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MEN’S FOOTBALL: Sittingbourne, who began their FA Trophy campaign with a 2-0 first qualifying round win over Sutton Common Rovers back in September, face Aldershot from the National League in Saturday’s early quarter-finals kick off.
Oxford City host three-time winners Woking, Sutton United meet Spennymoor Town and Altrincham, who last picked up the cup in 1986, are at Rochdale.
All winning clubs will receive £7,500 in prize money, losers just £2,000.
DARTS: World number one Luke Humphries beat world champion Luke Littler 6-4 in the final of the Premier League’s fourth round on Thursday night in Exeter.
It’s the first time that Humphries has beaten Littler in the Premier League and he now has a seven-point lead over him in the table, with Gerwyn Price a point further back in third.
Brighton hosts next week’s fifth leg of this 17 round tournament.
MEN’S BOXING: Gervonta Davis defends his World Boxing Association lightweight title against Lamont Roach in Brooklyn on Saturday night. Davis boasts a 30-fight unbeaten record, while Roach has one loss and a draw from his 27 bouts.
On Saturday night in Bournemouth two unbeaten records are on the line when Briton Ryan Garner fights Spain’s Salvador Jiminez for the European and WBC international super-flyweight belts.
CYCLING: The Spring Classics begin this weekend in Belgium with Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the season’s first cobbled classic, rolling out of Ghent and the Kuurne-Brussells-Kuurne race on Sunday.
Jan Tratnink will defend his men’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad title but, women’s champion Marianne Voss is not on the startlist.
Belgium’s Wout van Aert is aiming to become the first rider to defend the Kuurne-Brussells-Kuurne title since compatriot Frans Verhaegan in 1976.