December 11 - 21, 2010
TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
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Women’s Christmas International Football Festival:
BVI U-20 squad to challenge local side THE British Virgin Islands’ U-20 female squad will travel to Providenciales for the Women’s Christmas International Football Festival during the 15th-18th of this month to compete against the local side and hopefully benefit from the hosts’ developmental strategies. The Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association has rapidly developed a female side from a group of school girls to a potential future regional powerhouse and our sister territory BVI has noticed. Technical Director of the TCIFA Matthew Green said that his counterpart from the touring team hopes to benefit from the technical expertise of the local
body when his team visits. “BVI is very keen to learn about the success of [the] TCIFA’s programmes, as they are in the development stage with regards to women’s football and also wants to coach our girls for a session or two,” Green said. The festival will include different formats of the sport, among them: the regular 11-aside, seven-a-side and beach football. After three competition days including the TCI U-20 vs. the BVI U-20 on Friday evening, the festival will end on Saturday the 18th with a beach football competition and BBQ in front of Flamingos Café on Grace Bay Beach from 13:00h.
Beaches erode Jam Turk
BEACHES stormed to a 90-run win over Jam Turk after Osmond Sicard went in an all-out attack mode. Sicard, who has been relatively quiet prior to the innings, slammed seven sixes and an equal amount of fours in his score of 94 in the Monster Energy Drink Twenty20 League last Saturday at the Downtown Ball Park in
Providenciales. Odayne Ewart contributed 26 runs as Beaches raced to 211-7 in their allotted overs. Spinner Glen Campbell snarled 4-25 from four overs for Jam Turk. When the eventual losers batted they were snuffed out for 121 in 19.4 overs after Martinique Williams nabbed 3-20 from four overs.
Dan Redmond is the new male triathlon champion
Fall Sprint Triathlon:
Redmond now TCI’s ‘iron man’ – Jordan repeats as ladies champ DAN Redmond darted through the water and ran like a man possessed to cross the finish line first, while Nicola Jordan notched up another female title and a second overall finish to claim glory in the Fall Sprint Triathlon. The rivalry between Redmond and defending champion Kevin O’Sullivan did not take place because the latter decided not to compete in the individual category.
He said that there were a “variety of reasons” for his no-show, but assured the Weekly News that his boots are not yet retired. O’Sullivan did however compete in the teams’ event with his wife and their 11-year-old son. He did the bike leg of the race. O’Sullivan had pipped Redmond for the overall title the last time the two met in the triathlon event.
Brooks walks away with top awards
– As Long Bay Revolution win football title
NATIONAL captain Pekiera Brooks copped the MVP and the top goal scorer awards after lifting her team, Long Bay Revolution to overall victory in the Central Storage U-20 Girls’ League which concluded last Friday at the Academy Ground. Brooks’s team dominated the league towards the end and even a loss and a draw on the closing day was not enough to hit them off the top spot.
The Blue Hills Sharks who drew 1-1 with the champions on the final day settled for second place while Five Cays FC finished third and the Leeward Knights fourth. Alexandra Wilson was awarded with the most improved player trophy while the individual MVPs for the four teams were: Yarielke de la Cruz (Revolution), Christina Hinds (Knights), Scateline Gedeon (Sharks) and Guerline Herilien (Five Cays FC)
Nicola Jordan continues to dominate the triathlon
Last Sunday in the Gracebay area Redmond once again showed his strength in two of the three events (swimming and running). He clocked 11.06 minutes in the water to gain his advantage in the race. Tenth place finisher Stuart Gary was the second best swimmer with a time of 14.09 minutes while Jordan finished third in 15.04 minutes. Redmond did not win the cycling leg of the individual event; that victory went to Geraldine Burtschi, who was the second female and the fourth overall finisher. Burtschi’s riding time was 31.12 minutes while Redmond finished second in 31.26 and Jordan third in 31.27. The eventual champion had it much easier on his feet and with long strides he managed to finish the run in 17.18 minutes to combine for an overall time of 100.00 minutes. Bruce Twa (who finished seventh overall) was the second person to cross the finish line in the final event (20.43 minutes) while Emma Riach (21.01 minutes) followed closely behind. Fall Sprint Triathlon Individual event:
Pekiera Brooks
Name Dan Redmond Nicola Jordon Christopher McArthur Geraldine Burtschi Jesse Suerte Bill Giorgio Bruce Twa Stewart Howard Emma Riach Stuart Gary
Combined time 100.00 minutes 109.29 minutes 111.08 minutes 111.21 minutes 112.50 minutes 113.00 minutes 114.48 minutes 117.42 minutes 117.43 minutes 118.58 minutes