The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) will get the ball rolling this year with a one-day field hockey tournament on Sunday slated for the National Stadium, Providence.
The tournament which is being sponsored by Bounty will be the first of many activities slated for 2018; it is just the beginning of a highly anticipated year with the National male and female teams set for the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Barranquilla, Colombia in July.
Sunday’s Bounty Tournament will see GHB’s 2018 get off to a start
The first tournament will feature all the clubs in Guyana; they will all be looking to shake off the rust and gain early momentum and form with an eye on the second division 7-a-side league which begins in February with the Saints Ground earmarked as the primary venue.
All respective clubs have resumed training and the competition on Sunday will be sure to be of the highest quality.
The GCC clubs will be looking to come out on top of rivals Old Fort and Hikers; however with each club having national players among their ranks Sunday’s tournament will provide entertainment.
Hockey fans will have an interesting year to look forward to as GHB’s 2017 accomplishments included the more than admirable hosting of the Pan American Indoor Championships; our hospitality and logistics were executed to perfection to the point that the GHB received congratulatory notes and plaudits from the Pan American Hockey Federation.
In 2018 the sky will be the limit for the GHB with the CAC Games beckoning close, a number of tournaments are slated for the first half of the year as the National teams will look to get in much needed practice.
Among those activities slated for the first half of 2018 are; the four-a-side U-14 Schools competition, the U-18 7-a-side Outdoor league, the Farfan & Mendes Men’s Outdoor league and Lucozade’s Indoor League with a Pre-CAC Warm-up Invitational in Barbados crowning it off in June.
