Lee Anne Thorn­ton suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed her women’s sin­gles ti­tle at the Sun­shine Snacks Tran­quil­li­ty Ten­nis Open Sat­urday at Vic­to­ria Av­enue, Port-of-Spain, while Kale Dal­la Cos­ta was crowned the new men’s cham­pi­on.

St Lu­cia’s Yad­hu Urs will take a nar­row but valu­able two-stroke lead in­to the third and fi­nal round of the T&T Golf Open af­ter a com­posed per­for­mance on day two at the St An­drews Golf Club in Mo­ka, Mar­aval, Sat­urday.

In­ter­na­tion­al foot­ball friend­lies don’t al­ways come with the noise and pres­sure of tour­na­ment foot­ball. They don’t car­ry points in a qual­i­fy­ing ta­ble or de­cide tro­phies. But in­side a dress­ing room, and some­times for an en­tire foot­ball na­tion, they can still mean a lot.

T&T’s youth­ful se­nior foot­ball team went down 3-0 to Bo­livia Sun­day in an in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly match at the Ra­mon Tahuichi Aguil­era Sta­di­um in San­ta Cruz.

Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) Red Force bats­man Jyd Goolie blast­ed 165 on day one against Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain Sat­ur­day, in Round Sev­en of the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier Di­vi­sion One.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Chris Richards Jr pro­duced a bril­liant fi­nal-round charge to re­tain his crown at the T&T Golf Open, edg­ing St Lu­cia’s Yad­hu Urs by a sin­gle stroke af­ter a grip­ping fi­nale at St An­drews Golf Club in Mo­ka, Mar­aval on Sun­day.

PARA­MARI­BO, Suri­name – Dutch foot­ball leg­ends Patrick Kluiv­ert and Clarence See­dorf will use their in­valu­able ex­per­tise to help Suri­name as they seek to qual­i­fy for their first-ever FI­FA World Cup.

The Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, was a hive of youth­ful en­er­gy and com­pet­i­tive spir­it on Thurs­day as the Mi­lo Port-of-Spain and En­vi­rons Cen­tral Zon­al Games show­cased the next gen­er­a­tion of ath­let­ic stars.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low, has ex­pressed con­cern with the re­cent per­for­mances of the West In­dies Women’s team, de­scrib­ing them as be­low par.

Top-or­der bats­man Bren­dan Boodoo led the South East Zone to the Group A fi­nal of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) Un­der 19 In­ter­zone com­pe­ti­tion at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Thurs­day.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – Reign­ing Olympic 100m cham­pi­on Julien Al­fred has been named by the Saint Lu­cia Ath­let­ics As­so­ci­a­tion (SLAA) to com­pete at next week’s World Ath­let­ics In­door Cham­pi­onships in Poland.

De­fend­ing ladies cham­pi­on Ja­maica’s Jo­di Munn-Bar­row and Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Liam Bry­den set the ear­ly pace on Day 1 of the 118th Trinidad and To­ba­go Golf Open which teed off at the pic­turesque St An­drews Golf Club in Mo­ka, Mar­aval on Fri­day.