SPEEDWAY: Jason Doyle top-scored with 14 points on his season debut as the Ipswich Witches came from behind to see off Birmingham 49-41 in the only Premiership meeting to survive the wet weather on Thursday night. Last year’s Grand Final runners-up have now won both of their opening fixtures and sit top of the table ahead of new-boys Oxford Spires on points difference.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Reigning Welsh Premiership champions Llandovery failed to score a try for the first time in 21 games as they were defeated 24-6 on Thursday evening by a Newport team that replaces them as the new league leaders. Newport’s twelfth win in a row has moved them four points clear but they have played a game more than Llandovery. The result guarantees Newport a home tie in the end of season play-offs.

DARTS: Luke Littler won his first ever Premier League of Darts event after beating Nathan Aspinall 6-4 in Thursday night’s final in Belfast. Littler had knocked out World Champion Luke Humphries in the quarter-finals before seeing off Michael van Gerwen in the semis. He is now second in the table, four points behind Humphries. Round 10 of the 17-week tournament takes place in Manchester next week.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Holders The New Saints face Cardiff Met in the second semi-final of the Welsh Cup at Newtown’s Latham Park tomorrow evening. The New Saints will be looking to bounce back from last weekend’s 2-1 Scottish Challenge Cup final defeat to Airdrieonians that ended their record breaking run of 26 consecutive wins. The winners will face Connah’s Quay in the final after they edged out Bala 1-0 in the other semi.