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Leigh Halfpenny missed two late penalties as Scarlets held on to secure a famous 22-21 victory over Toulon in the Champions Cup at Parc y Scarlets.Halfpenny kicked seven penalties but crucially was wayward with four other attempts - two in each half.Scarlets had led from the 11th minute when Rhys Patchell, who supplied 17 points with the boot, kicked a penalty, with man of the match Scott Williams scoring the only try of the match in the first half.Toulon, who had replacement Florian Fresia sent to the sin bin, had to settle for a losing bonus point as they went down to their second defeat in Pool 3.Wales centre Jonathan Davies was a late withdrawal from the Scarlets bench after he failed to recover from a hamstring strain. He had missed Scarlets 31-20 defeat to Toulon last weekend.Wales loosehead prop Rob Evans made his first start of the season with Samson Lee returning at tighthead.Will Boyde came in at openside for the suspended James Davies, who was given a three-week ban for swearing and using an obscene gesture during last weeks match at Stade Felix Mayol.Scarlets dominated the first half to lead 16-9 at the interval with Halfpenny keeping the French side in touch with three penalties from four attempts. After defending a dangerous early drive from a line-out it was all Scarlets in the opening quarter as they played a positive offloading brand of rugby.Scarlets went into a 13-0 lead in the opening 19 minutes with two Patchell penalties sandwiched by a well-worked try. Centre Williams went over after some fine interplay involving Hadleigh Parkes and the impressive Aaron Shingler.Patchell converted. Scarlets, who had a strong scrum, did miss two opportunities when wing Steff Evans failed to collect a Patchell cross-kick and when scrum-half Gareth Davies dropped the ball over the line.Halfpenny, who got back to deny DTH van der Merwe following up a Patchell kick ahead, got Toulon on the board with a 21st-minute penalty. That was cancelled out by a Patchell penalty which had been earned from a scrum in the shadow of the posts after both sides had been involved in a flare-up of tempers.Though Scarlets were much the better side in the first 40 minutes Toulon were kept in the contest by Halfpenny penalties on 29 and 40 minutes, although he missed an attempt from the halfway line on 38 minutes.The second half was all about a Toulon comeback despite Patchell getting the first score after the break when he kicked a 45th-minute penalty. That score was cancelled out two minutes later by Halfpenny as Toulon started to force the home side into giving away penalties.Toulon did suffer a setback when Fresia received a yellow card for a neck hold on Shingler. Halfpenny and Patchell swapped penalties on 64 and 66 minutes respectively before Scarlets found themselves on the back foot in the final 15 minutes.Halfpennys seventh penalty took Toulon to within a point of Scarlets with eight minutes remaining. But the usually accurate Wales full-back missed penalties on 75 and 80 minutes, the second from near halfway, with Pierre Bernard well short with a speculative drop-goal attempt on 77 minutes. Todd Heap Jersey . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . Sam Koch Jersey . 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Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off.OAKLAND, Calif. - As Travis Hafners drive carried toward the high wall in left-centre what had been a six-run lead for Oakland no longer seemed so safe anymore. The Athletics were able to catch their breath once Seth Smith jumped to make the catch to seal a 6-4 win over CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. "With the career hes had anytime he connects with the barrel its obviously going to be a scary moment," catcher Derek Norris said. "Hes got tremendous power and hes a monster, hes huge. Anytime a guy like that you hear a barrel you know it could be scary. Fortunately for us Seth made a great play and that good old marine layer made the ball go down a little bit." Norris homered and drove in four runs, Coco Crisp hit a leadoff homer and Bartolo Colon (8-2) pitched six scoreless innings to lead the As to their eighth win in 11 games. Oakland (39-27) has its best record after 66 games since 1992. It didnt come easy after the Yankees scored twice in the eighth and twice in the ninth to bring up Hafner as the tying run with a man on first. His drive off Grant Balfour through the thick night air in Oakland died at the fence. "To me it was never going out," said Balfour, who recorded his 16th save in as many chances. "It was just a matter of does it go off the wall a little too high and then its a double. That was the only thing I was worried about. I was never worried about it going out." Sabathia (6-5) allowed six runs and eight hits in six innings in his homecoming start in front of many fans that came from his hometown of nearby Vallejo to watch him pitch. "He made mistakes, and you cant make mistakes at this level," manager Joe Girardi said. "If you do, sometimes youre going to get away with them but most of the time youre not." The As did get some bad news when star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes had to leave the game after the second inning with tightness in his left hamstring. He is day to day. Cespedes appeared to hurt himself running out a groundout in the first inning. Crisp also played through a sore right heel. Colon pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first inning and then didnt allow another runner to reach second base. He allowed three hits and a season-high four walks to improve to 5-0 with a 0.75 ERA over his past five starts. "Hes been unbelievable really for us," Balfour said. "Hes a veteran gguy and hes leading the way for us.dddddddddddd Hes showing the younger guys, Hey Im out here and Im still doing it. Just watching the way he goes about his business hes a true professional. Hes been doing it a long time and is very successful at doing it. Were lucky to have him." Norris was coming off an 0-for-13 road trip and was hitless in 14 straight at-bats before delivering the most productive game of his career. He blooped a two-out RBI double down the right-field line in the second that scored Josh Reddick from first when Lyle Overbay misplayed the ball in his fourth career game in right field. Norris then added the big blow in the fourth inning when he drove a first pitch from Sabathia over the wall in left-centre for a three-run homer that made it 5-0 and gave Norris a career-high four RBIs. The As added a run in the sixth when Josh Donaldson doubled and scored on a wild pitch. The poor outing left Sabathia with a 5.30 ERA in 14 career starts in Oakland. Thats his highest ERA in any active American League park. "The changeup was up and flat, the two-seamer I was yanking down the middle," Sabathia said. "It was just a combination of everything not being sharp." New York scored twice in the eighth off Jerry Blevins and could have had more except right fielder Josh Reddick made a nice running catch to track down a liner toward the line by Travis Hafner. Mark Teixeira added a two-run single in the ninth before Smiths catch ended it. The Yankees threatened in the first inning when they took advantage of two rare walks by Colon to load the bases with one out. But Colon escaped the threat with no damage when he got Kevin Youkilis to foul out to first base and Lyle Overbay to foul out to left field. "We got to make him pay," Overbay said. "We let him off the hook and that kind of gave him some momentum and we couldnt get it back." New York then found itself trailing two pitches into the bottom half when Crisp his third leadoff homer of the season and 11th in his career to make it 1-0. NOTES: The national anthem was played by the marching band from Solano Middle School, the school Sabathia attended for junior high. ... Girardi said he hopes SS Derek Jeter will be cleared Thursday by doctors to begin full rehab of his injured ankle. ... Dan Straily (3-2, 4.67 ERA) pitches for Oakland in the second game of the series against Phil Hughes (3-4, 4.80). ' ' '