ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – New head coach Shane Deitz said he is look­ing for a pool of about 20 play­ers to form the nu­cle­us of the West In­dies Women’s team dur­ing his tenure.

A sim­ple, yet pow­er­ful mes­sage from Em­manuel Cal­len­der to the Stan­dard four and five stu­dents of Rose Hill Ro­man Catholic Pri­ma­ry School af­ter Phase Two of the trans­for­ma­tive “Who’s Writ­ing Your Sto­ry: Fear to Free­dom” pro­gramme on Au­gust 10.

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Harlem Strik­ers was award­ed the sixth po­si­tion in Tier II of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League and with it a ‘Big Six’ play­off spot af­ter the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion sanc­tioned Guaya Unit­ed for the use of an un­reg­is­tered play­er – Der­ron John.

T&T strik­er Ryan Telfer scored a late equalis­er for Mi­a­mi FC, his fourth goal for the club, how­ev­er, it was not enough as they still fell to a last-minute 1-2 loss to Pitts­burgh River­hounds in the Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day night.

The 15-mem­ber West In­dies Women (WIW) squad an­nounced to tour Aus­tralia from Oc­to­ber 1 to 14 is a com­bi­na­tion of ex­pe­ri­ence and youth. The six-match se­ries com­pris­es three T20 In­ter­na­tion­als and three One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs).

Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my’s new­ly signed Kaïlé Au­vray will be look­ing to bring the ex­pe­ri­ence of play­ing in dif­fer­ent foot­ball en­vi­ron­ments to the team when the new Ja­maica Pre­mier League sea­son kicks off next month ac­cord­ing to the Ja­maica Ob­serv­er.

EU­GENE, Ore­gon – Ja­maican Sh­er­ic­ka Jack­son beat World cham­pi­on Sha’Car­ri Richard­son to win the 100 me­tres at the Pre­fontaine Clas­sic while Grena­di­an Ki­rani James cap­tured the men’s 400 me­tres in the sea­son-end­ing Di­a­mond League meet on Sat­ur­day.

Je­mon Gul­ston scored the lone goal as East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary kept de­fend­ing Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ‘Big-Four’ cham­pi­ons St Bene­dict’s Col­lege with­out a point af­ter two match­es, go­ing down 1-0 in their clash at the Ma­haica Oval, Point Fortin on Sat­ur­day.

With the team hav­ing two wins in as many match­es, and suc­cess in the com­ing match­es could not on­ly see T&T qual­i­fy­ing for the quar­ter­fi­nal of the Na­tions League ‘A’ di­vi­sion but al­so se­cur­ing a place in the Co­pa Amer­i­ca Tour­na­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced that dis­cus­sions have start­ed to have the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) ful­ly op­er­a­tionalised as an acad­e­my.

ETO­BI­COKE, On­tario – Two Bar­ba­di­an jock­eys that have es­tab­lished them­selves at oth­er tracks in Cana­da rode win­ners on Thurs­day’s eight-race card at Wood­bine.