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Kaieteur News
Sunday September 21, 2014
Banks Sevens on AAG to host National today at National Park Senior C/ships today
In the absence of defending champions the Guyana Defence Force, participants, University of Guyana, Pepsi Hornets, Police and Yamaha Caribs will be looking to take full advantage of the champions nonappearance when the Banks DIH One-Day Sevens Tournament is held today, at the National Park. The tournament is one of the most anticipated events on the Guyana Rugby Football Union’s calendar and President of the Union Peter Green stated the Banks Sevens would be used to identify players to
be selected to the national squad which will commence training shortly as Guyana aim to recapture the NACRA Sevens title when the competition is held later this year in Mexico. According to a release, three women’s teams representing Hornets, Caribs and Police will be part of the day’s activities. Scrum off is 10:30 hrs today with the traditional March Past of teams followed by remarks from officials. Trophies and Medals would be awarded to the winning teams.
Banks DIH Guyana Classic International Badminton tourney underway The Guyana Badminton Association Banks DIH Guyana Classic International Tournament, which involves Suriname, who will contest in the Under-11, Under-13 & Under-15 Boys and Girls Events, which started yesterday and concludes today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Today play will run from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The Suriname team, which
features 16 players and 19 Officials/Parents, arrived for the event and will look to make their mark. The Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) is trying to keep Badminton in the Junior level going as the top players are advancing to the higher level, hence the GBA’s thrust to get the upcoming players in form and ready to fill the spots vacated by those
moving forward. The GBA would like to thank Mr. Carlton Joao of Banks DIH for making this tournament possible along with Director of Sport Neil Kumar of the National Sports Commission. Special thanks also go to Ms. Surujdai Ramraj and Emily Ramdhani - Secretary of the GBA, for putting all measures in place to make this tournament possible.
Trinidad and Tobago win CFU Under-20 Championship It took a second half hattrick from the prolific Kadeem Corbin, for Trinidad and Tobago to blank Haiti 3-0 and grab the 2014 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Men’s Under-20 Qualifiers Championship, on Friday last at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, in Trinidad and Tobago. The first 45 minutes failed to produce much scoring opportunities which saw the half ending goalless, however the young Soca Warriors regrouped and came
out with a different game plan and in the 54th minute Corbin struck his first goal. Despite the efforts of the Haitians to level the score and keep their opponents at bay, Corbin netted his second goal in the 82nd minute and completed his hat-trick in the 86th minute for a comfortable 3-0 triumph. Meanwhile, in the third and fourth play-off Cuba edged out Aruba 2-1. Cuba went ahead in the second half with a goal from Eddie Luis Sanamë in the 54th
minute. Ricky Hodges drew level for Aruba in the 85th minute. But the Cubans rallied and three minutes later found the clincher when Frank Manuel Lopez netted and ended the game 2-1. At the distribution of awards ceremony, Trinidad and Tobago’s Kadeem Corbin copped the Golden Boots and MVP Award. The Golden Gloves Award went to Jean Marc Antersijn from Aruba, while the Fair Play Award went to Team Aruba.
The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will today host its National Senior Track and Field Championships at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, as part of its mandated calendar of events for the International Association of Athletics Federation. The annual mandatory meet will commence from 10am with the AAG publicly stating that it will use the meet to select a team for the South American Under23 Championships set for October 3-5 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Senior Championships will feature a plethora of athletes over 16years-old vying for honour and bragging rights to be called the ‘top senior athlete in the nation’. Notwithstanding, Guyana’s top club, Police Progressive Youth Club, will only be fielding about six athletes at the meet since their training programme is geared toward Joint Services. Contacted yesterday, Police Coach, Mark Scott told Kaieteur Sport that Olympic quarter-miler, Winston George will not be competing today. In addition, national sprint ace, Alita Moore
Tevin Garraway
Kevin Bayley
will also not be competing along with several of their senior athletes. “Right now we are preparing for Joint Services and we only had about a week’s notice for this meet. We will focus on those who we believe could qualify for the Under-23 Championships at the meet,” Scott said. In that regard, he said that sprinter Tevin Garraway and middle distance dynamo, Kevin Bayley will lead about six
athletes representing the club today. The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is also in a preparation mode for the InterServices Annual Athletics Championships (ISAAC). But despite the focus of those two teams, the meet is expected to attract athletes from Running Brave Athletics Club, Upper Demerara, Mercury Fast Laners and several other clubs today in an effort to put their athletes up for national selection.
The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will today host two Cross-Nation Exhibition Games at the Burnham Basketball Court as warm-up for a National Hard Court Series that will commence at a date to be announced. The Games begin from 4:30pm when New Amsterdam’s Canje Knights take on Georgetown Nirva
Knights and will continue at 6:30pm when Linden’s Victory Valley Royals battle Colts in what should be a thrilling encounter. Royals just coming off a win in their 20th Anniversary tournament, compliments of sharp-shooter Chris Williams and Marlon Pollydore will look to continue their
- Police focus on ISAAC
Cross-nation exhibition b/ball games begin today
- ahead of National Hard Court Series ascendency against the number three ranked club in Georgetown, Colts. President of the GABA, Michael Singh told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that the games are geared as giving the teams a feel of what the actual Hard Court Series will be like so that they fine tune their skills ahead of the event.
Yaya Toure: Man City midfielder Amerindians celebrate Heritage month with competitive sports activities disappointed by birthday row BBC Sport - Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure says he was disappointed with the speculation that surrounded his future at the club during the summer. In May, Toure supported claims from his agent that City “disrespected” him on his 31st birthday, having previously dismissed Dimitri Seluk’s comments. But, speaking to Football Focus, he said: “My agent made a little joke about it and people took it seriously. “I was quite surprised about the way people and the media reacted to that.” As City travelled to the United Arab Emirates to celebrate winning the Premier League, the club presented Toure with a cake on his 13 May birthday and tweeted congratulations. But, speaking
Yaya Toure at the time, Toure’s agent Seluk, said: “None of them shook his hand on his birthday. It’s really sick.” Toure initially distanced himself from Seluk’s comments, but then took to Twitter to say: “Everything Dimitri said is true. He speaks for me. I will explain
after the World Cup.” Now, the former Barcelona man has moved to clarify the controversy, saying: “Over the summer there was a lot of speculation about birthday cakes and rubbish like that. It was disappointing for me. “I’ve been in Manchester for four years now and I have never demanded a birthday cake.” Ivorian Toure, who has won two Premier Leagues, the FACup and the League Cup since moving to City from the Nou Camp for £24m in 2010, also stated that his new desire is to win the Champions League. “I know the fans love me; they are always good to me,” he said. “My target now is the Champions League. I want to win it for them.”
It was fun, frolic and friendly rivalry when Amerindians comprising 15 teams from several villages in 9 of Guyana’s ten administrative regions converged at the Everest Sports Club to show off their cultures while engaged in stiff sports rivalry in commemoration of Amerindian Heritage Month, yesterday morning. A large crowd of supporters were on hand at the venue to witness the indigenous groups compete in volleyball, cricket and football among other disciplines which was competed among 15 teams from 9 of the country’s 10 administrative regions. They included St Cuthbert’s Mission, Laluni, and Swan (4), Linden and Wiruni (10), Tapakuma (2), Maraikabai (5) Mabaruma and Moruca (1), Mahdia, North
Rupununi, Central Rupununi and Karasabai (9), Jawalla and Paruima (7). The activities commenced yesterday and will conclude today and in the male cricket matches contested yesterday Laluni defeated St Cuthbert Mission by 8 wickets while Morakobai triumphed over Matakai by 4 wickets. Mainstay defeated a combined team of Orealla and Siparuta by 6 wickets while Cambelltown drew the bye. Today, 4 teams will compete against each other in semi-finals affairs before the respective winners contest for the championship honours. Campbelltown will clash with Mainstay while Laluni play Moraikabai and the respective winners will clash for the championship.
The female cricketers were also in action and Laluni prevailed over Campbellstown by 22 runs while Matarkai secured a 31 runs victory over Tapacoma. Moruca then defeated Maraicabai by seven wickets while the combined team of Orealla and Sipuruta lost by 4 wickets to Swan. Over on the eastern side of the ground several teams battled for honours in volleyball and Mainstay triumphed over St Cuthbert Mission 15-12 and 1513 while Wayaka prevailed over Laluni 15-7 and 17-15. Up to press time the groups were engaged in football matches and those engagements would continue today where an overall champion would be crowned. Luluni is the overall champions in both male and female categories.