SPEEDWAY: Substitute Ben Cook bagged 14 points from six rides as King’s Lynn earned a surprise 48-42 win over champions-elect Sheffield on Thursday night.

Sheffield took the aggregate point, but need Leicester to slip up in their final two matches to secure the Premiership league title before the play-offs begin.

Leicester kept up the pressure after leading from the first tape to gain a 50-40 win at Oxford.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Andy Ryan scored a hat-trick as Larne beat Gibraltar’s Lincoln Red Imps 3-1 for a 4-3 aggregate win to become the first team from the north of Ireland to reach the group stages of a major European competition.

Joining them in the new Europa Conference League format are Chelsea, FC Copenhagen, who knocked out Kilmarnock, and Cymru Premier champions The New Saints.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: South Africa host New Zealand at Ellis Park tomorrow afternoon as the third round of southern hemisphere Rugby Championship matches kick off.

The Springboks won both their opening games against Australia, but the All Blacks suffered a shock defeat to Argentina in their first outing.

Argentine hooker Augustin Creevy will end his 19-year international career after they play Australia in his La Plata home-town tonight.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: The FA Cup first qualifying round kicks off tomorrow with Sheffield FC, the oldest active club in the world, continuing their search for glory when they take on Pontefract Collieries, Macclesfield at Tadcaster Albion and two former non-league giants clashing when Leatherhead visit Dulwich Hamlet.

Campion AFC’s match with Blyth Spartans will be shown live on the BBC i-player.

All winners receive £2,250 in prize money, the losers just £750.