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Caribbean Sports News
Published January 10th, 2007 |
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Sports Update... Asafa Powell Best Male Athlete For 2007
Published Friday, December 28th, 2007
Asafa Powell was elected the best Central American and Caribbean
Male Athlete of the year, for a 3rd consecutive year,
after breaking the 100 meter world record this season. But
this time the 25-year old sprinter had a tougher opposition from
the area's two male world champions: Panama's Irving Saladino
and Bahamas' Donald Thomas. Jamaica's decathlete, Maurice
Smith was 5th in the standings while, the 200 meters
runner Usain Bolt, who won silver at the world championships,
came in 6th. Veronica Campbell, who won
100 meters gold and 200 meters silver at the world champs,
missed out on the women's title behind Cuba's triple
Jump world champion Yargelis Savigne. The 400 meters
runner Novlene Williams and sprint hurdler Deloreen Ennis London
finished 4th and 5the respectively. Young
sprint sensation Yohan Blake finished 2nd in the
junior men's category while Ramone McKenzie finished 5th.
Jamaica had four athletes in the junior women's category. Bobby
Gaye Wilkins was 2nd, Samantha Henry 3rd,
Shermaine Williams 6th and Schillonie Calvert 7th.
 Football,
Jamaica - Former striker for the national football team,
Onandi Lowe, is crying foul following his arrest by the police
on charges of possession of marijuana. Lowe was released
on bail after being arrested in Spanish Town, St. Catherine on
Sunday December 23. But he said he was unfairly targeted
by the police as the marijuana was not found in his possession.
He said he was arrested and charged despite the confession of
another passenger that the ganja and other contraband belonged
to him. Mr. Lowe was released on $20,000 thousand
dollars bail and is scheduled to appear in court on January 8.
The police say they stopped the vehicle that Mr. Lowe was
traveling in along the Spanish Town bypass and conducted a
search, during which 42 sticks of ganja were found. Four
other persons, who were in the vehicle including a woman, were
also arrested. Onandi Lowe was part of the Reggae Boyz
team which qualified for the 1998 world cup. He was most
recently a member of the Portmore United Football team.
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Dwayne Bravo) Cricket, South Africa - South Africa,
resuming on 122/5 in reply to 408, were dismissed for 195 in the
post lunch session on the third day of the opening test against
the West Indies in Port Elizabeth. Dwayne Bravo picked up
four of the wickets to fall in the morning session to end with
4-24 as Ab Devilliers was dismissed for 59 and Mark Boucher 20.
South Africa fell 14 runs short of avoiding the follow on,
however the Caribbean side has decided not enforce it and in
their second innings, they are 103/2. Meanwhile, Barbadian
wicketkeeper Patrick Browne has been called up to join the West
Indies in South Africa. 25-year-old Browne made his first
class debut in 2001 against Trinidad and Tobago and averages
22.23 with the bat. He will join Dinesh Ramdin as the
wicket keepers in South Africa.
 Cricket,
Trinidad - Although former cricket West Indies captain,
Brian Lara, has expressed interest in returning to the Trinidad
and Tobago squad for the Carib Beer Series, there has been no
official word as to whether he will indeed join the team.
Lara is expected to return home Christmas week and the West
Indies Cricket Board will then decide whether he will be in the
line-up for next week's regional fixture. Lara could be in
the line-up for the first encounter against Guyana beginning
January 4 at the Queen's Park Oval.
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