… Winner-take-all top prize

ACTION in the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc.-organised inaugural President’s Cup Open and Over-40 big ball competition is set to bowl off on Saturday at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Ogle Community Centre grounds respectively.At DCC, the teams who have entered to compete in the Over-40 category will be doing battle while the Open teams will journey to Ogle and battle for supremacy, with the finals set for the DCC ground on Sunday from 10:00hrs.

At DCC on Saturday, Regal Masters will take on Savage on pitch number one, even as Fishermen XI go up against Mike’s Wellman on pitch number two. The second set of matches will commence at 13:00hrs with the losers meeting on pitch number one, while the winners battle it out on pitch number two.
At Ogle, Regal will take on Speedboat in the first game, followed by SPR Enterprise against Farm XI, with the winners meeting in the finals the following day at DCC.
The upcoming GSCL Inc. President’s Cup will have a winner-take-all first place prize of $180 000 and follows on the heels of the entity’s Republic and Independence Cups that were hosted earlier this year.