TAMPA, Fla. —The United Soccer League and the Caribbean Football Union has announced a new long-term partnership that will help shape the future of the game across the Caribbean Football Union’s 31 member nations. The wide-ranging agreement will create more professional opportunities for Caribbean players, coaches, referees, and front office staff in the USL Championship and USL League One.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia – Trinbago Knight Riders slumped to their second defeat in three outings after their batting suffered yet another meltdown in pursuit of a gettable target against Jamaica Tallawahs here Saturday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts – Trinbago Knight Riders Women exacted revenge for their loss in the Sixty by defeating Barbados Royals by ten runs in the final of the Women’s Caribbean Premier League here Sunday night.

TAROUBA, Trinidad – Barbados Royals defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors in a rain-hit, low-scoring affair on a difficult wicket at Brian Lara Stadium, to become the first side to book their playoff spot in this year’s Caribbean Premier League.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia – Unbeaten Barbados Royals won their fifth on the trot to send their clearest signal yet of their Caribbean Premier League title challenge, when they defeated Jamaica Tallawahs by eight wickets here Sunday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts – Jamaica Tallawahs extended their perfect start to the Men’s Caribbean Premier League with a four-wicket win over a lackluster Guyana Amazon Warriors here Saturday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Rovman Powell belted an important six off the third delivery before rain arrived as Jamaica Tallawahs inflicted Barbados Royals with their first defeat, in a six-run win courtesy Duckworth-Lewis-Stern on Thursday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia – Johnson Charles’s 28th Twenty20 fifty helped St Lucia Kings break their losing skid in the men’s Caribbean Premier League, last year’s losing finalists edging the previously unbeaten Jamaica Tallawahs by two wickets here late Wednesday night.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts – Brandon King struck a sparkling half-century and fast bowler Nicholson Gordon produced a three-wicket burst to fire Jamaica Tallawahs to a comprehensive 47-run victory over title-holders St Kitts and Nevis Patriots.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies has named former national basketballer Kebra Nanton as their new Chief Financial Officer.

WINNIPEG, Canada– Jamaican Chavion Chow won twice to lead a Caribbean sweep of the seven-race card at Assiniboia Downs here Monday.

VIENNA, Austria – A determined Jamaica side held World Cup hosts Qatar to a 1-1 draw behind closed doors on Friday to wrap up their involvement in a four-nation tournament in the Austrian capital.