Waves Radio Sport  

11th March

FOOTBALL

Rangers took another step towards retaining the SPL title with a win at Kilmarnock. Steven Whittaker and Kenny Miller were on target as Walter Smith's team opened up a 13 point gap at the top of the table.  Rangers are just six victories away from sealing the championship.

Peterhead's promotion play-off hopes suffered a blow when they were beaten by Stenhousemuir in the Second Division.  A 2-0 defeat saw the Blue Toon slip to seventh place and seven points off a top four spot, having played more games than the teams above them.

Cove Rangers took advantage of several postponements to regain top spot in the Highland League.  The reigning champions defeated Rothes 2-0 to leapfrog Buckie, who were not in action.  Fraserburgh's game at Keith was among the cancellations. 

Scotland captain Darren Fletcher was on target as Manchester Utd crushed AC Milan to advance to the Champions League quarter finals.  Sir Alex Ferguson's team won 4-0 at Old Trafford to progress 7-2 on aggregate.  Arsenal enjoyed an easy victory over Porto on Tuesday with Nicklas Bendtner scoring a hat-trick. 

The two English sides left in the Europa League play their last 16 first leg ties this evening.  Liverpool are in France for their game against Lille and Fulham take on Italian giants Juventus in Turin. 

RUGBY

Scotland have recalled Nick De Luca for Saturday's Calcutta Cup match with England at Murrayfield.  The 26-year-old will play at outside centre.  It's the only change from the team beaten in Italy ten days ago.  Max Evans moves to the wing, with Simon Danielli dropping to the bench.

H Southwell (Stade Francais); S Lamont (Scarlets), N De Luca (Edinburgh), G Morrison (Glasgow), M Evans (Glasgow); D Parks (Glasgow), C Cusiter (Glasgow, captain); A Jacobsen (Edinburgh), R Ford (Edinburgh), E Murray (Northampton); J Hamilton (Edinburgh), A Kellock (Glasgow); K Brown (Glasgow), J Barclay

(Glasgow), J Beattie (Glasgow).

Replacements: S Lawson (Gloucester), G Cross (Edinburgh), N Hines (Leinster), A MacDonald (Edinburgh), R Lawson (Gloucester), P Godman (Edinburgh), S Danielli (Ulster).

TENNIS

Elena Baltacha is through to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.  The Perth-born player came through against wild card Alexa Glatch in three sets.  Baltacha will meet seventh seed Li Na in the next round. 

Great Britain have reached a new low in Davis Cup tennis after suffering a humiliating defeat to Lithuania.  The team will now face a play-off against Turkey in July to avoid dropping into the lowest tier of the competition.  John Lloyd has the unwanted statistic of becoming the first GB captain to oversee 5 straight losses.