Agana touched in a long throw from Andrew Legg to give Howard Kendall's

Agana touched in a long throw from Andrew Legg to give Howard Kendall's side the lead. Panthers were not helped by losing their American, Chris Fite, two minutes into the game with an ankle injury.. Tony Agana and Devon White scored the goals that gave the First Division strugglers Notts County victory in the Anglo-Italian Cup, their first trophy at Wembley. Towers' American, Tony Windless, scored 25 of his 27-point total in the second half.Doncaster Panthers' hopes of winning the title ended with an upset 98- 80 defeat at Chester Jets, who are second from the bottom of the league. The Budweiser League title went up for grabs last night, with London Towers most likely to snatch the championship from the long-time leaders Sheffield Sharks, who lost 74-71 at home to London Leopards.

The Towers, who defeated the Derby Bucks 92-84 on Saturday, are now four points behind Sheffield with each club having four games remaining to play. Two three-throws from Karl Brown sealed victory for the Leopards, who went into the game without their suspended coach, Billy Mims, and with only one American, following the two-year ban on DeCarlo Deveaux following his involvement in the brawl at Derby two weeks ago.Brown scored 10 of the Leopards' first 15 points, including three three- pointers, to inspire a victory which gives their London rivals hopes of winning their first championship.After leading 56-35 at half-time the Towers withstood a strong Derby fightback, capped by a three-pointer from Carl Gonder, which cut London's lead to 84-78. Trailing 33-20, England produced a final flurry to send Stuart Potter over in the corner.Natal: Tries Allan, Small; Conversion Honiball; Penalties Honiball 6; Drop goal Honiball. England A: Tries Hunter, Potter; Penalties Grayson 4; Drop goal Grayson.NATAL: H Reece-Edwards; J Small, P Mller, D Muir, C van der Westhuizen; H Honiball, K Putt; R Kempson, J Allan, A Garvey, M Andrews, S Atherton, W Bartmann (capt), G Teichmann, D Kriese.ENGLAND A: P Hull (Bristol); I Hunter (Northampton), D Hopley (Wasps), S Potter (Leicester), J Sleightholme (Bath); P Grayson, M Dawson (Northampton); R Hardwick (Coventry), M Regan (Bristol), D Garforth (Leicester), G Archer (Newcastle Gosforth), R West (Gloucester), J Hall (Bath, capt), A Diprose (Saracens), N Back (Leicester).. Pieter Muller was held up just short of the English line, but John Allan picked up and was driven over by his colleagues.Three more penalties saw Natal leading 16-12 just before the interval, when Hull produced some magic in his own 22 to slip three tackles and send the ball spinning out to the right, Ian Hunter finally going over in the corner to give England A a 17-16 lead at the interval.Honiball's boot put Natal back in charge in the opening 10 minutes of the second half and, with England tiring, James Small went over in the corner after some excellent approach work from Wahl Bartmann. Then Paul Hull fumbled inside his own 22 and the Natal forwards were quick to seize the advantage. Both sides scored two tries, but the England A fly-half Paul Grayson came off second best to Honiball with 15 points from four penalties and a drop-goal. England took the lead with the first of Grayson's penalties.

He and Honiball then traded kicks to make it 6-6 midway through the first half. He landed six penalties, a conversion and a drop goal after taking over the kicking duties from Hugh Reece-Edwards, who had missed two early penalties. The Frenchman Bruno Trouble observed that it might be better to abandon the semis and just let TNZ tune up its two boats in preparation to beat the US. The Aussies may not agree, but the bookies would.AMERICA'S CUP (San Diego): Citizen Cup, semi-final, day one: Pact '95 bt America3, 32sec. Louis Vuitton Cup, semi-final, race one: oneAustralia bt Nippon Challenge, 2min 39sec; Team New Zealnd bt Tag Heuer, 2:15.. Henry Honiball, the former Springbok fly-half, kicked England A to defeat with a 23-point haul in a scrappy game dominated by the boot in Durban on Saturday.

The second Team New Zealand boat was devastating.Nor did John Bertrand have any trouble in his remaining oneAustralia in sailing powerfully away from John Cutler in Nippon Challenge. The first whistle of panic was the appointment of a man, as David Dellenbaugh took over as starting helmsman and tactician for the first race of the semi-finals of the defender Citizen Cup from Jennifer "JJ" Isler following orchestrated group approaches by her team-mates to Koch. They still lost, though Dellenbaugh wanted to take the blame for that, and Leslie Egnot, newly appointed as skipper even though Koch had said there would not be one, said they just did not have the experience to win and it was important to them all to win.Egnot said she was having trouble steering the new boat, the Kiwi accent of her adopted country even stronger than usual, but the New Zealanders she has grown up with were showing in the first race of the Louis Vuitton Cup semis that the defenders had better put their house in order and quickly.Russell Coutts gave the older of his two boats its first outing by beating his Auckland rival Chris Dickson, who had promised an all guns blazing performance. So, now we know. The America's Cup is no arena for novices: any fault will be mercilessly exposed in the searing spotlight, and the all- woman experiment that 1992 winner Bill Koch thought could blow away myths about yachting skills is fast running aground.