Toulon edged past Clermont Auvergne 23-21 at Stade Felix Mayol with Mamuka Gorgodzes late try giving them a timely boost.?The three-time European champions have struggled this term but they got back to winning ways ahead of Mike Fords arrival on Monday as their new first team coach.Leigh Halfpennys metronomic boot kept the scoreboard ticking over as he finished with 11 points for Toulon as they crossed once in each half with Charles Ollivon and Gorgodze scoring.?Clermont rallied hard and missed a late drop-goal to win the match with Patricio Fernandezs brace of tries and Camille Lopezs kicking keeping them on Toulons toes.Elsewhere on Sunday, A hat-trick from Nemani Nadolo helped Montpellier thrash Brive 42-13, out-scoring their opponents by five tries to just one.Nadaolo scored a brace of tries in the first-half for Montpellier, who thanks primarily to the boot of Demetri Catrakillis were 18-6 up by the break.Catrakillis ended the match with a haul of 10 points, whilst Francois Steyn and Charles Geli crossed the whitewash for Montpellier in a second-half that also saw Nadolo score his third.Ben Botica notched a conversion and penalty for the home side late in the game, whilst William Whetton scored the only Brive try, with Gaetan Germain kicking 8 points for Brive.On Saturday Castres delivered an eye-catching?31-23 victory over Top 14 champions Racing 92 at Stade Pierre Antoine.A pulsating fixture saw the teams locked up at 13 all at halftime, with a try apiece from France loose-head prop Eddy Ben Arous for Racing, and second-row Rodrigo Capo Ortega for the home side.The second half ?saw five-pointers from Geoffrey Palis and Benjamin Urdapilleta, and 16 points from the boot of the latter saw Castres come out on top, with new signing Leone Nakarawa getting on the score-sheet for the Parisian side.La Rochelle were too strong for Bayonne at home with a solid?34-17 victory at Stade Marcel Deflandre.With the score locked at 6-6 after 30 minutes, La Rochelle then struck twice in the 10 minutes before half time, first through Hikairo Forbes and then thanks to a penalty try. Brock James converted both to give his team a healthy 20-6 lead.Bayonne came back into the game after the break as Raphael Lagarde slotted two penalties, but a Vincent Rattez try gave La Rochelle a commanding lead with 20 minutes to play. Pierre Aguillon made sure of the result with his sides fourth try despite a yellow card for Jone Qovu, which forced the home side to see out the game with 14 men.Bayonne used that advantage to score a consolation try in the 81st minute through Martin Laveau.?Adam Ashley-Cooper bagged a hat-trick of tries as Bordeaux-Bègles defeated Lyon 32-10 at Stade Chaban Delmas.The hosts held a 27-3 lead at the break thanks to Ashley-Coopers first two tries and one from Luke Braid in an excellent first-half.Ian Madigan had brought his kicking boots, and his conversions plus two penalties saw the hosts on the right path to a bonus point win.?A try from Lyon full-back Romain Loursac threatened that eventuality, but ?Ashley-Coopers third score sealed the five points.?At the Stade des Alpes, Pau sneaked a 39-38 victory over Grenoble thanks to an 81st minute Tom Taylor penalty.The hosts led 29-16 at half-time, with Jonathan Wisniewski contributing 28 points for the game, and it all looked over in the 79th minute when Wisniewski kicked his eighth penalty to give his side a narrow 38-36 lead.?Pau werent done though, and Taylor showed his class with a nerveless last kick of the game that gave his team a memorable away victory.The visitors needed to score first in the second half, and they did so, reducing the deficit to 29-26 before Sona Taumalolo got sin-binned. Pau failed to add any points in that period but when he returned his team added a Jale Vatubua try, then another penalty by Taylor gave them a 36-35 lead before the grandstand finish.?In the late kick-off, Toulouse overcame Stade Francais 23-18?at the?Stade Ernest Wallon.?A cagey first-half ended with Toulouse 9-3 up, but also importantly with a man advantage after Sergio Parisse was unfortunate to be shown a red card for a tip tackle in the 37th minute.After the half-time oranges the game opened up, Alex Palisson and Thierry Dusautoir scoring for Toulouse, with Pascal Pape crossing the whitewash inbetween them for the visitors. Toulouse were always the likely winners though a late converted try from Julien Arias helped the visitors add some respectability to the score.Sebastian Bezy kicked 11 points for Toulouse, for whom Toby Flood notched a second-half conversion, whilst Julien Dupuy kicked two penalties for Stade Francais, and Meyer Bosman added a late conversion. 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It happens to every team throughout the course of the season, but I would like it not to happen again.The versatile Bryant has played in 31 games in the outfield this season, but was back at his normal third base spot Tuesday.He is not a player the Cubs could afford to lose for any significant part of the season, a worry Bryant himself shared when talking about how the Cubs lost Kyle Schwarber for the season in an April 7 outfield collision with Dexter Fowler.I was just kind of scared about the knee at first, Bryant said Tuesday. Im feeling better today, a lot better, nothing to prevent me from playing. I think I got lucky. Things could have been a lot worse.Bryant, voted in as an All-Star Game starter, felt so good that he clubbed his major-league-leading 25th home run of the season in the third inning Tuesday during the Cubs 9-5 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.He is batting .278 with 64 RBI, 19 doubles and a .578 slugging percentage.In the series finale Wednesday, Bryant will be batting against a pitcher who finally made his season debut last month after sustaining a spring training injury, and he will be fielding behind a pitcher who hasnt seen a lot of action as a starter.Chicago right-hander Adam Warren (3-1, 4.56 ERA) will be called up to make a spot start -- his first in a Cubs uniform -- after two outingss at Triple-A Iowa.ddddddddddddHe was acquired by the Cubs from the Yankees in December as part of a trade that sent Starlin Castro to New York. Warren began the season in Chicago and made 25 relief appearances before being optioned to Iowa on June 21.Warrens return is part of Maddons strategy to give his staff a breather during on ongoing run of 24 games in 24 days heading into the All-Star break.Reds right-hander Anthony DeSclafani, meanwhile, will be making only his sixth appearance and start this season.He started 31 times for the Reds last year, but he spent much of this season on the disabled list with a strained left oblique that occurred in a final spring training appearance.DeSclafani (2-0, 1.78 ERA) went on to make late-April rehab starts for Double-A Pensacola and Class A Dayton before he felt soreness again in the muscle. He didnt make another rehab appearance until May 25, the first of three outings for Triple-A Louisville.He was activated off the disabled list on June 10 and made his season debut that night against the Oakland As, working six innings of one-run ball but getting no decision in a 2-1 Reds victory.DeSclafani worked just 2 2/3 innings in his next outing on June 16 at Atlanta and also had a no-decision.Everything clicked in his third outing, when he pitched seven innings and struck out six in an 8-2 win over the Texas Rangers. He then tossed a career-high eight innings on June 26 against the San Diego Padres in a 2-0 win.DeSclafani wasnt involved in the decision in his most recent start, Friday at Washington, when he worked 6 2/3 innings of two-run ball, striking out eight while walking two. ' ' '