Newport County’s in-form teenage striker Antoine Semenyo is confident his team have the staying power to extend their impressive start to the season. County travel to Crawley Town on Saturday, looking to build on their best start to a season since the 1930s. A total of 27 points from 13 matches has propelled the Exiles into third place in the Division Two table, but just as eye-catching has been their propensity to deliver late knockout blows to the opposition.

Airbus Broughton UK and Penybont, league leaders in the second tier of Welsh football, focus on JD Sports Welsh Cup action this weekend. The Wingmakers, top of the Huws Gray Alliance with a 100 per cent record after 10 matches, travel to play Welsh National League Penycae, while Bridgend-based Penybont make the trip to Panteg. […]

Connah’s Quay have announced the shock news that Craig Harrison has joined them as first-team coach – on the eve of their top of the table clash with former club The New Saints. ‼️BREAKING NEWS‼️The club are delighted to announce that Craig Harrison has joined the club as our new First Team Coach — Connah's […]

Amy Boulden has made it through to the final round of the qualifying school for an American tour card and now faces the biggest tournament of her life at one of the world’s most iconic courses next month. The No 2 course at Pinehurst Golf Club is the centrepiece of the Pinehurst Resort, in North Carolina, and has hosted more single golf championships than any course in America.

Wales Women have named 20 uncapped players in their enlarged squad of 44 players for their autumn series. Their plan is to get the new players up to the required level for international rugby before the Women’s World Cup in 2021. Head coach Rowland Phillips’s team meet South Africa, Hong Kong and Canada on consecutive weekends in November. The games against the Springboks and the Canucks will take place on the morning of the men’s matches at the Principality Stadium, making it a full day of rugby for supporters in Cardiff.

Joel Makin produced the best performance of his career to send World No 1 Mohamed Elshorbagy crashing out of the St George’s Classic in Surrey. The Haverfordwest ace – who has reached  career high 33 in the world rankings – sent Egypt’s defending champion crashing out in straight sets in the $106,000 Men’s Channel VAS tournament in Surrey.

Graham Potter has warned his Swansea City players they need to be ready for an emotion-charged atmosphere at Villa Park on Saturday – or else they will be in “big trouble.” For all the pats on the back given to Potter for returning the Swans to their traditional eye-pleasing style in recent weeks, the facts of life are that they have won just one Championship match in their last six. At Villa, they face a 42,000 sell-out crowd – double the capacity at the Liberty Stadium – against a club desperate to create a frenzy for their new manager Dean Smith, his new assistant John Terry, and to honour the memory of their former chairman Doug Ellis who died last week.

The Dragons have been told they need to improve their success rate if they are to get more players into the Wales squad. The blunt message comes from Warren Gatland as the region face a pivotal test of their strength or otherwise with a Friday night home clash against Northampton in the European Challenge Cup. Having thrashed Timisoara Saracens 54-17 in their opening match, and enjoyed a win rate of 50 per cent from their last six matches, the Dragons were hopeful of increased numbers in Gatland’s squad for the autumn internationals.

Saturday night could be a pivotal moment in the 2018/19 JD Welsh Premier League season as the league’s top two clubs The New Saints and Connah’s Quay go head to head at Park Hall (Sgorio, 7.30). A win for visiting Connah’s Quay would not only give them a five point cushion at the summit but […]

Andrew Hotham is playing alongside brother Scott again with Stoney Creek Generals. They linked up with Cardiff Devils during 2016-17 when Devils won the Elite League title and Challenge Cup. Scott, 32, has been playing for Generals over the last two seasons and Andrew has opted to join his brother and possibly end his career […]

Cardiff Fire gave highly experienced Mark Cuddihy a unique ice hockey experience at Ice Arena Wales. Cuddihy, a former player and coach who has been involved in the sport for more than a quarter of a century, was stunned by Fire’s astonishing victory against Bracknell Hornets. Fire hit back from 9-6 down with five minutes […]

Rob Davies insists he must improve after qualifying for the knock-out stages of the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Slovenia. Wales 2016 Para champ from Rio reached the last 16 despite losing in three closely-fought sets in his second match in the group in the men’s class one to to Argentina’s Fernando Eberhardt.

Football pundit Steve Claridge, who played for 25 different clubs during a career which lasted more than two decades, has praised Merthyr Town.  Claridge, aged 52, is now manager of Salisbury, who defeated the Martyrs 2-0 in an Evo-stik South Premier League South. “Merthyr are the best team we’ve played this season,” said Claridge.  A […]

Subaru driver Dylan Davies has been confirmed as the 2018 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Champion. A thrilling end to one of the most closely fought seasons the series has ever witnessed was thwarted when the final round, the Winner Garage SKODA Wyedean Stages Rally on 10 November, was cancelled. With Davies and his Caernarfon co-driver Llion Williams, who have enjoyed a superb season in their Impreza B13, finishing on equal points with former champion and Ford Fiesta R5 pilot Matt Edwards (Llysfaen) and co-driver Darren Garrod (Pwllheli), the series organisers had to review the tie-break rules to determine who had won the title – with Davies winning it based on the Llanon driver’s better class results.

To quote Osian Roberts – assistant manager to Ryan Giggs with the the senior Wales team – after his Wales U16 side had won the 014 Victory Shield outright for the first time in 65 years, “it shows that the Welsh football future is in good hands and is moving in the right direction.” Roberts described the Class of four years ago as a “special group of players”. Too right! No fewer than four of the squad that clinched the title for the first time since 1949 were involved in the back-to-back Nations League victories over the Republic of Ireland – Matt Smith, Ethan Ampadu, Ben Woodburn and Tyler Roberts. Opponents on that night four years ago, England, can count only Mason Mount as a breakthrough achievement.

Ben Blood has made a major impact on the blue line for Cardiff Devils. The big American defenceman is part of a six-man unit who protect Devils goalie Ben Bowns in domestic and European hockey. He will be a key player when Devils play back-to-back home League fixtures this weekend, against Sheffield Steelers on Saturday […]

TUFTS OF THE  WELSH TURF By Brian Lee Bookmakers at the Gelligaer Farmers Hunt Steeplechases in 2004 were hit for six when reigning Welsh champion point-to-point rider Tim Vaughan, now a leading Welsh trainer, landed a massive gamble in winning a confined maiden race on seven-year-old Clear Away. The horse’s owner, Andrew Lowrie from Barry, had […]

Richard Merriman takes a slender three-point advantage into the final round of the J.D. Tyres Welsh National Tarmacadam Championship, which takes place at the Welsh Motorsports Centre at Pembrey this Sunday. Carmarthen Motor Club has received a magnificent entry for its Fairfield Merlin Stages Rally (an event formally known as the Peter Lloyd Stages). The new event name comes about courtesy of new title sponsorship from Bridgend-based Fairfield Motorsport, together with a nod to Merlin the magician, who is said to have been born in Carmarthen.

It was a girls one/two against the boys as 80 of the best young golfers in Wales took part in the Ping Welsh Junior Tour finals in Wrexham. Llanwern’s Lottie Raymond won the U14’s age group in convincing fashion with a score of 41 stableford points, a fantastic score in the cold and wet morning conditions for all those who qualified for the finals through the regional competitions.

Amy Boulden is hoping it will be third time lucky this year in breaking into the American golf circuit and the St Asaph professional has given herself the perfect opportunity to earn an LPGA tour card.