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sional Jonathan Fielding set his side on th e road to a seven- point win a t bottom side Settle
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on Saturday. He was backed up by good bowl
ing from Simon Bishop and Mark Hargreaves — both of whom took three Settle wickets. And with the bat Andy Burns
made 39 as Clitheroe cruised home with just three wickets down. But two points dropped against
UTHEROE FC line-up at Shaw- bridge for the 1997-98 season in their
new Castle Cement-sponsored shirts. Back row (left to right): John Hosty
(reserve team assistant manager), Lee Boyer (physiotherapist), Mick Hilton
(physiotherapist), Xav Bowers, Dennis Hill, John Morrey, Neil Baron, Mark
Walsh, Ian Lang, Denis Underwood (co
manager).Front row (left to right): Dare Burgess (reserve team manager), Andy Taylor,
Paul Mullin, Paul Lynch, Jon Riley, Dave Sharpies, Chris Grimshaw, Craig Dewhurst, Gary Butcher (co-manager). Photo order number. CAT11790
Clitheroe stay in the title hunt!
N unbeaten half-centu ry an d th re e wickets from Clitheroe profes
pile on43 runs for the fourth wick-
HargreaveS broke them up, bowl- ing Worthington for 35, and Simon Bishop accounted for new batsman Bryant (two) just three runs later. Wickets then fell regularly with
join the professional and those two showed no sign of nerves to guide the side home with the loss of no more wickets. Fielding had faced 51 balls for his
55 and hit two fours and two sixes. Bolton had made 27 off 39 balls,
Fergie (two) and Wildman (one) going cheaply to Hargreaves before Fielding saw Worthington (38) off
with the score on 108. Green provided resistance at num
Bead the following day saw Clitheroe slip to 15 points off the pace with time running out. After winning the toss Clitheroe
ber nine, compiling a very valuable 24 in partnership with professional Curran (five) and then Day (six), but once Simon Bishop had seen off Day the innings was over and Clitheroe were set 142 to win the
sent Settle in to bat and made short work of the openers. Simon Bishop and Fielding saw
them both off with just two runs on the board before Morris and Worthington steadied things with
a stand of 28. Morris fell with the score on 30 as Paul Seedle took his only wicket of
the game. Then came the most productive
partnership of the innings which saw Worthington and Davidson
game. They started in admirable fashion with the opening pair of Bums and Andrew Robinson putting on a splendid 53 for the first wicket. Robinson was the first to go for 18 when he was caught by Worthing ton off the bowling of Day. Bums followed soon after, caught
and bowled by Curran for 39. Fielding was then joined by Steve
Whalley and he lasted 12 balls for just one run to help Clitheroe to 72 before being run out. That brought Neil Bolton in to
Wanderers complete derby hat-trick
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and cup, with Wanderers edging it with two wins. All three games have been played in excellent sprit and have provided spectators with some enthralling cricket.
The two sides have produced three cracking games in league
IBBLESDALE Wanderers won their third encounter this season with derby rivals Whal ley a t Church Meadow on Sunday.
Terry Braithwaite would have been looking for a 200-plus score on a fine batting wicket.
On winning the toss and electing to bat Wanderers skipper ___
caught by Mark Fallon at slip off professional Jason Smith. Gurinder Pal Singh continued where he left off the day
Richard Wilson was first out for nine with the score on 20,
before, scoring slowly at first and then increasing the tempo. At 86 David Howard clipped one off his legs to Simon Gor ton off David O’Neill to depart for 42. ___
Mark Briggs joined the professional to add 88 nms m a run- a-ball partnership before he was bowled by Smith for an excel-
^Martin Davies helped the score towards 200 before he went for nine and the professional finally feU to a catch in the deep for 81 and the innings closed at 214-6 with Howard Braith
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waite unbeaten on 16 off just nine balls. Whalley’s reply began with Fallon and John Kearsley pun
ishingsome rather loose opening overs and they were 51 at
^ern^BraUhwaite came on and slowed down the run rate ^M ^ fo ta S PKeare^°bu^rag^[^ to score off some right
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bowhng and was frustrated into giving a catch to Richard S t who took it well off Terry Braithwaite.
r^h km Monk replaced Singh and the two spinners tied the . . . . .
batsman down before Braithwaite bowled Kearsley for a fine pb-rwe seemed to rest on Higginbotham and
Pf Monk saw t° i t that wanoe all out.
^ r J f m i t r b u t when the latter was run out by Monk ? " bownkg it began to look like a case of whether
u before Britcliffe _ _ and Clitheroe
second teams enjoyed wins in the Vaux Rib- blesdale League F irs t Division on Saturday. Clitheroe disposed of bot
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Sutcliffe taking 5-24 and 53 from Green ensured Clitheroe passed that tar get with five wickets down. Wanderers took on Stack-
Rolls made 149-9 with
hitting three fours on the way. Second-placed Clitheroe had done
it in just over 33 overs, but over at Preston Old Road Cherry Tree were polishing off Padiham to claim seven points and maintain the gap at the top of the table. A S P E C T A C U L A R
/ \ last-gasp innings from X X Simon Bishop steered
Clitheroe to victory over Read a t Chatbum Road on Sunday. Young Bishop came to the wicket
with Clitheroe reeling after the home side had collapsed from 95-3
to 145-9. They still needed 20 runs to win
and had just two overs in which to
get them. But that didn’t worry Bishop, who hammered an incredible 22 off just nine balls to give his side the win. He hit the second ball of Shahid
OTH Ribbles- dale Wanderers
ing 17 off Malcolm Heyworth’s last
over. But with Cherry Tree bagging
maximum points from the week end, Clitheroe’s 12-point haul sees them slip 15 points behind the leaders with just five games left to
play.Barring a catastrophic collapse by Cherry Tree the title now looks destined for Preston Old Road, but Clitheroe will make sure they can’t
afford to slip up. David Parsons won the toss for
Read and elected to bat first. Terry Little, Qadir and Peter Worsley were back in the side after missing the previous day’s win at Whalley, and Read were confident they could reproduce the result. Little and Marsh gave the innings
Bardsley went cheaply and was quickly followed by Parsons. Mal colm Heyworth made four before going lbw to Fielding and it was left to Marshall and Worsley to see the innings to a close. The final
total was 164-8. The score seemed within
Clitheroe’s grasp, but Read’s bowlers stuck to their task and took a couple early Read wickets with Burns (13) and Fielding
. (nine).Robinson and Neil Bolton took the score on to 81 before Robinson went for 17, and 14 runs later Mark Bolton (one) and Paul Seedle (Nought) both lost their wickets. Simon Whalley was next to go for
a confident start, with a stand of 41 in 12 overs—Little was first out clean bowled by Bolton for 18. Nawaz and Marsh took the score
six and then Neil Bolton went for a creditable 58, reaching 50 off 63
balls.Clitheroe captain Phil Bishop added 17 before he went and Wink-
to 61 before Marsh went for 27, and Heyworth joined Nawaz to make nine before he was caught by Andy Burns off Fielding with the score
on
97.Usher joined Nawaz (44) but lost
Nawaz’s final over of the day for four to win the game after knock
his partner .to a caught and bowled by Fielding with the score on 112.
ley followed for five. At this point Clitheroe needed 20 off just two overs with just one wicket remaining. Enter the hero of the day fory
Clitheroe — Simon Bishop, who showed no sign of nerves to win the game for his side with four balls to spare.
Read start the weekend with welcome victory
tom side Rolls-Royce, win ning by five wickets.
fixtures On Saturday they beat derby-nvals Whalley
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steads, but emerged win nersby 53 runs. Batting first Ribblesdale made 211-8 before bowling Stacksteads out for 158. Read seconds extended
their lead at the top of the Second Division with a 47- run win over derby rivals Whalley. Read made 196, including 79 from Hanson, but Whalley were restricted to 149-9 in reply with Burgess knocking 51. •In the Third Division
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EAD tas ted both victory and defeat in the weekend’s double (header Vaux Ribblesdale League
by 25 runs, but were beaten in a spectacular nail-biter at Clitheroe’s Chatburn Road
ground the day after. Sam Marshall and Nick Marsh opened the
batting at Whalley on Saturday after Read had won the toss, but going was slow. The pair lasted 14 overs and were worth 38 runs. Marshall was the first to go when he was
worth was caught by Grace off Smith for 49. Skipper David Parsons came in and survived until the end for a valuable 13, but O’Connor (nought) and Shirtcliffe (three) both came and went without making too much of an
impression. Malcolm Heyworth (three not out) was left
with Parsons when the overs ran out and
Read had made 191-8. Mark Fallon and Higginbotham opened for Whalley, but in the ninth over Higginboth am went bowled by Nawaz for two. Foster and Fallon batted sensibly to keep
caught and bowled by David O’Neill for 18, and three runs later Marsh followed him, caught by Higginbotham off O’Neill for 23. Professional Shahid Nawaz was joined by
HE new football season has started with a bang at Shaw- bridge — the Blues have scored seven goals in two games and
already have six points in the bag. By Justin Connolly
ture in a league campaign for 10 years — but they couldn’t have got off to a bet te r s ta r t th a n th ey have th is time
They have not won their opening fix
around. A 4-0 thrashing of Ramsbottom on the opening day was followed by a more close- ly-contested 3-2 win over Prescot Cables
on Monday. And co-manager Denis Underwood is
delighted with the way things have gone. “I ’m very pleased,” he said after Monday
night’s game. “Any neutral coming to the game can’t grumble at that -— that was 22 lads playing good competitive football for
90 minutes. “Credit must go to Prescot because they
m and played with three up front right
from the start and had a go at us. “They matched us for commitment, but
we created much more in the' way of goalscoring opportunities. “From our point of view the goals conced
ed were bad, but I suppose they could say
the same for one of ours. “They gave us a bit of a fright late on but
we held on and I am happy with the points.”
a a Sipeapeaking about Saturday’s game with wn.u Six points
banked from Shawbridge
double-header
Ramsbottom, Denis said: "After the sec ond goal went in the way we played was
just amazing. “To perform like that in that heat was
brilliant and the goals were all out of the top drawer as well. “The new lads are fitting in well — Ian
L,ang works hard in the midfield and the : lads at the back are performing well. “One of the most pleasing things is the 1
fact that the players in the side haven’t played together that much in pre-season. “On Saturday we go to Vauxhall GM and '
that will be a tough game. - “But they have a good pitch so we should ;
- be able to play.
“We will go to win it. Last season we drew ! too many so we have to go there and have
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a go.” • The Blues follow the trip to Vauxhall
GM with another away game. On Tuesday they travel to Chadderton in
the build-up to their FA Cup visit to Castleton Gabriels the following weekend.
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Shawbridge glory bid kicks-off in fine style
Clitheroe ..................... 4 Ramsbottom United . .0 CLITHEROE’S bid for .
North-West Counties’ League glory kicked-off
in fine s tyle a t Shaw bridge on Saturday. Newly-promoted Ramsbot
tom United were the unlucky visitors and found
themselves on the wrong end of scintillating performance from the new-look Blues. Mark Walsh picked up-
Ramsbottom a few problems in the coming season. At the back Clitheroe were comfortable and assured — keeper John Morrey had to wait until the final minute for his first real save of the game, but when it did come he was ready. The opening exchanges
showed rustiness of equal proportions from both sides. There were a number of
fitted in well to a strong and dominant Clitheroe line-up. And there were good perfor mances too from familiar • names like new skipper Chris
where he left off last season with a brace of stunning goals while Paul Mullin per formed with the same sparkle he showed last year. New signings Ian Lang, Paul Lynch and Xav Bowers
Grimshaw, midfielder Andy Taylor and influential cen tral defender Neil Baron. > Clitheroe lined-up with
Dennis Hill roving down the
flcinlcs ' Walsh and Mullin were
paired up front and proved a real handful for the Rams bottom defence. The central midfield trio of Taylor, Dave Sharpies and
the scoreboard ticking over and put on 85, the lion’s share of which went to Fallon, who was the next man out, caught by Bardsley off
Ryan Heyworth, and they pushed the Read score on with a magnificent partnership of 104. Nawaz eventually went for 74 when he was
Nawaz for 76. Foster followed two balls later caught by
caught by Galling off the bowling of Whal ley professional Jason Smith. Peter Usher joined Heyworth but made just
there were wins for both league leaders Ribblesdale Wanderers and second- placed Clitheroe thirds. Wanderers made 128-3
Usher off Nawaz for 14. John Kearsley then steadied the ship with
two before he was bowled by Smith, with Gra ham Bardsley the next to go for two, before Hey
an innings of 27 not out, but wickets fell reg ularly at the other end until Whalley’s Grace was left not out on nought at the end of the overs and Whalley had made 167-8,25 short of a winning score.
against Burnley Belvedere and then bowled the oppo
sition out for 123. Clitheroe took five points
from their clash with Read after restricting their oppo
nents to 134-6. O’Conner scored 50. Clitheroe knocked off the required runs with five wickets down.
CHATBURN TITLE HOPES HIT . . . hid for the Craven ie ingwasalso oorwithion S £ b i .
only one P° f Rames remaining. Haworth OTth4 fhp toss and elected to bat Chatburn won‘h! ^ he previous week, first on the wick
Butthewcketdidnotpi^d . ]ay & weU and only (lg)
Stephen B p ° th (2 ^ d it as the locals folded emerged with any out
the ground fielding was also poor with only one catch, that taken by Martin Gibson,
being accepted. Chatburn seconds put up another disap
pointing batting performance when they took first knock against Foulridge and were
all out for 82. Apart from Alan Hodgson, who scored 5U,
none of the other batsmen reached double figures and the innings lasted just 25 overs. Foulridge had little difficulty scoring the
Winning spree continues for happy Wanderers
spree__ with five p oints aga ins t w ..................... “ “
r iTH Church Meadow bathed in glorious sunshine Wander
ers continued their winning-
Bamoldswick. The win was thanks mainly to a match-win ning innings from professional Gurinder Pal Singh, who hit an unbeaten 73. Bamoldswick set Wanderers a target of 173, thanks mainly to a stubborn knock of 64
from Ian Scothem. Professional Bruce Hara looked in fine touch, reaching 20 in little time before sky ing a short ball from Ian Britcliffe with the
bowler calmly taking the catch. Spin twins Graham Monk and captain
Terry Braithwaite claimed two wickets each as Wanderers kept up the pressure on all the batsmen as they struggled to add some momentum to the innings. All this on a pitch which looked good enough to mean 200 would not be enough to win the
runs and eventually won by six wickets. Once again Jonathan Lockley was the pick
of the bowlers with 2-29, beating the bat on numerous occasions.
' em and Michael Lord to leave Bamoldswick on 172-7.
game.David Howard came on at the end of the Bamoldswick innings to remove Ian Scoth-
In reply Richard Wilson opened with David Howard and together they built up a stand of 43, with the latter again in fine form before
being first out for 28. Singh came in and took his time to get in,
building his innings as he did at Oswaldtwistle last week. A terrible mix-up resulted in Wilson being
run out for 17, and the all too regular Rib blesdale collapse ensued with Mark Briggs, Martin Davies, John Rain and Howard Braithwaite falling before the total had
reached 100. Indeed, at 95-6 Barnoldswick must have
David Overy hit a quick-fire 12 before being adjudged leg-before with Wanderers 53 short
. and 10 overs to go.
Monk joined the professional and with some quick running and lusty blows reached their
. . .
target in the 43rd over. Monk was unbeaten on 20 and Singh smashed a four and six off successive balls to finish on 73 not out off 74 balls faced. Wanderers face Great Harwood away and derby rivals Clitheroe at home in the coming weekend’s double-header fixtures.
considered themselves favourites with 14 overs remaining.
three at the back and five strung accross midfield with Grimshaw and the returning
early-season tackles flying and the referee had to pro duce his book and his yellow
card more than once.
The.weather — hot and
. The first chance fell to Ramsbottom after just six minutes when a cross from
opportunity.
minutes when a free-kick from Grimshaw was floated . -to the far-post where Baron
'the right was only half cleared to Julian Ferrier whose shot was cleared off the line by Lang. Clitheroe went close on 11
headed over. After the. scrappy start ' Clitheroe were the first to set
tle into their stride and pro duced a goal of quality after 33 minutes to take the lead. A ball into the box found Walsh who knocked it wide
Paul Lynch won the ball well and used it intelligently, with Lynch’s surges forward and long-range shooting sure to cause better teams than
humid — didn’t help either, with the benches of both sides throwing water bottles on to the pitch at every
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it home. I t remained 1-0 until 18 ; minutes into the second half when Clitheroe’s patience;
finally paid off. ■' Mullin held the ball up well, :
turned and moved forward , before finding Hill on the left. *
and the score-line was begin- jj ning to reflect Clitheroe’s j.-
After 77 minutes it was 3-0 i *
dominance. Lynch found Taylor on the
left, he turned and moved towards goal before unleash
ing a terrific curling shot ,
which beat Lee Purvis in the , Ramsbottom goal all ends up. i By then Clitheroe were cruising and put the finish ing touches with a fine goal from Jon Riley in the closing
moments..- . . - Walsh’s shot from the left was
parried by the Ramsbottom keeper but Riley was on hand and alert to nudge it home. At 4-0 Clitheroe .were home
and dry, but Ramsbottom almost pulled one'back with just about the last kick of
the game. A ball in from the right was
•of the box before firing it to the far post where Walsh slid
to Mullin. Mullin took it towards the bye-line on the left hand side
■ Bowers; ' Grimshaw, Lynch (Dewhurst79), Sharpies (Butch er 81), Taylor, Hill; Walsh, Mullin (Riley 77).
fired from six-yards by Mar tin Hulme—but Money was a match for it and tipped it wide, preserving the four-goal advantage that Clitheroe were very much worth. ClUheroe: Morrey: Lang, Baron,
B e r t t to r t fo r a deead© Clitheroe .................... 3
Prescot Cables.............2 THE Blues continued
their excellent start to the new campaign with victo
ry in a tough and close encounter with Prescot Cables a t Shawbridge on
Monday. After going two goals up
before the break Clitheroe looked to be cruising to their second three-point haul of the new season. But Prescot fought back
The last chance of the half
fell to Taylor. He beat the offside trap and
found himself with only the keeper to beat, but nudged the ball just wide of the goal.
■ The hot and humid evening
seemed renewed and refreshed and gave Clitheroe a much tougher time.
For the second half Prescot
and showed charcter and application to make their hosts fight all the way. Co-managers Denis Under
wood and Gary Butcher sent out the same team that destroyed Ramsbottom United on Saturday. But on this occasion the
didn’t seem to affect their stamina as they chased and harried and made Clitheroe fight for every ball. But Clitheroe carved out the
two minutes. A free kick from the left was lifted over the wall and into the back of the net by Dave
Sharpies. Taylor had another chance to
get his name of the scoresheet when he was put through one- on-one with the keeper again
after 80 minutes. Noon came out well and
smothered the shot from Taylor to keep his side in the
game.
first chance of the half when a free kick on the left of the area was knocked into the middle for Paul Lynch and his fierce shot was pushed away by the keeper. Prescot were beginning to
defence was much more severely tested with Xav Bowers in particular coming through with flying colours. Andy Taylor had a fine game too in the midfield showing pace and penetration with his runs forward and always showing willing to get stuck in when it mattered. After a close opening to the game which saw neither side really threaten Clitheroe took the lead after 25 minutes. Chris Grimshaw knocked a
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A goal seemed inevitable . .
ball through the back three and made no mistake to clip the ball past Morrey and into the comer. Clitheroe’s response was swift and they restored the two-goal advantage within
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short corner from the right to Dave Sharpies on the cor ner of the area. His cross-shot came back off the bar with Prescot keeper Phil Noon beaten. The ball came out to Neil Baron who fired from the left across the face of goal where Mark Walsh stole in to nod home his third goal in two games. Seven minutes later it was 2- 0. A corner again from the right found the head of the unmarked Bowers — he powerfully headed past Noon for his first competi tive goal for the Blues. Prescot could have pulled
one back a couple of minutes later when Peter Cumiskey crossed to the far post for Steve Wilson to test John Morrey who tipped the ball round for a comer.
changes with Walsh and Lynch making way for Jon Riley and Graig Dewhurst. But that didn’t stop Prescot
Clitheroe made a couple of i
get on top and pinned Clitheroe back into their own
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He cut inside and crossed for it Mullin to flick on to Walsh | who buried his second.
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surging forward and they pulled back another goal with just four minutes left on the clock. Cumiskey floated a free-kick
from the right to the far post where Wilson nodded home.
few minutes, but they were res olute enough to bag the points and continue their best start to a season for 10 years.
That gave the Blues a nervous
Clitheroe: Morrey; Lang, Baron, Bowers; Grimshaw, Lynch (Dewhurst 84), Sharpies, Taylor,
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