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Nov 05, 2012 Sports
The Berbice Table Tennis Sub Association continues to be active as they take steps to spread and keep the game going in the Ancient County. The Association has taken a number of initiatives and completed a number of programmes so far for the year. Among them are conducting ongoing coaching programmes and organizing tournaments throughout the county. All of which have been successful held so far. In the meanwhile, plans are moving full steam ahead for the grand one day knockout table Tennis Table competition, termed “the Berbice Table Tennis Championship” which is being held in collaboration with the overseas based Guyanese, Berbician Souvenir Ramdyal of 2009 Hall of Fame Realtor of Queens, NY.
The tournament is slated for Saturday 10th November 2012 at the Berbice High School Auditorium beginning at 09:00 hrs. The competition is open to persons living and working in Berbice for the last three years and is expected to see the best Berbice racquet wielders in action. Play will be in a number of categories including U13, U15, U18 and Open and is expected to see action in both male and female categories. Incentives will be presented to the top three finishers in each division, while prizes will also be awarded to the most outstanding player, most promising, and most improved among others.
Players are expected from all over the ancient county including New Amsterdam Skeldon, Rose Hall, Berbice River, Canje and West Berbice. Snacks will be provided and the sponsor is expected to be on hand to meet the players, declare the competition open and distribute the prizes at the end of the competition. Mr Ramdyal has planned to make the competition an annual affair.
Among some of the players expected to be in action are Gibran Hussein, Floyd Conway, Richard Bacchus, Levi Nedd, Omraj Singh, Lakeram Sanichar, Dave Mangra, Ryan Alexander, Michael Newland, Brentnol Richards, and Sherwin Sahadeo.
A number of youngsters will also be in action as they challenge the older players including national U16 players Briton Murray and Joshua Lalbachan, U13 selectee Jaden Conway, up and coming Julian Haniff, Nicolas Lawrence, Stephen Sankar.
On the distaff side former national nine times Female Table Tennis champion Desiree Lancaster is expected to get stiff competition from former Caribbean junior doubles champion Petal Bennet as they lead the charge amongst the females.
Outstanding players will also be kept in training for future competitions.
Officials from The Guyana table Tennis Association are expected to be on hand to help oversee the proceedings and help with the distribution of the prizes.
Interested persons can still make contact with any of the following persons – Floyd Conway No 623-8481, Gibran Hussein 628-4248, Richard Bacchus 673-9112, Johnny Persaud 333-2869, Stanley 686-6431, Levi Nedd 641-9592 and J. Murray on 619-2107.
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