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Published:Wednesday | December 4, 2019 | 12:30 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

It was a history-making weekend at the ATL Automotive Inter Schools Sporting Clay Challenge at the Jamaica Skeet Club on Sunday after Campion College dethroned Hillel Academy, the only team to have won the title in over 10 years of competition....

Published:Tuesday | December 3, 2019 | 12:41 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Clarendon College (CC) students came out yesterday morning in celebration mode for the school’s retention of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup on Saturday. However, team management did its best to keep the festivities as low-key as it could, at least until...

Published:Monday | December 2, 2019 | 12:23 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Football fans at the aborted Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) game between league leaders Waterhouse and relegation battlers Tivoli Gardens at the Edward Seaga Sport Complex yesterday had a double dose of disappointment as match fees were not...

Published:Saturday | November 30, 2019 | 12:37 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Asannie Brown scored a double, as St Catherine high defeated Excelsior 3-2 in the ISSA Walker Cup knockout final at the National Stadium yesterday, giving the Spanish Town-based school their first hold on a major schoolboy football title. Brown...

Published:Thursday | November 28, 2019 | 12:22 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Martin Lyn, president of the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ), said the increased international success of Jamaican swimmers recently, is a result of the competition and experience gained at the prep and primary level. Speaking at the...

Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2019 | 12:22 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica College (JC) head coach Davian Ferguson believes that the Old Hope Road-based team’s winning culture will make a huge difference in their ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup final against St Andrew Technical (STATHS), this Friday at the National...

Published:Tuesday | November 26, 2019 | 12:45 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Since the start of the second round of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL), Portmore United and league leaders Waterhouse are the only two teams to have registered maximum points from their two outings. Portmore are currently sixth in the...

Published:Monday | November 25, 2019 | 12:23 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Shadane Lopez, the Jamaica College (JC) player who was bitten by Kingston College’s (KC) Khalifah Richards in Wednesday’s ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup semi-final at the National Stadium, said his counterpart should have been smarter than to commit such...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2019 | 12:31 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

UWI head coach Andrew Peart has said that his players are starting to believe in themselves again. This is after the team’s results over the last few Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) games, which included a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Molynes...

Published:Friday | November 15, 2019 | 12:42 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

National senior women’s football team head coach Hue Menzies, says the Reggae Girlz will have a tough task trying to take one of two spots for the 2022 Summer Olympic Games based on the draw they have received for the Concacaf final round of...

Published:Thursday | November 14, 2019 | 12:14 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Portmore United head coach Ricardo ‘Bibi’ Gardner says he will continue to put his faith in strikers Cory Burke and Rondee Smith and that he remains confident that they can get them the goals needed for a successful Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2019 | 12:48 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

A brace from Kingston College (KC) hitman Dwayne Atkinson, carried the defending champions to a come-from-behind 2-1 win over semi-final hopefuls Camperdown in their decisive Group G quarter-final encounter at Stadium East yesterday. The result...

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2019 | 12:21 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Karen Lym, Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA) presidential hopeful and leader of the ‘Friends of Table Tennis’ group, was tight-lipped about the results of Monday’s proposed mediation meeting with JTTA President Godfrey Lothian and his...

Published:Saturday | November 9, 2019 | 12:25 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Hydel High School head coach Nicholy Findlayson says all of their effort will go into defending their ISSA Walker Cup title after their Manning Cup exit. Defending champions Hydel and Mona High School advanced to the quarter-finals of the Walker...

Published:Thursday | November 7, 2019 | 12:29 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

St Andrew Technical (STATHS) became the first qualifiers for the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup semi-finals, after a convincing 3-1 win over St George’s College in their quarterfinal group game at Stadium East yesterday. In-form striker Warner Brown...

Published:Wednesday | November 6, 2019 | 12:23 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Chris Stokes, president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, said the association saw no reason to deny Anthony Watson, the nation’s first Olympic skeleton representative, a switch of allegiance to Puerto Rico, and that there is no...

Published:Saturday | November 2, 2019 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

The passing of national female footballer, Tarania Clarke, who was stabbed to death in Half-Way Tree Thursday evening, has sparked a nationwide mourning for the 20-year-old defender, who was being touted for greatness. On Friday, former Reggae...

Published:Saturday | November 2, 2019 | 12:20 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Clouds of gloom hung over the ‘Back Bush’ community of Mountain View yesterday as the family of Reggae Girl Tarania Clarke gathered outside her residence to mourn the passing of the talented footballer, who was stabbed to death by a friend in Half-...

Published:Thursday | October 31, 2019 | 12:27 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Rivaldo Mitchell led with a brace as Wolmer’s Boys scored a 3-2 win over high-riding Camperdown High as the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup quarterfinal round got under way at the National Stadium yesterday. In the day’s other game, St Andrew Technical...

Published:Wednesday | October 30, 2019 | 12:18 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz have established themselves as the dominant force in Concacaf Nations League B after four games played. The Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore-coached team is the only outfit in the B League with a perfect record, having won all four...

Published:Tuesday | October 29, 2019 | 12:25 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica College (JC) and Charlie Smith High have secured the final two quarterfinal spots in the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition, despite contrasting results in rescheduled second-round matches at the Spanish Town Prison Oval yesterday....

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2019 | 12:26 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Wolmer’s Boys, who are seeking their first Manning Cup title in over 20 years, will face a true test of their title credentials when they go up against dark horses, St Catherine High in the first of two Second Round first-leg ties at the Spanish...

Published:Monday | October 21, 2019 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Tivoli Gardens rose from the bottom of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) after scoring a 1-0 win over fellow strugglers Dunbeholden at the Edward Seaga Complex yesterday. Davion Garrison scored the game’s only goal in the 82nd minute to give the...

Published:Saturday | October 19, 2019 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Although the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA) was not party to an agreement between the Jamaican and Kenyan governments signed in Doha, Qatar, during the recent IAAF World Championships, president Dr Warren Blake says it is...

Published:Friday | October 18, 2019 | 12:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

An emotional speech from keynote speaker Kerry-Ann Miller at the Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce-Hugh Senior 5K Scholarship awards ceremony at Penwood Church of Christ in Waterhouse on Sunday moved some sponsors to increase their contribution to the event...

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