KINGSTON, Ja­maica – West In­dies snapped a five-game los­ing streak with a con­vinc­ing eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over New Zealand, end­ing an oth­er­wise mis­er­able three-match se­ries on a high note on Sun­day.

With an­oth­er Sec­ondary school Foot­ball League sea­son on the hori­zon in Sep­tem­ber, the first re­turn to play since 2019, the var­i­ous mem­bers of the com­pet­ing schools will no doubt be an­tic­i­pat­ing a com­pe­ti­tion that pro­vides ex­cit­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to show­case abil­i­ties and are im­por­tant learn­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for the young stu­dent-ath­letes in our coun­try.

Fresh off his win at the Sagi­cor Ju­nior In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Tour­na­ment at the St Lu­cia Na­tion­al Ten­nis Cen­tre in Beause­jour, Gros Islet, St Lu­cia on Fri­day, T&T’s Kale Dal­la Cos­ta con­tin­ued his win­ning form when the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) and Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC) To­ba­go Car­ni­val Cup served on Sat­ur­day.

T&T’s Nicholas Paul made it three gold medals out of a pos­si­ble three when he con­vinc­ing­ly swept his UCI train­ing part­ner, Suri­name’s Jair Tjon En Fa in two straight rides of the best of three men’s match sprint fi­nal at the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship in Li­ma, Pe­ru at the Vil­la De­porti­van Na­cional Velo­drome on Sat­ur­day night.

T&T’s Danielle Co­zi­er con­tin­ued her rich vein of form in the pool when she se­cured two in­di­vid­ual sil­ver medals and a bronze at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed US Mas­ters Long Course (50m) Swim­ming Sum­mer Na­tion­als at the Col­le­giate School Aquat­ic Cen­ter, Rich­mond, Vir­ginia from Au­gust 3 to 7.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica—West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Nicholas Pooran said his side was try­ing to have faith in their in­ter­nal process­es and hope that it will be enough to help them turn a string of de­press­ing loss­es around.

The re­cent fail­ures of our foot­ball to par­tic­i­pate in the CFU and CON­CA­CAF Youth Tour­na­ments for boys and girls in U14 and U16 is a tes­ti­mo­ny of the Na­tion­al Sport­ing As­so­ci­a­tion’s in­abil­i­ty to man­age its af­fairs. Suc­ces­sive at­tempts and calls at jolt­ing the TTFA in­to ac­tion have been sim­ply “dead ends” due to a lack of com­mit­ment to long-term pro­gram­ming.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Be­lea­guered West In­dies pro­duced yet an­oth­er wretched bat­ting dis­play to slump to a de­press­ing 90-run de­feat in the sec­ond Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al against New Zealand on Fri­day.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – West In­dies A suf­fered at the hands of Saif Has­san’s hun­dred be­fore left-arm seam­er Mirt­tun­joy Chowd­hury struck twice to give Bangladesh A con­trol of the sec­ond four-day “Test”.

T&T cy­clist Nicholas Paul sprint­ed to his sec­ond gold medal of the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship in Li­ma, Pe­ru by win­ning the Men’s keirin fi­nal at the Vil­la De­porti­van Na­cional Velo­drom on Thurs­day night.

LON­DON – Off-spin­ning all-rounder Sunil Nar­ine shone with the ball but failed with the bat but his Oval In­vin­ci­bles still did enough to take down Dwayne Bra­vo’s North­ern Su­per­charg­ers by three wick­ets in a tight fin­ish at the Oval.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Left-arm seam­er Col­in Archibald claimed a three-wick­et haul to stall Bangladesh A’s progress, on an­oth­er trun­cat­ed day of the sec­ond four-day “Test” St Lu­cia on Thurs­day.