T&T se­cured the ninth place at the Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball World Cup as the 'Ca­lyp­so Girls' saw off North­ern Ire­land 57-48 in a hard-fought con­test on Sat­ur­day in Liv­er­pool, Eng­land.

'Very dis­ap­point­ing' is how na­tion­al coach Stu­art Charles Fevri­er de­scribed his team's los­ing per­for­mance against Venezuela at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on Fri­day night. The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Youth In­vi­ta­tion­al Foot­ball Tour­na­ment which is prepa­ra­tion ahead of the CON­CA­CAF Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship in Au­gust.

USA-based T&T swim­mer, Dy­lan Carter will be­gin his cam­paign at the 18th FI­NA World Cham­pi­onship in Gwangju, Ko­rea to­day.

Fol­low­ing up on my as­sess­ment of the teams that fin­ished 5th to 10th in the just-con­clud­ed Crick­et World Cup, as promised, here is my as­sess­ment of the top fi­nal four teams. How­ev­er, be­fore I do that, I must go through the epic fi­nal be­tween Eng­land and New Zealand.

T&T's Un­der-17 foot­ballers suc­cumbed to their sec­ond de­feat in the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s Youth In­vi­ta­tion­al Foot­ball Tour­na­ment at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo Fri­day night, go­ing down to Venezuela 4-0.

T&T’s Un­der-17 Women's team will de­part for Pana­ma City on Tues­day to play three warm-up match­es against that coun­try’s U-17 team from Ju­ly 23-27.

T&T ‘sten­nis teams walked away with two gold medals and ti­tles at the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion’s (ITF)/COTECC Sub Re­gion Four 12 & Un­der-12 Team Com­pe­ti­tion at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

An­tho­ny Har­ford, the North­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (NFA) pres­i­dent who is a mem­ber of the foot­ball Com­mis­sion formed to guide lo­cal foot­ball in­to the new era of the UE­FA/FI­FA-rec­om­mend­ed T-League, has re­signed from the com­mis­sion to make him­self avail­able to con­test the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Elec­tions in No­vem­ber.

T&T's net­ballers will get an­oth­er chance at North­ern Ire­land when the teams meet to com­pete for ninth spot at the Net­ball World Cup in Liv­er­pool, Eng­land to­day from 2.15 pm (TT time).

The tal­ent and skills of young squash ace Seth Thong, and maybe more, will be need­ed when the coun­try's Boys' team tack­le re­gion­al ri­val Ja­maica for the fifth po­si­tion of the Caribbean Area Squash As­so­ci­a­tion's Team Com­pe­ti­tion at the Rac­quet Cen­tre of the Queen's Park Oval on Sat­ur­day.

"Small-na­tion elim­i­na­tion" is what the Con­fed­er­a­tion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean's (CON­CA­CAF) new World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing for­mat is be­ing de­scribed as by the for­mer na­tion­al cap­tain and strik­er Ken­wyne Jones and for­mer goal­keep­er Clay­ton Ince.

Cha­tram Jai Ramd­hanie, left, is all smiles as he col­lects the win­ner's tro­phy from Al­li­son Ray­bourne-Charles, man­ag­er of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board (NIB) South Re­gion­al Ser­vice Cen­ter af­ter lead­ing the NIB team to a 45-run vic­to­ry against a guest team a wind ball crick­et match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, last month. NIB ho­n­oured its present longest-serv­ing em­ploy­ee, Ramd­hanie, for his 41 years of ser­vice, which start­ed in De­cem­ber 1977. The cel­e­bra­tions start­ed with a re­tire­ment func­tion fol­lowed by the wind ball match. Ramd­hanie won the toss and led the NIB team to a mas­sive 142 for 5 in ten overs. The op­pos­ing team could on­ly muster a mere 97 for 6 in its ten overs.