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New line-up for SVG women’s cricket team
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July 27, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the 2004 and 2006 West Indies Women’s cricket league champions, will go into the 2007 tournament in Barbados from Ju...
Browne not running for cover
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July 27, 2007
“Do not blame the National Sports Council; blame the LOC and the Cricket Association”. That was the response of Manager of the National Sports Cou...
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July 20, 2007
The following players are part of a 25 member St. Vincent and the Grenadines senior cricket team for the upcoming Windwards tournament. The squad read...
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July 20, 2007
North Stars and Peto Stars shone brightly last weekend in the Vinlec North Leeward 20/20 cricket competition.{{more}} North Stars defeated Ball Beater...
Daniel and Butcher call it “George”
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July 20, 2007
Whether Earl “Ole George” Daniel or Joel Butcher is crowned “the last man standing”, it will be their last major effort on Vincentian soil. Da...
Ollivierres light up Diamond
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July 20, 2007
Motor sports lovers are still salivating after a mouth watering serving of the latest event staged by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Automobile As...
Bequia Basketball tourney bounces off
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July 20, 2007
The Annual Bequia Basketball Tournament bounced off at the Clive Tannis Hard Court this past Saturday night, July 14th, with thirteen teams registered...
SVG grabs two medals at NACAC Open
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July 20, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines copped two medals at the North America, Central America and Caribbean Open in El Salvador last weekend. Securing the me...
SVGCA to honour cricket trio
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July 20, 2007
George Browne, Owen Cuffy and Michael Findlay will be the guests of honour at the second Award of Excellence of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cri...
Rogers on top of her game
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July 20, 2007
Deiddra Rogers intends to continue running rings around her rivals - perhaps at the Olympics in the near future. Rogers, who is Vincentian, but reside...
Kiddy Cricket labours on
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July 13, 2007
Some say it is a farce, others say it is a poor attempt at introducing cricket to youngsters, but these criticisms were meaningless in face of the ent...
Mayers misses NACAC and Panam Games
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July 13, 2007
Sprinter Natasha Mayers will have to wait a while longer before she can return to international competition for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.{{more}...
Martin lighting up Brooklyn Cricket League
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July 13, 2007
Former St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Windwards middle order batsman Kenroy Martin is setting fire to the Brooklyn Cricket League.{{more}} Playing...
Trescothick back in England squad
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July 13, 2007
Opener Marcus Trescothick returned to England's squad for the first time since November after being included in a 30-man Twenty20 World Cup selection....
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July 13, 2007
Four teams have advanced to the semi final stage of the 2007 Ju-c Marriaqua Softball cricket competition. Making a bid for the top prize are RSVG Poli...
SVG tops in Windwards cricket
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July 13, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines did not only finish top of the 2007 Windwards Under-19 cricket competition, but secured the most picks on the Windwards...
No Easing Up
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July 13, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines have no intention at least in the near future of giving up their hold on the ECCB Under-23 netball title. When the cham...
SVG Under-19 cricketers on target
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July 6, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Under-19 cricket team enter today’s last round match versus Grenada at Gros Islet in the Windward Islands tournament ...
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July 6, 2007
This country’s Under-23 netballers should be one match away from being crowned ECCB OECS champion for the twelfth time. Their date with destiny is l...
More goodies for SVG Squash Association
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July 6, 2007
The SVG Squash Association received donations from the SVG National Olympic Committee (NOC) at a handing over ceremony on Tuesday. Coach James Bentick...
Premier Cricket title in dead heat
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July 6, 2007
At the end of the last round of the RBTT Premier Division of the national cricket competition, the points standings read Rivals out front on 64 points...
Foyle Basketball Camp comes to town
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July 6, 2007
After operating on the Grenadine islands of Union Island, Canouan and Bequia in his two previous basketball camps, the Adonal Foyle Summer camp pitche...
Two for World Juniors
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July 6, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be represented at the World Junior Athletics Championships by Courtney Williams and Anneisha Anderson in the Czech...
Ballantyne turns tables on Joseph
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July 6, 2007
Pamenos Ballantyne has been finally able to upstage his nemesis St. Lucian Zephrinus Joseph in regional road race. A string of consecutive wins by Jos...
Ambrose calls for a fresh start
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July 6, 2007
The continual demise of West Indies cricket is not because there is a lack of talent but it is the structure of the game in the region, and legendary ...
Daniel eager to serve
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June 29, 2007
Cuba-based national table tennis player, Carlton Daniel is eager to return to put all that he has learnt into practice. The 3-year-old Daniel is in hi...
Premier Division race going to the wire
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June 29, 2007
The race for the title of 2007 RBBT Bank Premier Division cricket champion, could end in a photo finish. Out front on 56 points are Victors One who ha...
SVG on title hunt
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June 29, 2007
Four newcomers have made the final 13-member St. Vincent and the Grenadines Under-19 cricket team to the Windwards championship to be held in St. Luci...
George takes it
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June 29, 2007
Tennis protégé Fabrice George has crossed a threshold in his youthful career. The 14-year-old George last week Friday was crowned Bermuda Foundation...
NSC getting to the root
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June 22, 2007
Expect fewer closures of the Grammar School Playing Field as the National Sports Council (NSC) is moving swiftly to correct existing problems at that ...
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June 22, 2007
A newly formed partnership between the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association (SVGCA) and Ridgeview Construction should yield good returns ...
Ballantyne on a roll
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June 22, 2007
Pamenos Ballantyne showed last weekend why he must not be written off as the Caribbean premier long distance athlete. In the space of four days, Balla...
Centuries reign on rainy weekend
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June 22, 2007
It has become almost habitual that a century is scored almost each weekend of this year’s national cricket competition, but last weekend four person...
Byam set on playing for Cuba
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June 22, 2007
The next occasion Denis Byam appears in a first class cricket match, it may just be for the Spanish Caribbean country of Cuba. Byam, a former St. Vinc...
Fast bowlers get attention
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June 22, 2007
The search for some real fast bowlers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is on. A 14-week bowling clinic conducted by the St. Vincent and the Grenadine...
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June 15, 2007
Digicel, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean continues to support sporting activities throughout the country.{{mor...
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June 15, 2007
Spartans are making a bid to challenge front runners Victors One for championship honours in the RBTT Premier Division of the national cricket competi...
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June 15, 2007
Kineke Alexander was unable to recapture her 2006 form at the US NCAA outdoors and had to settle for a disappointing sixth place in her 400m pet event...
Jerome Taylor to join Leicestershire
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June 15, 2007
Windies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is to be the first recipient of the Digicel Cricket Scholarship and following the present West Indies U.K. tour, wil...