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Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

The ISSA Ben Francis Knockout quarter-finals officially get under way today, with eight teams battling for a coveted spot in the semi-finals and a chance at redemption. Four matches are scheduled for kick off at 3 p.m. After bowing out in the...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:10 AM

MANCHESTER, London (CMC): Aston Villa manager Natalia Arroyo has described Jamaican international and Manchester City forward Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw as the best striker in the Women’s Super League (WSL). The 28-year-old Shaw continued her impressive...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Defending champions Mona High School booked their spot in the semi-finals of the ISSA Walker Cup knockout competition after getting past Hydel High 3-2 yesterday, despite playing a man down at the Waterhouse Stadium. In the feature game of the...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The Leila Robinson Netball Courts will be in the spotlight today as the top high school teams clash in the finals of the ISSA Schoolgirl Netball Competition. After weeks of intense action, champions in both the urban and rural competitions, at...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Head coach of the national senior netball team, Sasher-Gaye Henry, says the Sunshine Girls’ upcoming three-Test series against world number one Australia will play a vital role in the team’s preparation for the 2026 Commonwealth Games. The series...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:09 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Pugilists from Guyana will now be eligible to compete at the Olympic Games after the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) secured provisional recognition from World Boxing. The formal endorsement, communicated in a letter dated...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:09 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Under brilliant sunshine and facing the formidable rolling waves of Copa Beach, the nation’s top surfers delivered a spectacular display of skill and nerve at the National Surfing Championships on Sunday. When the final sprays settled, Elishama...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

St Jago High School’s girls were in dominant form at last Saturday’s 22nd staging of the Wesley Powell Benjamin Memorial track and field meet, held at Excelsior High School. The over-distance meet, where coaches gauge their athletes’ performances...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

The ISSA/WATA Manning Cup semi-finals are expected to bring fireworks as perennial rivals Jamaica College (JC) and St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) will go head-to-head in the curtain closer of a double-header at the National Stadium set...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:06 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

The pageantry of boxing was on full display during the Wray and Nephew Fight Night on Saturday at the Constant Spring Sports Complex as fans, old and young, danced along to the boxers’ walk-out music, cheered loudly for every blow struck and...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Mount Pleasant Football Academy defeated league leaders Portmore United 2-0 on a brace from striker Warner Brown in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) at Ferdi Neita Park yesterday to climb to fourth in the table. The win was significant for Mount...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:09 AM

Arnett Gardens FC will turn out at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex for the first time this season in the Jamaica Premier League when they take on Montego Bay United and former coach Xavier Gilbert in a monster clash this evening at 7:30 p.m...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

National senior netball head coach Sasher-Gaye Henry said she is deeply disappointed and saddened by the Sunshine Girls’ poor showing against the England Roses in their two-match Vitality Series, which ended in a heavy defeat by the hosts...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:06 AM

MANCHESTER, England (CMC): Manchester City forward Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw scored a rare beaver-trick, and created history in the British competition, to help her side thump Aston Villa 6-1 and maintain their lead at the top of the Women’s Super...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:06 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DANE Nelson made it six winners in three meets yesterday, hanging on by a nose aboard Anthony Nunes’ 7-5 favourite, ANOTHER ONE, to deny United States-bred COMMANDER Z with journeyman Ian Spence in the Charles Hussey Trophy at five furlongs...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:06 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN the top four rural schools contest the ISSA daCosta Cup football semi-finals tomorrow there will be one surprise team — Kemps Hill High. The Clarendon-based school has been punching well above its weight throughout the competition and has a...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:06 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s top-ranked tennis player Blaise Bicknell produced a solid all-around performance to capture the men’s Open singles title at the Real Equity Open Tennis Championships on Saturday at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston. Bicknell, who is...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:06 AM

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Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:14 AMGregory Bryce - Staff Reporter

St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) are no strangers to the semi-finals of the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup but after years of falling short at the last hurdle, head coach Phillip Williams said they are ready to challenge for the title once again....

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:13 AMLivingston Scott - Gleaner Writer

Portmore United face an impending challenge to their midweek rise to the top of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), when they entertain Concacaf Caribbean Cup champions and unbeaten Mount Pleasant in the feature game of round 12 at the Ferdi Neita...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:13 AMKaren Madden - Gleaner Writer

While a diminishing ideology, sports has often been cited as a distraction for students seeking to achieve scholastic excellence, with the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) setting stringent guidelines for student-athletes to be...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:13 AM

Holmwood Technical and Denbigh High stamped their authority on Friday’s ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball semi-finals at the GC Foster College Indoor Courts, as both schools booked places in the under-16 and under-19 finals set for this Tuesday at the...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

It will be a repeat of the 2022 senior ISSA Urban Schoolgirl Netball Championships final next Tuesday, as Gaynstead and José Martí Technical High School secured their spots following Thursday’s semi-final action at the Leila Robinson Courts....

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Canada-bred ATLANTIC CONVOY, winner of last year’s Bruceontheloose Sprint on Mouttet Mile Day, yesterday won his first race in more than a year, Dane Nelson returning aboard the five-year-old to outfinish hurriedly ridden ZULU WARRIOR with leading...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:07 AMAshley Anguin - Gleaner Writer

Many-time champions Cornwall College were sent packing from ISSA daCosta Cup semi-final contention, despite a 1-1 draw with Glenmuir High in their closing quarter-final match at Cornwall playing field yesterday. Going into the fixture, Glenmuir...

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