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The recent Central District Closed tennis competition, hosted again by BoA Sports Club, brought great success to Falkirk players.

Falkirk winger Sean Taylor admits he couldn’t have wished for a better start to his Scotland career after coming on and scoring on his debut against England.

Zihao Lin, with 12 personal in the second quarter, sealed the match for Fury and took them to top of the table and 4-0 in the Championship title race.

Gillian Williamson’s return to Fury colours pushed league leaders Edinburgh Kool Kats close, but the local side missed out after a poor third quarter.

It’s a World Cup exit for Scotland, but enter our new ‘15-a-side’ column!

Polmont Golf Club has been saved at the 11th hour after being on the brink of closing.

GB internationalist Sarah Inglis was in record-breaking form in Canada last weekend.

Grangemouth know they will have to be much sharper in attack and defence when they play some tougher teams in the next few weeks, but the Stags prevailed despite a patchy performance from Craig Deacons’ team in Alloa.

At the age of 27, Scotland star Stuart Hogg still has at least one more World Cup in him but that was no consolation in Yokohama as the full-back reflected on a frustrating tournament which has seen him fail to light up the world stage as he and the nation’s rugby supporters would have liked.

Fury’s four Falkirk trained players in the BBL professional side the Glasgow Rocks are heading for the CopperBox Arena in London.

Sony Centre Fury return to league action after the Scottish Cup exits of all three men’s teams and the quarter-final progress of all three women’s teams.

A nerve-racking finish saw Fury defeat Edinburgh Uni by playing them at their own game – uptempo, pressing basketball. Both teams maintained high intensity pressure defences throughout, but it was Fury who won through to the next round where the Falkirk side will face local league side Dunfermline Reign in the quarter-finals.

Sparta boxing academy’s champion boxer Balaal 
Waheed is preparing to go senior after winning his warm-up bout for this month’s East District Championships at his club’s home show.

Falkirk Lawn Tennis Club crowned Olivia Smart ladies champion and, for the third time in a row, Tim Goldie gents champion on a finals day which provided torrential rain, bright sunshine, winds and cold spells for the 40 
finalists.

Tim Goldie and Olivia Smart were the big winners at Falkirk lawn tennis club’s championship day.

George Horne became just the fifth Scotland player to score a hat-trick of tries at a Rugby World Cup when he ran in three times against Russia in a 61-0 win.

Marks out of ten for every Scotland player to see game time against Russia in Shizuoka