T&T's Un­der-23 men’s beach vol­ley­ballers Jerome Mor­ri­son and Jahreef Miguel will con­test the play­off for po­si­tions 13th to 14th when the sev­enth leg of the NORCE­CA Con­ti­nen­tal Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour con­cludes at Tabyana Beach in West Bay, Roatan Is­land, Hon­duras Sun­day.

For­mer West In­dies bats­man Char­lie Davis was re­mem­bered as a gift­ed crick­eter, de­vot­ed fam­i­ly man, and mas­ter sto­ry­teller dur­ing a memo­r­i­al ser­vice at St Fin­bar’s Ro­man Catholic Church, where rel­a­tives, friends, and mem­bers of the crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty gath­ered to cel­e­brate his re­mark­able life.

ST JOHN’S – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos, Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Lee­ward Is­lands be­gan this year’s Ris­ing Stars Men’s Un­der-19 50-over Cham­pi­onship with vic­to­ries in An­tigua on Sat­ur­day.

The crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of for­mer na­tion­al and West In­dies youth crick­eter Aaron Ra­goonath, whose death was an­nounced on Fri­day. He was 40 years old.

MONA­CO – Julien Al­fred pro­duced a his­toric per­for­mance in the 200 me­tres to grab gold in the Mona­co Di­a­mond League on Fri­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Trinidad and To­ba­go sprint leg­end Ato Boldon has de­scribed the death of for­mer Ja­maican ath­let­ic coach Stephen Fran­cis as one of the most sig­nif­i­cant loss­es the glob­al track and field com­mu­ni­ty has ex­pe­ri­enced in decades.

T&T’s Davis Cup men moved with­in a game of pro­mo­tion from the Amer­i­c­as Zone Group Four to Group Three on Fri­day.

De­spite bat­tling high-al­ti­tude con­di­tions in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, T&T’s pair of Lalenii Grant and Mekhi Guis­chard-Year­wood won gold medals and led a group of just few­er than a dozen ath­letes to podi­um fin­ish­es on the open­ing day of the NACAC Un­der-18 and 23 Cham­pi­onships on Fri­day.

Trya Git­tens-Spotsville con­tin­ued her rich form in the field events by leap­ing to the gold medal at the Bar­ba­dos Grand Prix on Sat­ur­day at the Us­ain Bolt Sports Com­plex in Bridgetown.

BREADY, Ire­land – Hay­ley Matthews pro­duced a vir­tu­oso all-round per­for­mance and com­bined with Realean­na Grim­mond in a record-shat­ter­ing open­ing part­ner­ship as West In­dies steam­rolled Ire­land by nine wick­ets in the first ODI here at Bready on Fri­day, com­plet­ing their high­est suc­cess­ful run chase in Women’s ODI his­to­ry.

With World Cup fever cur­rent­ly reach­ing scorch­ing lev­els, you can for­give the sport­ing world for en­tire­ly for­get­ting that oth­er sports ac­tu­al­ly ex­ist. Right now, ca­su­al fans who don’t even know the off­side rule are glued to their screens, watch­ing match­es as if their lives de­pend­ed on it.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua—West In­dies Test cap­tain Ros­ton Chase strong­ly be­lieves that his side’s re­cent Test se­ries win against Sri Lan­ka is a “step­ping­stone” to greater things for the re­gion­al team.