THE Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) is once again sending two teams to the New York Softball Cricket League (NYSCL) Independence/Legends Cup Softball tournament for the 10th consecutive year.
This will be held this weekend on June 30th to July 1st and 2nd at the Canarsie Park in Brooklyn, with the finals at the Roy Wilkinson Park in Queens.
The two teams are Floodlights and Floodlights Legends, and it must be noted that most of the players have already travelled to New York and the few remaining here will go early in this week.
Floodlights are the defending champions for the tournament which was played earlier this year in Orlando, Florida.
Floodlights won that tournament and also won the Legends Cup in July 2015 in New York, but were pipped out in July, 2016 by local rivals, Regal Masters.
This weekend, they are confident to regain their softball supremacy over all their rivals in the New York Legend Cup, where 12 teams from around the USA, Canada and Guyana will be taking part.
The Independence Cup will also feature 12 teams in the Open Category .Both tournaments will be played simultaneously.
Ricky Deonarain is captaining Floodlights and Dharam Persaud Floodlights Legends, respectively.
Hubern Evans is the coach for both teams that will come from: Unis Mohamed Yousuf, Ramo Malone, Ramesh Narine Deonarine, Lloyd Ruplall, Wayne Jones, Kamraj Sumair, Robert Mohan, Mahesh Lutchman, Tulshi Lutchman, Vishawnauth Lutchman, Anil Beharry, Goordial Mattai, Ricky Deonarain, Jagdish Persaud, Dharam Persaud, Lakhram Singh, Gopaul Boj-Raj, Jailall Doedass, Vivakenand Ramsaywack, Nadir Baksh, Mohan Sukhu, Richard Persaud, Surendra Nauth, Armogan Gopaul, Unos Baksh, Teekchand Madho and Ramchand Ragbeer.