NORTH SOUND – Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons clawed their way back from the brink of elim­i­na­tion when they held their nerve to beat lack­lus­tre Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes by six runs un­der Duck­worth-Lewis-Stern, and earn their maid­en win of the Su­per50 Cup in An­tigua, Fri­day.

The Glenn Mendez-trained Gen­er­al JN, which won im­pres­sive­ly on his de­but on the turf on New Year’s Day in the Sian’s Gold Sprint, did the same in yes­ter­day’s fea­ture event but on this oc­ca­sion, he was even more im­pres­sive on the turf at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma.

T&T's Daynte Stew­art record­ed a dou­ble-dou­ble in the fi­nal set with 14 kills and 10 digs for the In­di­ana Tech Uni­ver­si­ty men's vol­ley­ball team but his unit still fell to Siena Heights 3-1 in Adri­an, Mich­gan on Fri­dat night.

The cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has had an im­mense ef­fect on the sport­ing world at every lev­el. With the post­pone­ment of the Olympics and oth­er world events last year there has been a rip­pling ef­fect on the in­dus­try and stake­hold­ers are grad­u­al­ly be­gin­ning to catch back a path to­wards some form of nor­mal­cy.

The fo­cus on Sat­ur­day, the fourth day of the Ari­ma Race Club (ARC) lo­cal rac­ing sea­son will be on the re­sump­tion of pun­ters at­tend­ing lo­cal rac­ing af­ter al­most a year away from the club in San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma. On Thurs­day the club an­nounced that un­der the Gam­bling and Bet­ting Act, the Reg­u­la­tions rel­e­vant to coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic, it per­mit the at­ten­dance of pa­trons up to a max­i­mum of fifty per cent (50%) ca­pac­i­ty at the days pro­gramme.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Vet­er­an Crick­et West In­dies di­rec­tor, Anand Sanasie, has iden­ti­fied three key ar­eas which will form the “cen­tral pil­lars” of his up­com­ing cam­paign against in­cum­bent Ricky Sker­ritt for the CWI pres­i­den­cy.

T&T's FI­FA World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing match against Guyana will not be played here in T&T, a source close to the sit­u­a­tion con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia Sports on Fri­day.

Ephraim Ser­rette has re­signed from his po­si­tion as Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NAAATT) with ef­fect from 2021 Feb­ru­ary 16.

T&T rug­by teams, both men and women, are set to miss out on the op­por­tu­ni­ties to qual­i­fy for the Rug­by World Cup which will get go­ing with the Qual­i­fiers in April and May.

The ado­ra­tion that gripped the coun­try when el­der­ly run­ner Lynette 'Granny' Luces took part at road races, is now gone. She was 93.

NORTH SOUND, An­tigua – Fast bowler Akeem Jor­dan flat­tened Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes with a dev­as­tat­ing five-wick­et haul to earn Bar­ba­dos Pride their first win of the Su­per50 Cup and keep alive their slim chances of a se­mi-fi­nal spot.

For­mer na­tion­al foot­ball coach­es Richard Hood and An­gus Eve, it is un­der­stood, are among a short­list of five lo­cal, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al coach­es who have ap­plied for the T&T Women's coach­ing job, Guardian Me­dia Sports has been in­formed.