Penalty try earns Sale rare win over Tigers

By ROB WILDMAN

Threat: Matt Postlethwaite makes a break for Sale
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High rise: Tigers’ Graham Kitchener wins a lineout

SALE edged to victory in a tense finale but the late drama did little to lift a forgettable match at a wet Welford Road.
Tom Hardwick, the young Leicester fly-half, will remember the night for his last-minute penalty miss which would have rescued Tigers from a third straight loss in this new back-up competition.
Instead, Sale were left celebrating a rare win here – only their third in 25 years reckoned Steve Dia mond afterwards &nda...

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