Girdler added both goals to give the Panthers an 18-0 lead

Girdler added both goals to give the Panthers an 18-0 lead.Warrington's Great Britain loose-forward Paul Sculthorpe, realising that the Penrith defence had moved up quickly, put in a grubber kick which found his winger Mark Foster.The Panthers hit back immediately when Matt Adamson charged through from close range to score adjacent to the posts. Girdler had no problem making it made it 24-4.The Wolves produced some positive play in the 34th minute that ended up with a try to Jon Roper in the corner after Briers spotted the Penrith defence at sixes and sevens.Warrington's momentum quickly evaporated within the opening 60 seconds of the restart when Craig Gower fed Girdler, who raced 40 metres to score under the posts. He converted his own try to give his side a 30-8 lead.Penrith score again in the 46th minute when Darren Brown threw an inside pass for Matt Adamson to race over.Sculthorpe sent Roper over for his second try after Briers had committed the Penrith defence but Briers once again had no luck with the boot.To top it all off, Matt Adamson ran over the top of Andrew Duncan, making his debut, to register his hat-trick and Danny Farrar raced over in the 73rd minute to score the eight try. Girdler, who completed his 100 per cent record with his eighth goal, ended with 20 points. In his side's win at Wilderspool he scored a club-record 26 points.Warrington had Salesi Finau placed on report for an alleged high tackle on Domic.Penrith: Jorgensen; Williams, Domic, Thompson, Beckett; Girdler, Gower; MacNamara, Farrar, P Adamson, Puletua, M Adamson, Gall. Substitutes: MacGillvray, Brown, Hicks, Boyd.Warrington: Penny; Roper, Vagana, Finau, Forster; Shelford, Briers; Hilton, Swann, Stevens, Tatupu, Knott, Sculthorpe. Substitutes: Mann, Wainwright, Causey, Duncan.Referee: B Grant (Aus)..

The owner Peter Savill was fined pounds 200 by the Musselburgh stewards yesterday for switching the rider of Goretski in the STUC Handicap. Savill ordered that the 5lb apprentice Paul Roberts was put up on the gelding after yesterday's 2pm deadline. The trainer Nigel Tinkler had declared Lindsay Charnock as Goretski's jockey.Fortunately the change was made in time to put Roberts along the name of the horse in yesterday morning's newspapers and on the racecard.Usually in these cases it is the trainer that is fined but the stewards took action against Savill because he had instructed Tinkler to make the change.Savill, the president of the Racehorse Owners' Association, said: "It was just miscommunication between everybody, although I am surprised that they've fined me. The stewards haven't even spoken to me about it."It was only 15 minutes after the deadline that we made the change. I made it clear that I wanted Roberts."I thought we had Roberts but then Nigel told me that Charnock had been declared."Charnock was in the saddle when Goretski won at Catterick on Wednesday but Savill said: "Charnock only weighs 7st something and the horse was set to carry 10st I wanted Roberts to take some weight off.".

Monica Seles is not ready to pass the torch to the younger generation represented by two high-profile 16-year-olds, Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova. "Every seven, eight years, there's a new generation of young players coming along to push the older ones." said the 23-year-old Seles,who is playing in a non-WTA Tour event in Mahwah, New Jersey this week, her first tournament since Wimbledon. "We're not ready to roll over. When Jennifer Capriati and I came along Steffi (Graf) and Gaby (Gabriela Sabatini) felt the same way I'm still very young, ready for the challenge. These younger players provide us with extra motivation."Seles had an easy 6-1, 6-1 victory over the qualifier Terry Ann Zawacki in her opening match in the A & P Classic.Seles says she has been working hard to regain her form but she admits that it has been a hard struggle and that it will be long way to go. "When you have not been playing for two and a half years, you don't have the same conviction when you hit a tennis ball."Michael Chang, the top seed and defending champion, was extended to three sets at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, this time by Michael Joyce, ranked 163rd in the world. Chang ultimately prevailed 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 in Thursday's third-round match. On Tuesday night he had to recover two service breaks in the third set against the Mexican qualifier Luis Herrera.Chang, who now has won 25 of 28 matches on hard courts in 1997, said there was no particular aspect of his game bothering him right now "Everything can be better and solidified.

My complete game is not there yet, but I am competing well," he said.The key to his victory over Joyce was his serve. He served 15 aces and said: "It helped me out quite a bit, getting some free points, particularly against a player who returns well like Joyce does."David Wheaton, who climbed to a world ranking of 17 in 1991 but who has not been in the top 100 since suffering an Achilles' tendon injury early last year, continued his comeback with a 3-6, 7-6, 7-6 victory over Australia's Jason Stoltenberg.. Paul Davidson, the villain of the piece the last time these two sides met, was the match-winner when his try three minutes from time produced the most unlikely result in the World Club Championship so far, writes Dave Hadfield. Davidson, who served a three match suspension for biting after the two teams clashed in Townsville last month, took David Stephenson's short pass to go down the blind side and crown a magnificent Oldham performance with his second try. Such has been Oldham's woeful form over recent weeks that they would have been bottom of most lists of likely British winners in the second phase of this competition.However, the bottom side in European Super League made the liveliest start of any British side so far. The surprise after that was that they managed to sustain that intensity and grab the winning points at the death.Australia took the lead with a penalty from Luke Phillips, but that was soon wiped out by one from one of the home side's Australians, Luke Goodwin.When John Lomax got away to send Ray Mercy in at the corner, it seemed as though the cowboys could be finding their feet.But Oldham, with Martin Crompton pulling the strings, soon hit back.

It was a cultured short pass from Crompton which produced the equalising try for Davidson. Goodwin's kick brought the scores level and, on the stroke of half time, his penalty put them in a narrow lead.Oldham's defence had been tremendous, but it was caught out early in the second half by Andrew Dunemann's angled kick and Phillips' timing as he dived onto the rolling ball.Again Oldham responded quickly and effectively, even if the cowboys thought that Brett Goldspink had lost the ball as he juggled Ian Gildart's pass and went over. Paul Bowman's try, after he had jumped above David Jones to reach Jason Death's high kick, brought the scores level once more.There were also unsuccessful attempts at drop-goals by both sides as time ran out, but Davidson had the final word.Oldham: Atcheson, Leuila, Cowan, Hill, D Jones, Goodwin, Crompton, Goldspink, Clarke, Gildart, Faimalo, Davidson, Russell. Substitutes used: Stephenson, Topping, Munro, Lord.North Queensland: Cressbrook, Loomans, Bowman, Mercy, Phillips, Doyle, Dunemann, Lomax, Walters, Roberts, P Jones, Cunningham, Scott.