CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia – West In­dies cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell strong­ly be­lieves that if his bat­ters had bet­ter as­sessed the con­di­tions in the just con­clud­ed T20I se­ries against Eng­land, they might have been on the win­ning end.

Zachary Julien’s per­for­mance of­fen­sive­ly led Fa­ti­ma Col­lege to both the Boys’ Un­der-20 and U-17 ti­tles in the T&T Schools Bas­ket­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s El­e­vate 3x3 Se­ries at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

Ja­heem Alexan­der and Joshua De Sil­va made strong bids for se­lec­tion on the coun­try’s elite youth team for the Caribbean Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in St Lu­cia from De­cem­ber 10–15, with wins on Sun­day at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do. 

The Bar­ba­dos Pride will have the ser­vices of West In­dies all-rounder Ros­ton Chase when they face de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad & To­ba­go Red Force in the first semi­fi­nal of the Re­gion­al Su­per50 at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Wednes­day.

Kayam­ba John­son and Shi­an Lewis sped to the boys’ and girls’ ti­tles in the Sec­ondary Schools Track and Field Mid­dle Dis­tance League North Re­gion Hill (5K)Run which start­ed and end­ed at the St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary School on Fri­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – West In­dies left-arm spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie has signed with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors to play in the up­com­ing Exxon­Mo­bil Glob­al Su­per League (GSL).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Left-arm spin­ner Hasan Mu­rad bagged a hat-trick as Bangladesh com­plete­ly dom­i­nat­ed the sec­ond and fi­nal day of their warmup match against a West In­dies Se­lect XI, which pre­dictably end­ed in a draw in An­tigua on Mon­day.

Na­tion­al swim­mer Liam Car­ring­ton won two in­di­vid­ual gold medals among four in help­ing Bolles High School se­cure their 37th state ti­tle in a row when the Flori­da High School (FH­SAA) 1A State Cham­pi­onships took place in Ocala, Flori­da, on Fri­day. 

The im­pact of for­mer na­tion­al and Man­ches­ter Unit­ed strik­er Dwight Yorke as the new coach of the coun­try’s se­nior men’s team ap­pears to have not yet to­tal­ly sunk in.

Those who have risen up through the ranks or have over­come com­mu­ni­ty and so­ci­etal chal­lenges “to reach some­where” re­mem­ber the lived re­al­i­ty of life on the ground and the streets.

Four­teen-year-old Em-Miryam Camp­bell-Smith had all to cheer about at the week­end (No­vem­ber 16-17) in the field of ten­nis.

Moul­ton Hall Methodist Pri­ma­ry School cap­tured all awards in the Pri­ma­ry Schools cat­e­go­ry (8-12) of the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty’s (CDA) Ju­nior Golf Pro­gramme Awards Cer­e­mo­ny.