Athletics
BRITAIN'S Tim Hutchings yesterday won an 11,300m cross-country race in
Amorebieta, Spain, clocking 32-40, ten seconds ahead of Haji Bulbula of
Ethiopia. Gary Staines of Belgrave Harriers was fourth in 32-5. Helen
Titterington (Leicester) won the 4800m women's race in 14-29, followed
by Karen Macleod of Edinburgh AC in 14-47.
COLIN YOUNGSON of Aberdeen AAC retained his title in the Scottish
National Veterans cross country championships at Balgownie, Aberdeen,
yesterday. Youngson had little difficulty in covering the 10,000 metre
trail to win in 31-36, over 120 yards in front of Charlie McDougall
(Calderglen Harriers), who finished 22 seconds behind. Peter Marshall
(Haddington) took third place in 32-29.
PORTUGUESE runners dominated the European Club cross-country
championships on home soil at Acoteias yesterday, winning both the men's
and women's races. Domingos Castro led six of his countrymen into the
first eight places as Lisbon club Sporting controlled the men's race,
finishing with 12 points, ahead of DYC of Spain (38) and Racing of
France (70). In the women's section, Braga kept the title, beating
Birchfield Harriers, for whom Suzanne Samy, fifth, was the leading
runner.
HAYLEY HAINING signalled full recovery from being stood on by a horse
last summer when she was first Scot to finish in the nine-nations
under-23 cross-country international at Hannute, Belgium yesterday. With
Miss Haining sixteenth, Eileen Cochrane seventeenth, Sheena MacDonald
thirtieth and Val Clinton thirty-third the Scots finished sixth, one
place ahead of the English team.
EDINBURGH Southern Harrier Keith Lyall won the Chester-le-Street 6.6
mile road race yesterday in 33min.45secs, beating Europa Cup marathon
internationalist Ian Bloomfield by nine seconds. Lyall, who underwent a
tendon operation in November, is coached by John Lauder at Kelso.
THE LAST East of Scotland cross-country league race at Heriot Watt
University, Riccarton, on Saturday, was won by Iain Steel (Edinburgh
Southern). In the hardest race of the season over seven miles, he held
on to win in 41-31 from Aberdeen AAC's Ray Cresswell (41-35). In third
position was Peter Faulds (Falkirk Victoria) in 42-02, who led his club
to the senior title they last won in 1986.
Snooker
FORMER world amateur champion Darren Morgan from Cwmfelinfach crashed
out at the quarter-final stage of the #6000 Tennents Pro-Am tournament
last night at the Ambassadeur Club, Kirkcaldy. The 22-year-old Welshman,
now based in Stirling and a stablemate of Masters champion Stephen
Hendry, opened with an impressive break of 71, but failed to sustain his
early form and went down 2-3 to Scottish title-holder Drew Henry from
Langside.
Murdo McLeod (Livingston) also made an early exit, losing 2-3 to
former Scottish Champion Jimmy McNellan of Glasgow.
Lacrosse
VALERIE HOUSTON (West of Scotland), Kirsten Doig, Mairi Pollock (both
Edinburgh Ladies), Alison Gibb (St Andrews University), and Kirsty
Barber (Aberdeen University) are the Home Scots internationalists in
Scotland's lacrosse squad, announced following the national trial at
Riccarton, Currie, on Saturday, for matches against Wales at Peffermill
on March 11, England in London on March 18, and the world cup in Perth,
Australia, from September 2 to 9.
Lydia Wilkie (Kingfishers), one of 11 Anglos, is the only uncapped
player in the squad, which is:
K Barber (Aberdeen University), J Campbell (Kingfishers), H Cohu (West
London), C Davies (unattached), K Doig (Edinburgh Ladies), K Donaldson
(Kingfishers), J Duckett (Beckenham), H Dudgeon (unattached), S Fowler
(Kingfishers), A Gibb (St Andrews University), J Graham (Kingfishers), V
Houston (West of Scotland), M McDonagh (Harpenden), G Marshall
(Kingfishers), M Pollock (Edinburgh Ladies), L Wilkie (Kingfishers).
Scotland, hosts for the fourth world tournament in 1993, have
appointed a new coach, Edinburgh-born Phil Moore, a lecturer at Crew and
Alsager College.
The Scottish Schoolgirls finished last at the All England's annual
junior territorial tournament in York on Saturday. They drew 2-2 with
runners-up East, but were beaten 4-1 by champions Midlands, 5-2 by West,
7-2 by South, and 3-1 by North.
Club results -- St Leonard's 8, St George's 8; St Leonard's A 8, St
George's A 5.
Boxing
JIMMY DUNN, match secretary of Zetland ABC, announced yesterday that
his enterprising committee have agreed to promote the Gaelic Amateur
championships from May 17 to 20 at the Grangemouth Sports Centre.
The championships were contested last year in Nova Scotia, where Alex
Docherty (Blantyre) and Steve McLevy (Glasgow) both won gold medals.
Apart from Scotland, the nations who will be competing are Canada,
Wales, Ireland, and Brittany.
ISRAEL CONTRERAS of Venezuela knocked out Italy's Maurizio Lupino
after 37 seconds of the first round to win the newly created World
Boxing Organisation bantam-weight title in Caracas on Saturday.
Bobsleighing
WOLFGANG HOPPE of East Germany won the world two-man championship at
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, yesterday in a combined time for four legs of
3min 38.05sec. Gustav Weder of Switzerland was second in 3-38.11 and
Janis Kipurs of the Soviet Union third in 3-39.89.
Britain's bobs finished in fourteenth and fifteenth places.
Cricket
LEFT-ARM fast bowler Mike Whitney ripped through the West Indies
batting in Adelaide yesterday, taking six wickets to give Australia a
good chance of winning the fifth and final Test. At stumps on the third
day West Indies were 338 for eight wickets, 177 behind Australia's
first-innings 515. Scores:
Australia 515; West Indies 338 for eight (R Richardson 106, D Haynes
83, I V A Richards 69; M Whitney 6-75).
THE first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand in Dunedin was
abandoned yesterday after the first three days were called off because
of rain.
Cricket officials said Pakistan had agreed to play a one-day match
today, a national holiday, instead of the final two days of the Test. If
conditions do not allow play, the 50-over game will be played tomorrow.
Volleyball
Men. Royal Bank Scottish League: Division I -- Team Fife 0, Kinleith
Plant 3; Krystal Klear 3, Team Novasport 0; Su Ragazzi 3, Elliott Sports
Jets 0; Scottish Farm 3, Bellshill Cardinals 2; Bon Accord 0, East
Kilbride 3. Division 2 -- 2nd Krystal Klear 0, Dundee Kirkton 3; Glasgow
Gregg 3, Paisley 0; Pentland NUVOC 3, Carluke Brannock 0; Bon Accord
Derricks 3, Whitburn Centre 2. Division 3 (East) -- Settle Inn 2,
Edinburgh University 3; Beacon 3, Huntly Equipment Rental 2. Division 3
(West) -- Strathkelvin 1, Trinity 3; Grange 0, Novasport Dynamoes 3;
Glasgow Spartans 3, 2nd Paisley 2; Inverclyde 3, 2nd Bellshill Cardinals
1; Glasgow Bannerman 0, 2nd East Kilbride 3. Division 4 -- 3rd Krystal
Klear 0, Kelty Chiefs 3; 2nd Su Ragazzi 1, Jets 3; Perth 3, 2nd Whitburn
Centre 0.
WOMEN. Division I -- Scottish Farm 3, Strathkelvin 0; Glasgow
Bannerman 3, Wheatsheaf Jets 2; Inverclyde 3, Carluke Brannock 0;
Deloitte Hazlehead 0, Kyle 3. Division 2 -- Krystal Klear 3, Larbert 0;
Moray House 1, Firrhill Jets 3; Pentland NUVOC 3, 2nd Kyle 2; Wood Group
Tullos 3, Whitburn Centre 2. Division 3 -- 2nd Strathkelvin 2,
Alternative 3; 2nd Krystal Klear 0, Paisley 3; Grange 1, Tay Pearls 3;
2nd Inverclyde 0, Trinity 3; Dunf Dynamoes 0, Campbeltown 3.
Royal Bank Scottish Cup: Quarter-finals -- Dundee Kirkton 1, East
Kilbride 3; Team Novasport 3, Bellshill Cardinals 0; Kinleith Plant 3,
Scottish Farm 0. Women -- Glasgow Bannerman 3, Wood Group Tullos 1;
Wheatsheaf Jets 3, Krystal Klear 0.
Ice hockey
Saturday. Heineken League. Premier division -- Ayr Bruins 9, Solihull
Barons 8; Fife Flyers 4, Murrayfield Racers 8. Division 1 -- Swindon
Wildcats 15, Glasgow Eagles 9.
Yesterday. Heineken League. Premier division --Tayside Tigers 3, Fife
Flyers 11; Murrayfield Racers 21, Solihull Barons 4.Division 1 --
Cardiff Devils 29, Glasgow Eagles 1.
Yachting
HAVING won the opening round of the Strathclyde Loch Sailing Club
Commodore's Cup series a fortnight ago, Roy McCubbin consolidated his
lead in the championship by winning the second round yesterday.
McCubbin, sailing a Topper, coped well with the blustery conditions to
come home an easy winner ahead of Crawford Reid. Result:
1, R McCubbin (Topper); 2, Crawford Reid (Laser); 3, Scott Caldow
(Wayfarer).
Rowing
WITH strong winds running against the current on the Forth causing
severe conditions, Saturday's Stirling Head of the River Race for fours
was run over a shortened course for safety reasons.
The crews suffered as they tried to cope with the conditions, none
more so than pre-race favourites Clydesdale/Stirling who amost sank and,
waterlogged, slipped back to sixteenth position overall. Their Scottish
international squad colleagues from Castle Semple also took on board
plenty of water and struggled to finish third, leaving the way clear for
St Andrew (Edinburgh) to take the title of fastest crew in a time of
17min 21sec.
Inverness, Scotland's newest rowing club, won the men's novice
division, while Clydesdale took the men's veteran and women's open
sections. Winners:
Overall -- St Andrew (Edinburgh). Senior A -- George Heriot's. Senior
C -- George Heriot's. Novice -- Inverness. Women's open -- Clydesdale.
Women's senior C -- Aberdeen University. Women's novice -- Edinburgh
University. Veteran -- Clydesdale.
Shinty
GLENMORANGIE Qualifying Cup. Semi-final -- Glasgow University 1,
Kilmory 7.
Sutherland Cup. Second round -- Ballachulish 6, Furnace 3; Kintyre 1,
Livingston 2.
Balliemore Cup. First-round replay -- Kincraig 2, Inverness 0.
Marine Harvest League. Division 1 -- Tayforth 1, Kyles Athletic 5.
Division 4 -- Caberfeidh 1, Aberdeen University 2.
Gymnastics
THE Scottish women's team beat their Flemish counterparts by 171.95
points to 168.3 at Ypres at the weekend, with Dunfermline's Faith Arnott
topping the individual rankings. The Dunfermline girl beat clubmate and
Scottish champion Susan Martin into second place by 0.13 points with a
score of 35.25, while current Scottish No.1 Ruth Gibson of East Kilbride
finished fourth.
Motorsport
THE Nissan GTP of Geoff Brabham, Arie Luyendyk, and Chip Robinson
continued to lead the Daytona 24 Hours in Florida yesterday after fog
halted racing for almost four hours. A heavy fog rolled in off the
Atlantic Ocean early yesterday, forcing officials to stop the Camel GT
sports car race after 10 hours 11 minutes.
The halt came with Brabham, the defending Camel GT champion, leading
by one lap over the Jaguar XJR9 of Price Cobb, John Nielsen of Denmark
and Andy Wallace of Britain.
After racing resumed the Nissan became locked in a battle for the top
spot with the Jaguar of John Andretti and the Porsche 962 prototype of
twice Daytona 24 Hours winners Derek Bell of Britain and Bob Wollek of
France.
After 18 hours, the three cars were on the same lap on the 3.56-mile
Daytona International Speedway road circuit, with the Nissan leading by
about 40 seconds.
Netball
SCOTLAND played host to England in the John Wright Sports Centre, East
Kilbride, on Saturday for the first of the home internationals. In the
under-18 match the visitors were much sharper than the Scots and led by
33-9 at the interval. The final result of 69-13 highlights the
differences in the standards of play.
Scotland, 40-13 down at half time in the under-21 match, rallied
bravely in the third quarter but were defeated 67-30 by a more efficient
English side.
SIXTEEN teams competed for the Scottish Netball Association
President's trophy at the John Wright Sports Centre, East Kilbride, on
Saturday. The eventual winners, Scotstoun, had to battle to the final
whistle before taking the trophy by beating Glenrothes by 5 to 4.
Tennis
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA came from behind to score a 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 victory
over Lori McNeil in a nail-biting all-American final of the $300,000
women's international indoor championship in Tokyo yesterday.
The world's No.2 used her superior experience to claw back from 3-5
down in the final tie-break and then leapt for joy as McNeil ploughed a
forehand return into the net to lose her fourth successive point and the
match.
TOP seed and defending champion Patty Fendick of the United States
yesterday beat New Zealand's Belinda Cordwell 6-2, 6-0 in the final of
the Auckland women's tournament.
Fendick also won the doubles title, in partnership with Canada's Jill
Hetherington, beating Australians Elizabeth Smylie and Janine Thompson
6-4, 6-4.
Squash
CHRIS DITTMAR from Australia, the No.2 seed, defeated favourite and
former world champion Jansher Khan from Pakistan in straight games to
win the $7500 top prize in the final of the Standard Life Telesquash
international at Edinburgh Sports Club.
The 25-year-old world No.3's naturally attacking style was ideally
suited to Telesquash, in which rallies last a maximum of 15 strokes, and
he ran out a comfortable 16-11, 16-13, 16-14 winner.
In an entertaining third-place play-off, Scotland's Mark Maclean put
up a brave battle before going down 9-16, 16-14, 17-15, 17-19, 9-16 to
Australia's world No.5, Chris Robertson, in a 95-minute contest.
Maclean, who had beaten former world champion Ross Norman in the first
round, was rewarded with $2500 for his efforts.
MIKE HOWARD, the Manchester-based reigning champion and No.2 seed, was
dramatically beaten in the semi-finals of the Scottish Veterans over-45
championship at Bridge of Allan yesterday by unseeded Norman Telfer
(Western Squash Club, Glasgow).
However, Telfer faced in-form John Done in the final and, in spite of
making a superb start to the match, he never really recovered from
losing the second game by 10 points to eight. Results:
Over-35s -- Douglas Rutherford (Dunfermline) beat Peter Wilson
(Edinburgh) 7-9, 9-4, 9-4, 9-3. Over-40s -- George Harvey (SSRC) beat
David Gordon (Forthill) 9-3, 9-1, 9-10, 9-5. Over-45s -- John Done
(Edinburgh) beat Norman Telfer (Western) 1-9, 10-8, 9-5, 9-8. Over-50s
-- Geoff Smith (Fintry) beat Les Cameron (Olympia) 9-3, 9-0, 9-7.
Over-55s -- Duncan Ferguson (SSRC) beat Norman Reid (Hamilton) 7-9, 9-1,
9-0, 9-4.
Table tennis
SWEDEN'S Jan-Ove Waldner won the prestigious European Top 12
tournament for a record fourth time yesterday after losing only one of
his 11 matches. Olga Nemes of West Germany collected her second victory
in the women's event as European champion and Top 12 title holder Fliura
Bulatova of the Soviet Union crashed from her pedestal to a humiliating
bottom place.
Waldner, who also won the event in 1984, 1986, and 1988, seized
victory in the first 10 rounds of the 11-match, round-robin tournament,
but then -- with his fourth title already in his pocket -- lost
concentration and conceded his sole defeat against Austrian veteran Ding
Yi 15-21, 21-19, 21-19, 21-16.
Ding, 30, was a leading Chinese player in the early 1980s before he
moved to Europe where he opted for Austrian citizenship.
Golf
TAIWAN, France, and Canada won their regional tournaments yesterday to
reach the finals of the Dunhill Cup at St Andrews from September 26 to
October 1.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ, the American veteran golfer, on Saturday received
the Bobby Jones Award, presented annually by the USGA to golf's man of
the year.
Swimming
EDINBURGH'S Dominic Sheils produced a string of stunning performances
at the Cunninghame Open swim meet at the Auchenharvie Pool, Stevenston,
at the weekend. Sheils, of the Warrender club who is the top-ranking
British junior in his age category, made a clean sweep of the four boys'
13/14 year events.
He took the butterfly in 1min 4.88 sec, a meeting record by more than
two seconds, and followed up with the butterfly in 1-4.88, more than
five seconds ahead of Cumbernauld's Stuart Wallace. He won the freestyle
in 58.90sec and the backstroke by almost two seconds in 1-07.75. For
good measure, he ended by capturing the 200 metres freestyle in 2-06.6.
Carol Shiell, swimming for the Edinburgh composite team, won the
women's 800 metres freestyle in 9-13.3. She followed that by taking the
200 metres freestyle in 2-07.34, smashing the meeting record by four
seconds.
Briony Shimmons lost out to Ireland's Sharlene Brown from Lisburn, who
won the 17/18 years 100 metres breastroke in
1-17.71, but the Stirling swimmer took the 100 metres butterfly in
1-10.59.
Basketball
THREE away victories in six days helped MIM Livingston to clinch the
Scottish men's first division basketball title, with their third win by
83-61 over the champions Cumnock at Cumnock Academy yesterday being a
rehearsal for next Saturday night's Scottish Cup final at Meadowbank.
Bobby Archibald scored 28 points for MIM.
Nearest challengers Rangers overwhelmed Dundee 100-50, but needed
their opponents to slip up in one of the games to overtake them.
Results:
Carlsberg League -- MIM Livingston 106, Sunderland 90.
Scottish League. Men. Division I -- James Watt College 60, MIM 89;
Cumnock 78, Rangers 99; Dundee 46, MIM 82; East End Brightsiders 100,
James Watt College 62; Rangers 100, Dundee 50; Cumnock 61, MIM 83.
Division II -- Inverclyde 67, Bruins 59.
Women. Division I -- Rangers 59, Royal Deeside 63; Bo'ness Wildcats
49, Edinburgh Royals 71; MIM 66, Boroughmuir Aces 52. Division II --
Brightsiders 107, Alva 31; Sharon Leon 50, Dundee 58; Scottish Farm 51,
Dunedin 68; Duddingston Coachworks 71, City of Glasgow 51.
Bank of Scotland Junior Cup, semi-finals -- East End Brightsiders 59,
Portobello 52; Rangers 89, Cumnock 73. Junior women, semi-final --
Duddingston Coachworks 42, Powis Panthers 50.
Bank of Scotland Junior National League. Men. Division II -- MIM 110,
Strathkelvin 84; Hamilton 25, Magnum 71; Stirling 32, WHEC 60. Youth
women -- Duddingston Coachworks 47, Grangemouth 61; Dundee 40, Edinburgh
Royals 37.
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