Hockey: Riet Kuper has selected her squad for next month's World Cup qualifier in France and has included two of the players who made their senior debuts in Cardiff last weekend, Loreto's Sarah Rand and the University of Limerick's Eimear Cregan, writes Mary Hannigan.
At 19, Cregan, daughter of Limerick hurling coach Eamonn, is the youngest player in a squad that is captained by her Munster team-mate, Rachel Kohler, who now has 114 caps to her name.
IRISH SQUAD (for World Cup Qualifier) - A Platt, L McVicker (both Ballymoney), R Kohler (capt, Cork Harlequins), L Caulfield (Trinity), T Browne, J Burke, D Sixsmith (all Hermes), S Rand, C McKean (both Loreto), J McDonough (Newcastle Univ/Belfast Harlequins), K Humphreys, P Magill, A Boyles (vice capt), C McMahon (all Pegasus), J Orbinson (Portadown), L Lee (Sutton Coldfield), C O'Brien (UCD), E Cregan (Univ of Limerick)
Tennis: Yvonne Doyle won through to the quarter-finals of the Cumberland $10,000 Futures Tournament in London yesterday with a straight sets victory over Britain's Annabel Blow.
The unseeded Dublin woman romped to a 6-3 6-0 win over an opponent seeded at number seven and listed 150 spots higher on the world rankings.
Swimming: There are 256 starters for the annual Irish Times Dun Laoghaire Harbour swims on Sunday. The men's 2,200 metre race gets off the mark at 4.30 with the women's 1,600 metre race starting at 5.30.
