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With a comeback victory over reigning champions York Valkyrie, women’s Super League leaders St. Helens almost secured home advantage in the play-offs.

With just two games left, Saints were eight points ahead of third-placed York before Saints came out on top in the final 26 minutes to claim an 18-8 victory.

After defeating Barrow Raiders 92-0, Wigan is still one point behind St. Helens in the League Leaders’ Shield race.

After a 20-20 win in a see-saw game, Leigh and Huddersfield each received the win.

After Wolves squandered Sunday’s game, the Giants’ hopes of making it to the play-offs were already over thanks to fourth-placed Leeds’ 48-0 victory over Warrington.

Warrington claimed that they couldn’t field a full team due to injuries and player availability issues.

When Savannah Andrade scored early in the second-half and Rhiannon Marshall’s penalty on the stroke of half-time gave them an 8-0 lead, they appeared to be on course to do so.

Before two final ten minutes of scoring, two Phoebe Hook tries gave Saints control, Emily Rudge restored the team’s grip.

After York’s Sinead Peach was shown a red card for dissention, Faye Gaskin scored the winning goal with a last-minute penalty.

Wigan continued to put pressure on Saints when they ran in 17 tries at Barrow without a hit.

Isabel Rowe scored 12 goals for the Warriors, and Ruby Hunter, Mia-Jayne Atherton, Eva Hunter, and Jenna Foubister all crossed twice.

The scoresheet included Molly Jones, Lucie Sams, Georgia Wilson, Charlotte Meredith, and Cerys Jones.

Leigh led 10-0 at Golbourne Parkside before Fran Copley, Maddie Clegg, and Amelia Brown took the lead again with tries from Lucy Johnson and Mollie Young.

Grand Prix of the Netherlands

Date: 31 August 2018 Start time for the race: 14:00 BST on Sunday

Oscar Piastri pipped McLaren team-mate Lando Norris to pole position at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands.

As their title battle is still incredibly close, Piastri turned the tables on Norris, who had been the quicker McLaren driver all weekend, by 0.012 seconds.

With only 10 races left, the Australian holds the championship lead over Norris by nine points.

In Zandvoort’s final qualifying round, both times were set on their first laps. On their final runs, Norris and Piastri were actually quicker by 0.004 seconds, but neither driver had improved since their first attempt.

Max Verstappen of Red Bull placed third, 0.263 seconds slower than Piastri, while Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar placed fourth in his impressive rookie season.

Piastri once said, “That’s the definition of peaking at the right moment. Just a few corners have happened where I wasn’t able to move more quickly. I didn’t do that, but I did spend some time in other places.

Hadjar’s qualifying performance put him in the lead, finishing second behind team-mate Liam Lawson in eighth place and ahead of both Mercedes and Ferrari.

Due to his persistent engine problem, he had missed much of Friday practice. It made things even more eye-opening.

The Frenchman, who is now 20 years old, said: “I feel great. Amazing QA . Sincerely, I had a terrible experience yesterday. Really unanticipated.

We both knew it would be very difficult to reach Q3, and we both did, and I had a really good feeling this morning. On that final lap, I put it all on the line, and it turned out to be a great lap, so I’m happy. He really pushed me.

Hamilton was much happier after finishing 12th overall in Hungary in the opening race of the season.

The seven-time champion asserted, “This weekend, we have definitely seen progress, and that was the goal.” overall, better approach. Everything has just been more enjoyable.

Carlos Sainz’s Williams and Fernando Alonso, who are currently competing for fifth and sixth place in the constructors’ championship, finished third behind Lawson.

Alonso’s promise in practice on Friday, when he split the McLarens, faded, as it was always going to. If he had managed to run the fastest lap he did in the previous session, he would have finished seventh, despite Hamilton.

Alonso had run used tyres on his first run in Q3, just like everyone else except for Verstappen and the McLarens, and the track slowed as the session progressed.

He asserted that while running the final Q3, 10th is not the best starting position, but it is what we deserved. Since the ninth is only 0.15 seconds away from us, it is not even close. We hope it pays off because we have a different tire selection than some other teams.