununi, EBFA tourney continues

THE Rupununi Football Association (RFA) commenced its intra-association Tiger Rentals under-13 football league last weekend at Wadapna Sports Ground in Lethem, Central Rupununi. A total of five clubs are participating in that competition and they did a March Past before play was officially kicked off by Toshoa Mike Williams of Annai District Council.

The five clubs are Guyana Rush Saints, Moco Moco, Tabatinga, Lethem, Gladiators of Culvert City, and Kanuku Warriors of Nappi.

Meanwhile, in the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) tournament, four matches were played yesterday at the National Training Centre (NTC), Providence, from 10:30hrs. First, Timehri Panthers A made very

GMR&SC light work of the club’s B side with an emphatic 16-0 victory.

In the second match of the day, Friendship made little mistake in their 3-1 win over Herstelling Raiders while Swan FC and Smatta Point FC both gained walkover victories against Agricola Red Triangle and Diamond United, respectively.

The EBFA intra-association competition will resume on April 1st with four more matches. Those clashes will see Herstelling Raiders matching skills with Timehri Panther B, while Smatta Point Kaneville will battle Agricola Red Triangle. The third game will see Timehri Panther A lock horns with Friendship All Stars while the feature match will pit the highflying Swan FC against Diamond United.

National Race of Champions Round one…

ON an overcast day at the South Dakota Circuit Timehri, Rameez Mohamed was untouchable in the BM Soat/Renegade Fuels sponsored Starlet Cup, qualifying on pole.

The former GMR&SC President returned a time of 1:25.841 to blitz the competition in the 20-minute qualifying session yesterday, setting down the early bench mark.

Former lap record-holder, Anand Ramchand, was second on the grid, posting a best time of 1:29.218 and Steven Nobrega 1:29.536.

The other qualifying times were Shairaz Roshandin (1:30.211), Nyron Maraj, (1:31.179) and Syad Hassan (1:32.300).

Elsewhere, Shan Seejattan took Prem’s Electrical/ Renegade Racefuel-sponsored group two class that had to be red flagged due to rain.

Seejattan’s 1:26.181 second time beat out Rameez Mohamed’s 1:29.597 second time with Chet Singh starting third on the grid (1:29.721).

Mark Williams will start fourth after posting 1:31.257 ahead of Peter Morgan (1:36.413) and Andre Dhanraj.

In the Sport Tuner Class,

Azad Hassan made the best start to 2023 with a blistering 1:32.953 second time ahead of Adrian Fernandes (1:34.035) and Ryan Rahaman (1:35.308).

Mohamed Ahmad (1:36.025) will start fourth with Carl Singh (1:49.498) fifth.

For the rookies, Tarick Baijnauth will start ahead of Shawn Sattar as the only two who qualified on the day with Vickey Persaud (1:37.861) taking the street tuner pole ahead of Naresh Alves (1:41.030) and Richard Singh (1:42.612)

Groups Three and Four had a rained out session and will qualify today at 10:00hrs

For the superstock bikes, which pulled their grid positions via the ‘hand in bag’ method with Kevin Persaud starting ahead of Stephen Vieira, Heemand Boodhram and Matthew Vieira.

The Street Bikes did the same and will see Shem Chattersingh ahead of Elwin Chase, Fitzpatrick Augustus, Raphael Fraser, Jermain Chattersingh, Heeranand Boodhram, Jerome Gomes and Dowayne Caesar.