1.   Ball then kicked a penalty before Neath extended their lead with a try from John Davies.

2.   Sometimes the boards at the front seem to extend huge leads over the rest of the fleet.

3.   The Australian rugby team extended its lead with a try from Stirling Mortlock.

4.   RALPH Ewing and co-driver Kevin McCracken extended their lead in the Walter S Mercer Northern Ireland navigation rally championship which resumed after a summer break last night.

5.   Rangers nevertheless extended their lead over Aberdeen in the championship to ten points after a performance which had seemed destined to go unrewarded before the floodgates opened.

6.   Ian Wright extended that lead on eighty one minutes, but Derby did get back into things with an effort from Gary Micklewhite.

7.   Analysts predict that they will extend their lead.

8.   Arizona extended its lead just before the half ended when it called a stop-and-go route for Boston.

9.   As defending race champion, Ruttman should have more confidence in being able to extend his lead.

10.   As so often happens in yacht racing, especially when the wind is light, the boat ahead extended its lead.