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Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 12:12 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA SCORPIONS head coach Andrew Richardson lamented his team’s poor batting at the top, which helped to contribute to the hosts going down by seven wickets to the Leeward Islands Hurricanes on the final day of their West Indies Championship...

Published:Sunday | March 24, 2024 | 12:10 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

THE JAMAICA U15 cricketers are heading to Antigua to participate in the West Indies Rising Stars Championship, with new coach Milton Thomas hoping his young charges can come up big in the week-long tournament and improve on last year’s last-place...

Published:Sunday | March 17, 2024 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

THE JAMAICA Scorpions secured their second win of the West Indies Championship after a nail-biting two-wicket win over the West Indies Academy on the final day of their encounter at Sabina Park yesterday. Chasing a gettable 234 to win with all 10...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 12:15 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

FREEDOM, CAPTAINED by Wayne Chai Chong, secured top honours following fierce competition at the two-day All Species Fishing Tournament held at PWD Hunting and Sporting Club in Clarendon recently. Freedom beat 12 other sports fishing boats,...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 12:13 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA IS set to bow into action in the 2024 CG United Women’s Super 50 Cup on Monday when they bowl off the tournament against defending champions Barbados in St Kitts. Captain Stafanie Taylor is oozing confidence as she leads a rejuvenated side...

Published:Sunday | February 25, 2024 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

THE JAMAICA Scorpions showed fight with both bat and ball, but their efforts were not good enough as they succumbed to the Barbados Pride on the final day of their West Indies Championship match at Sabina Park yesterday, losing by four wickets....

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:12 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

CLARENDON COLLEGE and Glenmuir High School are through to the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup final after safely negotiating the fire of penalty kicks in their semifinal encounters against Garvey Maceo and Dinthill, respectively, yesterday. It wasn’t their...

Published:Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 12:10 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

TRYALL, HANOVER: TWO OF the island’s top amateurs, Justin Burrowes and Sebert Walker Jr, will shrug that tag today when they make their professional debut at the 56th staging of the Jamaica Golf Open which tees off at the prestigious Tryall Golf...

Published:Sunday | October 8, 2023 | 12:13 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

THE SEMI-FINALS of the Downy Tennis Classic will serve off today at 8 a.m. as action continued on Saturday’s second day at the Half Moon Resort tennis courts. Number-one seed David Goldsmith was in a ding dong battle with Andre Burrell in the Men’s...

Published:Sunday | October 8, 2023 | 12:12 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING A string of impressive performances with both bat and ball in recently concluded practice games, all-rounder Brad Barnes gave selectors no choice but to pick him in the Jamaica Scorpions 14-man squad set to attempt a successful Super50...

Published:Sunday | October 1, 2023 | 12:07 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

THE JAMAICA Scorpions’ preparation to defend their regional Super50 title is in full swing with the squad recently wrapping up back-to-back practice games this week which will help select the squad for the October 17 start of the tournament in...

Published:Sunday | September 17, 2023 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

GLENMUIR HIGH School proved they will be a force to be reckoned with in this season’s ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup, with an emphatic 5-1 win over last year’s beaten finalist Central High School in their Zone L encounter at Glenmuir yesterday. The fixture...

Published:Sunday | September 10, 2023 | 12:10 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

FORMER WEST Indies and Jamaica player Wavell Hinds is hoping that all is not lost, as news recently came to the fore that Jamaica was not among the seven nations from the Caribbean to have submitted hosting bids for the 2024 International Cricket...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 2:04 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S JERMAINE Blackwood has admitted that in the last year or so, he was not the positive cricketer that most have come to know. The Westmorland native has made it clear that if he is to do well in the upcoming Test series against India, he...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 1:56 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING ITS successful inaugural staging last year, the Dream XI-sponsored Jamaica T10 competition makes its return this morning with the high impact fast-paced action set to get under way at 11 at Sabina Park. In the opening fixture of the new...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2023 | 2:06 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

El Sunzal, El Slavador: JAMAICA’S LONE female surfer Imani Wilmot was the first to be eliminated from the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games after failing to catch a wave in round one of the women’s repechage over at El...

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2023 | 2:17 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

THERE WAS no doubt that Wolmer’s Boys’ School were one of the most talented schoolboy teams this season, and that talent was certainly on display yesterday as they claimed back-to-back Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Super 8 TVJ...

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2023 | 2:01 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

SINCE THE 2018 edition, the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games (WSG) has broken the record for female participation each year, attesting to the growth of women’s surfing all over the globe. In 2023, a record 132 women (44...

Published:Sunday | May 21, 2023 | 12:42 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Wolmer’s Boys’ School and dark horses, Excelsior High School will contest the final of the ISSA/TVJ Super 8 T20 competition following contrasting semifinal wins at Sabina Park yesterday. In the first game of the doubleheader,...

Published:Sunday | May 14, 2023 | 1:46 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

WOLMER’S BOYS’ School showed why they are champions, coming up big in their must-win clash against May Day High in their final-round Super 8 clash in the ISSA/TVJ T20 encounter at the Ultimate Oval in St Ann. The Heroes Circle-based school chalked...

Published:Sunday | May 7, 2023 | 1:50 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

FORMER ALL-JAMAICA champions David Goldsmith and Damion Johnson seem to be on a collision course for championship honours following day two action of the Bounty Invitational Tennis Classic, under way at the Couples, Tower Isle tennis courts. The...

Published:Sunday | April 30, 2023 | 12:31 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

A PROFICIENT century from wicketkeeper-batsman Romaine Morris has given Kingston Cricket Club the edge over St Catherine Cricket Club on the opening day of their two-day Jamaica Cricket Association Senior Cup final at Sabina Park. The Kingston ‘...

Published:Sunday | April 23, 2023 | 2:01 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

UTILITY PLAYER Oraine Williams demonstrated his true skills as an all-rounder for St Catherine CC as the right-hander, along with his fast-bowling duo, put the skids on St Elizabeth on the opening day of their Jamaica Cricket Association two-day...

Published:Sunday | April 16, 2023 | 1:44 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

NATIONAL PLAYER Carlos Brown scored a century while spinners Peat Salmon and Jeavor Royal bagged four and three wickets, respectively, to put St Catherine CC in the driver’s seat against St Mary Cricket Association in their Jamaica Cricket...

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2023 | 1:03 AMLennox Aldred - Gleaner Writer

JUNIOR GOLFER Mattea Issa was a cut above her counterparts when she recently secured the girls’ 16-18 category at the RBL Junior Golf Open at the Brechin Castle golf course in Trinidad and Tobago. Issa, who finished second to Emily Mayne in the...

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