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Trio of new signings to bolster Blues


By CHRIS BODEN C


LITHEROE fine- tune their


preparations as they


face their last pre-season warm-up game on


Saturday. The First North Western


Trains League campaign begins a week on Saturday at the home of last season's runners-up, Mossley. But before that, manager


Steve Parry has one more friendly to assess his players and formations at home to UniBond Premier Division side Leigh RMI (kick-off 3 p.m.). Parry has bolstered his squad


with the acquisition of three new players — and there is still the chance that more could


follow. And the Shawbridge manager


is convinced that his team has the potential to launch a serious challenge for honours in the new


season. The Blues were without a


game last Saturday, with Parry having the players in for training as the build-up to the new season continues.


However, there were two Blues sides in action on


Tuesday. The first team travelled to


NWTL Second Division side Nelson, with a reserve side entertaining West Lancashire League Premier Division team Burnley United at Shawbridge. The first team won 2-0 at


Wanderers lose ground in hunt for title


• title chase as hit-and-miss Great Harwood held V on for victory.


The Wanderers, fresh from their Ramsbottom Cup success


IBBLESDALE Wanderers lost ground in their . -


a week earlier, were undone by the Harwood profeKional Sugwekar, who hit an unbeaten 77, batting throughout his


side's innings, before taking 5-29 as the locals tell five short of Wanderers got an early breakthrough^ Daniel C h ^ -


brough was caught by professional Shahid Nawaz oft David


Howard with the score on nine. But Sugwekar and Paul Holdsworth turned the ship


around as they put on 59.


Phillip Hall off Nawaz, the pro continued to steer his side to a decent total.


And although Holdsworth (28) was caught behind by , ,


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Monk trapped the amateur on 42. Wickets fell at regular intervals after that as Wanderers ripped through the middle order.


Nawaz and Monk chipped in with a further three apiece as Harwood finished on 198-9, with Sugwekar ending unbeaten. Wanderers got their reply off to a fine start as Nawaz and


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Richard Palmer put on 52, with the pro the mam contnbu- Palmer fell for seven, followed shortly by Nawaz, who had


reached 52 in quick time. Howard and Martin Briggs moved the score towards three


figures, but both had fallen by the time the score had reached David Gardner-Chan (18) was next to go, bowled by Sug­ Martin Davies and Paul Spencer shared 39, but the final


wekar - his first victim - at 128. , r- „l


five wickets fell for just another 27 runs as the Wanderers were agonisingly bowled out four runs behind Harwood s


Barry Spencer (27), Andrew Ainsworth (six) and Hall (0), while Paul Spencer was run out.


&jgwekar caused the damage, seeing off Davies (23), „ Jiu..... .


First team (v Barnoldswick, away) 1. Braithwaite, M. .


Wanderers now lie five points behind leaders Padiham. Weekend teams


Briggs, D. Howard, R. Palmer, P.A. Hall, A. Ainsworth, D. Garnder-Chan, M. Davies, P. pencer, D. Overy. Nawaz. Second team (v Belvedere, home) I. Bntchffe, J. Ram, M.


Wrigley, G. Leach,. M. Stafford, A. Pearce, G. McGuire, W. Adams, M. Peel, J. Dewhurst.


Ribblesdale League - with several


H local representatives - face the Bolton .flu Association in the Manchester Evening


News Inter-League Cup Final at Edenficld on R The game is held at Edenfidld as it is the only


ibblcsdale League ground within 15 miles of Manchester, and the cup ndes require the unal to


be olaycd witliin that radius. In-form Whallcy supply three playere - skip-


ner Mark Fallon, Daryl Redhead and Dave O'NeUl - who took 5-32 in the seml-rmal win over


; while Read batsman Terry Little, who made 103 in the semi, is again expected to open for thej


the Bolton.League - have again been selected. Daryl Redhead, Stephen Hipgrave (Earby), cm). ..... ............. .


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Five-wicket haul paves way for victory __ a four-wicket win over Great R mm


ib b l e s d a l e wander­ ers gave their Ribblesdale League First Division


title hopes a shot in the ann with


^ First team skipper Terry Bra'th- waite, returning from holiday, to ^ 5- 51 for the twos as second-placed H^- wood were bowled out for a gettable


^^Martin Wrigley hit 89 in reply ^ the Wanderers won with wickets to


cruising to victory over bottom side Earby.


Salesbury are also in the hunt after


Cricket Scene


Earby were all out for 107, and Hall's unbeaten 51 led the locals to an


eight-wicket success. Glitheroe seconds went down to a


52-run defeat against Stacksteads. Stacksteads made 207-7, with


Hawke hitting 56, and Dickinson took 6-46 as the Chatbum Road side


were all out for 155. Read seconds beat Cherry Tree by


95 runs after making 262-5. Gary O'Connor (70) and Thistleth-


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waite (52 not out) were in fine form. Tree were then held to 167-9 in


reply.In the Second Division, Whalloy seconds easily beat Salesbury sec­


onds. Lee Burgess took 5-28 as Salesbury


were bowled out for 79, and the sec­ ond-placed side won with nine wick­


ets in the tent. Clitheroe thirds continue to pres­


sure Cherry Tree in the Third Divi­ sion championship race, although


both sides games were drawn. Clitherre had reached 188-9 against


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Earby, with Trotter making 78. But the West'Craven outfit were


unable to bat due to the weather. Read thirds suffered a similarly


frustrating afternoon, reaching 212-3 against Settle, with 'Whalley crashing a superb 108, and Bennett finishing


unbeaten on 58. But with Settle at 23-1, no further


play was possible. Salesbury thirds had Cherry Tree


at 53-3 in their game before the rains came, while Ribblesdale Wanderers thirds had made 183-8, with Martin Peel top-scoring with 66, against


Padiham. E-MAIL THE SPORTS DESK: edward.lee@rim.co.uk . He and Lamb added a further 74 before skipper Graham


Seedhill, with strikers Ian Pilkington and Ian Gade among


the goals again. There were 18 players on


duty, including left back Neill Kennedy, who has signed for the club from Great Harwood after impressing in pre-season, young striker Dave Gray, released by Rochdale at the end of the


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GOAL HERO: Ian Pilkington netted at


Nelson on "niesday


season, and midfielder Paul Whalley, again from Great


Harwood. Parry was delighted to snap


the trio up: "It was a bit of a shock to sign Neill as we thought he was going to play at


Great Harwood, but he and Paul give us experience, and


both a fit lads. "Dave has a lot of potential,


bags of pace and can finish


really well." And Parry feels things are


shaping up nicely: "We played a different system against Nelson,


and looked tight. "We are getting players back


from holiday now, and I feel I know in mv own mind the 15 that will be on duty in the first game at Mossley. "We have played key pairings together to see how they work,.


and things have gone well. "We have a squad of about 20,


but presumably we will lose some when they find out that they aren't in the 15. "But most of last season's


squad has signed on." The only players to leave the


club at present are Clive Dunn and the long-serving striker Jon


Riley.The reserves, in their first "real li . w


pre-season friendly, won 4-0. James Parker, playing his first


game after joining from the UniBond League, netted twice, while young striker Matt Gamer and Craig Dewhurst completed the scoring. Simon Breakell and one-time


Burnley trainee Richard Fogarty also caught the eye. To add to the 18 on duty for


the first team, reserve team manager Dave Burgess had 20 players to select from at Shawbridge, fielding one side in the first half, and a younger side in the second. A representative side is in


action on Monday when the Blues entertain Whitworth Valley in a friendly at Shawbridge (kick-off 7-30 p.m.), and two more warm-up games


follow. While the first team kick-off


their league campaign, the reserves will then travel to face local rivals Rimington on Saturday, August 14th, before a trip to Settle the following


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Monday. • The Clitheroe Youth team have been drawn to play Selby away in the FA Youth Cup preliminary round on August 28th, kick-off 2 p.m


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Rescue act leads to Victorious Read Stay in the hunt


_ ........................................... _ ---------------- ; - i - t j unlikely win against Oswaidtwistle


Immanuel. With the home side needing 25


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off the last seven overs to win, with five wickets still in the tent, the pair allowed Immanuel only three more runs for the loss of those wickets in 3.3 overs to steal an unlikely victory. Earlier, professional Stephen


Benjamin's unbeaten 90 had been the backbone of the locals' 189, as he batted through the 45


overs. Immanuel had won the toss


and put Clitheroe in, and Mark Bolton and the pro put on 82 in


20 overs. They had moved onto 88 when


the former was run out for 39 having provided the innings with a solid foundation. Neil Bolton was then bowled by home pro Russ Whalley next


ball. However, Benjamin and Mus


son built another solid partner r i r a n o tM ^


OWLERS Neil Bibby and Neil Bolton rescued Clitheroe on Saturday


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ship, adding 65 in 13 overs before David Watson bowled the latter


for a 45-ball 39. haul The remaining seven wickets ,


fell in under nine overs as Gerard Metcalf claimed a five-wicket


He sent back Fawcett (one)


and skipper Phil Bishop (12), before Watson trapped Bibby leg


before first ball. Cartledge (0) was bowled by


Trapped


Metcalf, before Watson took a return catch to see off Simon Coulter (six).


Metcalf then finished off the


job as he had Neil Winckley caught (0), and Graham Ker­ shaw trapped in front next ball. Clitheroe ended on 189, and


this looked like being surpassed as Oswaidtwistle openers Whal­ ley and Watson hit 50 in 10


overs. The pro had made a hard-hit­


ting 47 - including five fours and four sixes - when ho was bowled by Bolton a run later. But Watson and skipper.


apart.


brother Roger, moved onto 109 after 20 overs as they looked set


for an early finish. Three runs later the captain


was caught by Bibby off Bolton ----- - ------------


taking a catch behind off Bolton and fellow opener Malcolm Veev- - ,o


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for 43.Steven stuck around for a while as first he and Metcalf shared 22, and then he and May­ ers moved the score to 165, but when Steven was snapped up behind off Bolton, Immanuel fell


With five wickets remaining, . .


Immanuel were still favourites. Hornsby and Mayers could


add only two runs before Bibby took a return catch to send back the former, and then Mayers was caught by Cartledge off Bolton. The remaining three wickets fell without addition to the score oo


as Bolton and Bibby mopped up


67 off 19 overs with Bibby tak- at tack and seven overs later & 4 34 0H14 3


Caotain’s innings secures a crushing win “ ___________


"HALLEY won their fourth game in five on


Saturday to maintain sixth spot in the Ribbles-


dale League. Mark Fallon's men


crushed Earby by nine wickets at the Applegarth as they got over last week's


last-ball defeat against leaders and defending champions Padiham in


style. And it was the skipper and


professional Graham Knowles who led the side to victory with excellent knocks, after former Earby professional Simon Gorton


Whalley playei^ for


claimed the bowling honours. Earby won the toss on a


glorious day and chose to bat, hoping for the prolific Jon Harvey to take advan­ tage of a good track. He and Stephen Pickles


got off to a steady start, but once the former Burnley man was bamboozled by


______ _ Dave O'Neill for 26, Earby


showed little resistance. Jason Smith took a return


catch to send back Nigel Hodge (three), before Gorton had Matthew Plant (nine) caught by Lee Kearsley. Pickles found a useful


partner in skipper Stephen Rushton, but Gorton and


Duo chasing midweek honours


-VT TITH just four games W left in the Clitheroe


and District Cricket League, the destiny of the title lies between River- siders and Rimington. These two are well ahead of the pack and cannot be


caught. At the other end of the


table, Calderstones cele­ brated their first win of the season when they beat wooden spoonists Chipping


Ramblers. O Sunday sees the final of the League Cup at Clitheroe Cricket Club. The game, between Catholic SC and


Rimington, starts at 2 p.m RESULTS


Chipping A 70-6, Waddington


69: Calderatoncs 104-3, Chipping Ramblers 82; Rimington 81-1, Chatbum 80-6; Catholic SC 130-


6, Riversiders 146-4. POINTS AND POSITIONS 1, Riversidera 28; 2, Rimington


25:3, Waddington 17; 4, Catholic SC 16: 5, Chatburn 12; 6, Chip­ ping A 10: 7, Calderstones 7; 8, Chipping Ramblers 1.


O'Neillsawoffthepair.


O'Neill saw off the pair. Pickles handed Gorton a


return catch on 77, which included 11 fours and a six, while Rushton was bowled


by O'Neill for 20. Stephen Hipgrave (three)


was then run out, and Gor­ ton claimed a further two


scalps. l'7r! ;.J V , ' ' - - ' v ' ’-;-7 But 1 e But Paul Tilbury (13 not Macintosh (13


out) and Andrew Jaggers (nine not out) helped deny Whalley the bowling points as Earby finished on 168-8, Gorton ending with 4-46 off


15 overs. Whalley were never like­


ly to struggle to top that total, and although Paul


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Macintosh perished early on in reply, bowled by Jag­ gers for seven, Fallon and Knowles saw the Ribble ■Valley side home in the 39th over. Fallon was in pristine


form with an unbeaten 83, while Knowles finished with


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Bolton ended with figures of 6- Warren Eastham to join the Sleep removed his opposite num­


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Professional Naeem Ashraf nkQrrv Trpp the ideal


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start.But some excellent batting, bowling and fielding from Read gave them victory by nine wick-


were disappointed that neither Peter Sleep nor John Longden could make an instant impres­


Having elected to bowl. Read sion. Sleep was his usual economical


self while Longden kept a tidy line - b u t neither made any inroads into the Cheery Tree


line-up. Longden, with the score at 35-


0 off 10 overs, made way for


for 21. The key wicket of David Wat-


son l feill ai,t 119, Ne l Winckley


ESPITE having, to watch. Cherry- - Tree


___ compile an opening


stand of 64, Read were always in control of this clash and knocked their hosts off top


spot.


ber when Ashraf hpled-out to Easthaiii iwitii a skier. , - New batsman Nigel Robins


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sha r^ 24 with Veevers before the latter was bowled by Eastham — and from that moment on Read


were in charge. Reed came and went without


giving the scorers too much to do and then Robins was trapped by


Sleep for 10. Lee Kennedy and Andy


Robinson tried to stave off the bowling, but at 114 the former was stumped for seven and Cher­ ry Tree were in real trouble. Robinson was next to go, bril­


liantly caught by newcomer Allan for seven and the home innings limped to an eventual conclusion of 161-8. Despite Sleep’s excellent


return of 55-5 off 23 overs and Eastham’s three-wicket haul. Read had again missed but on the bonus points as they try to close the gap on the leaders. The Read reply was in the


hands of skipper Nick Marsh and Terry Little who played


with confidence against the bowling of Ashraf and Hughes. i They laid the foundations for


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Read’s 12th win of the season by sharing 92 for the first wicket. 7 Marsh finally succumbejJ


when he mistimed a driv« and was caught out just two short of a deserved half-century. Sleep joined Little and posted


his intentions by driving the sec­ ond ball he faced to the bound­


ary. The professional raced to an 7


unbeaten43 with two sixes and five fours as Read won with more than eight overs to spare. At the other end. Little went


on to complete his half-century with seven boundaries in an 80-


ball knock. The result saw Read complete


a seasonal double over Cherry Tree, but their lack of bonus points is making it difficult for them to make a big impression on the title race.


PAUL WHALLEY


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