New Zealand's Joel Yates made it a per­fect de­but ride at the eighth edi­tion of the Bea­con Cy­cling On the Av­enue Se­ries when he rode away with the 35-lap main event on Wednes­day night.

T&T's women's vol­ley­ballers suf­fered a third 3-0 sets loss in-a-row to end the bot­tom of their four-team Pool B round-robin se­ries at the eight-team 2019 NORCE­CA Women's Con­ti­nen­tal Cup at Rober­to Clemente Col­i­se­um in San Juan, Puer­to Ri­co, yes­ter­day.

Skip­per Stafanie Tay­lor hit a brisk 36 as the NL­CB Rev­ellers eas­i­ly de­feat­ed the Courts Glad­i­a­tors by eight wick­ets in their NL­CB Chal­lenge T10 clash ahead of Thurs­day’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) se­mi-fi­nals at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba.

Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard be­lieves their cru­cial win in last Sun­day’s Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League play­off match against the St Kitts/Nevis Pa­tri­ots could be the turn­ing point for his side as they head in­to to­mor­row’s mas­sive se­mi-fi­nal against archri­vals Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents.

Women's crick­et will come to the fore on Thurs­day when West In­dies cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor leads the NL­CB Rev­ellers against the Courts Glad­i­a­tors in a T10 clash ahead of the se­mi-fi­nals of the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League semi­fi­nal be­tween the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers and the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents.

T&T's women's vol­ley­ballers went un­der to the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 3-0 to drop to a 0-2 record in their Pool B round-robin se­ries at the eight-team 2019 NORCE­CA Women's Con­ti­nen­tal Cup at Rober­to Clemente Col­i­se­um in San Juan, Puer­to Ri­co, on Wednes­day.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has stepped for­ward and boost­ed this year's T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion Pre­mier Di­vi­sion men and women com­pe­ti­tions which take place in No­vem­ber and De­cem­ber, to the tune of $150,000 as the gov­ern­ment demon­strates the im­por­tance of high­light­ing sport.

This week's ques­tion: what did the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA) ex­pect from our ath­letes at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Qatar? I would have thought they an­tic­i­pat­ed some medals; per­haps not a bag­ful as in the Pan Amer­i­can Games or the Com­mon­wealth Games but to not get a sin­gle medal must be ex­treme­ly dis­ap­point­ing.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath says it has been a dif­fi­cult task but he has guid­ed his or­gan­i­sa­tion through very stormy seas when it comes to fi­nances over the past few years.

Na­pari­ma Col­lege strength­ened its chances of re­tain­ing the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion ti­tle of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) by de­liv­er­ing a lethal blow to hearts of St An­tho­ny's Col­lege Tigers 3-2 at West moor­ings on Wednes­day.

T&T's So­ca War­riors will seek to rec­ti­fy the mis­takes they made in their pre­vi­ous match­es when they face Hon­duras in their third match of the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League from 7 pm to­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo.

T&T’s women’s foot­ballers were left heart­bro­ken long be­fore they took the field in what should have been a cru­cial CON­CA­CAF Olympic Qual­i­fi­er against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va on Mon­day.