Bala Town host recently crowned champions The New Saints on Friday night knowing that their hopes of clinching automatic European qualification will be all but over if they are unable to secure three points. The Lakesiders are fourth in the JD Welsh Premier League with three games remaining, but trail Connah’s Quay and Bangor City […]

Nicola Phillips has hailed Wales’ Commonwealth Games record breakers after setting a new medal mark for an overseas Games. Laura Halford’s silver in the Rhythmic Gymnastics hoop competition took the total to 26.

Robert Croft hopes his Glamorgan team will begin to show the benefits of their pre-season trip to Dubai when they face Cardiff MCCU in a three-day fixture starting at the SSE SWALEC on Friday. Glamorgan faced county opposition from Surrey and Lancashire in the UAE, and head coach Croft said: “It sped up the match readiness for us. In recent times, we haven’t had a lot of that harder edge in competition ahead of the season, so that’s a positive.”

James Carson’s late winner ensured Wales finished their men’s hockey campaign on a high with a 3-2 victory over South Africa. The Cardiff & Met product struck in the 59th minute to clinch ninth place for Zak Jones’ squad – matching the final placing of the women’s team.

Welsh pair Tesni Evans and Deon Saffery are through to the women’s doubles squash quarter-finals at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Rhyl-based Evans and Barry’s Saffery, ranked fourth at the Games, will play fourth seeds Rachael Grinham and Donna Urquhart (Australia). Peter Creed, from Rhiwbina SRC in Cardiff, and Pembrokeshire’s Joel Makin went out of […]

Curtis Dodge will be off to see his dentist when he gets back to Aberdare – possibly with a bronze medal around his neck. The Wales wrestler came third in the men’s freestyle 74kg wrestling on Thursday, but lost a tooth in the pursuit of precious metal. It was Wales’ 24th medal on the Gold Coast.Dodge, 25, beat Ebimienfaghe Assizecourt of Nigeria to make the

There was a win at last for the Wales netball team as they ended their Commonwealth Games campaign on a high with a ninth place finish by beating Fiji 81-32. You had to go back to the victory over the Fijian Pearls in Cardiff on 6 October, 2017 (61-40) for their last competitive international win […]

Welshman Jonathan Phillips says Great Britain’s pre-World Championship ice hockey training camp has got off to a great start. The 28-man squad reported to the Skydome this week and GB are preparing for two international matches against Lithuania this weekend. GB host Lithuania in Milton Keynes on Saturday (7pm) and at Coventry’s Skydome Arena the […]

Wrexham are intent on finishing their Vanarama National League in style with three wins from their three remaining fixtures. The Dragons have earned only five points from their last five matches, crashing 3-0 against Ebbsfleet in their latest match, but manager Andy Davies insists they still have belief in their quest for a play-offs finish. […]

Merthyr Town have four fixtures remaining at the end of what has been a difficult 2017-18 season. Manager Gavin Williams and his team have secured their place in the EvoStik Southern League Premier Division and are at home against Kings Langley at the Loadlok Community Stadium on Saturday (3pm). Financial problems rocked the Martyrs during […]

The British American Football season kicks off this weekend with the South Wales Warriors facing an unknown challenge in Somerset.  The Warriors travel to North Petherton, near Taunton, to face newcomers the Somerset Wyverns who were granted league membership last December following a two year application process.  The Wyverns start in Division Two West of the Southern Football Conference, the bottom tier of the British American Football Association (BAFA) league, which the Warriors were relegated to after failing to win any of their games in the middle tier in 2017. 

Bowls hero Gilbert Miles summoned the spirit of Welsh legend Robert Weale to take bronze in dramatic style. Picture the scene. It’s the last throw of the dice and you and your pairs partner have one shot to grab a medal. But it has to be perfection – a once in a blue moon bowl that weaves through traffic and nestles gently against the jack. Welsh skipper Miles produced exactly that – a stunning last bowl to snatch victory over Scotland in the mixed B2/B3 pairs, for visually impaired competitors, at the Commonwealth Games.

Ice Hockey UK have added two netminders, Welshman Stevie Lyle and Scotland’s Charlie Huddlestone, to their Hall of Fame. Both have been indicted because of their ‘outstanding service to British ice hockey’. Cardiff-born Lyle had a glittering career after making his debut at the age of 14 and said: “I have so many amazing memories […]

George North is heading back to Wales and will wear scarlet, black, blue, or black and red next season. No-one seems to know yet, least of all those marketing folk aiming to shift some extra replica jerseys this summer. Robin Davey says it’s time for George to put his finger on the map. The season has little more than a month to run, yet we still don’t know where star winger George North is heading on his return to Wales this summer. Even more to the point, does North himself know? It’s now five months since the Welsh Rugby Union announced that North would be coming back to Wales on a national dual contract after spending the last five years at Northampton.

Wales needed a shoot-out to see off Ghana in their placing match as the women’s hockey campaign ended in dramatic fashion on Thursday. Tina Evans fired home from a penalty corner with less than seven minutes left to tie the game 1-1 in normal time.

Melissa Courtney says she has only watched her Commonwealth Games bronze medal winning run once – and that was to please her family. The 24-year-old met up with her parents and boyfriend at the Team Wales base at Kurrawa Surf Club the day after bagging her first major medal in the 1500m on Tuesday.

For someone used to diving off a cliff from 28metres – over 90 feet – then the 3m springboard platform was not going to present any fears. And so it proved for Wales’ 15-year-old dive sensation Aidan Heslop as he qualified for today’s Commonwealth Games final.

Welsh swimming’s latest golden girl, Alys Thomas, is among eight Commonwealth champions included in a 43-strong British squad selected for the European Championships in Glasgow in August. The 27-year-old Thomas stunned the swimming world with her magnificent Games record swim in the 200 metres butterfly on the Gold Coast as she notched the 10th fastest time ever in her event at 2 min, 05.45 sec. Now she will have the chance to swim for more gold and glory in a home pool in four months’ time. Thomas is joined in the British team by Duncan Scott, fresh from becoming the first Scottish swimmer to win six medals at one Games, triple medallist James Wilby and fellow Loughborough breaststroke champions Adam Peaty and Sarah Vasey.

Tesni Evans, who won a bronze medal in the squash singles, is making progress in the Women’s Doubles at the Commonwealth Games. Cardiff-born Evans, who now lives in Rhyl, is playing alongside Barry’s Deon Saffery on the Gold Coast. The sixth seeds from Wales lost against number three ranked pair Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal […]

Eight months ago he struck gold at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas and now teenager Sammy Lee is one fight away from another shot at gold on the Gold Coast. To do that, Lee has to beat cocky Australian and local favourite Clay Waterman in the semi-final. The 19-year-old Lee, from the Premier ABC in Swansea, stepped into the senior international ring against Uganda’s Regarn Simbwa and came up with a 3-1 decision to set up a semi-final fight with Waterman in the 81kg class.