Guyana on target for sweep

The shooting skills of Guyana rifle team were on full parade at the Police Academy in Twickenham Park yesterday when they emerged winners of the Singer Cup on the penultimate day of the Caribbean Rifle Shooting competition.

The Guyanese eight-man team had an aggregate score of 1,100 to defend their team title which they won on home turf last year.

Hosts Jamaica, led by Ronald Brown Jr., Keith Hammond and Dennis Lee, finished second in the three-team event with an aggregate score of 1,081. Trinidad and Tobago, featuring the competition's lone female shooter Indrani Jutagir, occupied the cellar position with an aggregate of 1,056.

With yesterday's success the Guyanese, who took the individual championship over three days through Ransford Goodluck, will now aim to sweep the tournament on today's final day with the West Indies Tobacco Company (WITCO) Cup up for grabs. Competition this afternoon will be over 500 and 600 yards.

Guyana's captain, Lennox Brathwaite, led the way for his team with the best aggregate having recorded 73 points in the 900-yard shoot and 71 in the 1,000-yard shoot.

The day's best aggregate was recorded by Trinidad and Tobago's John Fong-Yew who compiled an overall 147 ahead of Guyana's Brathwaite and Goodluck (142).

Jamaica got their best score from Brown Jr. who did 71.007 for the 900-yard shoot and 69.004 in the 1,000-yard shoot for an overall 140.011.

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