SPEEDWAY: Brothers Chris and Jack Holder scored maximum points in the last heat to earn reigning Premiership champions Sheffield a narrow 46-44 win at Leicester on Thursday night.

Jason Doyle top scored with 13+1 points and Emil Sayfutdinov bagged 11+2 as last year’s runners-up Ipswich won 48-42 at table-topping Oxford and Belle Vue saw off bottom of the table King’s Lynn by the same score in the other midweek meetings.

RUGBY LEAGUE: Tara Jones will become the first woman to referee a men’s professional game in Britain when she takes charge of Oldham’s League One game with Cornwall on Sunday afternoon.