Berbice High, Port Mourant Secondary advance

PLAY in the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)-organised Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC)/Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Region 6 Inter-Secondary School cricket tournament continued recently with several schools advancing to the next round.

The tournament is being played between 17 secondary schools in the region and forms part of the BCB’s well-structured developmental programme for youth cricketers.

The RHTY&SC is also using the tournament to promote its highly successful ‘Say No to Drugs, Suicide, Crime, Alcohol and Tobacco’ message to schools.
The RHTY&SC/GBTI Inter-Secondary School tournament started five years ago but was limited to teams in the Lower/Central Corentyne area.

This year, the tournament will include all Secondary Schools in Region 6 and hopefully in 2020 would add schools in Region 5.
Scores from matches played:

Berbice High defeated Lower Corentyne Secondary by six wickets. Lower Corentyne scored 85 for 6 in 20 overs with Leon Cecil 12, Tameshwar Mahadeo 20, Neil Tilkaram 12.

Rajendra Beharry bagged 3 for 13. Berbice High, in response, reached 86 for 4 in 17.5 overs with Zeymul Ramsammy 23, Abdul Ramsammy 25. Leon Cecil got 2 for 16.

At Port Mourant ground, Corentyne Comprehensive thrashed Black Bush Secondary by 153 runs. Corentyne Comprehensive made 211 for 4 in 20 overs with Gourav Ramesh top-scoring with 71 and Tyrese Sealey adding 57. Latchman Chandradeo snatched 2 for 33. In response, Black Bush crumbled for 58 all out in 12 overs thanks to Sealey’s 4 for 13 and Ramesh’s 4 for 9.

In the other game there, Port Mourant created a huge upset by defeating Corentyne Comprehensive by 4 wickets. Corentyne Comprehensive made 100 all out in 18.2 overs thanks to Mahendra Gopilall, 22, and Hemendra Gurdyal 18. Matthew Pottaya’s 3 for 18 and Rampertab Ramnauth 2 for 1 led the home side’s bowling. In response, Port Mourant got to 101 for 6 in 17.3 overs with Ramnauth’s unbeaten 50, Jai Tika’s 24 and Naresh Veerasammy’s 12 not out.

At Albion ground, Lower Corentyne Secondary defeated Winifred Gaskin Secondary by 112 runs. Lower Corentyne piled on 178 for 4 in 20 overs with Leon Cecil 50, G. Harris 23 and Neil Tilkaram 23.

Winifred Gaskin were all out for 56 in 12.4 overs, with Dwayne Matheson 21 and D. Hunte 10. Cecil’s 3 for 18 and Vijay Gopilall 2 for 14, along with Neil Tilkaram 3 for 18, destroyed Winifred Gaskin Secondary.