TORONTO, Canada – It was certainly a weekend of the Jaguars. While the Guyana Jaguars were roaring in their homeland against the Leeward Islands in the first round West Indies Professional League (PCL) four-day tournament, the Guyana-based Jaguar were also celebrating their splendid success during a remarkable 2014 season when the Canadian Softball Cricket Association (CSCA) held its annual presentation dinner and dance last Saturday night here.
The glittering ceremony, held at the Royal Banquet Hall, Mississauga, saw Jaguar being crowned winners of the First Division knockout final, A Division Grand Final winners (regular season) and President’s Cup A Division champions, thereby making a clean sweep of the Division One titles.
So dominant were Jaguar, their only loss was to Sunshine during the regular season, a decision they reversed when the two teams clashed in the Grand Final.

Jaguar’s skipper Hemnarine Chattergoon, who is also president of the CSCA, emerged as the top batsman of the First Division, tallying an impressive 502 runs from 15 matches (13 innings) for a creditable average of 55.78 per innings.
So dominant was the former Guyana and West Indies Under-19 batsman, his nearest rival Roy Dhori of Beehive amassed 383 runs with an average of 47.88 from the same number of innings.
Chattergoon, who is also captain of Hawaiian Arctic Cricket Club (HACC) in the Scarborough Cricket Association Premiere League tournament, where his side have been recently crowned winners for five consecutive years, collected awards for slamming three half-centuries during the season.
Shieldstown’s Shazam Baksh took the prize for the best bowler in the First Division, claiming 21 wickets at 5.20 runs apiece, one more than Sunshine’s Krishna Gopie whose 20 was gained at 5.83 runs per over and Dave Sirkisson who ended with 18 at 5.42 runs each.
The best batsman in the Second Division was Sharaz Hamid of Hustlers who topped with 658 runs for an average of 59.82 while Sachim Gaindalall of Titans (555 runs, average 61.67) and Sunil Sattan of Kings Sports 493, average 49.30) also shared the spotlight.
Topping the Second Division in the bowling department was Suresh Ragoonauth with 25 wickets at 6.25 runs each with his teammate Javed Parsaram claiming 23 at 3.57 runs apiece and Rising Stars’s Travis Jaglall 23 at 5.71.
First Division centuries were registered by Imtiaz Hussain (Adventure), Lindon Persaud (Adventure), Sharaz Hamid (Hustlers), Sunil Sattan (Kings Sports), Cassius Waithe (Rising Star), Shaun Gangaram (Sunset Cricket Club) and Gerald Austin (Titans).
Rabindranauth Parasnauth of Sunshine shone with the ball with the amazing figures of seven for four versus Rampage while there were also five-wicket hauls for Kamalchand Narine (11Th Army), Roy Sanders (Adventure), Shameel Hamid (Hustlers), Doodnauth Rajcoomar (Industry), Premnarine Persaud (Ocean’s X1), Cassius Waithe (Rising Star), Travis Jaglall (Rising Star), Shazam Baksh (Shieldstown), SShivon Narine (Star Boyz), Richard Mohabir (Titans) and Suresh Ragoonauth (Titans).
In brief remarks, Chattergoon thanked his hard-working executives for their tireless efforts during the season which he described as being very challenging and a tough one.
According to the president, who was serving his first year in that capacity, one of his main objectives in the new year will be the introduction of a third division.
Chattergoon expressed sincere thanks to all the teams for their participation and also lauded the efforts of Public Relations Officer Ravendra Madhoiall and Guyana Chronicle’s Frederick Halley for their coverage in the Guyana media.
Sponsors Hawaiian Arctic and IR Construction were also recognised for their sponsorship of the knockout tournament.
Vice-president Leon Veeran, who served 10 years as president and treasurer David Ramasami were credited with playing roles in the staging of the competitions.

(By Frederick Halley)