NETBALL: Super League leaders Manchester Thunder turned in a strong fourth-quarter performance to come from behind and edge out third-placed London Pulse 44-40 in the lowest-scoring game of the season on Sunday night.
Paige Reed top-scored for the Thunder with just 23 goals.
Surrey narrowly lost out 68-72 to second-placed Loughborough despite their Goal Shooter Proscovia Peace-Nwokocha netting 51 goals without missing a shot.
SPEEDWAY: 19-year-old Sam Hagon, who rides for Poole Pirates and Leicester Lions, claimed the British Under 21 championship at Glasgow’s Ashfield Stadium on Sunday.
Hagon finished a point behind 2022’s champion Leon Flint in the qualifying heats but won the semi-final race-off and led from the tapes in the final to take the trophy with Flint second, Oxford’s Ashton Boughen in third and Joe Thompson fourth.
CYCLING: After his comprehensive victory at the Giro D’Italia Tadej Pogacar is nearly 4,000 points ahead of second-placed Jonas Vingegaard, who is still nursing an injury, in the latest UCI rankings.
Mathieu van der Poel is a further 1,300 points behind Vingegaard in third with Jesper Philipsen fourth and Remco Evenepoel fifth.
The highest-ranked British rider is Adam Yates in eighth with his brother Simon next best in 16th.
MEN’S FOOTBALL: Joao Trovisco’s diving header deep into added time ensured Portugal came from two down to beat Serbia 3-2 in Sunday’s semi-final of the Under-17s Euros in Cyprus.
The Portuguese will meet Italy in Wednesday’s final after they squeezed past Denmark 1-0.
Portugal have won the trophy on six previous occasions, most recently in 2016, whereas Italy have not their hands on the silverware since 1982.
