IN sweltering heat at the Transport ground, Shamar Apple smashed 151 and Reyaz Latif bagged 5-2 as TSC beat Everest, Agricola led by Gavin Kirsten’s 80 beat host GCC while Malteenoes got more points against DCC in a game which failed to produce a result in the opening round of GCA’s Mayor’s Cup U-17 ‘hundred overs’ competition.

At Transport ground: Transport beat Everest by 283 runs. Transport won the toss and rattled up 351 all out in 54 overs with Shamar Apple scoring a commanding and chanceless 151 decorated with 13 sixes and eight fours.
The National Youth batter brought up his first hundred with an effortless six and kept going to the delight of a small but vocal gathering.
Demerara U-15 Captain, Brandon Henry, scored 55 with three fours while Emmanuel Lewis (38) and Latif (37) contributed to the day’s highest total.

Jamal Hill took 3-53 and Brandon Browne 3-21 were the best bowlers for Everest, who were dismissed for 68 in 25.2 overs despite Arshud Drepaul’s 20.
National youth spinner, Reyaz Latif, took 5-2 from 3.2 overs. Henry (2-11), and Andy Ramgoolam (2-16). Transport had 20 points (5 batting, 5 bowling, 10 for the win) while Everest collected five for dismissing Transportation.
In Queenstown, DCC was dismissed for 217 in 54 overs with Jonathan Mentore, the son of former Guyana U-19 Opener Alfred Mentore, making a carefully constructed unbeaten 61.
Nathan Bishop who scored 59, Lomar Seecharran 36 and Mickel Sharma who got 27, led the way with the bat for the home side.

Renaldo Harris took two wickets for Malteenoes who began badly, slipping to 30-3 in the ninth over.
National Youth players Joshua Bollers and Nicholas Lovell who travelled from Essequibo on the morning of the match, joined forces to deny DCC bowling more bowling points as the Thomas
Lands team reached 160-5 when their 46 overs expired.
Bollers, the more elegant of the two, hit six fours in an even
half-century before he was trapped LBW to Dilshan Latchman at 131-4 to end his 101 fourth wicket stand with Lovell who was unbeaten on 62 with six fours.

Sharma finished with 2-27 as the game ended without a positive result. Malteenoes had eight points (5 batting and 3 bowling) while DCC had seven points (5 batting and 2 bowling).
At Bourda Agricola beat GCC by 85 runs.

Agricola, led by a fluent undefeated 80 from Berbician Gavin Kisten reached 179-9 in 55 overs,
Agricola slumped to 20-6 before Kisten and Miah Amsterdam put together 122 for the seventh wicket.
Extras contributed 31 and Theiry Henry (12) and Zemel Felix (10) were the other batters to reach double figures.

Ravindra Singh (2-22), Nathaniel Sukhnandan (2-13) and Darveer Seegobin (2-24) were the main wicket-takers for GCC who were bowled out for 91.
Only Revaldo Pereire (31) and Tilok Nanan (18) offered any fight, as Kisten returned with the ball to grab 4-2 for the East Bank-based club; the last Village in Georgetown. Amsterdam picked up 2-17 for Agricola who received 19 points (4 batting, 5 bowling and 10 for the win). GCC got 4 bowling points.