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Dan Craven was a comfortable winner of the Dordabis Road Race, the third race in the Windhoek Pedal Power series on Saturday morning.

Craven won the 120km event in 3 hours 10 minutes 42 seconds to finish well ahead of Adriaan Maartens (3:11:56) and Ingram Cuff (3:12:56).

Jaco Hanekom came fourth in 3:16:33 while development rider Costa Seibeb came fifth in 3:16:36.

Michael Pretorius won the Junior Men category over 100km in 2:49:23, beating Thorsten Kreft by a second in a sprint to the line. Jernell Barth came third in 2:49:24.

A goal two minutes from time gave African Stars a dramatic 1-0 victory against Orlando Pirates at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Saturday.

The match seemed to be heading for a draw when Stars won a freekick that Ronald Ketjijere blasted over the wall and over the goals.

Referee Rainhold Shikongo indicated that the ball had deflected off the wall and ordered a corner, from which Muna Katupose rose high to head the ball into the net.

SKW held log leaders Black Africa to a 2-2 draw in an entertaining match at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Friday night.

In the end a draw was probably a fair result, although both teams had numerous chances to win the game.

All the goals came in a pulsating first half of frenetic action. Black Africa went on the attack first with Willy Stephanus and Marco van Wyk coming close early on.

But SKW took the lead against the run of play when a long throw in by Elvis Tjivisera was headed on and Joslin Kamutuka stabbed the loose ball into the far post.

Rössing Uranium will present a milestone 21st consecutive Rössing Namibia Marathon Championship in Swakopmund on Saturday, 18 February, 2012.

The event, which this year again includes the popular 10 km Race and Charity Walk for cancer, will be organised by the Swakop Striders Athletics Club and staged at the Swakopmund Athletics Stadium in Vineta.

The prize money for the 2012 Rössing Namibia Marathon Championship will again total over N$60 000, with the marathon winners in the Men and Women’s Open categories walking away with N$10 000 in cash each.

Orlando Pirates and African Stars meet in the Katutura derby at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Saturday afternoon. For once, the outcome will not have much bearing on the title chase as both teams are way off the pace, but as usual a lot of needle and drama can be expected when these two Katutura giants meet.

Stars won their first round encounter 2-0 through goals by Tara Katupose and Rudi Louw and are currently fourth on the log, 11 points behind leaders Black Africa, while Pirates are way down in eighth position, a full 16 points behind Black Africa.

A squad of 25 players has been called up for the Namibian U20 Women’s soccer team’s World Cup qualifying first leg match against Ghana in Accra on February 18.

The squad, that will start training at Soccer House on Thursday, includes seven U17 players who will also be in action against South Africa in Johannesburg this weekend.

The U17 players that have been called up are defenders Lovisa Mulunga and Emma Naris, midfielders Anoushka Kordom, Anuschka Meyer and Melissa Matheus, and strikers Depney Noabes and Juliana Blou.

A pioneering event on the tennis scene in Namibia, the “KIA Pro-Tennis Academy (PTA) Tennis Series” will be launched in February.

The series will consist of nine tournaments, with the first one due to start on February 18 at SKW and other venues in Windhoek. The series is meant to showcase Namibia’s most skilled players of all ages and skill levels.

Competitors will face each other in different categories based on skill, disregarding gender and age, and will be able to earn points at each tournament to advance in the overall KIA PTA Ranking of the series.

The national women’s Under 17 soccer team departs for Johannesburg tomorrow as they prepare to take on South Africa in their second-leg 2012 World Cup qualifiers.

The team which played to a 1-1 draw at home against South Africa a fortnight ago, this week welcomed back captain Lovisa Mulunga, who was part of the senior national team that were defeated 5-2 by Tanzania in Dar es Salaam last weekend.

The second round of the Namibia Premier League resumes on Friday night when log leaders Black Africa take on second-placed SKW at the Sam Nujoma Stadium.

Black Africa dominated the first round of the league and after 11 matches have built up a massive 10-point lead at the top of the log. They in fact only dropped four points along the way and are still unbeaten with nine wins and two draws.

Despite their dominance, club chairman Cassius Moetie said they would not take their opponents lightly.

Cricket Namibia has announced a preliminary squad of eighteen players who will represent Namibia at the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup Qualifiers in Dubai in March. The squad will be trimmed down to the final fourteen in the next week.

Graham McMillan, CEO of Cricket Namibia said “These are the best cricketers that Namibia cricket can put into the field. We have a really tough pool in the round robin stages of the tournament, but we feel that these players will be able to get us in to the play offs of the competition.”