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The Sun
15-06-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Toulon power past Castres and into Top 14 semi-final
SHARP-SHOOTING Melvyn Jaminet helped Toulon power past Castres 52-23 in Saturday's French Top 14 play-off to set up a semi-final clash with Bordeaux-Begles next weekend. Jaminet scored the first of Toulon's six second-half tries, adding a further 22 points with his boot. Castres had kept the home side on their toes in an evenly-matched first half, with only two points the difference in Toulon's favour at half-time. But they were swept aside after the break, with Jaminet's 50th minute try opening the floodgates for touchdowns from Baptiste Serin, Facundo Isa, Ben White, Ma'a Nonu and Jiuta Wainiqolo. On Friday, Bayonne crushed Clermont with a dominant 20-3 win in the first play-off to set up a semi-final showdown with reigning record 23-time champions Toulouse. Returning to the knock-out stage of the French championship for the first time in 33 years, Bayonne mastered the wet conditions best to remain undefeated at home this season. Clermont, champions in 2010 and 2017, never got into the game which was played in stormy weather with persistent rain preventing play from developing. Bayonne face Toulouse next Friday in Lyon, with Toulon taking on Bordeaux-Begles 24 hours later. The Top 14 final takes place on June 28 in Paris. Tommaso Allan booted a late penalty earlier Saturday as Perpignan preserved their Top 14 spot by beating Grenoble, losers in French rugby's second-division final, 13-11 in a promotion playoff. In a tense game of repeated lead changes, Romain Trouilloud had booted the hosts ahead with sixth minutes to play. The Perpignan pack forced one last penalty and Allan converted. Perpignan had finished 13th out of the 14 teams in the top flight to give themselves one more chance, away to the losers of the D2 final. Grenoble topped D2 but had lost the final of the six-team playoff for the third time to force them into another do-or-die match. The defeat also marked the second time in three years that Perpignan had beaten Grenoble in the playoff.
France 24
14-06-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Toulon power past Castres and into Top 14 semi-final
Jaminet scored the first of Toulon's six second-half tries, adding a further 22 points with his boot. Castres had kept the home side on their toes in an evenly-matched first half, with only two points the difference in Toulon's favour at half-time. But they were swept aside after the break, with Jaminet's 50th minute try opening the floodgates for touchdowns from Baptiste Serin, Facundo Isa, Ben White, Ma'a Nonu and Jiuta Wainiqolo. On Friday, Bayonne crushed Clermont with a dominant 20-3 win in the first play-off to set up a semi-final showdown with reigning record 23-time champions Toulouse. Returning to the knock-out stage of the French championship for the first time in 33 years, Bayonne mastered the wet conditions best to remain undefeated at home this season. Clermont, champions in 2010 and 2017, never got into the game which was played in stormy weather with persistent rain preventing play from developing. Bayonne face Toulouse next Friday in Lyon, with Toulon taking on Bordeaux-Begles 24 hours later. The Top 14 final takes place on June 28 in Paris. Tommaso Allan booted a late penalty earlier Saturday as Perpignan preserved their Top 14 spot by beating Grenoble, losers in French rugby's second-division final, 13-11 in a promotion playoff. In a tense game of repeated lead changes, Romain Trouilloud had booted the hosts ahead with sixth minutes to play. The Perpignan pack forced one last penalty and Allan converted. Perpignan had finished 13th out of the 14 teams in the top flight to give themselves one more chance, away to the losers of the D2 final. Grenoble topped D2 but had lost the final of the six-team playoff for the third time to force them into another do-or-die match. The defeat also marked the second time in three years that Perpignan had beaten Grenoble in the playoff.
NBC Sports
11-05-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
IMSA Laguna Seca results, points: Porsche Penske wins again but with the No. 6 963 this time
Porsche Penske Motorsport remained unbeaten in the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar championship season but with a twist at Laguna Seca Raceway. The No. 6 Porsche 963 earned its first Grand Touring Prototype victory this year as Mathieu Jaminet and Matt Campbell beat teammates Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy in the No. 7 963 that had won the first three races. It's the third consecutive 1-2 finish for Porsche Penske Motorsport. The No. 24 BMW, which started from the pole position for the fourth consecutive race, finished third despite going off course from contact with Tandy on the 124th and final lap of the Monterey SportsCar Championship. The Porsche Penske Motorsport No. 6 rallied after dropping from second to fifth from early contact with a GT car. Jaminet was able to hold off a charging Tandy by 1.692 seconds on the famous 12-turn, 2.238-mile road course. IMSA LAGUNA SECA MONTEREY GP RESULTS: Click here for overall l By class 'It was a crazy race,' Jaminet told NBC Sports' Dave Burns. 'Obviously, we didn't have a perfect start with a small contact. I think a GT didn't see Matt on the inside. That was unfortunate. We lost some time there, dropped to fifth and then yeah it was pretty much flat out from start to finish after that. 'Trying to manage energy, tires, but at the same time really putting in qualifying laps. At the end, it was really tight, there was the sister car, the BMW behind, the traffic, the lapped cars. Not an easy one but the best of IMSA racing today.' Through four of nine races, Nasr and Tandy maintain a 91-point lead on Jaminet and Campbell as the No. 7 team defends its 2024 GTP championship. The winners in the GT categories were the No. 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (GTD Pro) and No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 (GTD). With drivers Laurin Heinrich and Klaus Bachler, AO Racing won its third consecutive race (GTD Pro at Sebring and Laguna Seca, GTD at Long Beach) by beating the No. 81 DragonSpeed Ferrari 296 GT3 and No. 3 Corvette Racing Z06 GT3.R. In GTD, Philip Ellis and Russell Ward in the No. 57 Mercedes-AMG beat Jack Hawksworth and Parker Thompson in the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3. The . Conquest Racing No. 34 Ferrari 296 GT3 was third. 'Definitely a clean day,' Ellis told NBC Sports' Chris Wilner. 'An absolutely flawless day by the team, also by Russell in the first stint. I'll say the race was just as we needed it. I think especially against the Lexus. We had a long green stint, so I think they were stronger than us early in the stint, then we were better than them late out of the stint, so it was exactly what we needed to stay out of trouble. Amazing pit stops by the team. That's how you win the championship.' In the GTD Pro standings, Heinrich and Blachler extended their points lead, and Ellis and Ward also built on their championship lead in GTD. IMSA LAGUNA SECA MONTEREY GP RESULTS Race results Results by class Fastest laps by driver Fastest laps by driver after race (over the weekend) Fastest laps by driver and class after race Lap chart Best sector times Leader sequence Race distance and average speed Fastest lap sequence Race analysis by lap Stint analysis Time cards Pit stop time cards Flag analysis Weather report NEXT RACE The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will race Saturday, May 31 on the streets of downtown Detroit (3:30 p.m. ET, Peacock). Philip Ellis calls Laguna Seca a "flawless" race for his team and extends Winward Racing's championship lead in GTD.
France 24
26-04-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Toulouse thrash Castres as Top 14 pursuers stumble
Second-placed Bordeaux-Begles lost 21-10 at home to La Rochelle while third-placed Toulon fell at bottom club Vannes. The only black spot for Toulouse was a knee injury to Scotland full-back Blair Kinghorn, the front runner for the number 15 shirt for the British and Irish Lions' summer tour of Australia. Elsewhere two more star backs, Scot Stuart Hogg, who plays for Montpellier, and France's Melvyn Jaminet of Toulon, suffered severe injuries. Toulouse, who play Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup semi-finals next week, scored seven tries against Castres in an emphatic display. Dimitri Delibes, Malachi Hawkes, Simon Daroque, Alexandre Roumat, Julien Marchand, Pierre-Louis Barassi and Mathis Castro Ferreira all crossed the whitewash for the home side, Thomas Ramos kicking all the conversions and a penalty for a personal haul of 17 points. Castres' sole contribution was two penalties by Georgian fly-half Luka Matkava in his debut for the club. "I think we put in a decent performance," said Toulouse captain Anthony Jelonch, whose team visit Bordeaux next weekend for a European semi-final. In the Top 14 standings, Toulouse pulled 10 points clear of Bordeaux-Begles and 12 clear of Toulon. Bordeaux-Begles lost 21-10 at home in a scrappy match to La Rochelle, who seem to have rediscovered their form and rose to just outside the playoff places. Jack Nowell, Paul Boudehent and Levani Botia scored tries as the visitors pulled 18-3 ahead after 53 minutes. Ugo Boniface replied for the hosts with 16 minutes to play, but the visiting defence survived the final battering attacks. In Vannes, Jaminet kicked 14 points before he was carried off on a stretcher as Toulon lost 29-19 away to the basement club. "It was a game of life and death," said Theo Beziat, the hooker who scored an early try for the hosts. Jaminet was kneed in the head by Swan Rebbadj. The Toulon lock had an eventful afternoon, coming off the bench twice as a replacement and also collecting a yellow card before knocking out his team-mate. "I feel ashamed for all the fans who made the trip," said Pierre Mignoni, Toulon's director of rugby. "You can lose a game, but it's hard like this, and you have to admit that we weren't there." Vannes scrum-half Stephen Varney scored two tries as they collected a bonus point to close to within a point of Perpignan and Stade Francais at the foot of the table. Perpignan lost 19-13 at Montpellier where Hogg kicked 11 points for the hosts but suffered a suspected torn Achilles tendon. Montpellier coach Joan Caudullo said that Hogg's season was over. The 32-year-old Hogg, who was in January sentenced to supervision by a Scottish court after admitting he had abused his estranged wife, had already said he was unavailable for the Lions.
BBC News
13-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Last-gasp Ramos penalty puts Toulouse into semi-finals
Toulon: (12) 18Pens: Jaminet 6Toulouse: (6) 21Tries: Willis, Ahki Con: Ramos Pens: Ramos 3 Thomas Ramos kicked a last-gasp penalty to hand Toulouse victory over their Top 14 rivals Toulon in the Investec Champions Cup missed a penalty with three minutes remaining before regaining his composure to land the decisive blow for the defending champions with the final trailed 12-6 at the interval as Melvyn Jaminet kicked four penalties, while Ramos also registered a couple of shots at champions recovered after the interval, though, and Englishman Jack Willis scored their opening try to reduce the deficit to a single Ahki crossed for their second eight minutes later to hand the visitors the advantage but Jaminet's trusted boot kept Toulon within striking full-back dragged his side level from the tee but it was opposite number Ramos who maintained Toulouse's title will face another French side in the semi-finals in a mouth-watering tie at Bordeaux-Begles next month. Line-ups Toulon: Jaminet: Drean, Fainga'anuku, Sinzelle, Villiere; Garbisi, Serin; Priso, Baubigny, Gigashvili, Ribbans (capt), Alainu'uese, Ludlam, Abadie, Ivaldi, Gros, Setiano, Rebbadj, Le Corvec, White, Domon, Ramos; Mallia, Barassi, Ahki, Kinghorn; Ntamack, Graou; Baille, Marchand (capt), Aldegheri, Flament, Meafou, Cros, Willis, Mauvaka, Neti, Merkler, Verge, Jelonch, Saito, Costes, Matthew Carley (England)
