After an impassioned plea by its members to the Caribbean Netball Association and the Americas Federation of Netball Association, Guyana is finally getting some much needed assistance to get their program back on track. Annette Becket, veteran Barbadian netball administrator, is on her way back from a trip to Guyana in an effort to assess the state of affairs in that country re netball. Speaking with the Barbados Advocate, she said the month long trip allowed her to realize certain key deficiencies within the program and ways and means of getting the program back on the right track. In a quote from her:

“The sport was, at that point, in a fledgling stage, so while starting from scratch was not necessary, items like the GNAs constitution and their strategic plan needed to be reworked.”

As next steps Ms. Beckett stated that apart from those fundamental changes in organization, the GNA will attempt to organize tours of other Caribbean territories so as to gain greatly needed competition-level experience.

Wavell Hinds and Xavier Marshall went all out smashing an unbeaten 50 and 49 respectively to lead Jamaica to a win on the third day of their third round match at Sabina Park. With homeground advantage, the Jamaicans ploughed ahead dismissing Guyana first for 177 in their second innings prior to tea with Odean Brown shining with his 3 wickets for 35 runs from 16 overs. With that stage set and the Jamaicans needing 109 for victory, the Jamaicans charged to victory with Hinds and Marshall making that impressive stand. Jamaica now stands top of the table and await next month’s match between itself and Trinidad at Port of Spain.

The Olympic qualifiers are now on for Women’s soccer in the region. The qualifiers thus far have yielded some rather interesting results, the most astounding ones being the Cuban victory over the British Virgin Islands - 21:0 and the Trinidad and Tobago win over St. Vincent and the Grenadines - 9:0. Get more of these fabulous results here.

The University of the West Indies Sports and Physical Education Centre, St. Augustine, Trinidad was the battleground between reigning Caribbean women’s singles champion, Theresa Munroe and her opponent, Trenace Lowe. Munroe, four-time Puerto Rico champion was defeated by Lowe leading 2-1in one of the most stunning matches ever seen. For more details of the event click here

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