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May 03, 2017 Sports
“The Patron, Management and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club are very proud of each other and it is a pleasure to honour you on your historic achievement on being crowned National School
Cricket Champions. I know of the hard work and efforts that the entire team placed in this victory and as such we want you to have special memories of this moment forever” – Those were the words of RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster as he spoke to the Management and Members of 2017 National Cricket Champions, the Lower Corentyne Secondary School. The eight cricket teams of the Club along with its Cricket Development Committee joined hands on Sunday 23rd of April to honour every member of the team.
Foster hailed the National Champions as heroes and role-models who fully deserve their success. Nine of the National Champions are products of the RHTY&SC Cricket Development programme and this makes it even more special, Foster stated. He however expressed disappointment that the team only received an average size Winner’s trophy, while no medals or individual trophy was given to members of the team. The former Chairman of the BCB Special Events Committee stated that few persons have the privilege of being national Champions and with no monetary prizes given to either players nor the school, the least that should have been done is to give the players a lifetime souvenir. Each of the players, Manager and Team scorer present at the RHTY&SC 27th Annual Awards Ceremony received a souvenir trophy and champions medals, while a large championship Trophy was presented to the School.
Foster, who attended the school for two years, advised the youths to use the National Championship as an inspiration to greater success in life and to be focused on their studies in school as education is the foundation to a good life. He also informed the massive audience that filled the ST. Francis Community Developers Hall to capacity, that the RHTY&SC would always support the school to fulfil its mandate. The RHTY&SC, M.S between 1991 to 1992, spearheaded the restoration of the LCSS by raising over $4M under the Patronage of late Guyana’s President Hugh Desmond Hoyte.
The honouring of the team was done by the Farfan and Mendes Under-15, Pepsi Under-19 and Intermediate, Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division, Metro females and Gizmos & Gadgets Under-21 and First Division Cricket teams.
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