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BCB launches 2019 Mike’s Pharmacy Under-15 Tourney as early preparation starts 2018 has over two months before the end of the year but this has not prevented the pro-active Berbice Cricket Board from launching its 2019 Inter-Club Under-15 Tournament. The Berbice Cricket Board only completed its 2018 Tournament in September but in its quest to be properly prepared for the Inter-county season which would begin in February 2019, the 2019 Edition was launched early. The Tournament would begin in three weeks, using the required date of birth for the 2019 Inter-county season. Berbice Cricket Board President Hilbert Foster stated that the 2018 Inter-Club Tournament was a huge success with Albion Community Centre being crowned Champion after defeating favourites Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes by six runs at the Albion Sports Complex. Players like Jonathan Rampersaud, Mahendra Gopilall, Leon Cecil, Pavendra Ganesh, Hemendra Gurdyal, Rampertab Ramnauth, Jonathan De Veira, Jeremy Sandia, Isiah Thorne, Zeymul Ramsammy, Shreedat Roopnarine, Hemchand Ragubeer and Andy Thagraj dominated the last tournament with outstanding individual performances. Foster expects at least twenty teams to participate in the Tournament which would be used to select players for several trial matches. A training squad of 26 players would be selected based on performances after the first three rounds of the Tournament for the trial matches. The trials would be sponsored by Nand Persaud Co. Ltd and the Berbice Team would be selected by the
Thursday October 11, 2018
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UDFA, MSC meet tonight to plot course for GTT Senior Football League resumption The uncertainty surrounding the restart of the 2017 GTT Senior League Football Championship, which is under the Upper Demerara Football Association, could see it resuming after a meeting tonight between the footballing body and the Mackenzie Sports Club. Attempts to have the league championship resume last week was met with some amount of resistance and the playing surface of the outskirt
ground namely the Wisburg Secondary School and Bayrock facilities were viewed unfit for senior football by some clubs. So the big question of why football is not being played at the Mackenzie Sports Club has surfaced and from all appearances it seems a 2017 agreement between the UDFA and the MSC was not honoured, hence the UDFA cannot have the use of the MSC ground. While the annual school
sports taking place at the MSC ground initially was given as the reason for football not being played, there is more to why the facility is not open to football according to sources. It is the hope of the football clubs that coming out of this evening’s meeting that outstanding money due to the MSC will be honoured and football allowed to be played as the year end competition looms for Upper Demerara football teams.
Federer survives Medvedev scare in Shanghai BCB President Hilbert Foster receives sponsorship from Wayne Johnson of Mike’s Pharmacy. Albert Smith led Selection Committee. Once selected, the team would then undertake two months of intense training and coaching to be fully prepared to defend their title. Clubs like Albion Community Centre, Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes, Blairmont Community Centre, Tucber Park Cricket Club, Young Warriors Cricket Club, Rose Hall Canje, Port Mourant Cricket Club, No. 73 Cricket Club and Plaisance are expected to be among teams taking part in the historic tournament. It would be the first time in the long history of Berbice Cricket that a tournament would actually start before the year. Foster stated that with almost all the 2018 Berbice Under-15 players be-
ing overage for the 2019 Guyana Cricket Board Tournament, it was very important to start early preparation so that the Berbice Selectors would have adequate time to select the best possible replacements. The energetic President was full of praise for the support of Mike’s Pharmacy. The outstanding work of the Berbice Cricket Board, he stated would not have been possible without the support of sponsors like Mike’s and he has committed his Board to organising another successful tournament. Managing Director Lakeram Singh stated that Mike’s Pharmacy was very impressed by the hard work and organising skills of the (Continued on page 27)
Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates his victory against Daniil Medvedev of Russia. (REUTERS/Aly Song) (Reuters) - Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer battled past in-form Russian Daniil Medvedev 64 4-6 6-4 to reach the last-16 at the Shanghai Masters yesterday. Federer, playing his first Tour-level match since suffering a shock fourth-round defeat by John Millman at the U.S. Open last month, broke Medvedev twice to take the opening set. Fresh off the biggest title of his career in Tokyo, Medvedev saved a break point early in the second set and that gave him momentum to grab a break of his own to force a decider. Both players failed to take their opportunities to take an early lead in the final set be-
fore two unforced errors from Medvedev handed Federer a break in the ninth game. The 37-year-old Swiss served out the match in just under two hours to keep hopes of a third Shanghai title alive. He will next face Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut, who beat American Mackenzie McDonald 3-6 6-4 6-1. Fourth seed Alexander Zverev edged one step closer to qualifying for next month’s ATP Finals after a hardfought 7-5 6-4 win over inform Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili. The 21-year-old German fought off a cold and showed great confidence to wrap up the victory at the Qi Zhong Stadium.
“I played a solid match. I did everything that I needed to win,” said Zverev. “As you can probably hear in my voice, I’m a little sick right now, so feeling a little bit low energy, but I hope it will get better over the next few days.” Argentine Juan Martin del Potro overcame a slow start to outlast France’s Richard Gasquet 7-5 7-6(7). Third seed Del Potro won four straight games from 3-5 down in the opening set before recovering from 2-6 deficit in the second set tiebreak to set up a third round meeting with Croatian Borna Coric. Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson fired 14 aces to breeze past Kazakh qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3 6-2.