Friday August 17, 2018
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Kaieteur News
Pepsi C’bean School Boys and Juniors Boxing C/ships starts this Evening at Gymnasium By Sean Devers From 18:00hrs this evening the place to be is the National Gymnasium for the third annual ‘Nuff Cuff’ Caribbean School Boys and Juniors Boxing Championships. Speaking yesterday at the Tower Suites about what promises to be an exciting weekend of pulsating fistic fury, President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Steve Ninvalle said the concept of this Championships was born in 2016 to place emphases on the Regional development of Boxing at the nursery leaving. Ninvalle said the hosting of this Championship cost $6 Million and informed that the GBA has been only able to acquire half of that so far. “This could not have been done with the support of corporate Guyana and National Sports Commission (NSC) who played a major role as sponsor. We also thank DDL under their Pepsi brand as the tournament sponsor and the GOA, Bounty Farm, Hand-in-Hand and Tower Suites,” said the GBA Head. Ninvalle informed that Grenada might not be able to make the trip due to flight issues but confirmed that Trinidad & Tobago is expected to arrive at 07:00hrs today, while St Lucia arrives later in the day. “This tournament is crucial for
Britney McFarlane is the lone female in the Jamaican team providing the skills and exposure for Boxers at this age. Guyana Flyweight Keevin Allicock who won a Silver Medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games last year in the Bahamas came though the U-16 Boxing programme,” disclosed Ninvalle. Ninvalle noted that the U-16 Championships are held twice a month, while the just concluded
National School Boys and Junior tournament was used to select the Guyana team for tonight’s Championships. Guyana has won the Championships on both previous occasions but this year Guyana will be represented by its youngest team and for the first time females are included. They are Jelica Rodney (Savannah boxing gym Region 9), Alesha Jackman and Akea Lamazon. Ninvalle said this tournament is really to look at where the Caribbean is at this point at this level of Boxing. Also speaking at yesterday’s launching was Jamaican Coach Gilbert Vaz who informed that 17year-old Light Welterweight Boxer Daniel Hylton could not make the trip since he is preparing for University, adding that 16-year-old Britney McFarlane who will fight in the Lightweight division, is the lone female on the four-member team. Vaz, a former Boxer, thanked the GBA for holding this Championship and says Jamaica is in the process of taking a pattern from what is being done here. “The Nursery of Boxing is very important in producing Olympic Champions and Professional Boxers. What I have seen here on my
Shomari Wiltshire wins 2018 Steamer Gold tournament Guyana Junior and Caribbean Under-15 Champion Shomari Wiltshire, who is currently sponsored by Dunlop and a Banks DIH Rainforest Waters Brand Ambassador, is currently in the USA to attend a Summer Squash Camp which is to be held from August 20 – 24, 2018 at the Chatham Club in New Jersey and organized by Sunil Seth, current Guyana national player. Shomari is also undergoing personalised training under the tutelage of Sunil prior to participating in the squash camp. Over the last week-end Shomari entered the 2018 Newport Steamer Summer Gold Tournament. The tournament was held in Providence, Rhode Island at two venues; the St George’s School and the Portsmouth Abbey School. This was a Gold tournament and in the USA Gold tournaments are ranked second behind the Junior Championships (JCT) and according to the tournament information with 280 registered players made it one of the largest non JCT events in the country in 2018. Because Shomari had won the Finger Lakes Gold tournament in September 2017 and also due to the
accumulated points gained at the US Junior Squash Open in December 2017 he was seeded No 1 in the Boys Under-15 draw. In the first round he defeated Omar Cochinwala 11 – 2, 11 – 4, 11 – 5 and in the second round he defeated Isaac Mitchell 11 – 5, 11 – 1, 11 – 4 to reach the quarterfinals. In the quarter-finals he faced Ashton Monteiro who had finished runner-up in the Washington DC Gold held earlier in the summer. Shomari lost the first game 7 – 11 but bounced back to win the next three games 11 – 2, 11 – 6, 11 – 7. In the semi-finals he came up against Hollis Robertson who had won two Under-15 Summer Gold tournaments, the Washington DC Junior Gold and the 2018 Virginia Summer Gold and was seeded ¾ in the tournament. This would prove to be Shomari’s toughest match in the tournament. Shomari lost the first game 7 – 11 but rebounded to win the next two games 11 – 5, 11 – 6 and at 9 all in the fourth game Shomari was two points away from reaching his second Gold Under-15 final but he made an unforced
error and ended up losing the fourth game 9 – 11. In the fifth game Shomari trailed 1 – 5 but kept a cool head and staged a comeback to eventually win the fifth game 11 – 8. In the finals Shomari was pitted against the number 2 seed Robert Avram but this game would prove to be an anti-climax after the semi final matchup the previous evening. Shomari easily won in straight games 11 – 6, 11 – 5, 11 – 2 to win his second US Gold tournament. Shomari would like to express gratitude to his sponsors Dunlop and Rainforest Waters, Coaches Carl Ince and Nyron Joseph, Kezqweyah Yisrael and the Top End team and also to Kathleen Paul, massage therapist as without their contributions his success would not have been possible.
previous trips is the development of Boxing through a strong youth programme and that is why Guyana have the best youth Boxers in the Caribbean,” said Vaz, a National Boxing Coach who has been involved in Coaching for 10 years. Director of Sports Christopher Jones said the NSC has given the use of the Gymnasium at no cost and in addition to providing Cash, has collaborated with the Ministry of Social Cohesion to provide Transportation and meals for the young Boxers. He also praised NSC’s Hinterland Coach Orlan ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers for his work in setting up Boxing Gyms in Regions 1, 7, 8 & 9 as the NSC works to help in the development of Boxing across Guyana. “If our Budget request is approved this year we plan to upgrade the Andrew ‘Six Heads’ Lewis Gym in Albouystown to an International standard Gym. We have boxing gear that we are sending to the Agricola Boxing Gym,” said Jones, who was the shadow sports Minister when the PPP/C was in Government. Jones stressed that the deadline for the Associations submitting their budget is Monday and noted that GBA is among those that has already done so. Ticket for stands cost $500, while fans will pay $1,000 to access the
VIP section. The Guyana team: (Junior division) 44-46kg Richard Howard (fyf), 46-48kg Leon Moore (fyf), 45-57kg Christopher Romeo (VBG), 57-60kg Mark Crawford (fyf), 60-64kg Jamal Mercer (YA), 64-69kg Emanuel Pompey (YA), 69-75kg Jevon Thomas (CBG) Schools Boys, 44-46kg Joel Anthony (HE), Enoch Monroe (HE),Deron William (VBG), 52-54kg Patrick Harvey (fyf), 54-57kg Kurt Beckles (HE) (Novices) 60-64kg Shemar Morrison (fyf), 69-75kg Germain Williams (VBG), Female (12 -14), Alesha Jackman Female (15-16), Jelica Rodney (Savannah boxing gym) Region 9, Female (17-18), Akea Lamazon (PRBG) (COACHES): Sebert Blake (TD), Clifton Moore (VBG), James Walcott (HE), Joseph Murray( fyf), Floyd Grant (CBG) Team Jamaican: The five boxers are Ashawney Lawes (boys Featherweight), Arnold Anderson (Juniors 15-16 Lightweight), Ramone Chung (Junior 1516 Light Welterweight), Daniel Hylton (Youth 17-18 Light Welterweight), Jerome Ennis (Youth 17-18 Welterweight), while the only female on the Jamaica team is Britney McFarlane (Junior 15-16 Lightweight). The Manager is Kevin Stupart.
Trophy Stall rides with Guyana Cup 2018 - Rohan Oudit Construction also on board Guyana’s leading distributors in silverware, Trophy Stall, continued its support of horse racing by committing sponsorship to the 12th edition of the lucrative Guyana Cup horserace meet which gallops off at the Rising Sun turf club this Sunday with over $15million in cash and prizes up for grab. Rohan Oudit’s Construction Company as well has added their name to the list of sponsors supporting the mega horseracing event, the biggest on the local calendar. At the South Road location of the Trophy Stall, Proprietor, Ramesh Sunich, presented organiser, Nazrudeen Mohamed, with half a dozen trophies which will be awarded to top performers at this Sunday’s race meet at Number 6 village, West Coast Berbice. Mohamed expressed gratitude for the generous gesture by Sunich, while the owner
noted that he is always ready to support horseracing which attracts fans from all walks of life. This Sunday’s event which is dubbed as the most lucrative horserace meet in the nation have seen many fans and turfites preparing for anticipated keen rivalry between the jockeys in the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee and Rising Sun Turf Club collaborated initiative. The one-day meet set for Berbice is gaining traction both locally and overseas with a lot of sponsors ready to saddle up with the mega event and Trophy Stall and Rohan Oudit’s Construction Company joins a long list which includes Mohamed’s E n t e r p r i s e , I m p r essive Signs of New Amsterdam, Berbice, Discount Store, Hand-in-hand Insurance, Superbet, Gizmos and Gadgets, B.M. Soat, Mazi Night
Club, Hyper Malt and Rohan Auto Spares, Big L Lumber Yard, Banks DIH along with Elvis and D’ Emperor Trucking Services. The programme of events for the day will see the C Class event as the main attraction. The day’s full race programme reads as follows: 1) C class and lower, 1600m. Total purse: $3,875,000 2) 3yr old Derby 1100M – purse: $2,000,000. 3) G1 and lower 1400M – purse: $1,550,000. 4) H3 and lower 1100M – purse $1,350,000. 5) 2yrs old Guyana Bred 1100M – purse: $680,000. 6) I class and lower 1400M – Purse: $581,000. 7) J3 and lower 1400M. Purse: $485,000. 8) L class 1400M – purse $390,000. 9) L class 1400M – purse $390,000. 10) L class 1100M – purse $290,000.