Sports round-up

Basketball: MBA Shield, Division Two: Athleta vs Qormi 75-39; SN Suns vs Floriana 78-30; Mellieħa vs Siġġiewi 49-69.

Boxing: Amir Khan will defend his world light-welterweight titles against US challenger Lamont Peterson on December 10 in Washington, according to promoter Richard Schaefer. Golden Boy Promotions’ Schaefer told ESPN that Khan will fight at a venue to be determined in the US capital, where Peterson is a hometown hero but where Khan visited last month for a dinner honouring Muslim athletes.

Golf: Lexi Thompson will play full-time on the LPGA tour next season after the women’s golf circuit approved her request to waive the minimum age requirement. Thompson, 16, filed her petition last week and LPGA commis-sioner Mike Whan approved it yesterday so that Thompson won’t have to wait until she’s 18 to become a tour member.

Tennis: Henri Leconte confirmed that he will help coach world number nine Gael Monfils for upcoming tournaments in Valencia and Paris-Bercy. The 48-year-old Leconte, the 1988 French Open runner-up and Davis Cup winner in 1991, has worked as a television pundit since his retirement in 1996 and has never coached a player.

Baseball: Cooper Stone, the six-year-old son of the firefighter who fell to his death at a Rangers game this sea-son, threw out the ceremonial first pitch as Texas opened the play-offs on Friday. Cooper, wearing a Rangers jersey with his favourite player Josh Hamilton’s number 32 and his own name on the back, tossed the ball that was caught by Hamilton between the pitcher’s mound and home plate.