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England were swept aside 45-19 in the first half of their seventh game in the semi-final round hitting the target with just

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England were swept aside 45-19 in the first half of their seventh game in the semi-final round, hitting the target with just six attempts Their rhythm was upset by an early injury to Roger Huggins. Huggins was taken off to have stitches in a head wound with England trailing just 12-10. In his absence Spain surged to 26-3, as only John Amaechi and Steve Bucknall looked capable of threatening the Spanish basket. Amaechi finished with 15 points, Bucknall with 14 and the next highest scorer was Delme Herriman on five.England have three games left in the return fixtures in the group which began last season.After losing three games out of seven, they will have to win in the Ukraine on Wednesday and then beat Israel and Belarus in February to have any chance of qualifying automatically for the finals from the top two positions.n Thousands of Bosnians celebrated into the early hours yesterday after their national team beat Croatia in a European championship qualifier. Traffic in downtown Sarajevo came to a standstill after the unexpected 67-64 victory boosted Bosnia's chances of reaching the championships..

TESSA DAVIDSON broke Kelly Fisher's stranglehold on women's snooker by winning the UK Championship at Bournemouth yesterday. A 4-1 victory for the 29-year-old from Banbury prevented Fisher, the world No 1 and world champion, from winning her fourth tournament in a row. "I am just pleased to play well with a trophy on the line because I haven't been doing myself justice in finals," said Davidson, who is now sure to improve on her current position of No 12 in the world rankings.Davidson, who runs a mobile fish and chip shop with her husband, retired from the game for a time but since her return she has been runner-up in both the Regal Welsh Open and Regal Women's Masters.After losing the opening frame to Fisher, Davidson, assisted by a 54 break - the highest of the match - moved into a 2-1 lead. Davidson crucially snatched the fourth frame with a green-to-black clearance before completing her surprise victory by edging a tense 35-minute fifth frame on the blue.In the semi-finals, Davidson had squeezed through 4-3 after the world No 2, Karen Corr, went in off the black in the deciding frame.The world No 3, Lisa Quick, from Weston-super-Mare, built the highest break of the championship, 98, in the last 16.. THE AGE of Venetia Williams is almost as big a mystery in racing as the disappearance of Shergar.

The Hereford trainer refuses to divulge the statistic in racing's Directory of the Turf; she thanks enquirers to mind their manners when asked the old question. The age detectives, however, have been on the job and 35 looks a worthy favourite. That means we have a lot of this particular trainer to come. A Ms V Williams with braces in her teeth, like a similar figure in tennis, looks likely to dominate her arena in the years ahead. On Saturday, Venetia became only the second woman, after Jenny Pitman, to collect a Hennessy Gold Cup and the conjecture that she might straddle the game as effectively as Mrs P is now hardly a fanciful notion.Venetia Williams has been trained well. She rode 10 winners as an amateur and even competed in a Grand National, the marathon of 1988 when she and Marcolo parted at Becher's Brook and the two-legged member of the partnership was knocked unconscious.

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