Mic­ah Alexan­der of RWB Aquat­ic Acad­e­my and Mare­na Mar­tinez of Mar­lins were the dom­i­nant per­form­ers when the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) Na­tion­al Age-Group Short Course Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship con­tin­ued at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Fri­day night.

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.

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.

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

Goal-shoot­er Ren­nisa Rogers and goal-at­tack Alaya Dow com­bined to lift Barataria Po­lice Youth Club (PYC) to the B Di­vi­sion ti­tle in the 87th edi­tion of the Lystra Lewis Port-of-Spain Net­ball League.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – The West In­dies have been pe­nalised for a slow over-rate fol­low­ing the sec­ond Test against Sri Lan­ka at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground, re­sult­ing in a fi­nan­cial fine and a sig­nif­i­cant blow to their ICC World Test Cham­pi­onship (WTC) cam­paign.

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.