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Headlines (26 April) :
Blues in seventh heaven
Salamon Kalou fires a hat-trick as ruthless Chelsea
smash seven past Stoke to re-establish two-point Premier League lead
Burnley are relegated
Steven Gerrard's double consigns Burnley to a 4-0 home
thrashing and applies the final push through the Premier League's
trap door.
Rangers wrap up SPL title
Kyle Lafferty's winner at Easter Road seals Rangers'
53rd title. Celtic assured of second place after their 2-0 win at
Dundee United.
Villa go fifth after derby win
James Milner's late penalty earns Aston Villa
flattering derby win over Birmingham which puts them level on points
with Tottenham.
Yorkshire thrash Essex
A round-up of all Sunday's Clydesdale Bank 40 action
as Yorkshire beat Essex by 10 wickets while Warwickshire, Durham and
Middlesex also win
Worcester relegated from Premiership
Worcester Warriors go down after a heart-breaking
12-10 defeat to Leeds in the bottom-of-the-table Guinness Premiership
showdown at Headingley.
Giants hat-trick for Hodgson
Winger David Hodgson grabs hat-trick of tries as
Huddersfield Giants stay on the tails of the top three with a superb
Super League win at Celtic Crusaders
Kebede wins London Marathon
Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia goes one better than last
year as he storms to victory in the men's London Marathon in a time
of two hours, five minutes and 18 seconds |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 25
April 2010
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Aston Villa 1 Birmingham 0 Burnley 0 Liverpool 4
Chelsea 7 Stoke 0 Everton 2 Fulham 1
Scottish Premier
Dundee Utd 0 Celtic 2 Hibernian 0 Rangers 1
RUGBY UNION
British and Irish Cup Semi Final
Cornish Pirates (15) 43 Doncaster (5) 5
Guinness Premiership
Leeds Carnegie (12) 12 Worcester (3) 10
The Magners League
Edinburgh (10) 25 Ulster (10) 37 Scarlets (31) 58
Connacht (3) 10
RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League
Bradford (12) 40 Hull K R (0) 4 Castleford (10) 30
Salford (6) 12 Crusaders RL (6) 10 Huddersfield (18) 38 Warrington
(28) 40 Catalans Dragons (0) 6
Co-operative Championship
Batley (0) 24 Widnes (24) 32 Leigh (24) 36 Sheffield
(10) 20 Whitehaven (6) 10 Halifax (18) 28
WORLD SNOOKER
Second round (all matches best of 25):
Mark Williams (Wal) level with Ronnie O'Sullivan (Eng)
8-8
Frame scores (Williams first breaks in brackets):58-21
0-67 (67) 2-87 (78) 0-83 (83) 0-78 (78) 103-0 (75) 61-24 (57) 74-41
(74) 24-110 (86) 91-7 (54) 46-45 99-0 (99) 48-78 87-1 42-80 (66)
32-72 (72).
Ali Carter (Eng) leads Joe Perry (Eng) 10-6
Frame scores (Carter first breaks in brackets):92-4
(88) 29-68 (50) 0-63 (50) 69-36 0-85 (56) 72-0 (72) 29-60 71-44 79-29
(61) 71-28 113-0 (100) 66-45 0-70 69-42 10-85 72-1
Ding Junhui (Chn) leads Shaun Murphy (Eng) 5-3
Frame scores (Ding first breaks in brackets):32-65
(53) 70-60 79-55 (68) 44-83 115-10 (103) 78-61 (78) 32-75 58-47
Mark Selby (Eng) level with Stephen Hendry (Sco) 4-4
Frame scores (Selby first breaks in brackets):89-39
(52) 0-96 (96) 79-23 (71) 0-121 (121) 30-77 (52) 61-73 (Selby 61)
77-75 (51 Hendry) 87-0 (87)
GOLF
Ladies European Nations Cup
Collated final round scores & totals in the Ladies
European Tour Comunitat Valenciana European Nations Cup, La Sella
Golf Resort, Alicante, Spain(Ita unless stated, par 72):
267 Anna Nordqvist & Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 67 62
70 68 (Anna & Sophie wins at Third Playoff hole), Karrie Webb
& Karen Lunn (Aus) 69 65 67 66 269 Giulia Sergas & Veronica
Zorzi 68 66 68 67 272 Iben Tinning & Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 68
66 67 71 274 Gwladys Nocera & Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 67 69 66 72,
Beth Daniel & Meg Mallon (USA) 67 71 65 71 275 Catriona Matthew
& Krystle Caithness (Sco) 69 69 67 70 277 Tania Elosegui &
Emma Cabrera Bello (Spa) 66 65 73 73
Japan Tour Tsuruya Open
Collated final round scores & totals in the Japan
Tour Tsuruya Open, Yamanohara Golf Club, Yamanohara Course, Hyogo,
Japan(Jpn unless stated, par 71):
199 Hiroyuki Fujita 66 66 67 (Hiroyuki Fujita won at
the third playoff hole on the 18th hole), Toru Taniguchi 67 69 63 204
Hiroo Kawai 70 67 67 205 Brendan Jones (Aus) 71 67 67 206 Kodai
Ichihara 68 72 66, Tetsuya Haraguchi 70 71 65, Aaron Townsend (Aus)
68 71 67, Michio Matsumura 70 68 68, Daisuke Maruyama 64 73 69,
Kaname Yokoo 70 66 70
Ballantine's Championship, Final collated scores (Gbr
& Irl unless stated, par 72):
204 Marcus Fraser (Aus) 65 70 69 208 Brett Rumford
(Aus) 67 70 71, Gareth Maybin 68 68 72 209 Seung-yul Noh (Kor) 71 70
68, Oliver Fisher 68 70 71 210 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 71 68 71,
Jamie Donaldson 68 72 70, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 68 70 72 211 Mikko
Ilonen (Fin) 69 73 69, Ernie Els (Rsa) 68 69 74, Niclas Fasth (Swe)
70 70 71, Tano Goya (Arg) 66 70 75, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 69 67 75
Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Rd 4)
Collated final round scores & totals the USPGA
Tour Zurich Classic of New Orleans, TPC of Louisiana, Avondale,
Louisiana, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 72):
270 Jason Bohn 65 67 71 67 272 Jeff Overton 67 69 70
66 274 Troy Merritt 68 70 69 67 275 Lee Janzen 71 66 69 69 276 Greg
Chalmers (Aus) 70 68 69 69 277 Stuart Appleby (Aus) 72 67 70 68 278
Chris Riley 73 66 70 69, Jason Dufner 67 74 69 68, Nicholas Thompson
72 69 69 68
TENNIS
Fed Cup World Group semi-finals:
Italy v Czech Republic, Foro Italico, Rome
Rubber 3: Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Petra Kvitova (Cze)
7-6 (7-3) 6-2 Rubber 4: Sara Errani (Ita) bt Lucie Hradecka (Cze) 6-4 6-2
Rubber 5: Sara Errani (Ita) & Francesca Schiavone
(Ita) bt Lucie Hradecka (Cze) & Kveta Peschke (Cze) 6-2 6-4 Italy
win 5-0
USA v Russia, BJCC Arena, Birmingham, Alabama
Rubber 3: Elena Dementieva (Rus) bt Melanie Oudin
(USA) 7-6 (7-4) 0-6 6-3
Rubber 4: Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) bt Ekaterina
Makarova (Rus) 6-4 2-6 6-3
Rubber 5: Liezel Huber (USA) & Bethanie
Mattek-Sands (USA) bt Elena Dementieva (Rus) & Alla Kudryavtseva
(Rus) 6-3 6-1
USA win 3-2
GYMNASTICS
Daniel Keatings paid
tribute to his team-mates after becoming the first British male to
win a major championships title. The 20-year-old from Corby,
Northamptonshire, topped the podium in the pommel horse at the
European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, beating
Huntingdon club-mate Louis Smith into second place.
ATHLETICS
Russia's Liliya Shobukhova scuppered the ambitions of
Mara Yamauchi and several other big names to become the first Russian
woman to win the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday morning. After
making her debut at the distance and finishing third in London a year
ago, Shobukhova took the lead at the halfway point and went on to win
in a time of two hours 22 minutes.
Usain Bolt turned in a blistering final leg to give
Jamaica victory over the USA in the 4x100metres at the Penn Relays in
Philadelphia. The world record holder at 100m and 200m clocked 8.79
seconds in front of a meet-record 54,301 crowd as he anchored
Jamaica's Mario Forsythe, Yohan Blake and Marvin Anderson to a
meet-record 37.90 victory. |
