{"id":23067,"date":"2024-09-18T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23067"},"modified":"2024-09-18T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:24:18","slug":"stella-maris-primary-prepares-for-champions-of-champions-cricket-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/stella-maris-primary-prepares-for-champions-of-champions-cricket-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella Maris Primary Prepares for Champions of Champions Cricket Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Stella Maris Primary, the reigning Georgetown champs, is set to represent Demerara in this weekend&#8217;s prestigious Champions of Champions competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an unbeaten run in the Georgetown-led Future Warriors Tapeball Schoolboys championship, the team is brimming with confidence heading into the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a recent training session at Gandhi Stadium, teacher Latoya Thomas, who is responsible for coaching the team, shared her optimism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas, who isn\u2019t a physical education teacher but a passionate cricket enthusiast, expressed confidence in her boys&#8217; performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m very confident of my boys. We\u2019ve been working, practicing, and I\u2019m seeing improvement. I\u2019m very confident we can bring it home for Demerara,&#8221; she stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas, who has a background in cricket from her own school days, is dedicated to passing on her knowledge to her students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stella Maris Primary will face off against Cropper Primary from Berbice and Huis T&#8217; Dieren from Essequibo in the one-day tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to trophies and medals, the winning team will be awarded a second gear bag containing Tapeball cricket equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special novelty match against the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Guyana Marriott Hotel will also take place on Sunday, September 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stella Maris Primary, the reigning Georgetown champs, is set to represent Demerara in this weekend&#8217;s prestigious Champions of Champions competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club. After an unbeaten run in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067","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=23067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23068,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions\/23068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}