ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. The Fryers opened the door on the men’s division of the Raymond “Jackson” Smith fast pitch softball league by beating the East Invaders 7-1 and then nearly closed it again as they almost lost to the VG Ball Starz in a sloppy performance.
In a little over a month, 50 athletes and officials representing the BVI will head to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, for the 21st Central American and Caribbean Games.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. NAGICO Insurances has stepped in to sponsor the domestic 20-20 cricket league scheduled to begin this weekend at the Virgin Gorda Recreation Ground. The decision comes in the wake of Digicel’s exit from the local cricket sponsorship arena.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. Regional airline LIAT has collaborated with the French Athletic Federation to facilitate the participation of three officials from the sporting fraternity in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines in a recent international seminar on Athletics in the Caribbean, aimed at building better sporting structures and collaboration between athletic federations throughout the region.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. Local runners will get the chance to put their abilities to the test against the region’s best when the BVI Runners host the 5th BVI and O.E.C.S half marathon on November 20th this year.
The West Indies selectors have called up Dominican off-spinner Shane Shillingford for the first test against South Africa, underway in Trinidad from June 10.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. Wendol Williams, popularly known as Porter, has been found dead in his hotel room in New York.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. Kieron Pollard has put his domestic Twenty20 future ahead of his West Indies career by turning down a place on the one-day leg of the A-team tour to England in favour of his deal with English County, Somerset for the Friends Provident t20.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI. University of Texas junior Chantel Malone has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Women’s Track and Field Academic All-District 6 second team.
Antigua and Barbuda will hold their first-ever men’s softball carnival from August 7-9.
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