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Gentle Touch and Millennium Girls triumph in female football

Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly happy that you could join us for this cut of Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the Norman Broaster Stadium in Cayo for week three of the Female Football League competition where Gentle Touch of Esperanza played host to Hidden Treasures of Pomona. We pick […]

Millennium Girls top Pomona Hidden Treasures

Good evening I’m James Adderley and we do welcome you to this segment of Sports Monday. The Female Football League presented a full schedule over the weekend so we caught up with the M.C.C. clash between Hidden Treasures of Pomona and the home team Millennium Girls staged yesterday. The city team uses the home field […]

Gentle Touch beats Cruz Azul in female football action

Good evening, I’m James Adderley. Welcome to this week’s dish of Sports Monday. The Female Football League kicked off its 2008 season with three matches featuring the six competing teams over the weekend. We caught up with yesterday’s big showdown out at Esperanza as Gentle Touch played host to Cruz Azul of Belmopan. Immediately Gentle […]

Cycling sponsor retires from pro-cycling … again

By reputation, he’s head of one of the largest family business empires, he can rock a mic and he and his bike are never far apart. But this week Santino Castillo announced that he’s pulling out of cycling as an elite sponsor. Before you can say “Again!?!?”, you should know that Castillo told News Five’s […]

Texmar Boys are champions of Belize Bank’s Super League

Good evening, I’m James Adderley, this is Sports Monday. The tension inside the Michael Ashcroft Stadium for game two of the three game Super League Championship series between Benque DC United and the host team Texmar Boys is as thick as a well made cow foot soup going into game time. Facing a one game […]

Texmar wins Game 1 of Super League playoffs

Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re glad you could join us for this issue of Sports Monday. The Super League of Belize kicked off its first ever championship series inside the Marshalleck Stadium yesterday as Benque DC United hosted the number one seed Texmar Boys of Independence for the first of a three game […]

Belize “home game” to be played in Houston

Their performance against St. Kitts was impressive but two months from now, the Belize National Football team must once again rise to the occasion. Because there is no FIFA sanctioned venue in the country, the home game against Mexico in the World Cup elimination will take place on Sunday, June fifteenth, at Reliant Stadium in […]

Hankook Verdes win B.P.F.L. Championship Series

Good evening I’m James Adderley and it is with great pleasure we bring you this serving of Sports Monday. We’re inside the Norman Broaster where yesterday the B.P.F.L. championship series reached money time as Hankook Verdes of San Ignacio hosted the Belize Defence Force with both teams in a must win situation to claim the […]

B.D.F. and Hankook Verdes draw 1-1

Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this portion we call Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the M.C.C. Grounds where game one of the B.P.F.L. Championship series between the number one seed Hankook Verdes and the Belize Defence of Belize City force kicked off amid an opening ceremony that had […]

Primary schools battle for city softball title

We won our first World Cup qualifier in football, and U.B. is the top Central American University in basketball. But tonight we’ll turn the skill level down a bit to follow the Belize City Primary School softball tournament. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from Rogers Stadium. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The fans were boisterous…. The players […]

B.D.F and Hankook Verdes will face off in B.P.F.L. finals

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re most welcome to this burst of Sports Monday. First order of business people, is to give public kudos to the National Football Team of Belize who eliminated St. Kitts and Nevis Islands from the first round of the World Cup qualifying series last Wednesday with a 1-1 draw […]

Belize’s National Football Team draws in St. Kitts

There is good news coming out of St. Kitts tonight as reports are that Belize’s national football team has drawn in its second World Cup qualifying match against that country’s team. At the forty-third minute Belize’s Elroy Smith scored a goal putting the jewel on top. But in the second half St. Kitts only managed […]

U.S. rider takes 80th Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we certainly hope you had a wonderful Easter Holiday and it is indeed our pleasure to bring you this portion of Sports Monday. A grand total of one hundred and seventeen athletes, featuring eighteen teams and including twenty-five foreign cyclists from as far North as the United States and […]

City Council sponsors youth basketball camp

While many Belize City residents are on the move this weekend, there is plenty going on right here in the old capital. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on one programme for kids now underway at the Bird’s Isle. Marion Ali, Reporting Today over twenty youths decided to face off in Belize City … on the […]

80th Cross Country remains nation’s biggest sporting event

Despite a cycling calendar that grows more crowded each year, this weekend’s race remains king, not only of cycling but all Belizean sporting events. News Five’s Janelle Chanona takes a look at its past and future. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Bright and early on Holy Saturday morning, the eightieth running of the Cross Country Cycling Classic […]

U.B. Black Jaguars bring home Central American gold

Good evening I’m James Adderley with yet another dish of Sports Monday. Week five of the B.P.F.L. playoffs matched the two leaders inside the M.C.C. Grounds as the Belize Defence Force played host to Hankook Verdes of San Ignacio. In this battle for supremacy it’s the host team looking for first blood when David McCauley […]

U.B. Black Jaguars enter final four in Costa Rica

The good news out of Costa Rica continues as today the University of Belize won its third game without a loss, defeating Panama. That means the Black Jaguars will now enter the final four of the Central American University Tournament.

Marlon wins Belmopan race without best bike

Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad you could join us for this delivery of Sports Monday. The twenty-sixth Annual Cititrust Belmopan Cycle Classic reigned supreme on the Western Highway Sunday, ninth March Baron Bliss Day as some seventy-nine riders featuring twelve teams and five foreigners opted to be the best in a […]

New challengers unseat Belize Bank in Ruta Maya race

While most of us will spend the long weekend relaxing, more than two hundred and fifty people will spend the holiday paddling from San Ignacio to Belize City. I can sit here and say that matter of factly but as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, it’s called the Ruta Maya River Challenge for a very […]

Hankook Verdes tops F.C. Belize in playoff action

Good evening I’m James Adderley and you are most welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Week three of the B.P.F.L. playoffs saw F.C. Belize being hosted by the surging Hankook Verdes inside the Norman Broaster Stadium out west. Where a pre-game downpour has reduced key spots of this vaunted pitch to less than conducive […]

F.C. Belize vs. B.D.F. ends in draw in playoff action

Good evening I’m James Adderley with yet another delivery of Sports Monday. Week two of the B.P.F.L. playoffs brought the two Belize City teams to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday with both F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force coming off wins on the opening schedule of the double round robin format featuring four ballclubs. We […]

U.S. rider wins stage 4 of M&M Tour

Stage four of the M&M Tour left Belize City this morning heading west … and News Five’s James Adderley was right in the thick of it. James Adderley Reporting The Tourist Village here in Belize City was the scene this morning for the start of stage four in the M&M Tour of Belize and the […]

Defending champ disqualified from stage 2 of tour

Stages two and three of the M&M Tour of Belize were held today and—for Belizeans—things took a negative turn. James Adderley has the story. James Adderley, Reporting Sugar City O.W. looked real sweet this morning for the start of stage two of the M&M Tour of Belize, a sixty-six mile ride that would culminate in […]

Chilean wins first stage of M&M Tour

He’s just off the road from Orange Walk but James Adderley has the latest results from today’s first stage of the M&M Tour of Belize. James Adderley, Reporting Excitement and electricity permeated the air this morning as the M&M Tour of Belize blasted off from the San Cas Plaza at nine for the hundred and […]

M&M Tour kicks off Wednesday

The race kicks off tomorrow and while it’s not as famous as the Holy Saturday Cross Country, News Five’s James Adderley reports that the M&M Tour of Belize is drawing a crowd. James Adderley, Reporting It was an attentive audience at the San Cas Plaza this evening when Mayor Zenaida Moya proclaimed let the M&M […]