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A jubilant Content Gardens team celebrates with their winning trophy after winning the St. Ann Jamaica Bauxite Partners-sponsored St. Ann Cricket Association domestic league. They defeated Orange Hill by four wickets.
Portmore cricket heats up
With only tomorrow's round of matches to go in the Portmore Metropolitan Cricket League, six teams are still fighting for semi-final spots.
Ken's Wildflower lead Group A with 14 points and are followed by Portsmouth (11 points) and Washington (eight).
In tomorrow's games, Ports-mouth face Washington CC at Bridgeport to decide who joins Ken's Wildflower in the semi-finals. Ken's Wildflower will play Reid's Pen at Portsmouth Ground.
In Group B, Hamilton Gardens, Colours International and Waterford are all locked on 10 points.
However, with only two spots up for grab, Waterford, who await bottom-of-the-table Belmont (two points), look the safest bet for a semi-final spot.
Hamilton Gardens and Colours International will face off in a crucial match at Hamilton Gardens.
In last week's round of matches, Portsmouth defeated Reid's Pen by 129 runs. Hugh Hinds made 67 for Portsmouth.
Ken's Wildflower scored 55 without loss to beat Washington CC by 10 wickets while Waterford beat Colours International by nine wickets.
Stingray City primary leagues
Action in the Stingray City Primary School Championships continued on Thursday afternoon with two netball and football games at Stingray City in Oracabessa.
Jacks River finally got halfway on track by bringing their netball team but still could not muster a football side.
On the netball court Jacks River secured a win in the first match they actually played, beating Mason Hall 8-5. In the second encounter, Oracabessa, led by 10 goals from Ava-Gaye Walker, pummelled Galina 13-1.
On the football pitch, Mason Hall got the walkover against Jacks River while Galina avenged their girls' netball loss by beating Oracabessa 3-1.
The competitions resume on Tuesday at Stingray City with Jacks River against Galina at 2:00 p.m. and Boscobel against Mason Hall at 3:00 p.m.
Community cricket preliminary stage
The final round of the preliminary stage of the Social Development Commission's National Community Cricket Championship will bowl off today at Goodyear Oval in St. Thomas and Wood Park in St. Mary.
Tomorrow's matches will be held at Masemure (Little London High School) in Westmoreland and at Uprising Sports Club in St. Elizabeth.
It's decision time for some parishes as at the end of this round all Super Eight teams will be known. It will also mean the end of the round-robin stage of the competition and the start of the knockout phase.
In Group A, St. Catherine, with eight points, have already qualified for the Super Eight, therefore, St. Thomas and Dallas Strikers, with four points each, will battle for second. Kingston, with zero points, have no chance of making it to the next round.
Wild-cards Annotto Bay, on eight points, are well ahead in Group B and will go on the Super-Eight stage. St. Mary and Portland will have to battle to advance.
Group C sees Westmoreland (five points) well poised to move on, therefore St. James and Trelawny will have to battle for the second-place as only two teams from each group can progress to the Super Eight.
All the teams in Group D are on four points each. It is definitely the group of death as each side will have to score an outright win in order to continue in the competition. The teams that are still vying for a place are St. Elizabeth, Clarendon and Uprising (one of two wild entrants).
The teams are vying for a cash prize and tickets to a match in the 2007 Cricket World Cup to be held in the Caribbean next year between March and April.
INSPORTS coaches' seminars
THE Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) is set to host a series of coaching seminars for Primary and Junior High Schools in the parish of St. Catherine at the G.C. Foster College.
Schools in St. Catherine should send netball coaches to the netball seminar on Friday, October 6 and on Monday, October 13 for football - also at the same venue, starting at 10:00 a.m. A total of 70 schools are expected to participate in these seminars. The basketball seminar was held last Friday.
Raiders face Rock Hall
The final of the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) West Rural Eight-a-Side football competition will be played tomorrow.
Raiders United and Rock Hall Explosions are the teams down to take part in the championship showdown at the Above Rocks Community Centre, starting at 3:30 p.m.
Park's Road United and Above Rocks Youth Club will playoff for third-place beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Raiders advanced to the final with a 2-0 win over Diamond Youth Club while Rock Hall made it through with a 1-0 win over Above Rocks in the semi-finals. Fourteen teams participated in the competition.
SDC Manchester six-a-side
MANDEVILLE:
Two matches are on tomorrow at the Holmwood No. 2 Playfield in the newly-organised SDC/North East Manchester Clubs six-a-side football competition.
Saw Mill will play Walderston at 2:00 p.m., before Christiana Police Officers take on Pike.
