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Five in a row for Longford.

4:00 AM | LONGFORD'S division 4 side made it five straight wins taking 10 points on two games from Launceston White to sit five points outside the Northern women's bowls competition top four.

Sport - Lawn Bowls

Jackson through despite protest

4:00 AM | OLYMPIC hopeful Luke Jackson has made it to the Australian amateur boxing championship finals, despite a controversial performance in the ring at yesterday's national titles, being held in Hobart.

Sport - Boxing

Burns selected to tour

4:00 AM | TASMANIAN Roar cricketer Erin Burns has been selected in a 13-player Shooting Stars youth squad to tour New Zealand in March.

Sport - Cricket

Hughes in hunt for Bellerive runs

4:00 AM | NEW South Wales opener Phil Hughes will be desperate to forget his Bellerive Test match nightmare when he returns to the venue for today's one-day clash with Tasmania.

Sport - Cricket

Victory out to get it right

4:00 AM | MELBOURNE _ Melbourne Victory is the A-League team for whom a 90-minute performance has become a familiar mix of high drama, sitcom and for its fans _ a tear-jerker ending.

Sport - Football - Soccer

Rules blunder disqualifies top amateur

4:00 AM | GOLD COAST - Promising teenage amateur Annie Choi says she's devastated after being disqualified from the Australian Ladies Masters along with her two playing partners for a rules blunder.

Sport - Golf

Spencer shows the way at Ulverstone

4:00 AM | PORT Sorrell professional Darren Spencer yesterday shot a five-under par 67 to win the Ulverstone Pro-Am.

Sport - Golf

Tennis talent to serve it up with idols

4:00 AM | LAUNCESTON tennis talent Sam Whitehead has received a surprise Davis Cup call-up at the age of nine.

Sport - Tennis

Gregson targets London Games

4:00 AM | AUSTRALIAN middle-distance Olympic medal hope Ryan Gregson says he's tracking for a London Games qualifying time at a meet in Sydney later this month.

Sport - Athletics

Stosur hopes to spark turnaround at Fed Cup

4:00 AM | LONDON - A refreshed Samantha Stosur aims to spark her faltering 2012 season into life in Australia's Fed Cup tie against Switzerland in frigid Fribourg this weekend.

Sport - Tennis

Roddick return on track

4:00 AM | NEW YORK _ Andy Roddick remains on track to return at the ATP event in San Jose in two weeks, even though he says he hasn't hit a tennis ball since hurting his right hamstring in the second round of the Australian Open.

Sport - Tennis

Forty boats to set sail for Beauty Point

4:00 AM | THE 12th anniversary of one of Tasmania's largest multi-class sailing regattas will see more than 40 boats racing around Port Dalrymple Bay at Beauty Point this weekend.

Sport - Sailing

In top gear: Cooper's road to rally success

4:00 AM | THE Launceston team of David Cooper and Jason Dann scored an impressive and long overdue victory in last weekend's Targa Wrest Point rally when they won the Classic outright competition in their four-door Torana A9X.

Sport - Motor Racing

Top juniors help mark centre's anniversary

4:00 AM | LAUNCESTON'S regional tennis centre will celebrate its first anniversary by hosting the world's top junior tennis women players plus five of Australia's top 10, including reigning Wimbledon junior champion Ashleigh Barty.

Sport - Tennis

Young guns to take on leading roles

4:00 AM | MELBOURNE - North Melbourne might have found the decision to appoint a new AFL captain clear-cut, but Melbourne found the task impossible.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Shaw forgiven for trip to the `dark side'

4:00 AM | MELBOURNE - Heath Shaw hopes his visits ``to the dark side and back'' will help him light the way for Collingwood's younger players as one of the AFL club's leaders.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Jimando to tighten Blue Diamond grip

4:00 AM | MELBOURNE _ Blue Diamond favourite Jimando can tighten his grip on the $1 million race with a strong performance in Saturday's Emirates Airlines Stakes at Caulfield.

Sport - Horse Racing

Global search for new Sydney coach

4:00 AM | SYDNEY - Sydney FC is set to embark on a worldwide search for a new coach after the A-League club and Vitezslav Lavicka mutually agreed to part ways at the end of the season.

Sport - Football - Soccer

Masters weekend a success

4:00 AM | THE Northern Tasmanian Softball Association hosted a great weekend of masters softball last week.

Sport - Softball

Legendary boxing trainer, 90, dies

03 Feb 12 | TAMPA, Florida - Angelo Dundee, who has died aged 90, was one of the greatest boxing trainers of all time and helped Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and more than a dozen other world champions to glory.

Sport - Boxing