Sports

The National Bank of Anguilla Limited is sponsoring the Annual Primary School Football Competition for the seventeenth time.

In a continuing effort to enhance the sporting relationship between Anguilla and St.Maarten/St.Martin there has been another domino match played between the Stoney Ground Warriors of Anguilla and the Winter Garden Boys of St.Maarten.

A number of Anguillian Cyclists participated in the Antigua National Championships which were held there on October 30.

With the completion of a Lease Agreement between the Government of Anguilla and the Anguilla Football Association (AFA), the enabling conditions to facilitate the construction of Anguilla’s first football stadium are now in place.

Sport lovers in Anguilla now have some additional sporting activities to enjoy with the commencement of the 2005 Male Football League.

Much is being contributed to the friendship between the people of Anguilla and their next-door neighbours in St. Martin/St. Maarten through various sporting activities being played in the territories.

The “Clarence Fleming-Rogers Windball Cricket Knockout Tournament” ended on Saturday October 1st at the JRWP with three ten-overs-a-side matches.

The 2005 Wind-ball Cricket Season, involving eight male and six female teams from throughout Anguilla, commenced at the Ronald Webster Park on Sunday, September 25.

The Anguilla Swarming Fire Ants Female Football Team returned to Anguilla on Monday 26th September. The Fire Ants narrowly missed qualifying for the final stage of the CONCACAF U-20 qualifying World Cup.

Some seventy students from Campuses A and B of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School began the school’s Second Annual Inter-House Cricket Competition on Monday September 19. According to Cricket Development Officer, Cardigan Connor, the matches will continue until Friday September 30 but may be extended for a third week.

Anguilla’s first West Indies Cricketer, Omari Banks, has been given a financial award for his performance in some of the matches.

On September 5, the second annual Anguilla Tennis Academy After School Program began. This year’s program is being conducted by Jason Allen, Director of the ATA. Jason is originally from Florida where he grew up playing the world renowned Florida junior circuit. Both he and Mitchelle Lake, founder and president of the ATA, were team mates at Gardner-Webb University and played doubles together.

This past weekend, many Anguillian children participated in the Anguilla National Tennis Tournament (ANTT). The tournament was run by Jason Allen, Director of the Anguilla Tennis Academy and, conducted at Temenos Villas. Its purpose was to develop competition and camaraderie among children in various age groups.

The Ronald Webster Park in Anguilla has been well land mowed and new dressing has been applied to the cricket pitch for a three-day Leeward Islands match here from Thursday to Saturday involving players from Anguilla and Antigua.

Sunset Homes, a company in Anguilla involved in design construction and villa rentals, sponsored its third annual Fun Day for school children in the Stoney Ground area on Sunday, August 28. The highly successful community event attracted a large number of youngsters who competed in various sporting activities.

The Anguilla Amateur Netball Association is participating for the very first time in the ECCB/OECS Annual Under 23 Netball Tournament.

From Monday 08 August – Friday 19 August, 2005, the Anguilla Football Association (AFA) staged its annual Youth Soccer Camp at the James Ronald Webster Park as part of its strategic plan to build awareness of the sport, increase the number of local children being exposed to the game and also offer alternative programmes for youth development on the island.

An event which went on reported was that the racing boat Superstar struck a reef just minutes before completing the August Tuesday race at Island Harbour.

The all-female Fire Ants football team has just had some motivational training during a team-building day organised for them under auspices of the Anguilla Football Association.

Anguilla participated in the 10th Eastern Caribbean Body-Building, Fitness and Body Fitness Championships held recently in Kingstown, St. Vincent.