Melton Williams

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Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz suffered a second heavy defeat to Mexico in four days, falling 4-0 in a friendly international at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday. Mexico struck early, with Lizbeth Ovalle opening the scoring in the eighth minute with a precise finish from a tight angle following a corner. Alice Soto doubled the lead three minutes later and added another in the 24th minute, both goals coming from close range.

2 weeks ago | loopnews.com | Melton Williams

Sports 4 mins read Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) seized the advantage on day one of the final round of the West Indies Championship, dismissing the Jamaica Scorpions for 133 before reaching 174-4 at stumps on Wednesday. The match, being played at the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, saw CCC end the day with a 41-run lead, thanks to an unbeaten 70 from opener Shaqkere Parris. Captain Johann Jeremiah offered solid support with a knock of 69.

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Sports 4 mins read PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jamaica Scorpions will look to close out their 2025 West Indies Championship campaign on a positive note when they face Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) in the final round at the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground in St Augustine, starting Wednesday.

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Sports 4 mins read LONDON (AP) — Declan Rice put Arsenal on the brink of reaching the Champions League semifinals by curling home two free kicks that Real Madrid’s most famous “galacticos” would have been proud of. Rice opened the scoring by bending one free kick around the Madrid wall in the 58th minute and sent another into the top corner in the 70th as Arsenal won the first leg of the quarterfinals 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium.

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Sports 6 mins read KOLKATA, India (AP) — Half-centuries from West Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran and Australia’s Mitchell Marsh powered Lucknow Super Giants to a narrow four-run victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in a high-scoring Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at Eden Gardens on Tuesday. Pooran (87 not out) and Marsh (81), who notched his fourth half-century in five games, decimated the Kolkata pacers to put up 238-3, Lucknow’s second-highest IPL total.