MEN’S FOOTBALL: Scott Arfield scored twice as Falkirk thumped Greenock Morton 5-0 to top the Scottish Championship by eight points with four games to play.

Second-placed Livingston eased past out-of-form Queen of the South 3-0 while Ayr lost 1-0 at Raith.

Chris Mochrie scored in stoppage time as bottom club Aidrieonians boosted their survival hopes with a 2-1 win over Partick and Hamilton beat Dunfermline 1-0 in a relegation play-off dog-fight.

MEN’S CRICKET: New Zealand completed a 3-0 whitewash of Pakistan after easing to a 54-run win in Saturday’s final leg of their one-day series at Maunganui.

Captain Michael Bracewell top-scored with 59 from 40 balls and opener Rhys Mariu weighed in with 58 as the Kiwis posted 264-8 in a match reduced to 42 overs.

Ben Sears took 5-34, his second successive five-wicket haul, as the Pakistanis reached 221 all out.

MEN’S BOXING: 39-year-old Joe Joyce lost on points to Croatian Filip Hrogovic in a non-title heavyweight bout on Saturday night in Manchester.

Joyce has now suffered four defeats in his last five bouts after also going down to Zhieli Zhang twice and Derek Chisora.

On the undercard Jack Rafferty extended the longest unbeaten run in British boxing after defending his commonwealth super-lightweight belt with a fifth-round stoppage of Corey O’Regan.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Substitute Aidan Routledge grabbed a stoppage-time equaliser before Spennymoor Town from the National League North went on to beat Rochdale on penalties and reach the FA Trophy final.

Spennymoor will face Aldershot in May’s non-league show-piece at Wembley after they came from behind, thanks to Jack Barham’s 93rd-minute winner, to overcome 10-man Woking 2-1. Neither team has reached the final before.