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Sport in brief: April 19, 2024

MEN’S FOOTBALL: The battle for the Highland League title has come down to tomorrow’s season finale with the top two level on points but separated by just two goals difference.

League leaders Buckie Thistle, who climbed to the summit on Wednesday night, welcome Keith to Victoria Park, where they have only dropped five points this term, while second-placed Brechin City travel to an out-of-form Brora Rangers.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Chelsea face Barcelona in Catalan’s Olympic stadium for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Saturday lunchtime.

Barcelona knocked the Londoners out at the same stage last year and also beat them in the 2021 final.

Lyon, the most successful team in the competition’s history, meet Paris St Germain in this evening’s other last-four tie. Lyon have beaten Paris in three previous semi-final encounters.

SPEEDWAY: Ipswich maintained their 100 per cent start to the season and moved top of the Premiership after seeing off Oxford 45-39 in Thursday night’s rain-curtailed meeting.

Elsewhere Max Fricke bagged a perfect 15 points as Leicester led from the start to brush aside Belle Vue 53-37 and bottom club King’s Lynn remained without a win, despite Tobiasz Musielak’s 12+1 points, after suffering a heavy 58-32 loss at Sheffield.

WOMEN’S CRICKET: The Rachel Heyhoe-Flint Trophy begins tomorrow with reigning champions the Southern Vipers, who have picked up the trophy in three of the four years it has run, facing the South East Stars at Beckenham.

Last year’s runners-up the Blaze are at Edgbaston to take on the Central Sparks, Northern Diamonds host the Thunder at Chester-le-Street and Western Storm meet the Sunrisers in Cardiff.

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