HSCL Prem Div: London Lions 4 Baldock Town 1

Scintillating is the best way to sum up Lions 4-1 win over newly promoted Division one Champions Baldock Town at Rowley Lane.

In what could arguably be their best performance of the season so far, the football played was easy on the eye and a joy to watch and highlighted just how potentially good this side could become.

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Promoter Frank Maloney has told Laura Saperstein to go back to her job as a lawyer and insisted he should never have got involved with women's boxing.

Saperstein, 34, drew national attention after giving up her job to turn pro. But after winning her first three fights, two of which were under Maloney, she tired of her association.

The two parted company this week, even though she had signed up for a four-fight deal.

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MAL secured the Barratts Maccabi Sunday League title with a three-wicket victory over Chigwell.

The evergreen Charlie Sherrard removed both Chigwell openers in his first spell. The first was caught at first slip by Yoav Lebens before he bowled Murray for 17. Brad Ormsby began to look dangerous with a few well-struck boundaries. However, with the field set back, he fell into the trap and was caught by Grant Traub for 25 off Yoni Schurder's bowling.

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London FA Cup Round 3: FC Team A Sloan 0

After a bad defeat to Arsenal Deaf the following week, FC Team took the long trip to East Dulwich to face County side Sloan in the third round of the London FA Cup.

The team felt optimistic and that a new dawn had arrive and everyone in the camp was focussed and was relishing the test.

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Faithfold C 1-1 Southgate Harmen B AET (Faithfold won on penalties)

Third division Faithfold C upset JC Barry Goldstein Trophy favourites Southgate Harmen B by winning the cup after a nail-biting penalty shooutout at Wingate et Finchley on Sunday afternoon. Player-manager David Garson praised the heroics of man-of-the-match, goalkeeper Richard Kirby, to bring home the former Minor Cup.

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London Lions manager Tony Gold believes his troops are well equipped to improve on last season's disappointing seventh place finish as their Herts Senior County League Premier Division campaign kicks off on Saturday.

Gold's men completed their preparations on Tuesday night when they took on Cuffley in the Potters Bar Charity Cup, a competition they reached the semi-finals of last season.

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London Maccabi Vale 2nd 166 Simon Sattin 67, David Freedman 31
Southall 169-9 Jeff Permutt 4-22
LMV lost by 1 wicket

Chigwell 140 Lloyd Duddridge 31, Yoni Schurder 4-30
MAL 142-7 Yoav Lebens 40, Charlie Sherrard 35
MAL won by 3 wickets and are champions

Sedgley 66 Josh Rose 4-23
Bury 67-3
Bury won by 7 wickets

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Betar Jerusalem have been handed the severest of punishments by the Israel FA after fans invaded the pitch during their match against Maccabi Herzliya on April 13.

They were leading 1-0 when the match was abandoned after 86 minutes after fans poured on to the pitch to celebrate what they thought was their team clinching a second successive championship.

Herzliya have been handed a 2-0 technical victory, while Betar have been docked two additional points, four more points off next season and ordered to play their next four home games behind closed doors.

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Josh West, the only Jewish - and, at 6ft 9 in, the tallest - athlete on the British team in Beijing, has won silver in the rowing eights.

"It sure makes up for Athens," said West. "It was great to be on the podium."

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Glenthorne United A returned to the top of Division One after edging past South Manunians 4-3. Kevin Lotzof (2) and Ashley Davidson netted for Mancs.

EDRS bounced back from their defeat in last week's cup final to beat Brady Maccabi B, courtesy of goals from Paul Chilton (2), Mark Kingston and Jacob Namer.

London Maccabi Lions A overcame Faithfold A 4-2 with two goals apiece from Bradley Lazarus and Tony Gold. Joel Nathan and Dean Schulberg notched Faithfold's replies.

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Top cat: Harmen's Andy Okin 

Having held on to virtually all their players over the summer, Southgate Harmen A start the campaign as strong favourites.

Relegation last season hit everyone at the club hard but striker Alex Bourne, who is engaged to Pop singer Rachel Stevens, is expected to terrorise rival defences.

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Midfielder Dean Furman described his Rangers first team debut as an ?unbelievable experience' following the 3-1 victory over Dundee United.

The 19-year-old from Edgware has turned heads in Glasgow this season and on Saturday, he came off the bench to replace Kevin Thomson 52 minutes into the Ibrox encounter.

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Adam Lee, joint-manager of Enfield Town, was in philosophical mood after leaving the club by mutual agreement.

The Ryman League Division One North team had made a poor start to the campaign and Lee departed to leave Stewart Margolis in charge.

"I put in a lot of effort in pre-season but was under pressure from the first game," said Lee.

"It became a bit farcical in the end as I needed the board to back me but they didn't.

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Shahar Peer is looking to dig herself out of the biggest crisis of her career and get back on track in the French Open, which starts on Monday.

The clay at Roland Garros in Paris is usually Peer's favourite surface but her preparations for the second grand slam of the year have gone awry after a shoulder injury forced her to withdraw from last week's Berlin Open and this week's Strasbourg tournament.

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A virtuoso performance by Scott Levy gave the Lions a victory in a game dominated for large parts by their impressive opponents who will surely feel hard done by not to have picked up at least a point.

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Vanilla Bally is looking to make sporting history by becoming the first Israeli horse to win a race in England.

Trained and owned by Oren Sada, the three-year-old filly was bred at Bally Stud in Pardess Hanna near Hadera. Sada made the purchase when the horse was aged six months, and built a stable in his garden in Ramle near Tel Aviv.

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Great Britain will play Israel in a two-legged EuroBasket match.

The first meeting will be held in Israel on September 3 with the rematch scheduled for September 13 at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.

Tickets, not yet on sale, will be available for £15 with concessions £10. For details go to www.theticketfactory.com or www.basketballgb.com. Register via register@news.theticketfactory.com

Maccabi Great Britain are sending their biggest-ever basketball delegation to next year's 18th Maccabiah Games in Israel.

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Rising star Alex Moss is making a name for himself at Watford. Moss was spotted whilst he was playing for Woodside Park in the AJY.

An avid Manchester United fan, the midfielder joined Watford two years ago and was selected to join the club's new Harefield academy. The academy is run like a normal school but provides training sessions three times more then any other club in the country. One of the classes sees Moss take part in ballet lessons to improve flexibility and subtleness.

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South Manchester Maccabi won the years six to eight competition at Jom Ha Voetbal in
Amsterdam.

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the club took a group of 68, including 22 juniors. Chairman Johnny Davis and manager Neil Collins were presented with cut glass decanters by the senior players for the work they had done for the club over the past 40 years. Junior members of the delegation visited the Anne Frank museum and the Van Gogh museum.

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Israel's Andy Ram teamed up with Max Mirnyi of Belarus to win the men's doubles at the Bank of Austria Trophy tournament in Vienna.

The victory was Ram's 14th in doubles competition, though the straight-sets win over Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peyer was the first time he has played without Jonathan Erlich in a tournament since winning the Indianapolis title with Croatia's Mario Ancic in 2003.

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