Limers Unit­ed cap­tured the first ma­jor ti­tle in the 2011 bpTT Ma­yaro Wind­ball Night Crick­et Com­pe­ti­tion when they won the women's round-robin cham­pi­onship at the of­fi­cial launch of the com­pe­ti­tion at the Ma­yaro Recre­ation Ground last Sat­ur­day.Af­ter bowl­ing their hearts out to re­strict de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bomb Squad to 14 for 1 in the two-over fi­nal, Limers Unit­ed nev­er let up their dom­i­na­tion and got to the tar­get with five balls to spare. The 9th An­nu­al Ma­yaro Wind­ball Night Crick­et Com­pe­ti­tion is or­gan­ised by the Ma­yaro/Guayagua­yare Un­em­ployed Or­gan­i­sa­tion and Con­cerned Cit­i­zens (MGUOCC) and is ful­ly spon­sored by en­er­gy com­pa­ny bpTT, whose home com­mu­ni­ty is Ma­yaro.

Ron­da Fran­cis, man­ag­er, Cor­po­rate So­cial Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, bpTT, of­fi­cial­ly opened the com­pe­ti­tion: "There is no doubt that this is one of the most ex­cit­ing and well-or­gan­ised crick­et com­pe­ti­tions in the coun­try. We are proud to part­ner with the MGUOCC and we all look for­ward to a keen and ex­cit­ing sea­son. This is a great ini­tia­tive and bpTT is al­ways ready to sup­port any pos­i­tive project for Ma­yaro."

The com­pe­ti­tion kicked off with a colour­ful March Past and pa­rade that fea­tured an im­pres­sive turnout of 28 teams.Be­decked in bril­liant blue and yel­low, Cushe Palanc­ing Girls im­pressed the judges with their march­ing skills and took home the top prize in the fe­male cat­e­go­ry while West In­dies Youths stepped their way to first place in the male di­vi­sion.

Pres­i­dent of the MGUOCC, Mar­lon Syl­van ex­plained the sig­nif­i­cance of the com­pe­ti­tion, "This is about get­ting peo­ple from the com­mu­ni­ty to come out to play and watch crick­et and just have some good whole­some fam­i­ly en­ter­tain­ment. It has be­come one of the key events on the Ma­yaro cal­en­dar and peo­ple come from all over to share in the ex­pe­ri­ence. This promis­es to be the best com­pe­ti­tion ever and the next two months will be an ex­cit­ing time for crick­et lovers." he said.

Due to the num­ber of teams, the men's di­vi­sion of the round-robin could not be com­plet­ed at the launch and the win­ners will be de­cid­ed when the com­pe­ti­tion re­sumes on Thurs­day.Cap­tain of Cushe Palanc­ing Girls, Vanes­sa Fran­cis, was ex­cit­ed about the up­com­ing sea­son."This re­al­ly is a great at­mos­phere to come out and com­pete, and this year we have new lights and the field has been re­paired," she said."Every year they try to do some­thing to make it bet­ter and the teams and spec­ta­tors re­al­ly ap­pre­ci­ate that. We are go­ing to try our best to win the league but no mat­ter what, I know that we'll have a great time."