Sports

Students who were winners in the Inter-House Athletic Competition at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School have now been presented with their trophies.

The Anguilla Amateur Athletic Association marked the Labour Day holiday in Anguilla with a variety of competitive sporting activities in which employees from various branches of the public and private sectors participated.

As every Anguillian knows, our own Omari Banks is now a West Indies Test player.
Every debutant at the highest level will surely always remember his own first Test appearance. Omari, for sure, will remember this one forever.

The Senior and Junior Tournaments of the Anguilla Amateur Basketball Association is now in progress. President of the Association, Ralph Hodge, now retiring as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Development, spoke at the opening ceremony at Coronation Park on April 26.

International Tae-kwon-Do Federation (ITF) Instructor, Claude Chin, was in Anguilla last week to conduct the examinations for members of the local chapter of the ITF. AXA ITF Taekwon-Do Club Instructor and Anguilla’s official ITF representative, Gregory Permuy, was promoted to second degree black belt (2nd Dan). The exams were also successfully completed by Disa Billington, Robert MacClean and Michael Permuy. The exams held at the conference Room of Malliouhana Resort & Spar, included patterns, breaking, sparring and a test of their general knowledge of the art.

Anguilla was represented at the just completed CARIFTA Games held in Trinidad and Tobago by Khalid Brooks, Shara Proctor, Curlee Gumbs and Coach Wilma Proctor. CARIFTA Games are the premier track and field championships for young athletes in the Caribbean. They were held at the Haseley Grant Stadium in Port of Spain from 19th - 22nd April.

It will come as no surprise to the majority of cricket fans that after the first two Test matches of the current four match Cable and Wireless Series the West Indies find themselves two games in arrears after suffering crushing defeats at the hands of the brilliant and rampant Australians.

The 2003 Inter-House Athletic Competition of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School was won by Yellow House with a score of 740 points.

The 5th Optimist Triathlon comprising various fun-filled activities held at Meads Bay, Anguilla, on Sunday April 6 attracted a large number of participants from Anguilla and neighbouring St. Martin/St.Maarten.

The First Test of the Cable & Wireless West Indies v Australia 2003 Series will start in Guyana on Thursday and re-appointed West Indies captain, Brian Lara, will be looking to go one up from the word “go” against the might of Australia.

Test cricket’s leading wicket-taker, Courtney Walsh, will share his perspective on the upcoming Cable & Wireless 2003 Cricket Series (Australia versus the West Indies) next Monday evening (April 7) in a chat session on cwcricket.com. He will also reminisce on some of his encounters with Australian teams of the past.

As preparations for the first annual Anguilla Regatta get into high gear, two members of the Anguilla Regatta 2003 Steering Committee, Richard and Maryse West met on Friday March 28 with Commodore Jerry Blakeslee and organisation director, Mirian Leffers, of the St. Maarten Yacht Club.
 

Several years ago, I can well remember the call to international cricketing duty of a diminutive, frail-looking and shy Guyanese teenager. His name was Shivnarine Chanderpaul. As the timid youngster’s name hit the headlines, media interviews were conducted amongst his fellow cricketers, relatives and friends and those who had generally been associated with him in cricket circles. Though many West Indians throughout the region had been surprised by Chanderpaul’s sudden elevation to the squad of the elite, there was a common denominator amongst all those who had been close to him, in and around Guyana cricket, and that denominator was that NONE of them had been surprised at his selection.

Cap Juluca’s General Manager, Eustace Guishard, and Chief Financial Officer, Ricardo Perez, teamed up with General Manager of American Eagle San Juan, Jose Velez, and Read Davis, VP of McGriff, Siebels & Williams Inc., to win second place in the 4th Annual Jorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation Golf Tournament in Florida last weekend.

The Anguilla Cricket Association is pleased to announce that the 2003 Caribbean Commercial Bank Cricket competition has reached the play-off stage with the following four teams as semi-finalists:

It took 54 matches to do so, but the ICC World Cup of 2003 has eventually confirmed what we all knew – that Australia is the best team on this planet, and probably all the other planets too, whether of this galaxy or the next!

WORLD CUP 2003 TAKES ITS TOLL

At press time only 3 teams remain in the 2003 ICC World Cup. Australia are through to the final and will meet either India or Kenya who will fight out their semi-final on Thursday.

December 19, 2002 was the date of the second annual presentation of National Sports Awards for “sporting heroes and heroines – past and present in Anguilla.”

As cricket followers from Anguilla and neighbouring islands will head to the beautiful Ronald Webster Park in The Valley this Friday to witness the Leeward Islands Round One encounter with four-day champions, Jamaica, it has been learned that this year’s overseas team India “A” scheduled to participate in the new Carib Beer Cricket Series will not arrive in the Caribbean until February 5th, and will thus miss their First Round match against the West Indies “B” in Barbados.

A Teachers’ Resource Manual, part of the Scotiabank-sponsored Kiddy Cricket Programme, was presented on Tuesday March 11 to the seven primary schools on the island by Managing Director of Scotiabank (Anguilla) Limited, Walter MacCalman. The Chief Cricket Development Officer with the West Indies Cricket Board, Dr. Michael Seepersaud, was in Anguilla for the presentation and launching of the manual.