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Thursday, July 1 st, 1999 UNRIVALLED COVERAGE OF SPORT IK THE RIBBLE VALLEY a s s o c ta t io t c oM ru 'ru R S w ith your Advertiser summer C


L ITH E R O E FC have confirmed seven pre-sea­ son friendlies as they pre­


pare for the new North Western


Trains League campaign. They will kick-off their summer


friendlies when Nationwide League club Stockport County visit Shaw- bridgc on Saturday, July 17th, for a 3


p.m. kick-off. The following Thursday, the Blues


have two teams in action - one at Prestwich Heys (7 p.m.) and one at home to Bamber Bridge (7-30 p.m.). Saturday action on July 2'lth sees


the Blues away at Colne (3 p.m.) and on Tuesday, July 27th, Chorley will visit Shawbridge (7-30 p.m.). On Sunday, August 1st, the Blues


visit Nelson and the last friendly arranged to date sees Clitheroe play


host to Leigh (3 p.m.). e There will be an open day at Shaw­


bridge on Sunday, July 10th, when


season tickets go on sale. They are priced at £50 (£25 con­


cessions) it bought before the end of July at which time both prices will


rise by £5.


O All players are reminded that train­ ing for the new season resumes tonight at Shawbridge at 7 p.m. 0 Clitheroe will play midweek games in the North Western Trains League on Tuesday nights in the new season. O A recent survey of club pro­ grammes has placed Clitheroe top of the poll in the North Western Trains League and 25th in the country.


Wanderers lose top spot R


IBBLESDALE Wanderers


lost top spot in the Jennings Ribblesdale League when


they suffered a crushing defeat at


the hands of Cherry Tree. Wanderers won the toss and elected


to take first use of what looked like an


excellent batting track. But they were soon in trouble as Richard Palmer fell to a bat-pad


catch for a duck. Professional Shahid Nawaz, who hit


a six and a four, fell to his opposite number Naeem Ashraf when bhe/.y took an excellent catch in the Mvers. Just four deliveries later the Church


Meadows outfit were in deeper trou­ ble when David Briggs was caught


behind for a duck. Tilings got oven worse for the locats , ,, , ,


as David Gardner-Chan (0) and Mar­ tin Davies (6) followed in quick suc­ cession and the Wanderers were


reduced to 29-5. at 36-6. The procession continued as David . Matthew Stafford and Barry „


Spencer batted with resolve and took the score to 48 before the youngster edged a catch' behind the wicket and ho was soon followed by Spencer who mistimed a pull shot and gave Ashraf a simple return catch. Terry Braithwaite was adjudged


leg-before to Ashraf at 65-9 and Clra- ham Monk and Philip Hall tried to


Chatbum miss out


^ x b a t t in g inadequacy condemned Chatburn to defeat against Haworth West End in the Craven Cricket League on Satur­


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n o t h e r display of 1


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day. Chatburn won the toss


and elected to bat first on a


good hard wicket. S. Proctor (18) and D.


Pickles (22) both got starts but lost their wickets at vital times leaving the Clitheroe side rocking at 66-5. W. Brooks (29) and R.


Shovolton (32) repaired some of the damage but the modest total of 127-9 was always going to be difficult


to defend. Chatburn’s bowlers toiled


away claiming six wickets between them including R. Shovelton figures of 2-27


and S. Draycott’s 2-19. H ow e v e r , II aw o r th


knocked off the runs with four wickets in hand and more than seven overs to


spare. The seconds lost a high .


scoring match at Haworth West End. Batting first they amassed their highest total of the season scoring 207-6 after 45 overs. Paul Craig scored a fine


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73 while Peter Clough (53) also scored a half-century. There were some valuable contributions from Andrew Lambert (29) and Tom .Saunders (30 not out). Haworth batted well


&0imi


themselves and knocked off the runs with several overs


remaining.


Shock defeat


r p i I E bigge.st upset [n __ the first round of the


Clitlieroe and D is tr ic t Cricket League Catholic Cup vv:us the exit of hold­


ers Rivorsiders. They came up against


Waddington and were beat- cn by five wickets — largely


due to tlie efforts of Simon Bishoj) who hit a half-con- ciiatburn - with 123-8 --


posted a more-than-useful total.


But Rimington crept ,


past it for the loss of just four wickets as they claimed


a final-over win. The all-Chatburn clash


saw the A team easily over­ come the challenge of Ue Ramblers while Catholic SC went through with a walkover against Calder-


stones. Chipping A 122 beat Chipping RESULTS


Ramblers 75; Ch:aburn 123-8 osl 10 Rimington 124-4; Kiversiders 77-8 lost to Waddington


___laid the foundations for Read's 88-run victory against lowly Settle at


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x c e l l e n t batting 1


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Marshfield. Read scored a formidable


225-7 off the allotted 45 overs and this total proved to be too much for Settle, despite their professional Bhave carrying his bat for an unbeaten 78. It may be said that with


the handicap of Bhave the remaining batsmen were unable to score at the rate required to win - a fact which seemed to be of no account to the professional. Surely a club expects their


profe-ssional, who is vyhen all said and done a batting pro- fe.ssional, to score at a much faster rate than 78 off 104


balls faced. In the end Read ran out


easy winners. Settle elected to field after ning the loss and the


winning the toss and the


-^ ^ H A L L E Y and Barnoldswick fought out a tight finish at Station


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Howard was caught at mid-off for six and the Wanderers were floundering


' knodted off die runs for the loss of six wickets to claim the points.


put some pride back into innings, but it could not last for long and Ashraf finally broke through to claim his sixth wicket when he bowled Braith­ waite for a top score of 17 with the


locals all out for 81. Cherry Tree’s reply with Nawaz


and Howard bowling tightly and the pro had a good shout for leg-before


against Bolton turned down. It was a big turning point as Bolton


never looked back. He showed the type of batting the wicket should have produced as he hit a six and nine fours on his way to an unbeaten 43.


lo uu u o c*.* ----------- Howard got the wicket of Veevers


for 16, caught at slip by Nawaz, and the pro then claimed the scalp of Rob­


bins for a duck. There was to be no further luck for , , r


the Wanderers as Cherry Tree leap­ frogged them and took over at the top of the table by virtue of their eight-


wicket win. It was certainly as case of Alter


The Lord Mayor’s Show” for the locals who won such a thriling cup tie against Padiham the previous week­ end and then showed a lack of resolve when it really mattered in the league.


Easy win for Clitheroe


wicket win and sixth place in the Ribblesdale League table when they


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l i t h e r o e romped to a seven- 1


entertained Baxenden on Saturday. Neil Bibby and Graham Kershaw starred


with the ball as Baxenden were dismissed for And then professional Stephen Benjamin


and Neil Bolton hot top for with the bat to share a 114-partnership for the second wicket and set up a comfortable win.


Baxenden elected to bat and were soom m . .


trouble as Hershaw had openers Boden and U. Usher back in the pavilion with the score on


^'^Mafco'i’m Rishton did a superb rescue act for the visitors with a well-paced 60 with included six boundaries and saw him rebuild


the innings. But a succession of partners fell to the Ker- „


shaw-Bibby axis until Rishton teamed up with professional Ronnie Davis. The two came together at 57-6 and shared 93 before Davis was bowled by Kershaw for a run- a-ball 63 which included one six and 10 fours. Rishtton was next to go and then the cn


innings tailed off to see Baxenden bowled out for 168 from the penultimate delivery of their


Kershaw finished with 5-45 from a 13.b


over stint while Bibby earned top marks for bowling unchanged and returning 4-68 from


22 overs. Clitheroe suffered an early setback when ,


Mark Bolton was dimissed for a duck m the But Benjamin and Neil Botlon were und^


terred and shared 114 in 32 overs to lay the


foundations for Clitheroe’s success. Bolton played the major role m the innings


and hit 11 boundaries in his 65 before being bowled by Davis for 65. But Benjamin was happy to stick around


and ensure success.


Stephen Bishop hit five boundaries m his 25 before being run out with his side just one


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short of victory. Simon Coulter came out to partner Ben­


jamin who hit the winning runs with an over to spare.


wiui c.b. . . - Reaci rattle up the runs


Read innings was opened by Little and O'Connor, who has now established himself as a


regular opener. They took the score to 50 when O'Connor was bowled


by Fergie for 18. Sleep joined Little and


they each score runs around the wicket with some ease. Little reached his half-centu­


ry but with the score at 108 he was trapped Ibw by Bhave for 54. New batsman Marsh joined Sleep but at 117 he was caught by Green off Fer-


gie for three. Heyworth lasted only


three balls before he was bowled by Fergie without


scoring. Newcomer Eastham saw


the professional reach his fifty and showed his batting promise with two hard-driven fours in his innings of 17 before being caught by Pre­ ston off Gowland. uarusie


gavo o.v-w--'-v


support without missing any opportunity to score himself and took 19 off 16 balls before he was caught by Worthing­


ton off Bhave. Bennett joined Sleep and


once again gave 100% sup­ port to his professional and when the overs ran out Sleep was 98 not out and Bennett


was four not out. The Settle reply never real­


ly got going and the home­ sters were really on the rack at 22-3 when Sleep took a briliant return catch to dis­ miss Herd for a single. Green, so mesmerised that


he scored only a single off 21 balls, was caught and bowled by Bardsley and Parsons had Preston (13) caught by Bard­ sley to make it 71-5. Sleep snapped up three


Bardsley gave Sleep every


more wickets and Eastham took one but Read were denied the bonus points by the stoical Bhave and last man Dodgson as Settle closed on 137-9.


Whalley lose close game . , • i_ A..,iAnd from then on it was a sorry tale for r»n il


Road on Saturday. In the end il was the Victory Park men


n. sorrv tal<


who came out on top by just 12 rums. But Whalley, had they balled out the


almost four overs whioch remained, could eas­


ily have crept home. It was a day when bowlers held sway for


long periods.


But Paul Beech for the visitors and Whal- ley’s Darryl Redhead both fell agonisingly


, ,


short of deserved half-centuries. Barnold-swick opted to take first use of the


wicket but were soon in trouble when Profes­ sional Raja Arshad departed for nine with the


score on 12. Skipper Ian Scothern was next to go,


caught at the wicket for 13 witli the score on 34 and, in the process, becoming the first ol


David O’Neill’s four victims. Beech was some way to becoming esUiblished


by the time Farrar joined him at the wicket. And that pair added 44 in 12 overs as


Barnoldswick threatened to build a big score. Beech, with a six and six other boundaires,


, 1 - 0 , ; "„' r. f iHpr- Fa llon for 49 with the score on 78. Catholic SC walkover v Calder stones.


was next to go, caught by home skipper Mark ■n_ii_AQ tirifli fVio Qpnrn nn 78.


jr^^rar followed him with the score on 100


Barnoldswick as only Michael Scothern reached double figures and the West Craven side were shot out tor 122. O’Neill finished with the very creditable


figures of 4-34 from 18 overs while Jason Smith returned 3-42 from eight overs - 16 of


those runs coming off one over. Whalley made a slow start to their reply


and lost skipper Fallon, opener McIntosh and professional Graham Knowles by the time the score had reached 50 in the 19th over. But Redhead threatened to win the game single-handed and took the score to 94 before


being eighth man out. His lack of support was evident in that


ICeansley, Pratt, Smith and Redhead all went before he did.


But when he fell - his 49 included five boundaries - the score was witliin 30 of the


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target and 11 overs remained. O’Neill did reach double figures a vain


attempt to get Whalley homo. But he was finally last man out with the


score on 110. Michael Scothern was the pick ° f the . , r


Barnoldswick bowlers with 5-41 from 16.4 overs while Beech gave him good support with 2-21 from 12 overs bowled in two spells.


The professional finished unbeaten on 63 with eight bound-aries in his 110-ball knock.


. , ^ ro Itoomuchasthey were bowled out for 178. , r«“ i “ ^ > ’ j y Craig Sa


Lancashire cause in the week-long Northern Women's Championships


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at Clitheroe GC. Kate Egford (Wilpshire)


won three foursomes and two singles and Clitheroe's very own Kim Andrew won two foursomes and two sin­ gles as Lancashire missed out on runners-up spot on a


countback. Reigning all-England


champions Yorkshire - they won 36.5 games and took five points - retained the Northern title with an unbeaten record. Cheshire (28.5 games


a ',niRRi FSDALE Wanderers second string were involved in an j 8nvn1vo«1 in nni I -0 • drive By CRAIG SALMON


l i t h e r o e rally driver Mar-


__ tin Meadows has


been rewarded for some outstanding driving in his own car by being handed a full works


drive by Proton. Meadows impressed


the Proton team in the Scottish Rally and has now been invited to step into the second works Compact SRI for this weekend's Jim Clark Memorial Rally, also to be held in Scotland. The Ribble Valley dri­


ver will again have Joanne Lockwood, who competently guided him through the Scottish forests, sat next to him when he gets behind the wheel of his Proton. Martin and his co-dri­


ver are in good company as Proton teammates include Mats Andersson, who finished a superb second in the l,600cc class at the Scottish rally and his co-driver Claire Mole - reknowned as Britain’s top female co­


driver. The Clitheroe racer


will be hoping he per­ forms well at the latest rally so that he can impress upon the Proton team that he is worthy of selection for the remain­ ing British Rally Cham­ pionship rounds. The Jim Clark Memo­


rial Rally is new to the Championship this sea­


son and hosts the first of three tarmac events. It is unique as it is the only rally on British mainland to utilise closed public


roads. Taking place on the


roads around the host towns of Duns and Kelso, the event starts at 5 p.m. tomorrow and fin­ ishes at 2 a.m. on Satur­


day. The rally will com­


mence once more at 4 p.m. on Saturday, with weary crews crossing the finishing line at around 8 a.m. on Sunday.


Anna’s triple salvo


Y _ ley athlete Anna


o u n g Rlbble Val- :


Griffiths caused quite a stir by winning three disciplines when appearing as a guest at a meeting held at Wit-


ton Park, Blackburn. The mcetingwas held


on Saturday and brought together teams from Chorley, Blackburn, Lancaster and Burnley schools. Unfortunatley Ribble Valley were unable to raise a team and Anna took part in a


guest team. Blackburn were the


overall team winners but Anna did her best com­ ing out on top in the Under 13s hammer and high jump, achieving a national grade two stan­ dard in the latter event. On Sunday Anna com­


peted for Hyndburn at Pendle Athletic Club in the McDonald’s Young Athletes League. The Ribble Valley ath­


lete was first in tlie long jump and gained another national grade two stan­ dard time in the 70 metre


hurdles. . I edward.lee@rim.co.uk


and three points) were run­ ners-up after a card play-off with Lancashire (27.5 games), Northumberland (21.5 games and two points) finished fourth on the card


from Durham (17.5 points) and plucky Cumbria fin­ ished pointless and won only four games all week. Yorkshire crushed Lan­


cashire 8-1 on Thursday to seal the title with a day to spare - Kim Andrew saving Lancashire’s blushes by win­ ning the final singles 3 and 2. In the opening foursomes


Kim and Kirsty Fisher (Royal Lytham) were two under the card and still lost 2 and 1 against Rebecca Hud­ son and Dena Rushworth, who were four-under-par. And the standard of play


in the singles match betwMn Fisher and Hudson was sim­ ply awesome and had to be seen to be belived. The two county champions were a collective 11 under with the White Rose title-holder win­ ning 3 and 2, Fisher finish­ ing at four-under-par and Hudson at seven-under-par.


In keeping with what had gone before they signed off by halving the 16th hole


with birdie threes. Mrs Gladys Young, out­


going secretary of the North Division of the Eng­ lish Ladies’ Golf Associa­ tion, said: "The whole stan­ dard this year was higher


than ever.


ON ITS WAY: Kim Andrew tees off | at the fifth hole. 240699/15/B15a


Valley pair’s great show for Red Rose county


"Yorkshire were worthy


champions but were made to work hard for their suc­


cess. "The championships are a


team discipline and give the players the chance to hone their match-play skills. "The course was in won­


derful condition and every­ body I spoke to praised it." The prizes were presented


by Patsy Wolstenholme, chairman of the North Division, and host club cap­


tain Frank Woodworth. RESULTS


Day One: Cheshire G, Lan­


cashire 3: Northumberland 3.5, Durham 5.5; Cumbria 0, York­


shire 9. Day Two: Durham 1, York­


shire 8; Cheshire 7.5, Cumbria 1.5; Nortbumberland 1.5, Lancashire


7.5. Day Three: Durham 1, York­


shires; Cheshire 7.5, Cumberland 1.5; Northumberland 1.5, Lan­


cashire 7.5. Day Four: Cheshire 3.5,


Northumberland 5.5; Lancashire 1, Yorkshire 8; Cumbria 1,


Durham 8. Day Five: Cumbria 0.5, Lan­


cashire 8.5; Yorkshire 6, Northumberland 3; Durham 1.5,


Cheshire 7.5. O Kim Andrew missed the


Singleton strikes again?


final game, against Cum­ bria, because she had to join up with the rest of the Great Britain and Ireland squad


ririicuii uiiu ‘--i.------- By GEORGE EMBLEY


l i t h e r o e Golf Club member Ian Singleton recorded his second successive victory on Saturday. Singleton returned 75-5-70 to win Division One of the


latest medal by a stroke daughter Carole Maherl from D^rek MeIntye (82- Don Cunliffe was n e ^ 11-71), Peter Lane (77-6- the pm m two on the fifth hole


tuc JJUi *1* 71) and Granville Pilling


(81-10-71). Bill Birch carded 90-19-


71 and topped Division Two ahead of Jim Furnell (91-19-72), Steve Turner (89-17-72) and Bob Swar- brick (87-15-72). Eric Hartley (93-26-67)


won Division 'Three and Denis Greenup shot 74 to


win the gross prize. Ex-Clitheroe member


Alistair Taylor, husband of the former Kirsty Speak, made a winning return to the Whalley Road club on


Sunday. Taylor, a member at York


GO, partnered Mark Jones in the invitation fourball and they stormed to victory with 46 Stableford points. Ken Lord and M. Hanson


(Heysham) claimed run­ ners-up spot with 45 points, Duncan Sharp and P. Lof- tus (Northenden) finished third with 44 points and Don Partington and J. Eardley (Towneley) com­ piled 42 points and took fourth spot after a consulta­ tion of cards with George Stoddart and Stonyhurst


Park's Andy Young. The pairings of Martin


Canc-Kim Stevens (Burn­ ley), Steve Turner-J. Read (Settle) and Ted Speak-Les Green (Wilpshire) also handed in 42 points but missed out on the prizes. Paul Marlow and R.


Robertson (Grief) won the first gross prize with 40 points and Andrew Walms- ley and Burnley’s Andy Samuels, the new Harold Ryden champion, claimed the runners-up prize with 38 points after a card play-off with Cane and Stevens. O Five-handicapper Danny


Murphy sot a new course record of 71 while compet­ ing in the President’s Day at MyttonFold. John Wight (41 points)


was declared the winner after a card play-off with Murphy. Gary Porter (39 points) was third and Mike Grant (38 points) won the fourth prize on offer. Club president Frank Hargreaves was particular­


ly delighted with the out­ come of the ladies’ nine- holer - the winner, with 17 Stableford points, was his


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and Mark Darcy was nearest the pin in two on the 17th hole, while Ian Singleton had the longest drive down the third hole and Steve Lowes recorded the longest drive on


the 12th hole. Mytton Fold’s John


Duckett shot 82-9-73 to win the visitors’ prize in the Municipal Trophy at Mars-


den Park. O Whalley captain-elect


Andrew Miller was the win­


ner of Captain’s Day. He returned 83-19-64 to


claim Dave Flanagan's prize by two shots from Keith Brewerton (82-16-66). Kieron Hunt (67 nett) fin­ ished third after a card play­ off with David Clemson. Chris Blackadder won the


longest-drive prize and Bill Banks won the nearest-the- pin prize on the home green, e Stonyhurst Park mem­


bers were in action in the 36-hole Barry Bolton com­ petition. M. Young won Category One with 66 and


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for a 129 nett. S. Young won the gross


prize with 153 G A six-stroke handicap


reduction was Jane Pollard’s


reward for winning Whalley ladies’ latest medal with -


wait for itl - 82-23-59. Runner-up Jean Tasker


was 11 shots adrift irith 82- 12-70 and Vivien Birtwell finished third with 110-38-


72.


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