SLATEFORD carry the Edinburgh banner in The Co-operative Funeralcare-sponsored Scottish Inter-County Top Ten Championship and launch their bid for the bowls title with home advantage against Kingswood of Glasgow in tomorrow’s first round (2pm).

AMATEUR boxer Lewis Benson will not allow the disappointment of missing out on next month’s European Championships to affect his performances in the ring as he bids for gold in Bosnia.

EDINBURGH & LEITH set out to repair the damage of an opening-match defeat and hope to have beefed up the strength of their team with the introduction of Darren Hush (Carrick Knowe) and Derek Smith (Parkside) against Stirling County East in their Scottish Cities & Counties bowls game at Bainfield tomorrow.

TEENAGER Duncan Anderson has earned a place in Heriot’s line-up for an East Premiership clash at Arbroath tomorrow after one of the more unusual cricketing “centuries” compiled last weekend.

PLYMOUTH Devils have made something of a hellish start to their 2013 speedway campaign. They have won just one of their six competitive matches so far, but they make the long trek north to face Edinburgh Monarchs at Armadale tonight with an extremely good looking team on paper – one which Monarchs will not take lightly.

THREE former City of Edinburgh riders are set to battle it out for their professional teams in the women’s event at the Scottish Road Race Championships in Aberdeenshire on Sunday.

Queensberry have thrown an early spanner in the works by pulling off an incredible 7-2 victory over strong title favourites Craigentinny in last night’s second round of fixtures in Division 1 of the Alpha Trophies sponsored Edinburgh Bowling League.

Musselburgh snooker ace Ross Muir comfortably secured his place in the second round of Event 2 
of Q School in his bid to turn professional at the World Snooker 
Academy in Sheffield, writes MICHAEL GALLACHER.

Spearheaded by two close friends, Edinburgh Handball Club’s future is driven by a continental flair.

Not only will it be his home Scotland cricket debut against Pakistan at Raeburn Place tomorrow but, for Yorkshire-based seamer Iain Wardlaw, an opening delivery will be the first-ever bowled by him in 
earnest north of the Border.

Edinburgh’s Craig Howieson narrowly missed out on a place in the main draw at the World Individual Table Tennis Championships in Paris last night when he finished second in his qualifying group.

Capital cyclist James McCallum will be looking to chalk up his first success of 2013 when he heads the home challenge in tonight’s opening round of the Pearl Izumi Tour Series in Kirkcaldy, writes COLIN RENTON.

Woman’s bowling in the Capital took a groundbreaking step forward last night with the Edinburgh Bowling League launching an all-female competition for the first time since the league was formed 17 years ago, writes STEWART MEIKLE.

West LOTHIAN always expect a tough battle when they meet Borders in the East section of the Hamilton Trophy and their latest clash in The Scottish 
Cities and Counties Bowls Championship went right down to the wire in a 124-123 thriller at Newbridge.

Granton’s Craig MacGillivray made it a “Magnificant Seven” Scottish snooker 
titles this season when he won the Scottish Masters National Championship yesterday, 
defeating Stirling’s Jim Rushforth 5-2 at The Locarno Snooker Club in Edinburgh.

Bathgate’s Paul di Resta maintained his strong start to the 2013 Formula One season with a seventh-place finish in the Spanish Grand Prix.

New Celtic cruiserweight 
boxing champion Stephen 
Simmons is already plotting his next title fight after comfortably beating Michael Sweeney at the Emirates Arena during Saturday night’s Fighting Pride of Scotland show, writes NEIL McGLADE.

Carlton received a boost ahead of Saturday’s home derby encounter with arch-rivals Barclays Grange when they launched their East Premiership campaign with a comfortable victory over newly promoted SMRH at Grange Loan.

Fearless Freddie Coleman came of age as a Saltires batsman to provide hope going into 
their one-day cricket internationals with Pakistan in Edinburgh this coming Friday and Sunday.

Capital cyclist Evan Oliphant has moved clear at the head of the British Cycling Premier Calendar Series after finishing 15th in yesterday’s University of 
Lincoln Grand Prix.