Heartease United Club fun day on today

The annual fun day of the Heartease United Club Benevolent Society is on today on the grounds of the community centre.

The club, champions in SDC 20/20 cricket, has dominated cricket in St Thomas, winning all competitions in the parish since 2000 with the exception of last year.

The club has recently been promoted to the Captain's Bakery Major league, having been relegated to division two competition three years ago. The organisation is of a unique type in the parish having introduced community-based projects.

The approach this year is to move away from the traditional fun day by engaging the children to participate in all activities. The idea was developed based on the dramatic increase in the number of children participating in some form of sporting activities in the area.

To this end, the objective is to showcase the abundance of talent, providing entertainment for everyone while creating opportunities for the less privileged.

Activities will commence at 10 a.m. with the playing of 15/15 cricket match. This will be followed by athletics, football and many other sporting activities.

Funds from the event will be used to assist the less fortunate in the community with books, school bags and other basic requirements for the upcoming school year.

Boscobel beat Race Course 5-3

The James Bond Beach Seven-A-Side football championships continued last Sunday at the James Bond Beach Complex in Oracabessa, St Mary, with the playing of two matches.

In the first game of the day, a double strike by the league's leading marksman Maurice Kerr, and a hat-trick from Lance Cameron, gave Boscobel United a come-from-behind 5-3 win over Race Course United.

Mark McKrae got a brace while Ramone Edwards scored the other for the losers.

The second game saw Masters continuing their losing streak going down to Gully Side Kickers 5-2, surrendering a two-goal first-half advantage.

Dave Kelly booted home a hat-trick for the winners, Wayne Ferguson and Godfrey Beacon netted a goal a piece.

Successive MultiCare Summer Camp closes

The 2009 MultiCare Foundation Sports Summer Camp culminated with an awards ceremony and presentation of medals at the MultiCare sports complex, the Breezy Castle Centre in downtown Kingston last Monday.

The camp, which was held over three weeks, provided coaching for more than 120 boys and girls in volleyball, basketball, softball, hockey, and netball - with accompanying emphasis on the promotion of the MultiCare Sports fundamentals of discipline, love and respect for self and others and self-esteem.

In the sports competitions, Miller Team emerged champions in netball, hockey senior and volleyball senior competitions. Itesman Team won the competitions in softball, basketball senior, hockey junior and volleyball junior.

Most Valuable Players were Destiny McGlashan in netbal; Kimo Shaw in softball; Romari Davey, volleyball senior; Kadaine Graham, volleyball junior; Falodi Johnson, hockey senior; Julian Manning, hockey junior, Martel Carr, basketball senior; and Akeiva Murray, basketball junior.

Akeem Dewar, a member of the Jamaica Under-19 cricket team addressed campers and one of the key points he made was, "I encourage you all to train hard, listen to your coaches, be disciplined and always try to improve every time you step on a field," he told campers.

MultiCare director Errol Miller who handed out several of the awards, congratulated campers on their achievements over the period and commended them for the discipline displayed both on and off the field of play.

Another final for South Star

Defending champions South Star progressed to the semi-finals of the SDC 20/20 cricket competition after beating Waltham Court by eight wickets at Comfort, Manchester yesterday.

The champions, aiming to become the first team to claim back-to-back titles, will be joined by Junction, Content Gardens and Dela Vega City in tomorrow's semi-finals scheduled for 10 a.m. and 2p.m. at the Ultimate Cricket Ground, Discovery Bay, St Ann.