Tennis - Gunther wins satellite master
tournament
Soccer - Ade Coker-CHALCA case adjourns for the
forth time
Accra (Greater Accra) 14 September
2000
The impressive exploits of Ghana's
number one seed Gunther Darkey at the ITF satellite tournament continued on
Wednesday with him adding the Masters trophy to the men's single title he won
last Saturday.
Gunther beat tournament's second
seed Dirk Stegmann of South Africa, 6-0, 6-4 at the centre court of the Accra
Sports Stadium Tennis Court.
Playing in front of a fairly large
crowd, Gunther started in a whirlwind fashion as he dominated his opponent from
the baseline with intelligent cross-court volleys and passing shots.
Such was the domination in the
first set, that a frustrated Stegmann who found nothing going his way, smashed
his racket on the court, breaking it in the process and promoting the referee
to caution him as Gunther won 6-0.
The second set was a vastly
different game as Stegmann switched from the baseline, to play an aggressive
serve and volley game, which Gunther found difficult to cope with.
Gunther who looked tired, during
the second set had to dive deep into his reserves to break the opponent's serve
in the third game, but Stegmann who, showed a lot of spirit remained undaunted
and broke back immediately in the next game.
The game from then onwards went
with serve as both players fought hard for every point and played some
wonderful tennis that drew applause from the stands.
Stegmann who played better in the
second set ironically doubled faultered in the ninth game to give Gunther the
break.
All that Gunther needed was to
hold his own in the tenth game which he won 6-4.
In the doubles finals, Mauritius
Marcel Borgault and Gianluca Bazzica of Italy beat Swede Daniel Norberg and
Britain's James Auckland 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
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Soccer-Results of
out standing ABC Premier League matches
Accra (Greater Accra) 14 September
2000
Results of 26th week ABC Premier
League out standing league matches played on Wednesday
Cape Coast: Dwarfs 1 Goldfields
1 Sunyani: B A United 0
Hearts 0.
Accra (Greater Accra) 14 September
2000
Standings of the 16-team ABC
Premier League after the 26th week ABC league outstanding matches played on
Sunday, tabulated under number of matches played, won, drawn, lost, goals for
and goals against.
Standings of the teams at the
end of the 26th week – 026
Team Local/Region P W D L F A Pts GD
Hearts Accra, Gt. Accra 26 18 5 3 53 20 59 +33
Goldfields Obuasi, Ashanti 26 12 7 7 26 17 43 +9
King
Faisal Kumasi, Ashanti 26 12 5 8 32 23 42 +9
Ghapoha Tema, Gt. Accra 26 11 6 10 29 30 38 -2
Kotoko Kumasi, Ashanti 26 9 7 10 33 32 37 +5
Okwawu Nkawkaw, Eastern 26 11 7 7 30
24 37 +3
Liberty Accra, Gt. Accra 26 11 3 12 37 29 36 +6
RTU Tamale, Northern 26 11 4 11 25 22 34 -3
Dwarfs Cape Coast, Central 26
8 8
10 29 32 33 -2
Bofoakwa Sunyani, Brong Ahafo 26 9 6 13 23 30 33 -5
Hasaacas Sekondi, Western 26 8
6 12 28 31 31 -3
Kwaebibirim Asuom, Eastern 26
8 5 13 26 41 31 -16
Olympics Accra, Gt. Accra 26 8
9 9 25 28 30 -5
Dawu Dawu, Eastern 26 6 11 9 28 36 29 -8
Power
F/C Koforidua, Eastern 26
5 10 11 18 26 25 -7
B.A.
United Sunyani, Brong Ahafo 26
5 9 12 16 29 24 -12
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Accra (Greater Accra) 13 September 2000
An Accra high court on Wednesday adjourned for the forth time a case in which Mr. Joseph Ade Coker, Vice-Chairman of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is praying the court to quash a decision by the Ghana
League Clubs Association (GHALCA), dismissing him from office.
Ruling of the case has now been fixed for next Thursday, September 19, in Accra.
The case was adjourned today because the judge, Justice Victor Ofoe was attending a seminar.
On Monday, August seven, the court granted leave to Mr. Joseph Ade Coker, who is also the chairman of the Accra Great Olympics to apply for an order of certiorari to quash the decision by GHALCA dismissing him from office.
Consequently, Mr. Ade Coker was to remain in office until the determination of the substantive case.
On Wednesday, August three, GHALCA passed a vote of no confidence in Mr. Coker as their Vice-Chairman claiming it was within the ambit of their constitution.
CHALCA forwarded its decision to the GFA that its entire membership had unanimously voted out Mr. Coker as the Vice-Chairman of the association.
The letter signed by its Chairman Mr. J. Y. Appiah said by their decision, Mr. Coker should no longer represent GHALCA on the GFA as its Vice-Chairman.
Mr. Ade Coker is on the GFA board by virtue of his position in GHALCA.
Clause (4) of article 12 of the GHALCA constitution, states that, "an officer can only be dismissed, expelled or suspended or otherwise removed from office by a complaint in writing stating that the officer to be removed, shall be presented to a judicial committee who shall adjudicate on the case and pronounce judgement.
The judgement of the judicial committee shall be subject to an Appeals Tribunal to be set up by the General Assembly."
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