In a dra­mat­ic con­clu­sion to the pre­mier sport­ing event of T&T’s fi­nan­cial sec­tor, Sco­tia­bank TT has se­cured its sec­ond con­sec­u­tive cham­pi­onship at the Car­iFin Games Foot­ball Tour­na­ment. Now in its 15th year, the tour­na­ment cul­mi­nat­ed in an elec­tri­fy­ing fi­nal that saw Sco­tia­bank tri­umph 2-0 over T&T Mort­gage Bank (TTMB) at Re­pub­lic Bank Grounds, Barataria on Sat­ur­day (May 10).

BAS­SETERRE – The Bar­ba­di­an trio of Nathan Sealy, Zachary Carter and Zi­dane Clarke are set to take part in the Cool & Smooth T20 Ex­plo­sion, the pre­mier T20 com­pe­ti­tion in St Kitts.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – Sev­er­al fresh faces are among a 14-mem­ber Ire­land squad an­nounced on Wednes­day for the up­com­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against West In­dies.

Burn­ley Ath­let­ics Club’s Des­tiny Arnold emerged as the most out­stand­ing ath­lete at the Max­imis­ing Ath­let­ic Po­ten­tial (MAP) Ju­ve­nile Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, dur­ing the week­end of May 3-4.

There are too many sports sta­di­ums, crick­et ovals and cul­tur­al venues in the Caribbean strug­gling to re­main fi­nan­cial­ly vi­able, as their small do­mes­tic mar­kets can­not gen­er­ate enough rev­enue to sus­tain op­er­a­tions, ac­cord­ing to for­mer Cen­tral Bank of Bar­ba­dos gov­er­nor Dr Delisle Wor­rell.

There were no short­ages of goals as the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) G-League, the coun­try’s pre­mier de­vel­op­men­tal foot­ball com­pe­ti­tion for girls ages nine to 14, kicked off last week­end with match­es both in the Un­der-12 and U-14 Di­vi­sions.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Club San­do stayed top of the stand­ings in the Trinidad Group of the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (TT WoLF) when they won by de­fault over Trinci­ty Na­tion­als at the Ed­die Hart Ground, Tu­na­puna, on Sat­ur­day (May 10).

T&T stand­out net­baller Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph scored a team-high 28 points to lead de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Lough­bor­ough Light­ning to a 71-59 win over Leeds Rhi­nos in Round Nine of the Net­ball Su­per League on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Guyanese all-rounder Realean­na Grim­mond and Kit­tit­ian fast bowler Jahzara Clax­ton have been in­clud­ed in a West In­dies Women 15-mem­ber squad to tour Eng­land lat­er this month.

LON­DON, Eng­land – Har­ry Brook will lead Eng­land for the first time in their up­com­ing T20I and ODI se­ries against West In­dies, be­gin­ning at the end of the month.

TAROU­BA – The Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der pair of Kofi James and Mic­ah McKen­zie emerged as the top bats­man and bowler, re­spec­tive­ly, in the in­au­gur­al West In­dies Break­out League, which con­clud­ed over the week­end.

Tier 1 cham­pi­ons of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League, De­fence Force, face a mon­ster clash at home against the de­throned cham­pi­ons AC Port of Spain when the ac­tion in the round of 16 of the First Cit­i­zens Cup con­tin­ues Wednes­day at the De­fence Force Re­serve Ground in Ch­aguara­mas from 8 pm.