… Guyana brush past French Guiana for second place finish
GUYANA wrote the script for this leg of the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), but it was their neighbours Suriname who were the main actors when the story ended on Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Suriname won all of the indoor events, while they played catch-up to the home country in the cycle road race.
Guyana’s participants had their moments of glory indoors when they displayed an improvement on the court in both male basketball and male and female volleyball. These performances were given the thumbs up by Suriname’s Youth and Sport Minister Paul Abena.
Director of Sport Neil Kumar added to that when he called the Games and its performers “highly successful”.

VOLLEYBALL
Guyana finished second in both the male and female volleyball competitions. In what could be considered the virtual final of both events, against nemesis Suriname, they were defeated.
Against Suriname in a high tempo, keenly contested game, the male team lost 3-1. After winning the first set 25-21, they lost 25-27, 19-25 and 21-25. Team Guyana had earlier in the Games defeated French Guiana 3-0 (26-24, 25-20, 25-21).
In the female division Guyana got the better of French Guiana 3-1 (25-18, 25-20, 20-25, 25-18) while they went down to Suriname 1-3 (25-23, 9-25, 8-25, 13-25).