The John O'Brien trained four-year-old fil­ly, Bel­la Ri­va, came with a well-timed run to catch the 1-5 favourite Gen­er­al JN, in yes­ter­day's fea­ture event the Grade Three - Na­tion­al Flour Mills Cham­pagne Stakes over 1,600 me­tres on the turf course at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma.

Ath­letes and pro­fes­sion­al teams talk about sac­ri­fice so of­ten that has be­come a cliche. Ath­letes or play­ers are ex­pect­ed to make sac­ri­fices that will put a team­mate or an en­tire team in a bet­ter po­si­tion or per­haps them­selves as an in­di­vid­ual when it comes to be­ing ready for a task.  

T&T's Dwight St Hillaire and Cherisse Mur­ray emerged with gold medals in their re­spec­tive events at the Flori­da Re­lays at the Per­cy Beard Track at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da in Gainesville, Flori­da in the Unit­ed States on Sat­ur­day.

T&T vol­ley­baller Marc-An­tho­ny Hon­ore and SL Ben­fi­ca moved to with­in one win of se­cur­ing a ninth Por­tu­gal Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion Hon­da A-1 Di­vi­sion crown af­ter tak­ing a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five fi­nals against AJF Bas­tar­do on Fri­day.

T&T's Gabriel­la Wood, 23, fell to even­tu­al gold medal­list Raz Her­shko of Is­rael in her Pool C match in the Women's 78-kilo­gram and un­der cat­e­go­ry at the An­talya Grand Slam host­ed by the In­ter­na­tion­al Ju­do Fed­er­a­tion (IJF) in Turkey, yes­ter­day.

NORTH SOUND – Cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite be­lieves re­turn­ing to sim­plic­i­ty was the key to his re­turn to form in the sec­ond Test against Sri Lan­ka.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Crick­et West In­dies chief ex­ec­u­tive, John­ny Grave, says last Sun­day’s con­tentious events which forced the post­pone­ment of the an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing (AGM), has threat­ened to de­rail much of the sig­nif­i­cant progress made in re­pair­ing the West In­dies crick­et brand in re­cent years.

Jerome Ward and Seve Day ad­vanced to the sec­ond round of the Men’s A Di­vi­sion when the 2021 East Clubs Clas­si­fied Ten­nis Tour­na­ment served off at the Trinidad Coun­try Club, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, Mar­aval on Sat­ur­day.

Na­tion­al men’s vol­ley­baller, Daynte Stew­art had a team-high 20 points as 11th- ranked In­di­ana Tech punched its way clos­er to an­oth­er con­fer­ence ti­tle af­ter de­feat­ing 14th-ranked Siena Heights Uni­ver­si­ty 3-1 in the semi­fi­nals of the Wolver­ine-Hoosier Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence (WHAC) Tour­na­ment in­side the Rus­sell J. Ebeid Recre­ation Cen­ter, Syl­va­nia, Ohio on Fri­day.

NORTH SOUND, An­tigua – Ten wick­ets proved too tall an or­der for West In­dies on a placid strip as cap­tain Dimuth Karunaratne and Os­ha­da Fer­nan­do hit half-cen­turies to earn Sri Lan­ka a draw on the fi­nal day of the sec­ond Test on Fri­day.

Ethan Wong and Aal­isha Alex­is emerged as the boys and girls 18 and Un­der Sin­gles cham­pi­on in the Catch Na­tion­al Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (Ten­nis TT) at Pub­lic Courts, Nel­son Man­dela Park, St Clair on Fri­day.

Se­nior men’s na­tion­al fut­sal team coach, Amer­i­can-born Con­stan­tine Kon­stin con­tin­ues to put the lo­cal squad of play­ers through their paces at the In­ter­na­tion­al School of Port-of-Spain In­door Fa­cil­i­ty as they con­tin­ue prepa­ra­tions for the Con­ca­caf Fut­sal Cham­pi­onship in Guatemala in May.