WOMEN’S RUGBY UNION: Table-topping Gloucester-Hartpury thumped Loughborough 61-26 to maintain their 100 per cent record as the English Women’s Premiership resumed at the weekend.

Their closest challengers Saracens overwhelmed bottom club Sale 54-21, and third-placed Exeter won 40-10 at Ealing to ensure that the top three have already qualified for the end of season play-offs.

Harlequins beat struggling Leicester 47-12 in the league’s other game.

MEN’S CYCLING: Slovenian Tadej Pogacar takes a two-minute-40-seconds lead over Colombia’s Dani Martinez into tomorrow’s 10th stage of the Giro D’Italia with Welshman Geraint Thomas a further 18 seconds back in third.

Tomorrow’s stage from Pompeii to the Bocca della Selva in the hills above Cusano Mutri is 142km long.

Jonathan Milan leads the points competition, while Pogacar also heads the King of the Mountains classification.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Celtic still lead the Scottish Women’s Premier League on goal difference after they saw off Partick Thistle 3-0 and second-placed Rangers edged out reigning champions Glasgow City 1-0.

At the other end of the table, Georgia Carter’s stoppage time strike saw Montrose beat bottom-club Dundee United 2-1, Spartans squeezed past Hamilton 1-0 and Motherwell won 3-2 at Aberdeen after Hibs had beaten Hearts 2-0 in the Edinburgh derby.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Abby Meyers top-scored with 22 points as London eased past Leicester 95-70 on Sunday evening to earn their fourth consecutive appearance in the British Basketball League play-off final.

They will face Newcastle for the silverware next week after Chloe Gaynor’s last second free throws helped them come from behind to claim a narrow 60-58 win over Caledonia.

Newcastle finished sixth in the regular season, 22 points behind London.