SPORT LIST
0 Sport is listed as diary: by sport. then by day. then by event.
BASKETBALL Fnday20
NATIONAL LEAGUE
DIVISION 1 (Men)
0 Falkirlt v Cumnocir Grangemouth Sports Centre. Abbot‘s Road. Grangemouth. 8.30pm.
Saturday 21
NATIONAL LEAGUE
DIVISION 1 (Men)
0 Team Simpson Donald v Fair City Wallace High School. Stirling. 7pm.
Sunday 22
NATIONAL LEAGUE
DIVISION 1 (Men)
0 Team Simpson Donald v Cumnoclr Wallace High School. Stirling. 11.30am.
Thursday 26
0 Scottish Amateur Boxing Championships Grangemouth Sports Complex. Abbot’s Road, Grangemouth. Those fighters who have won through the prelims and semi-finals get their crack at a title in tonight‘s Finals. Tickets for the event, sponsored by Skol. are priced at £3. £4 and £5, and can be bought in advance from the venue; the Steeple Information Centre, Falkirk, or the Mariner Centre in Camelon. Good event for those who enjoy boxing, but who find the professional game a little too brutal for their taste.
0 Race Days Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Powderhall Stadium,
Beaverhall Road. Edinburgh. Race meetings are for 10 races. starting at 7.30pm. £2.20 Stand; £1 .30 Ground.
FOOTBALL Saturday 21
FINE FARE LEAGUE
PREMIER DIVISION
0 Celtic V Clydebank Celtic Park. Glasgow (Buses 61. 62, 64) All eyes (and ears) will be on Tannadice, where Rangers face Dundee Utd, but Celtic cannot afford any further slips by lack of concentration here.
0 Failrlrit V Hearts Broekville. Falkirk (100 yards from Grahamston Station).
0 Hamilton v Aberdeen Douglas Park. Hamilton (15 mins from Bus Station).
0 Hibs V Dundee Easter Road. Edinburgh (Buses 4. 5,15. 42. 44). Chance for Hibs to widen the gap at the bottom. with the relegation candidates all facing stiffopposition. 0 St Mirren v Motherweil Love Street. Paisley (10 mins from Gilmour
Street Station).
FIRST DIVISION
0 Dumbarton vAirdrie Boghead. Dumbarton ( 10mins from Dumbarton East Station).
0 Duniermiine v Morton East End Park. Dunfermline (15 mins from Stations). These clubs have made the running in a tightly contested division. and today‘s result could determine where the championship flag will ultimately fly.
0 Kiimarnock v Forlar Rugby Park. Kilmarnock (15 mins from Stations). 0 Particlt Thistle v Montrose Firhill. Glasgow (Buses l. 8. 21.57. 60. 61).
Saturday 28
FINE FARE LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION 0 Clydebanlrv Hearts Kilbowie. Clydebank (2 mins from Singer Station). 0 Hamilton V Celtic Douglas Park ( 15 mins from Bus Station). Celtic haven‘t found visits to the lower regions easy going this season. and if the jitters are settling. they could be exposed again here. 0 Hibs V Falkirt Easter Road. Edinburgh (Buses 4. 5. 15.42.44). 0 Rangers v Motherweii Ibrox. Glasgow (2 mins from Ibrox Underground). A repeat ofthe smash and grab victory earlier this season would suit Tommy McLean nicely. but Rangers are unlikely to be suckered twice.
FIRST DIVISION 0 Airdrie v Montrose Airdrie (15 mins from Airdrie Station).
o Clyde v Particlr Thistle Firhill. Glasgow (Buses 1.8. 21 . 57. 60. 61). 0 Dumbarton v Morton Boghead. Dumbarton ( 10mins from Dumbarton East Station).
0 Kiimarnoclt v Oueen ol the South Rugby Park. Kilmarnock ( 15 mins from Stations).
GRIDIRON Sunday29
o Musselburgh Magnums v File 49ers Meadowmill Sports Complex. Prestonpans. 2pm. Free. Friendly— ifsuch a thing exists in this sport! A new league season begins next month.
[ETHE— Monday 3D/Tuesday 31
O Ayr First Flat Meeting of the new season at Ayr Racecourse. Whitletts Road. Ayr. (‘lub £8. Eglinton £4.50. First race 2pm.
Wednesday 1fThursday 2
0 Hamilton Parlt Flat Meeting at the Lanarkshire track. with convenient access from both M74 and M8 at Hamilton. (‘lub £8. Paddock £4. First Race 2.15pm.
iCE HOCKEY Saturday 21
NATIONAL LEAGUE
0 File Flyers v Whitley Warriors Kirkcaldy Ice Rink. Kirkcaldy. 7.15pm. £2.75 (£1.75).
0 Glasgow Eagles v Blackpool Summit Centre. Minerva Way. Finneston. 5.30pm. £2 (£1).
Saturday 28
NATIONAL LEAGUE
o Ayr Bruins v Murrayiield Racers Ayr Ice Rink. Limekilns Road. Ayr. 7pm.£2.50(£1.50).
Sunday29
NATIONAL LEAGUE o Ayr Bruins v Dundee Rockets Ayr Ice
Rink. Limekilns Road, Ayr.
o Murrayiieid Racers v Cleveland Bombers Murrayfield.1ce Rink, Edinburgh. 6.30pm. £2.50 (£1.50).
OTOR SPORT Sunday 29
o lngiiston Royal Highland Showground. Ingliston. Edinburgh. First meeting of the new season at the tricky Edinburgh circuit. with a full programme ofSF 1600 and 2000. sports and saloon races, plus the first leg of the new historic cars event. Practise begins at 9am. with racing at 1.30pm. Adults £3.50 (children free); transfer to stands £1.50. Free parking.
RUGBY Saturday 21
INTERNATIONAL
0 Scotland v Wales Murrayfield. Edinburgh. Sold out as usual, so if you don‘t have a ticket. you’ll have to settle for live television coverage of a match which always has a special edge to it. See Backlist.
Saturday 28
McEWAN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE
0 Stewart Melville FP v Gala Inverleith. Edinburgh. 2.30pm.
0 Edinburgh Accies v Boroughmulr Raeburn Place, Edinburgh. 2.30pm. 0 West oi Scotland v Ayr New Anniesland. Glasgow. 2.30pm.
PEEDWAY Friday 27
SPRING CUP
0 Stelrad Monarchs v Berwiclt Bandits Powderhall Stadium. Beaverhall Road. Edinburgh. 7.15pm. Season tickets £90; Adult£3.50. Speedway returns with this two-leg clash between these great rivals (return at Berwick tomorrow), a prelude to the resumption of National League fixtures next month.
Prolessional boxing‘s multiplicity of governing bodies has led to a coniused prohision oi title holders, but no such
IN THE RING
ambiguity will attach to the various winners at the Scottish Amateur Championship in Grangemouth. David
Mitchell’s entry lorthe 1984 Sports Photography Award captures a vivid moment (see Arts listings ior current exhibition).
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