Inter-media dominoes…
DEFENDING champions GNNL ‘B’ on 78 games won a close encounter with Kaieteur News on 76 games and Stabroek News missing their mark on 75 games, to start their defence of the inter-media dominoes competition, sponsored by Western Union, Thursday night.

For the winners Mederick Shortt made 17 games followed by James ‘LPL’ Leitch and Philip ‘Tali’ Joseph with 15 games apiece. Nicola Jeffrey who was instrumental in the last Inter-media competition for Channel ‘9’, mustered 17 games for Kaieteur News with Frederick Kissoon supporting her with 14 games.

Roopnaraine George’s 17 games was not enough for Stabroek News although he was ably supported by Donald Duff and Alister Graham on 16 and 15 games respectively, to see them into the second round.

Christopher Ram of Stabroek News ‘A’ and Mateo Friendz of Prime News were taken down lovers’ lane.

In the other game, Western Union with 86 games, led by all star captain Nikeitha Alleyne got the better of Prime News on 80 games and GWTV 2 being left way down the cellar on 60 games.

For the winners, Ray Bhola registered the maximum 18 points, taking the scalp of Mateo Friendz of Prime News, thus securing a prize for the being the first person to share a love in the competition. Good support came from Vaughn Alleyne with 16 points and Nikeitha Alleyne and Amar Khan with 15 points each.

Prime News’ top markers were Clifford Griffith with 16 points, Adam Harris on 15 points followed by Keith Adams and Wesley Dowers on 14 points apiece.

Channel ‘2’ had to rely on Sean Embrack with his 14 points which was insufficient to see them through to the next round.

In the opening ceremony, Grace Kennedy’s Marketing Manager, Jennifer Cipriani-Nelson, said the competition was one way in bringing all media workers together seeing that a fair amount prefer to play dominoes in their spare time.

Cipriani-Nelson promised that it was not a one-off venture by the company but it would be a sponsored annual event.

President of GNNL Sports Club, George Clarke, welcomed all participating media houses and declared the games open.

The winners will notch their names on the lien trophy and take home the first place trophy and $30 000, while the runners-up will get a trophy and $20 000 and third-placers receive a trophy and $15 000.

The best two players on the winning and second-placed teams will be recipients of trophies and tokens while the best player on the third team will receive a trophy and a token. Trophies will also be awarded to the person sharing the first love in the competition, the first love in the finals and the most valuable player (MVP) in the finals.

The next play-day is Tuesday, featuring the remaining teams - GNNL ‘A’, Stabroek News ‘B’, Channel 9, CNS Channel 6, VCT Channel 28, NCN Radio and NCN Television. Teams must contact Alexis Stephenson on 227-5141 to confirm their participation.

The second round starts next week Friday. Double-six time for all matches is 19:00 h.