FRIDAY, 1.30PM:
JOHN MASHEGO , Ashley Roestoff and Michael Scholtz currently share the lead at the Trust Bank Gauteng Classic golf tournament at Randpark golf course in Roodepoort. They lead after scoring 68 in the first round.
TRUSTBANK GAUTENG CLASSIC
68 – J Mashego , A Roestoff , M Schultz
69 – D Fichardt, C Ransby , D Terblanche
70 – D Botes, D Riddle, S van Vuuren
SPORT BRIEFS
‘FREE GROBBELAAR’ THE Zimbabwean national soccer team coach, Ian Porterfield, has asked the English court authorities to release goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar, who is on trial in Winchester for match fixing, to play in the African Cup of Nations match against Angola on Sunday. Grobbelaar will replace top Zimbabwean goalkeeper Gift Muzadzi, who is suffering from a knee injury. Reserve Ernest Chirambadare is off form.
DUTCH OPEN SOUTH AFRICA’S Wayne Westner and Roger Wessels finished at 4-under 67 in the first round of the Dutch Open golf championships at Hilversum in the Netherlands.
KALLIS ON FORM JACQUES KALLIS took 5/54 for Middlesex in the county cricket match against Kent at Lord’s in London on Thursday.
STUDENTS GET SPONSORSHIP TELKOM has given the South African Students Sports Association R410 000 to send seven national teams to the World Students Games in Italy next month.
SOCCER YOUGSTERS TO NORWAY A TEAM of eight young soccer players from Mitchell’s Plain and eight from Khayelitsha near Cape Town left for Norway on Thursday to compete in the Norwegian Cup.
SA NETBALLERS WHITEWASH SOUTH AFRICA’S netball team won their third and final Test match against England 53-48 at the Good Hope centre, Cape Town on Thursday. This was South Africa’s ninth consecutive victory over England since being readmitted into international competition in 1992.