Last year’s Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Fe­male Play­er of the Year, Niki­ta Go­sine, scored a brace with goals in the 73rd and 75th min­utes, to lead the De­fence Force to a 5-0 thrash­ing of de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, Club San­do when the ac­tion in the 3Ws Women’s Foot­ball Tour­na­ment at the Train­ing Field of the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day night (Au­gust 6).

Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts has called on young ath­letes to stay dis­ci­plined as they con­tin­ue their de­vel­op­ment both on and off the court.

KINGSTOWN – Two gi­ants of West In­dies crick­et, Sir Andy Roberts and Deryck Mur­ray, have ex­pressed heart­felt thanks to the peo­ple and gov­ern­ment of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines af­ter be­ing ho­n­oured dur­ing the is­land’s Eman­ci­pa­tion Crick­et Fes­ti­val.

De­spite the re­turn of four key play­ers, in­clud­ing Chan­non Thomp­son and Krys­telle Es­delle in the T&T team for Thurs­day's (Au­gust 7) fourth en­counter of the Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Mex­i­co, T&T’s se­nior women’s team still failed to cope with a su­pe­ri­or Venezue­lan out­fit that con­fined them to their fourth loss of the tour­na­ment, 3-0.

T&T’s ju­nior foot­ballers will clash with re­gion­al ri­val Ja­maica in the semi­fi­nals of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onships in Aru­ba at 4pm on Fri­day (Au­gust 8).

LAUDER­HILL, Flori­da – De­spite a 2-1 T20 se­ries de­feat against Pak­istan, West In­dies all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er re­mains op­ti­mistic about his team’s abil­i­ty to turn things around.

LAUDER­HILL – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) re­mains stead­fast in its com­mit­ment to grow­ing the sport in the Unit­ed States, de­spite dis­ap­point­ing spec­ta­tor num­bers dur­ing the re­cent T20 se­ries against Pak­istan here at the Cen­tral Broward Re­gion­al Park Sta­di­um in Lauder­hill, Flori­da.

Many of you have been an­tic­i­pat­ing my thoughts on the lat­est chap­ter in the West In­dies crick­et saga. The re­cent 2-1 T20 Se­ries de­feat by Pak­istan, while ut­ter­ly pre­dictable – about as sur­pris­ing as a new Trump Tar­iff – still war­rants a mo­ment of re­flec­tion be­fore I re­sume my reg­u­lar pro­gram­ming.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has un­veiled a 15-man squad for the up­com­ing CG Unit­ed One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Pak­istan, set to be played at Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my.

KINGSTOWN – The Grenadines Whalers were crowned cham­pi­ons of the in­au­gur­al St Vin­cent and Grenadines Eman­ci­pa­tion Crick­et Fes­ti­val thanks to a bat­ting mas­ter­class from star open­er An­dre Fletch­er that car­ried them to a 22-run vic­to­ry over the Wind­ward War­riors in St Vin­cent on Sun­day.

T&T’s Davis Cup team suc­cumbed to their first de­feat in the Amer­i­c­as Zone Group IV of the Davis Cup Tour­na­ment, cur­rent­ly tak­ing place at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Leg­endary West In­dies crick­et cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd on Mon­day made an im­pas­sioned plea for the re­gion to come to­geth­er in an ef­fort to save West In­dies crick­et.