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The Birmingham Post MONDAY October 27 1997 SPORT SPORT DIGEST Crutchley extends Cannock lead on the scoresheet for Barford Tigers in local derby against Cannock Cannock led 3-0 at halftime through Gareth Terrett Paul Edwards and the first of Crutchley two goals Yesterday Barford pulled five points clear of the bottom trio in the Premier Division by beating one of the trio Doncaster 2-1 But the Yorkshire side led after ten minutes and held on to it until just after halftime when Bhurji equalised Barford's winner was scored by Jimmy Singh in the 55th minute Ashley hat-trick was sufficient for Bournville to beat Sheffield and enable the Birmingham side who have dropped only two points this season to move into third place in Division One Stourport moved up two places to eighth with an impressive 7-3 defeat of Oxford University having shaken off the effects of the heavy defeat against leaders Surbiton the previous weekend Tom Sherratt and Phil Lashford netted twice and the other goals were scored by Jamie Westerman James Carter and David Knott Surbiton remain leaders after Greg Nicol scored six of his goals in their 7-3 defeat of Warrington Last weekend he scored two against Stourport Harbome continue to keep up the pressure in the DTZ League and have created a three-point lead of the By PAUL RAYMER Hockey Correspondent Two four-goal wins extended Cannock's lead of the National League to three points at the weekend and their top scorer Bobby Crutchley on the eve of his departure to Egypt with the England squad scored twice in each match Beeston yesterday suffered their second four-goal defeat at the hands of the league leaders in three weeks Crutchley scored the first two taking his league tally to 12 and John Mills and Simon Organ followed up the second half with further goals for Cannock Only 18-year-old Pritpal Bhurji got Midlands Premier Division after beating Hampton-in-Arden 5-3 on Saturday Andy Litchfield and Ravinder Barg scored twice with Alex Bale also scoring after Hampton had led early through a Tony Brimble goal In the second half Ian Bent and Greg Wade also scored for Hampton who yesterday suffered another defeat 5-2 to Northampton Saints in a replay of the match abandoned two weeks ago because of flooding Ironically Harborne owe their three-point lead to their former captain Andy Bostock who left the club two weeks ago and has joined Kalsa Bostock scored the winning goal for Kalsa in their 2-1 defeat of second-placed Edgbaston who had been level on points with neighbours Harborne Bloxwich suffered their fourth defeat 5-0 at home to Olton to remain pointless with Blossomfield Bridgnorth head Midland Division One on goal difference following their 4-1 defeat of Leek and Old Haleso-nians and Kingswinford jointly lead West Midlands Premier Old Haleso-nians drew 2-2 with Wednesbury and Kingswinford beat Stratford 3-2 Old Silhillians snatched the lead of West Midlands Division One with a 9-0 drubbing of bottom side Market Drayton Jon C'loke the captain Shaun Bates and Teale Withers all scored twice and the other goals were scored by Max Levenger Mark Per-raton and Jim O' Flaherty Sting in tail gives Bees chance of silver Korda ends run with rare success TENNIS SPEEDWAY WEEK By NIGEL PEARSON Pakistan tighten grip on decisive Test Pat heroics with the hat could not stop Pakistan taking a decisive grip on the third and final Test in Faisalabad yesterday Pakistan were chasing a modest 146 runs for victory and were four without loss in their second innings when bad light ended the third play at the Iqbal Stadium Off-spinner Symcox who made an obstinate 81 in the first innings was in an equally combative mood in the second as he made 55 helped by Lance Klusener who hit a breezy 38 in a total of 2 14 But the spin attack of Mushtaq Ahmed (4-57) and Saqlain Mushtaq (3-36) gave Pakistan the upper hand and as long as bad weather does not intervene again the hosts should wrap up the three-match series today after the first two Tests ended in draws Kessov dumps Leung John Leung won through to the semi-finals of the mens singles at the Slovenian European ircuit Open Badminton Championships in Llubijana yesterday But facing Boris Kessov the Bulgarian number one Leung lost a close match ISIS 10-15 Latimer secures win Britain beat the United States 8-3 in Manchester to retain the Maureen Connolly Trophy for a record fifth successive year The home team were 5-3 ahead this morning and secured their winning margin when Louise Latimer beat Jackie Trail 5-7 6-3 6-0 Loma Woodruffe extended the margin with a convincing 6-1 6-4 victory over the American No 1 Stephy Maybry And Britain made a clean sweep of the day's play when Woodruffe and Latimer joined forces to defeat Maybry and Trail Oki-cokey Paul McGinley secured the second European Tour victory of his golf career by winning the Oki Pro-Am in convincing style in Madrid yesterday Starting the day six shots clear the 30-year-old increased his lead to eight by marching to the turn in 32 and though weakening slightly he carded a 69 for a 72-hole aggregate of 266 22 under par and a first prize of £75000 It was good enough to give him a four-shot victory over lain Pyman the 24-year-old Leeds golfer who finished with a superb 64 for 270 No 1 spot for Nicholas Alison Nicholas produced a stunning late hat-trick of birdies to add the European No 1 title to her US Open victory when she finished second behind Australian Loraine Lambert in the Air France Open in Deauville yesterday Lambert shot a closing 69 to finish at level par on 2 1 3 for her maiden Tour victory two strokes clear of Nicholas with Valerie Michaud from France and Australian Sham Waugh a further stroke behind Nicholas' hopes of becoming the first player to complete the double appeared to have gone when she was six strokes behind Michaud with only three holes to play But the Yorkshire golfer carded birdies at each of the final three holes to make up seven shots on the French golfer Red-hot blaze Solihull Blaze cruised to yet another one-sided victory as Telford Tiger Royals succumbed 14-1 in an incident packed local ice-hockey derby The contest was effectively over following a five-goal first period and not until after Luc Chabot fired the tenth was young net minder Tom Ayres beaten Teenage forward Jake Armstrong led the British scoring challenge with a hat-trick Chabot led the scoring with five goals and Steve Chartrand weighed in with a pair and four assists while Bo Jensen registered Telford's sole reward Price and Kurt Irvine were other home grown scorers Petr Korda of the Czech Republic halted the winning run of Holland's Richard Krajicek in Stuttgart yesterday defeating the former Wimbledon champion 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 6-4 to win the Eurocard Open title The 15th-seeded Korda 29 who nearly retired two years ago after being plagued with groin injuries which required surgery and months of rehabilitation defeated 16th seed Krajicek in 93 minutes Krajicek 26 had reached the final after excellent wins over world No 1 Pete Sampras and German hero Boris Becker at the Schleyer Halle Korda will improve to eighth in the world today his best ranking since 1 993 to move into contention for next month's eight-man ATP Tour World Championships in Hanover Germany he lies 15th with two weeks of play remaining Korda said: not really thinking about Hanover had my vacation planned for some time and I need to undergo some sinus surgery If I make it to Hanover it will be a Korda leads 5-2 in matches against Krajicek who last beat Korda in 1991 previous trophy win was in January 1996 in Doha was only his second in five seasons The Birmingham Post Coventry have given themselves a golden opportunity to salvage some silverware from the 1997 campaign after their Craven Shield success over Swindon The Brandon side won 49-41 in Wiltshire on Saturday to book their place in the final against Lynn who got through at the expense of Eastbourne And the final will now be staged this year Coventry had originally planned to run their leg next season after ending their home campaign more than a week ago But angry fans wanted the issue decided this season and after talks between the two clubs the first leg will now be staged at Lynn on Wednesday with the second leg on the last day of the 1997 season at Coventry on Friday Bees' boss Colin Meredith said: a much more satisfactory way of doing things It means we are not in a position to race on a Saturday but at least the title will be decided this Loyal Cradley fans are urging club officials to hold talks with boss Chris Van Straaten to see if it would be possible to run meetings at Monmore Green next season The calls have been made after the success of last Black Country derby when the homeless Heathens were revived for the night to take on Wolves and pulled in a crowd in excess of 4000 Cradley 's Action Committee spokesman Bob Edwards said: would be a dream come true to see Cradley back in the Black Country next season and a move to use track would benefit both Heathens' director Les Pottinger said: lost a lot of money when we ran at Stoke last year but this may be a different story and we will certainly ask Chris for his Cradley are still hoping to return to Dudley Wood Stadium and Dudley Council are working on that now with the prospect of a compulsory purchase order on the land Bouncing Czech: Peter Korda celebrates victory over Richard Krajicek in Stuttgart yesterday Udall leads Birchfield to victory Welsh tonic lifts spirits MOTORSPORT ATHLETICS The opening 55km circuit ended with only 16sec separating the top 14 clubs Eddie Crowther of Salford second last year was fastest with 16:48 Julian Moorhouse gave Birchfield a seven-second lead on stage two and Matthew Clarkson ran superbly on stage three when Richard Nerurkar of Bingley ran 16:19 the best time Darius Burrows produced Birchfield's fastest lap 16:38 before club-mate Rob 16:39 earned a 56-sec lead Paula Radcliffe set an individual course record on the final lap of 13min 55sec to take Bedford to victory in a course record time of 58min 22sec in the English Four Stage Road Relay in Sutton Park yesterday Lucy Elliot lifted Shaftesbury Barnet to second 39sec behind Beverley Hartigan helped Birchfield the holders finish sixth clinched a class victory in his Astra Also in an Astra Mark Perrott won his class by a massive two-and-a-half minutes and Duncan Williams from Bridgnorth was the best Wolverhampton club member in his Peugeot 205 Courtesy however did not pay off for Sutton Will Clarke He pulled into a lay-by in one of the forests to allow a faster car to go past and got stuck in a ditch When he eventually got going he picked up four punctures and dropped near the rear of the field in his Peugeot 205 Richard Hudson-Evans from Stratford-on-Avon won the Safety Devices Historic Rally Challenge in his Porsche 91 1 by finishing tenth on the Illuminations Rally in the Lake District He took the title by three points Vince Wetton ended his Mintex National Rally Championship in fine shape by finishing tenth on the Bulldog Rally in Central Wales in a new car writes DEREK HILL Wetton only picked up his new Mitsubishi Lancer two days before the Wolverhampton South Staffs ar Club event and his high placing has given him renewed confidence for the Network RAC Rally next month The 82 miles of dusty forest stages produced victory for Marcus Dodd driving an Escort Cosworth but Midland drivers collected several class trophies Roger Davies in an Escort Cos-worth was 12th to clinch the runners-up spot in his category and Simon Buston from Burton Birchfield Harriers men won the National Six Stage Road Relay Championships for the first time in their 120-year history at Sutton Park on Saturday writes MIKE RA WSON Carl Udall timed 1 6 minutes and 48 seconds on the final lap to take Birchfield to the title for the first time in i hr 40min 36sec three seconds faster than last winning time Birchfield won by an impressive 71 sec but behind them there was a terrific battle London Irish took second place three seconds ahead of Bingley with the Southern Counties champions Southampton who were fourth missing the bronze medals by five seconds Salford the National Twelve Stage champions finished fifth followed by Hounslow Tipton and Westbury RESULTS ROUND-UP FOOTBALL by an innings and 127 runs SHEFFIELD SHIELD Perth: Western Australia 477-5 dec South Australia 142 (T Moody 5-20) and 258 (G Blewett 76 Siddons 69 Julian 6-45) Western Australia won by an innings and 77 runs Sydney: Victoria 509-6 dec and 279-8 dec (I Harvey 109) New South Wales 407-4 dec and 225-3 (M Slater 85 Waugh 60no) Match drawn HOCKEY DTZ LEAGUE Midlands Premier: Bloxwich 0 Olton West Warwick 5 Coventry North Warwick 2 Nottingham 4 Hampton in Ar den 3 Harborne 5 Khalsa 2 Edgbaston 1 North Stafford 3 Blossomfield 0 Northampton Saints 2 North Notts 2 Northampton Saints 5 Hampton in Arden 2 West Midlands Premier: Birmingham University 4 Kings Heath Pickwick 2 Bromsgrove 2 Streetly 5 Chaddesley Corbett 0 Handsworth Eagles 5 Evesham 7 Stone 2 Kingswinford 3 Stratford 2 Old Halesomans 2 Wednesbury 2 THIRD TEST MATCH PAKISTAN SOUTH AFRICA (in Faisalabad Thir day) Overnight: South Africa 239 (G Kirsten lOOno Symcox Cl Wasim Akram 4 42 Mushtaq Ahmad 3-81) and 21-2 Pakistan 308 (Inzamamul Haq 96 Mom Khan 80) SOUTH AFRICA Second innings Bridgnorth 4 Leek 1 John Player 3 Fmchfield 1 Kidderminster 5 Nottingham University 2 Lich field 1 Worcester Norton 5 Preston (700) Division One: Manchester City Port Vale (645) Sunderland Wolverhampton (700) Division Two: Lincoln Rochdale (700) FA CUP first round proper (Sat Nov 15) Northern section: Notts County Colwyn Bay Darlington Stalybndtje Celtic or Solihull Borough Chesterfield Northwich Victoria Hull City Flednesford Town Hartlepool United Macclesfield Town Chester City Winsford United Rochdale Wrexham Morecambe Emley Ilkeston Town Boston United Lincoln City Gainsborough Trinity Shrewsbury Town Grimsby Town Oldham Athletic Mansfield Town Rotherham United Burnley Southport York City Preston North End Doncaster Rovers Carlisle United Wigan Athletic Walsall Lincoln United Blackpool Blyth Spartans Scunthorpe United Scarborough Southern section: Swansea City Peterborough United Sittingbourne or Hereford Brighton Yeovil Town or Hayes Rushden 8 Diamonds or Boreham Wood Cheitenharn Tiverton Town Biilericay Town or Camberley Town Gloucester City or Wisbech Town Bog-nor Regis Town or Farnborough Town Dagenham 8 Redbridge Hendon Leyton Orient Brentford Colchester United AFC Bournemouth Heybridge Swifts Wycombe Wanderers Basingstoke Town Woking Southend Luton Town Torquay United Plymouth Argyle Cambridge United Exeter City Northampton Town Carshalton Athletic Stevenage Borough Slough Town Cardiff City King's Lynn Bromsgrove Rovers Bristol Rovers Gillingham Margate Fulham Barnet Watford Bristol City Millwall SPEEDWAY YOUNG SHIELD semi-tinal second leg: Exeter (43) Reading (47) (7 30) SPORT ON TV FOOTBALL Premiership Leicester Wesl Ham Sky Sports 8pm TENNIS: ATP Super 9 Pans Eurosport 2pm A Bacher Ibw Mushtaq Ahmed 14 Kirsten Mushtaq Wasim Akram 4 McMillan Mom Khan Mushtaq 21 Symcox Ibw Saqlain Mushtaq 55 Cullman Ibw Mushtaq Ahmed 15 Cronje Azhar Mehmood Waqar 21 Pollock not out 21 Richardson Ibw Waqar Youms 0 Klusener Ibw Saqlain Mushtaq 38 A Donald Saqlain Mushtaq 8 Adams Mushtaq Ahmed 0 Extras (b3 lb 13 nbl) 17 Total (69 overs) 214 FRENCH LEAGUE: Bastia 1 Marseille 1 Cannes 1 Le Havre 1 Chateauroux 2 Gumgamp 2 Lyon 0 Toulouse 0 Metz 0 Montpe'lier 1 PSG 2 Lens 0 Rennes 3 Strasbourg 1 Leading positions (after 13 games unless stated) PSG 30pts Metz 26 Bordeaux 26 Marseille 24 Lens 21 Monaco 20 SPANISH LEAGUE: Deportivo 1 Cetta Vigo 1 Barcelona 2 Racing Santander 0 Betis 1 Compostela 0 Salamanca 1 Zaragoza 2 Real Sociedad 2 Merida 1 Valencia 1 Oviedo 1 Sporting Gijon 1 Athletic Bilbao 2 DUTCH LEAGUE Utrecht 2 Nijmegen 4 Sparta Rotterdam 1 Groningen 1 Waalwijk 1 Volendam 1 Twente 1 Roda JC Kerkrade 2 Vitesse Arnhem 1 Fortuna Sittard 0 Ajax 4 Feyenoord 0 Leading positions 1 Ajax played 1 1 33pts 2 PSV 12 28 3 Heerenveen 12 24 4 Vitesse 1 1 21 5 Feyenoord 1 1 20 6 Twente 11 19 EUROPEAN U-18 CHAMPIONSHIP qualifying group Russia 2 England 1 ATHLETICS SUTTON PARK National Six-stage Road Relay Championships: 1 Birchfield Harriers 1 hr 40mm 36sec 2 London Irish 1 41 47 3 Bingley Harriers 1 41 50 4 Southampton RC 1 41 55 5 Salford Harriers 1 43 18 6 Borough of Hounslow 1 43 57 7 Tipton Harriers 1 44 06 8 Westbury Harriers 1 45 13 Fastest lap Nerurker (Bingley) 16mm 19sec English Women's Four-stage Road Relay Championships 1 Bedford 58min 22sec 2 Shaftesbury Barnet 59 01 3 Charnwood 59 22 4 Parkside 59 33 5 Salford Harriers 59 54 6 Birchfield Harriers 60 33 7 Havant 60 47 8 Sale Harriers 61 04 9 Hallamshire 61 33 10 Liverpool Harriers 62 09 Fastest lap Radcliffe (Bedford) 13 55 BASEBALL WORLD SERIES (best of seven) Florida 1 Cleveland 4 (series level 3-3) BASKETBALL BUDWEISER LEAGUE: Renault Leicester Riders 95 Watford Royals 82 Greater London Leopards 89 (45) White 26 Burks 24 Youngblood 9 Exide London Towers 91 (36) (Lewis 23 Austin 16 Gottfried 1 5) Chester Jets 69 (29) (Jackson 21 Leonard '6 loyd 14) Newcastle Eagles 80 (38) (McGee 33 Phelps 22 Boyd 14) UNI-BALL TROPHY Peugeot Bullets Birmingham 92 Converse Crystal Palace 67 Derby Storm 85 Manchester Giants 86 Worthing Bears 86 Thames Valley Tigers 88 Manchester Giants 8B (45) (Larrick 23 Baker 21 Brown '5 Sheffield Sharks 75 (38) (Robinson 15 Johnson 14 Myers 1 1 BOXING Fall of wickets: 1-16 2-21 3-63 4-97 5-140 6 140 7-140 8-187 9-201 Bowling Wasim Akram 11-0-46 1 (nbl) Waqar Youms 14 2-43-2 Mushtaq Ahmed 22-6-57 4 Saqlain Mushtaq 15-6-36-3 Azhar Mehmood 7-2 16-0 PAKISTAN Second innings Alt Naqvi not out 4 Aamir Sohail not out 0 Extras Total (three overs) 4 Bowling: Adams 2 14-0 Symcox i-1-0-0 East Midlands Premier: Aldridge 1 Sutton Cold field 6 Burton 5 Spondon 0 Coalville 3 Ketter ing 0 GPT Coventry 5 West Bridgford 3 Leices ter 5 Leicester Westleigh 1 Loughborough Town 2 Nuneaton 1 West Bridgford 1 Coalville 1 (Bulldog Rally): 1 DoddS McAuley (Ford Escort Cos-worth) 1 26 36 2 HarronP McCrea (Subaru Legacy) 1 27:23 3 MellorsJ Bennie (Ford Escort WRC) 1 27 47 4 DuckworthM Broomfield (Subaru Impreza) 1 29 215 5 DalaarnoM Forrest (Ford Escort Cosworth) 1 30 03 6 BurnS Quirk (MG Metro 6R4) 1 30 09 7 EasonA Cook (Mitsubishi Lancer) 1 30 1181 RobertsD Jones (Ford Sierra) 1 31 47 9 SmithJ Kitson (Lancia Delta) 1 32 18 10 WettonJ Haigh (Mitsubishi Lancer) 1 32:25 Final positions: 1 Lyall 125pts 2 Grierson 98 3 Dalgarno 92 4 Duckworth 91 5 Smith 86 SKIING TIGRES France World Cup meeting women's giant slalom: 1 Compagnoni (Ita) 2min 24 84sec 2 Ertl (Ger) 2 26 72 3 Fortkord (Swe) 2 27 30 4 Roten (Swi) 2:2835 5 Seizinger (Ger) 2 28 55 6 A Ottosson (Swe) 2 28 90 giant slalom: 1 Von Grunigen (Swi) 2mm 24 29 sec 2 Locher (Swi) 2 24 86 3 Maier (Aut) 2 25 26 SNOOKER BOURNEMOUTH Grand Prix semi-finals: Higgins (Sc) bt Stevens (Wales) 6-5 Dale (Wales) bt White (Eng) 6-2 TAUNTON Girobank Tour singles final: Weal (Hampshire) bt Spinks (Norfolk) 6-2 4-6 6-4 singles final: Ahl (Devon) bt Pullin (Sussex) 6-3 6-1 SPEEDWAY CRAVEN SHIELD semi-final second leg Eastbourne 52 (S Andersson 14 Dugard 12 Danno 12 Norris 12) King's Lynn 37 (S Parker 14 Wigg 11) Lynn win on aggregate 90-88) Swindon 41 (J Nilsen 13 Adams 12 Karger 10) Coventry 49 (G Hancock 11 Jorgensen 11) (Coventry win 99-81) endBntish Speedway fixtures start-time 7 30 Unless stated Monday October 27 Young Shield semifinal second leg Exeter (43) Reading (47) SQUASH MELBOURNE Australian Women's Open final (seeding in brackets): (1) Fitz-Gerald (Aus) bt (2) Martin (Aus) 5-9 9-4 9-4 9-0 TABLE TENNIS MOSCOW European League Division One Russia 2 England 4 (Russian names first) A Smirnov bt Prean 21-17 18-21 21-17 Mazunov bt A Perry 21-10 23-21 Andrianov lost to Syed 8-21 7-21 Mazunov Andrianov lost to Prean Perry 21-12 17-21 8-21 Mazunov lost to Prean 21-10 1 1-21 17-21 Smirnov lost to Syed 16-21 13-21 NIMES France World Cup (world rankings in brackets) quarter-finals: (2) Linqhui (Chn) bt (1) J-0 Waldner (Swe) 21 -8 21-17 21-12 (3) Samsonov (Blr) bt (4) Guoliang (Chn) 13-21 21-14 21-15 21-17 TENNIS STUTTGART Eurocard Open tournament semi-finals: (15) Korda (Cze) bt (3) Rafter (Aus) 6-4 7-6 (7-3) (16) Krajicek (Ned) bt (13) Borkman (Swe) 6-4 3-6 6-3 Final Korda bt Krajicek 7-6 (86) 6-2 6-4 LUXEMBOURG Open Women's tournament semifinals (x denotes seeded player) (5) Paulus (Aut) bt A-G Sidot (Fra) 6-3 6-4 Final: Coetzer bt Paulus 6-4 3-6 7-5 MEXICO Men's ATP Tournament semi-finals (1) Clavet (Spa) bt Lapentti (Ecu) 7-5 7-6 (75) J-A Viloca (Spa) bt Meligem (Bra) 6-3 6-1 QUEBEC Canada WTA tournament semi-finals: (1 Schultz-McCarthy (Ned) bt (5) Rubin (US) 6-2 6-4 Van Roost (Bel) bt (2) Raymond (US) 6-2 3-6 6-1 TAUNTON Girobank Tour men's singles final Weal (Hampshire) bt Spinks (Norfolk) 6-2 4-6 6-4 Women's singles final Ahl (Devon) bt Pullin (Sussex) 6-3 6-1 YACHTING ROUND THE WORLD Latest positions (1200 GMT yesterday finished first leg unless stated) 1 EF Language 2 Merit Cup 3 Innovation Kvaerner 4 Silk Cut 5 Chessie Racing 6 Toshiba 7 America's Challenge 8 Swedish Match 9 FF Education 10 BrunelSunergy 171 7 miles from finish FIXTURES FOOTBALL (7 45 unless slated) PREMIERSHIP Leicester West Ham (8 00) PONTINS LEAGUE: Premier Division: Liverpool Manchester United (7 00) Stoke Drummond 71 68 75 71 286 Emerson 69 71 71 75 Karlsson (Swe) 70 73 69 74 Romero (Arg) 74 68 70 74 Gilford 69 71 75 71 Gogele (Ger) 73 67 74 72 Cooper 69 71 75 71 Borrego (Spa) 71 71 73 71 287 J-M Camzares (Spa) 71 69 71 76 288 Gronberg (Swe) 70 73 76 69 289 A Hunter 70 70 76 73 292 Rozadilla (Spa) 75 65 78 74 297 Iguaran (Spa) 72 71 78 76 VOLVO RANKING LIST (after Oki Pro-Am Gbr and Irl unless stated): 1 Montgomerie £613947 85 2 Langer (Ger) £568698 37 3 Clarke £467709 12 4 I Woosnam £442729 57 5 I Garrido (Spa) £36657997 6 RGoosen (Rsa) £360997 7 Westwood £344 718 19 8 P-U Johansson (Swe) £322880 08 9 J-M Olazabal (Spa) £301648 68 10 Karlsson (Swe) £294942 25 11 Rocca (Ita) £278244 05 12 Harrington £254 982 05 13 Romero (Arg) £254636 38 14 James £249 160 86 15 Russell £247583 19 16 Bjorn (Den) £237238 19 17 Turner (Nzl) £234 269 93 18 Claydon £221255 00 19 Haeggman (Swe) £221129 10 20 McGinley £215835 61 NEW GOLF de DEAUVILLE Air France Madame Open leading final scores (Gbr Irl unless stated par 71): 21 3 Lambert (Aus) 71 73 69 (9000) 21 5 A Nicholas 73 69 73 (6090) 216 Waugh (Aus) 67 77 72 Michaud (Fra) 70 72 74 (3720 each) 21 7 Mendiburu (Fra) 70 75 72 Dowling 75 72 70 Stewart 72 68 77 218 M-L de Lorenzi (Fra) 73 75 70 Prosser 68 78 72 Meumer Lebouc (Fra) 72 72 74 Navarro (Spa) 71 71 76 220 A Arruti (Spa) 75 69 76 221 Moult 75 75 71 Schmitt (Fra) 74 73 74 222 Wadsworth 75 75 72 Pestana (Rsa) 78 72 72 Soulsby 76 73 73 223 Leary (Aus) 76 73 74 Lojdahl (Swe) 71 76 76 Moon 74 72 77 224 Sterner (Swe) 79 71 74 Taylor 75 74 75 Arruti (Spa) 73 75 76 I Tinning (Den) 77 77 70 225 Maritz (Rsa) 77 73 75 Gonzalez (Col) 76 77 72 M-T Pistolet-Boselli (Fra) 72 79 74 226 Pearce (Aus) 77 74 75 A Berg (Swe) 77 77 72 227 Murray 74 74 79 Carriedo (Spa) 76 78 73 Melin (Swe) 78 76 73 228 Lautens (Swi) 73 76 79 Elliott 75 74 79 van Ryckeghem (Bel) 79 76 73 Stensrud (Nor) 79 75 75 Hedblom (Swe) 73 80 75 229 de Boer (Hoi) 77 75 77 Madill 73 78 78 230 Dassu (Ita) 77 83 70 Craik 74 75 81 Castamer (Fra) 73 77 80 Hall 81 73 76 231 Head 82 74 75 Sutton 75 78 78 232 Booker (Aus) 78 79 75 Forster 78 79 75 233 A Rogers 78 77 78 234 Descampe (Bel) 75 82 77 235 Forbes 76 82 77 Dallongeville (Fra) 77 79 79 236 Wunsch (Spa) 77 83 76 I Macom (Ita) 82 75 79 Mourgue d'Algue (Fra) 75 77 84 237 Hageman (Hol) 82 81 74 A Pascalie (Fra) 80 79 78 Dufy 78 81 78 Koch (Swe) 81 75 81 238 Greve (Den) 81 76 81 243 Hill (Zim) 79 85 79 AMERICAN EXPRESS TOUR final Order of Merit (Gbr and Irl unless stated): 1 A Nicholas £94589 2 Alfredsson (Swe) £92927 3 M-L de Lorenzi (Fra) £89523 4 Davies £77 424 5 Lunn (Aus) £65142 6 Meumer Lebouc (Fra) £52999 7 Morley £48 217 8 A-M Knight (Aus) £47 135 9 Johnson £45742 10 Hjorth (Swe) £39536 SOLHEIM CUP positions after Air France Open 1 de Lorenzi 77 50pts 2 Nicholas 67 83 3 Alfredsson 58 83 4 Davies 51 50 5 A Sorenstam (Swe) 48 00 6 Johnson 40 00 7 Meumer Lebouc 39 00 8 Hackney 38 50 9 Fairclough 28 05 10 Morley 27 50 1 1 Hjorth 26 27 12 Sorenstam (Swe) 26 00 MONTADO Portugal Challenge Tour Estoril Grand Final final leading scores(Gbr irl unless stated par 72): 198 Joakimides (Fra) 69 67 62 (£11662) 199 Lundberg (Swe) 64 66 69 (£7770) 200 Nyman (Swe) 69 67 64 Pendaries (Fra) 68 64 68 (£3941 each) 202 Leaney (Aus) 65 70 67 A Collison 67 68 67 Levet (Fra) 66 66 70 (£2732 each) 203 Tinning (Den) 69 69 65 Dredge 70 65 68 (£2219 each) 204 Brink (Swe) 68 70 66 Berendt (Arg) 71 67 66 Goggm (Aus) 70 66 68 Nystrom (Swe) 67 68 69 (£1 730 each) 205 Edmond (Fra) 66 71 68 Cea (Spj 67 66 72 (£1 295 each) 206 Arruti (Sp) 69 71 66 Reale (It) 69 71 66 Jacquelin (Fra) 70 68 68 (£994 each) 207 Cupillard (Fra) 68 71 68 Bickerton 69 68 70 Bennett 68 68 71 Henqe (Swe) 67 68 72 (£812 each) Other British scores 208 Cronin 71 69 68 209 Lynn 69 72 68 Owen 70 70 69 21 1 James 70 76 65 Winchester 71 70 70 212 A Russell 75 70 67 Marks 71 70 71 215 Watson 71 75 69 Leading 15 players on rankings who earn European Tour cards for 1998 1 Reale (Ita) £51679 2 Kalle Brink (Swe) £36112 3 Chalmers (Aus) £35 267 4 Jacquelin (Fra) £34 537 5 A Kankkonen (Fin) £32 128 6 Joakimides (Fra) £31 497 7 Lynn (Eng) £31 341 8 Tinning (Den) £29552 9 Storegaard (Den) £29426 10 Hamlme (USA) £29 368 11 Leaney (Aus) £28 613 12 Thul (Ger) £27 417 13 Vanhooteaem (Bel) £26 936 14 Kjeldsen (Den) £26 581 15 Dredge (Wales) £26 415 NEVADA United States Las Vegas Invitational fourth round leading scores (US unless stated) 272 Waldorf 65 63 69 75 274 Reid 67 67 70 70 Glasson 63 65 75 71 Mayfair 65 63 73 73 27 5 Edwards 68 66 69 72 Calcavecchia 66 66 72 71 Sutherland 69 63 70 73 276 Don Blake 68 69 68 71 278 Jones 66 68 72 72 Fabel 64 66 77 71 Gibson 64 65 76 73 Tryba 66 65 73 74 279 Janzen 66 72 71 70 Couples 66 67 69 77 A oan AnnHc fifl fid 77 71 dard 6 GEC Alsthom 0 Newtown 9 Harper Ad ams 2 West Bromwich 3 Leamington 3 Michelm 3 Royal Spa 4 Sandwell 2 East Midlands One Barton 4 Sikh Union (Coven try) 1 Boots 4 Corby 2 GEC Rugby 3 Rugby 2 Melton 2 Sikh Union (Nottingham) 3 DEESIDE North Wales 12rds vacant British bantamweight title Paul Lloyd (Ellesmere Port) bt Francis Ampofo (Bethnal Green) pts (Lloyd also retained his Commonwealth title 6rds super-featherweight Andy Ross (Wales) drew with Nicky Wilders (Castleford) 8rds flyweight: Jason Thomas (Wales) bt Keith Knox (Sc) pts 6rds cruiserweight Alexander Gurov (Ukri bt Trevor Small (Birmingham) rsc 6th 6rds light-middleweight Ahmet Dottouev (Rus) bt Jimmy Vincent (Birmingham) pts 4rds lightweight Tontcho Tontchev (Bui) bt Karl Taylor (Birmingham) pts 4rds middleweight Craig Winter (Warrington) bt George Richards (Birmingham) rsc 2nd 8rds super-middleweight Clinton Woods (Sheffield) bt Danny Juma (Belfast) pts BUDAPEST World Amateur Championships finals 48kg Romero (Cub) bt Velasco (Phi) 9-i 51kg Mantilla (Cub) bt ilfat Raziapov (Rus) 18-3 54kg Malakhbekov (Rus) bt Font (Cub) 18-6 57kg Kovacs (Hun) bt Huste (Ger) 6-2 60kg: A Maletin (Rus) bt Utumen (Mon) 15-7 63 5kg Simion (Romi bt Gvasala (Rus) 16-5 67kg: Saitov (Rus) btS Dzinziruk iUkr) 2-1 71kg: A Duvergel (Cub) bt Ibraimov (Kzk) 9- 75kg: Erdei (Hun) bt A Hernandez (Cub) 8-2 81kg: A Lebztak (Rus) bt Serrat (Fra) 12-7 9tkg Chagaev (Uzb) bt Savon (Cub) 14-4 Over-91 kg: Kandelaki (Geo i bt A Rubalcaba (Cub) 4-1 CYCLE SPEEDWAY DARTS BOGNOR REGIS World Pairs Championships roup stages: Barneveld Scholten bt Taylor nderson6-2 Deller Harvey bt Gardner Lim 6-4 A Warrmer Spiolek bt Lowe Lazerenko 6-3 Harrington Burnett bt Mason Raw 6-1 Barneveld Scholten bt Harvey Deller 6-0 Lim Gardner bt Taylot Anderson 6-4 Harrington BUrnett bt A Warrmer Spiolek 6-5 Mason Raw bt Lowe Lazerenko 6-3 Deller Harvey bt Taylor Anderson 6-5 Barneveld Scholten bt Lim Gardner 6-2 A Warrmer Spiolek bt Mason Raw 6-5 Harrington Burnett bt Lowe Lazarenko 6-3 Final: Barneveld Scholten bt Harrington Burnett 18-15 GOLF MADRID Oki Pro-Am tournament at La Moraleia Number Two Course final eading scores (Gbr Irt unless stated): 266 McGinley 66 67 64 69 (£75000) 27 0 I Pyman 68 69 69 64 (£50 000) 273 Turner (Nzl) 69 68 67 69 (£28 1 70) 274 Russell 66 69 68 71 (£22 500) 275 Clark 70 67 72 66 Rivero (Spa) 65 73 68 69 Lomas 67 69 69 70 276 Mackenzie 70 69 68 69 277 Baker 69 72 68 68 M-A Jimenez (Spa) 67 68 72 70 Ames (Tn) 71 67 69 70 278 Eales 71 69 70 68 A Cabrera (Arg) 70 70 69 69 Evans 70 67 71 70 San-delin (Swe) 74 67 70 67 Spence 66 72 70 70 J-C Pinero (Spa 67 70 68 73 279 Lmhart (Spa) 67 68 74 70 A Forsbrand (Swe)71 69 69 70 Riley (Aus) 71 66 71 71 Harrington 72 66 69 72 Sjoland (Swe) 69 69 69 72 Roca (Spa) 65 70 71 73 A Coltart 74 69 70 66 Boxall 64 72 70 73 280 Curry 71 69 69 71 Clark 67 73 69 71 Mouland 65 73 74 68 Luna (Spa) 70 69 68 73 281 Ballesteros (Spa) 72 70 68 7i Sota (Spa) 69 70 71 71 Affleck 69 72 72 68 I Garndo (Spa) 71 67 70 73 Struver (Ger) 66 73 68 74 Howell 71 71 65 74 282 Mitchell 72 68 70 72 Payne 72 68 70 72 Robertson 69 70 72 71 unmcliff 73 67 72 70 A Bmaghi (Ita) 67 74 72 69 Cage 70 68 74 70 Lawne 71 66 69 76 283 M-A Martin (Spa 72 69 68 74 Smyth 69 67 74 73 Hospital (Spa) 67 73 71 72 Campbell (Nzl) 67 66 75 75 Flonoli (Ita) 68 74 70 71 Pinero (Spa) 68 72 73 70 Robson 71 72 71 69 Tarnaud (Fra) 69 71 75 68 284 Suneson (Spa) 68 71 73 72 Orr 72 67 69 76 285 Coceres (Arg) 69 70 71 75 Carter 66 76 70 73 James 71 71 71 72 Manchester Storm cruised back to the top of Ice Hockey's Superleague with a 6-0 shutout in Bracknell as the Bees found netminder Jim Hrivnak in sensational form Following a goalless first period notable only for the ejection ot Manchester's Craig Woodcrott and Bracknell's Matt Cote after just six seconds of the game for roughing Storm then rattled home five goals in 1 3 minutes during the second Dave Morrison Stefan Ketola Mike Morin Stephen Cooper and Jett Jablonski were all on target before Morin completed the rout in the final period Cardiff Devils warmed up for their Benson 8 Hedges semi final double-header against Newcastle Cobras with a 3-0 victory over Rick Brebant's side Cardiff were indebted to netminder Derek Herlofsky for their shutout as Doug McCarthy -in his first game back from injury and Vezio Sacratim set them on their way with two goals in the space of 17 seconds in the opening period Steve Moria added the third 90 seconds from the end of the second period as Paul Heavey's Devils ensured they maintained their unbeaten start to the Superleague while condemning rock-bottom Newcastle to their fifth straight defeat In Sheffield Steelers bounced back from a 3-2 midweek defeat at Nottn yi iam Panthers with a 7-3 thrashing of Basingstoke Bison at the Arena Despite dominating the opening period Sheffield trailed 2-1 with Rot' power-play goal sandwiching strikes from Kevin Conway and Merv Priest ICE HOCKEY SUPER LEAGUE: Ayr Scottish Eagles 2 Basingstoke Bison 1 Nottingham Panthers 2 Newcastle Cobras 1 Fite 15 Murrayfieid 6 BENSON HEDGES CUP PLATE semi-final first leg Paisley 6 Slough 4 Telford 8 Peterborough 4 MOTORSPORT DYFNANT Mintex National Rally Series seventh round (top 10 after three stages): 1 DoddS McAuley (Ford Escort Cosw) 0 39 23 2 GnersonS Merry (Subaru Impreza) 0 39 29 3 HigginsP Mills (Nissan Sunny GTI) 0 39 40 4 HeadB Thomas (Renault Megane) 0 39 55 5 MellorsJ Bennie (Ford Escort WRC) 0 39 57 6 HarronP McCrea (Subaru Legacy) 0 40 07 7 RoweN Beech (Renault Megane) 0 40 12 8 DuckworthM Broomfield (Subaru Impreza) 0 40 54 9 MillsA Sankey (Ford Sierra Cosw) 0 40 57 10 18 A ToughJ Christie (Mitsubishi Gallant) 0 4116 Mintex National Rally Championship seventh round JHt rnr iainge 8 (M Ansi 7 Ellis 15 Cox 12) Rest Of England 101 (D Solomon 20 Murphy 16 Harris 15) CRICKET ATCHES Cairns Queensland 2528 (50 Symonds 75 Maher 72) New Zealand 125 (B i Jackson 5-22) Queensland won by 127 Buxton 0 Repton Brockford 5 Ilkeston 1 South Nottingham 2 Newark 7 SSC 0 Worksop 1 Rolls Royce 7 196 and 248 (B Young 67 571-9 dec Queensland won runs Saturday New Zealand Fleming 62 Queensland.