- Baseball: Cavalry look to send Mike Reeves off in style
- Cricket: Tuggeranong cruising in Douglas Cup
- Soccer: Canberra United blow chance to go top of the W-League
- Basketball: Capitals keep Wilson's fairytale alive
CANBERRA UNITED
Wanderers striker Katie Stengel celebrates the winning goal against Canberra United. Photo: Mark Metcalfe
Canberra United have blown a chance to go top of the W-League, losing on the road to the lowly Western Sydney Wanderers in Sydney on Sunday.
With Sydney FC losing 3-1 to Newcastle at home on Saturday, United just needed a win over the previously seventh-placed Wanderers to leapfrog the Sky Blues.
But a first-half goal to Wanderers striker Katherine Stengel proved to be the winner as Canberra struggled to take advantage of their dominant possession.
Co-captain Ellie Brush could only watch from the stands as she's still yet to play her 100th W-League game due to a knee injury.
But she did make her AFL Women's debut in a pre-season trial for the GWS Giants against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday.
She got through about 60-70 per cent of the game and Giants coach Tim Schmidt reported she pulled up well.
But she was left out of the Canberra United side that's playing the Western Sydney Wanderers in Sydney on Sunday.
A medial ligament injury has prevented her from reaching the elusive milestone for a number of week.
AT A GLANCE
Western Sydney Wanderers 1 (Katherine Stengel 43) bt Canberra United 0 at Campbelltown Stadium.
CANBERRA CAVALRY
Canberra Cavalry catcher Mike Reeves is heading home for a wedding. Photo: SMP Images
The Canberra Cavalry will look to send Toronto Blue Jays prospect Mike Reeves off with a series win when they wrap up their series against the Sydney BLue Sox at Blacktown on Sunday.
Reeves will return home to the USA where he's the best man at a wedding with just one round remaining before the ABL play-offs.
Canberra currently sits in second on the ladder, but could still slip out of the top three with five games remaining.
They lead the Blue Sox series 2-1, with the final game on Sunday at 4pm.
Read about how they split Saturday's double header here.
AT A GLANCE
Game two
Canberra 001 000 0 1R 3H 3E
Sydney 002 003 x 5R 5H 1E
W: Luke Wilkins (W-L 3-3, 3.99ERA); L: Sean Guinard (4-2, 2.64).
Game three
Canberra 010 001 000 2R 9H 1E
Sydney 000 001 000 1R 5H 1E
W: Louis Cohen (W-L 3-0, 2.88ERA); L: Craig Anderson (4-2, 4.24); Save: Steve Kent (7).
CANBERRA CAPITALS
Canberra Capitals captain Carly Wilson announced her retirement from the WNBL. Photo: Karleen Minney
The Canberra Capitals overpowered the Bendigo Spirit to stay alive in the WNBL finals race after going on a final-quarter rampage to secure a 77-63 win.
The Capitals used Carly Wilson's impending retirement for extra motivation in as they came from behind in the dying stages.
Wilson will retire at the end of the year after 19 seasons and is determined to end a five-year finals drought to have a shot at a fairytale send off.
The Capitals road to the play-offs will be tough and they need to win all of their remaining games to charge into the play-offs, starting with a clash against Sydney on Thursday.
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AT A GLANCE
CANBERRA CAPITALS 77 (Marianna Tolo 28, Lauren Mansfield 19, Mikaela Ruef 7) bt BENDIGO SPIRIT 63 (Kelsey Griffin 20, Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe 13, Nadeen Payne 10) at Tuggeranong Basketball Stadium on Saturday night. Crowd: 825.
CRICKET ACT DOUGLAS CUP
Tuggeranong skipper Shane Devoy. Photo: Jay Cronan
Tuggeranong is on the verge of an outright victory after the first day of their clash against ANU despite dropping six catches on Saturday.
Tuggeranong skipper Shane Devoy claimed 3-52 and then finished the day 55 not out with Tuggeranong just 27 runs behind ANU's first-innings score of 171.
In other matches, Brendan Duffy smashed 90 to help Wests-UC get to 8-310 against Queanbeyan, while Weston Creek Molonglo bowler Joe Slater took 5-27 to run through the North Canberra-Gungahlin line-up.
AT A GLANCE
Western District-UC 8-310 (Brendan Duffy 90, Blake Macdonald 55, Matthew Condon 52, Lakshmn Shivakkumar 3-18). Queanbeyan yet to bat.
North Canberra-Gungahlin 172 (Robert Ryan 69, Joe Slater 5-27) v Weston Creek Molonglo 7-171 (John Rogers 36, Mark Bennett 33, Esam Rahman 3-22)
ANU 171 (Corey Spink 59, Shane Devoy 3-52) v Tuggeranong Valley 3-144 (Michael Barrington-Smith 65no, Shane Devoy 55no, Ujjwal Devliyal 2-28)
Ginninderra 290 (Sam Gaskin 74, Paras Sachdeva 56, Michael Spaseski 3-79) v Eastlake 3-22 (Luke Ryan 1-7)