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Kaieteur News
Thursday May 30, 2013
Guyana record at U-19 Cricket Championships Scotiabank\Pepsi School Football Academy Butters, Hackett star as hosted by St. Kitts is impressive Lodge beat Tutorial 4-1
The West Indies Cricket Board recently announced that St. Kitts will host this year Regional Under-19 Cricket Championship from July 17 to August 21. This will be the third time St. Kitts will host the Regional Under-19 Championship. According to Statistician Charwayne Walker, the only time Guyana departed Basseterre without the Regional Under-19 trophy was 1977, that was the first time the competition was held in the Leeward Islands, the Guyana Captain on the occasion was DCC Mark Harper. Sixteen years later, July 1993, Guyana led by Port Mourant’s Andre Percival returned to St. Kitts and brought home the Northern Telecoms trophy, Walker noted. Please find below the first National Under-19 team that won a Championship in St. Kitts:
Steven Jacobs Mark Harper Andre Percival - Captain Mahendra Nagamootoo Vishal Nagamootoo Steve Mangru Reon King Nicholas DeGroot Colin Stuart Besham Seepersaud Lennox Cush Michael Chinsammy Zaheer Haniff Shivnarine Chanderpaul Rohan Sarjoo
Andre Percival Rishi Baichan Guyana led by Malteenoes Steven Jacobs continued the St. Kitts dominance fourteen years later, August 2007, ironically that was the last time Guyana won the Regional Under-19 Championship, Walker noted. Below Please find victorious Guyana Under-19 Captains: Keith Aaron 1968
Timur Mohamed 1975 Timur Mohamed 1976 Latchman Bhansingh 1985 Andre Percival 1992 Andre Percival 1993 Andre Percival 1994 Mahendra Nagamootoo 1996 Vishal Nagamootoo 1996 Ramnaresh Sarwan 1997 Steven Jacobs 2007 Only time will tell if Rose Hall Town’s Shawn Perreira, who is expected to retain the captaincy, will add his name to the list above.
Chanderpaul vs Chanderpaul in Stainsby Hall’s 150th anniversary 20-over match It was a case of Chanderpaul v Chanderpaul when Stainsby Hall CC took on a Derbyshire CCC XI last week. The 20-overs-a-side game formed part of the Smalley-based club’s 150th anniversary celebrations and saw Derbyshire and West Indies batting ace Shivnarine Chanderpaul line up on the opposing side to his teenage son Tagenarine, who is Stainsby Hall’s current overseas player. The club’s David Brown said: “It was a bitterly cold night, but bright, and we think there were at least 400 people there. “Derbyshire took it pretty seriously and we thank them for sending along a more or less full strength side. All in all, it was an excellent fundraiser for the club and went very well.” (Belper News)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his son Tagenarine Chanderpaul.
=== Letter to the Sports Editor ===
What is happening with basketball in Guyana? DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) is dormant and nothing has emerged from the Executive since 2011, which leads to the question: Where is basketball in Guyana going? Basketball as a sport requires a Strategic Plan so that critical areas like Coaching, Physical Infrastructure, Refereeing and Financing can be targeted for action. Without a Strategic Plan basketball will not emerge from its dormant state, which means that development of local talent will be stymied
and those with potential will gravitate to other sports or quit basketball completely. The basketball fraternity is clamoring for action and is urging the GABF Executive to galvanise itself and present to the sporting public an Action Plan that will move basketball from its present state to one of vibrancy and thus ensure that basketball once again claims its rightful place. The GABF has to take the lead in encouraging its affiliates to develop basketball at their levels and must be able to do so in a positive way. The structure of any sport requires a solid
foundation and in this regard, the body, tasked with the development of sport must facilitate the process and initiate dialogue among the parties to stimulate development interest. The question that arises here is whether the GABF is a part of the National Sports Commission and further, if there is a relationship through which the concerns of basketball could be addressed and, whether plans for basketball were advanced at that level. The structure of sport in Guyana as envisaged follows thus: Ministry of Sport’!National Sports
Commission’!National Federations’! Associations’! Clubs’! Players’! Coaches, etc. The stakeholders that are Government, National Sports Commission, Federations, Associations, Clubs, Players, etc, all have interests and these interests must be served. For these interests to be served there must be meetings to ventilate issues and plot the way forward. When that is done, it can create concrete plans to move the system of the sport forward. Merle Casey President Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club
Play in the Scotiabank/ Pepsi School Football Academy continued last Sunday with a number of games at the Ministry of Education and Wisburg Secondary School grounds. At the Ministry of Education ground, Lodge Secondary remained unbeaten by trouncing Tutorial High by 4 goals to 1. Lodge goals were scored by Kevin Butters in the 2nd and 19th minutes, while Ryan Hackett found the back of the net in the 16th and 55th minutes. Tutorial lone goal was netted by Steve Sutton. Lodge now lead group ‘A’ with15 points from 5 games. Charlestown Secondary moved to 12 points in group B after gaining a walkover from Chase Academic Foundation. In other action, Christ Church demolished Bishops High by 4 goals to nil. Andre Trotz scored in the 26th and 30th minutes, Andre Paul in the 28th and Brad Evans in the 61st. North Georgetown swamped Queens College (QC) by 5 goals to 1. Ashmar Angel gave QC the lead in the 11th minute before Joshua Farrier equalised in the 29th. Osafa Matheson put North Georgetown in front with a strike in the 39th; Lansdale George then extended the advantage when he scored in the 45th. Nehemiah Gomes sealed the issue with goals in the 50th and 57th minutes. At Wisburg Secondary School ground in Linden, Mc Kenzie High defeated Christianburg Wismar Secondary by 2 goals to 1, while on Wednesday New Silver City Secondary School gained a walk over from Harmony Secondary. On Saturday 1st June, the final games in the preliminary round in the Georgetown Zone will be played.
In group ‘A’ (male), School of the Nations with 12 points will come up against Tutorial High who are on 10 points at 10:00hrs. A draw for School of the Nations will take them to 13 points and a place in the Semifinals; however a win for Tutorial High will take them to 13 points and a place in the final four. In the female category, Christ Church Secondary (1 point) will do battle with Tutorial on 4 points at 11:00hrs. New Campbellville Secondary finished the preliminary round on 10 points and are already through to the final. A win for Tutorial will take to 7 points and a place in the final; a draw will also do them well since they have a better goal difference than their closest rival Charlestown who are on 5 points from 4 games. At 12:30hrs in the male division, North Georgetown and Lodge will square off in a match of academic interest. Lodge are already through to the Semis. A victory for North GT will take them to 12 points but it will not be sufficient for them to go through because School of the Nations and Tutorial are in better position to qualify. At 13:45 hrs (male), Charlestown and Bishops High will clash, a triumph for Charlestown will see them topping the group with 15 points but a loss will see them placing second to Christ Church who are on 12 points but with a better Goal difference. On Sun 2nd June 2013, the first semifinal will be played; Lodge Secondary will match skills with either Christ Church or Charlestown Secondary at 11:30 hrs. At 13:00 hrs, Charlestown Secondary or Christ Church will tackle School of the Nations or Tutorial in the second semi.
Royal Six are WNDC Independence Dominoes champs Royal Six amassed 83 games to win the final of the Wakenaam Neighbourhood Democratic Council (WNDC) Independence Dominoes competition which was contested on Monday at Amit Ramnarine residence in Good Success Wakenaam. Underdog took the runner up spot with 75 games, while Double Six finished third on 73. Royal Six were led by Vickram Ramnarine with 17 games, Jaggernauth Manbodh 16 and Abdool Salim 14. Ganeshram Narine and Asif Ahmad made 16 each for Underdog, while Suraj (only name) chalked 16 and Alex Chung 15 for Double Six. Royal Six received the winning trophy while the other participating teams which also included Anyway and All Star received prizes.