{"id":12969,"date":"2023-10-02T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=12969"},"modified":"2023-10-02T18:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:09:33","slug":"guyana-defense-force-dominates-national-novices-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-defense-force-dominates-national-novices-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Defense Force Dominates National Novices Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Andrew Six Head Lewis National Novices Championships kicked off on Friday evening at the National Gymnasium, witnessing strong performances from the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) in their opening bouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action commenced with a semifinal clash in the 57-60 kg lightweight class, pitting Anthony Sanders of the GDF against Lennox Harvey of the Guyana Police Force. Sanders secured a points victory after the scheduled three rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the light middleweight 66-71 kg category, GDF&#8217;s Christopher Henry achieved a technical knockout against Shawn Rodney of Police Gym in round 2, prompting the referee to stop the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The middleweight 71-75 kg semifinal saw Alex Butcher facing off against GDF gym mate Jamal Booker, with Butcher clinching a points decision victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the quarterfinal of the light heavyweight category (75-80 kg), Malchi Clarke emerged victorious against Joseph George in an all-GDF bout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sherwin Gravesande of GDF secured a win in his semifinal clash against Republican Boxing Gym&#8217;s Kevin Neil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soldier Zidhan Wray also triumphed over Leandra Abrams of Police Gym in their super heavyweight (92+ kg) match-up. Guyana Defense Force&#8217;s Rayan Harry finished strong, outboxing Oswald Yaw in their super heavyweight clash, contributing to a dominant night for the GDF gym led by former boxer and three-star coach Terrence Poole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action will continue this evening, with the finals scheduled for Sunday in the squared circle inside the National Gymnasium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reporting for NCN Sports, Travis Seymour<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andrew Six Head Lewis National Novices Championships kicked off on Friday evening at the National Gymnasium, witnessing strong performances from the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) in their opening bouts.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12971,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions\/12971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}