Sports Organizer, Johnny ‘Overseas’ Barnwell will join forces with administrators of the South Turkeyen Sports Committee to stage a 5-a-side penalty shootout and Small Goal Football competition for street teams this Sunday, December 9 at the Cultural Centre Tarmac, Mandela and Homestretch Avenue Georgetown.
The tournament will attract teams from A, B, C, and D Fields, Sophia, Tiger Bay, North Sophia, East Ruimveldt and Vryheid’s Lust among others.
Once again, Trophy Stall of Bourda Market has acquiesced to a sponsorship package with Melbourne Inn also donating trophies. Several corporate entities and individuals have donated cash prizes including Attorneys at Law, Roysdale Forde and Basil Williams, Ken Phillips of Antarctic, Maintenance and Repairs and Leader of the Opposition, David Granger.
Mr. Barnwell will be kept busy and would also make his organizational skills available to the success of the Queens College Secondary School Inter-Class Softball Cricket Competition for those students in the 1st and 2nd Forms. That tournament concludes on Saturday when the semi-finals and the finals would be staged at the National Park.
The action commences at 09:00hrs with four matches; 1A Boys and Girls will oppose their respective counterparts of 1B followed by 2C Boys and Girls opposing their respective counterparts of 2D. The teams for the finals will be decided based on the winners of those matches. Trophies for this tournament are donated by Trophy Stall of Bourda Market, P&P Insurance and Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.