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IBBLE Valley golfer Mark Young has shaved a shot off his own course record a t Stonyhurst Park


GC The 18-year-old student covered the 5,572-yards course


in a three-under-par 66 while competing in the Stonyhurst


Masters. He went to the turn in a two-under-par 33 and was one


under the card for the back nine. Mark reeled off five birdies, 11 pars and two bogeys en


route to the new record - setting a new record courtesy of a


vital birdie three on the home hole. Three-handicapper Mark was introduced to the Royal


and Ancient game five years ago by his father Andrew, who


is also a member at tho Stonyhurst Park club. Record-breaker Mark, who lives in Hurst Green, is


studying on a two-year Golf Studies course at Myerscough College.


Lifelong Liverpool fan Mark is also a keen footballer and is in his maiden season as goalkeeper for Hurst Green in


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the East Lancashire League. Max Aitken won the Stonyhurst Masters with 78-18-60


and Ian McDonnell took the gross prize with 73-10-63. (280999/23/14)


Roger storms to victory! By GEORGE EMBLEY


N-FORM Roger Gill emerged a clear-cut winner of the inau­ gural Bill Almond Memorial Trophy a t Mytton Fold Golf Club


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on Sunday. Gill, who plays off 24 handicap,


compiled 43 Stableford points to leave the rest of the field trailing in his


wake. Nine-handicapper John Duckett


(39 points) took runners-up spot after a card play-off with John Wight and


Tony Lord. Carole Maher (21 points) won the


ladies' nine-hole event with Sue Hugh­ es (17 points) in second place. Club captain Dave Wetton (36


points) won the seniors' section and Peter Tuck (32 points) was in run­


ners-up spot. Jim Bridge was nearest the pin in


two on the second hole and Howard Taylor was nearest the pin in two on the 12th hole.


Don Cunliffe recorded the longest


drive on the 13th hole and Paul Green did likewise on the 17th hole. Q A three-way card play-off was nec­ essary to determine the outcome of the Texas Scramble at Clitheroe GC. Victory went to the Stuart Ander­


son, Geoff Roberts, Ted Speak and Gary Speak quartet with 60-6.2-


Jackson and Chris Eddlestone (62-


53.8. Mike Bennett, Mike Fletcher, Alan


8.2-53.8) finished second. Third place wont to Alan Wright, John Lang, Nick Reeves and Geoff


Tennant (63-9.2-53.8). Andrew Lund (75-7-68) won Divi­


sion One of the latest medal by a stroke from Alec Ilowat (81-12-69)


and Derek Driver (78-9-69). Steve Turner, meanwhile, won Divi­


sion Two by no fewer than SEVEN shots. He returned 81-17-64 to leave runner-up Jack Simmons (87-16-71) and Ken Parkinson (91-19-72) trailing


in his wake. HraM® liWtew


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(79-10-69) won the Brandreth Rose- bowl by two shots from Jeremy Thompson (76-5-71). Mel Earl returned 80-13-67 to win the Ultima Trophy ahead of John


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Richard hopes to hit ’ em for six


Down Under By JUSTIN CONNOLLY


[’he left-handed opening


OUNG Ribble Valley cricket ace Richard Lamb plans to hit them for six Down Under this win- ter


batsman, who plays Rib- blesdalc League cricket for Great Harwood but lives in Whalley, is taking time out from lus studies to play a season in Australia. Richard (18) jets off to


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rience 1 can bring back here and possibly play as a league professional in the future,” he said. At first Richard will play


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is a possibility ho will play at a higher level. The opportunity came


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ward to it - the standaid will definitely be higher than I ’m used to, so it will be valuable for me. “I scored about 400 runs


this season, averaging about 25, which isn’t bad but is nothing special. Hopefully after this trip I can improve a lot on that.”


CLITHEROE CC have re-appointed Phil Bishop as iheir skipper lor the


2000 season. Bishop was appointed after seeing off a chal­


lenge from Neil Ballon - who remains vice-caplain at the cricket selection committee'!, annual meeting. John Coulter (chairman). Sheila Dcwluirsl (secre­ tary), Stephen Blackburn (treasurer) and John Asp-


den (fixtures secretary) were all re-elected without


opposition. John Green continues as second team skipper |


willi Paul Atkinson lus deputy. Alan I lacking was re-elected third team skipper,


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Key month for ambitious Blues


CTOBER is a key month


for _ Clitheroe's F ir s t


N o r th Western Trains League title ambitions. And Steve Parry hopes to


get the month off to a flying start at lowly Atherton Col­ lieries on Saturday. After one defeat in eight


games, the Blues lie four points behind First Divi­ sion leaders Fleetwood Freeport, although sides in and around have games in


hand. But with eight league


games in the next month, Parry hopes a repeat of the recent run will establish his side as serious champi­ onship contenders. After travelling to Ather­


ton Collieries, the Blues then face St Helens Town away (6th), Abbey Hey at home (12th), Leek CSOB away (16th), Salford City away (19th), Newcastle Town at home (23rd), Col­ lieries at home (26th) before finishing with a trip to Abbey Hey (30th). So there are three of the


' Parry is looking forward to the challenge: "There's


top seven sides to come, including Abbey Hey twice, and next-bottom Atherton twice.


CHRIS BODEN reports...


not a lot of room for error now after three defeats - I'm


well aware of that. "But we're not finished


yet.


get them when they become available. "We are not strong


enough yet - we still need th a t odd signing here or there. "I'm still confident we


will be there or thereabouts though. "October is a key month


for us. "If we can string a few


results together again, it should give us confidence, as well, obviously, as points


in the bag." He added: "Overall, I am


happy with the s ta r t we have made, although we can still improve. "We talked about one or


two things last week, and we are still trying to get more organised defending dead ball situations. "There is nothing major


wrong, no-one is cutting us open still, but we need to deal with set pieces better. "We have started to score


Clilheroe Under 1 8 s ...................0 Accrington Stanley Under 18a 3 CLITHEROE made a great come­ back after being 3-1 down at half­ time to win their top-of-the-table clash with Accrington Stanley. Clitheroe started brightly and


took the lead after eight minutes through Gary Jackson. After 15 minutes the match took a


fum in a incrinn,f? favour when a


goals, although we dried up a little on Saturday, but we have been creating and tak­ ing chances." Although his side


"We are still looking for , responded to last Tuesday's players, but you can only controversial defeat against


Fleetwood by beating Kids grove 1-0 on Saturday, he expects a better perfor­ mance than against the Stoke side a t home to Atherton: "Saturday we have gpt to get back into it. I'They.are next bottom, but you can never tell how


they will play. "We went there last year


go to, but we have to be confident and play our


in a similar position and they turned us over. "It isn't an easy place to


.. game. ■ "We need to be tight at


the back, get the ball down and maintain possession." On Saturday, Parry is


again without striker Brian Welch (Achilles) and Andy Cowking (groin), but apart from th a t, he has a full squad to select from. Parry is also hoping to


avoid being without five- goal Dennis Hill. Hill was sent-off last


Tuesday against Fleetwood for handling a shot that had already gone in, and the club are considering an appeal against a suspen­ sion. Clilheroe .....................1 Kidsgrove Athletic ■ - 0


WIN G ER Dennis Hill again proved the scourge of Kidsgrove as his penal­ ty gave th e Blues the points a t Shawbridge on Saturday. I t was Hill who netted


box and Hill stepped up to send the keeper the wrong way from the spot. After the frustration of.


Tuesday when he was forced to watch Barry Hart miss a penalty that would have earned the Blues a point, after being sent off for deliberate handball, he was delighted to fire home his fifth goal of the season., H ar t was involved in


the winner in last season's Floodlit Trophy Final at Maine Road against the Stoke side, and he popped up again to keep Clitheroe in touch with the paceset­ ters. Like last Tuesday's 3-2


home defeat against Fleet- wood Freeport, this game was won and lost from the spot. This time the Blues took


their chance, while Kids­ grove let Clitheroe off the hook. Both sides sparred with


each other early on, with chances few and far between. But Clitheroe claimed


thp crucial breakthrough midway through the first half when centre half Gary Rishton was upended in the


Great fightback speculative shot went under Wood-


head’s body to level things. Within 10 minutes Accrington were 2-1 up and then extended their


lead to 3-1. Clithcroe produced more effort in


tho second half, and it took them 21 minutes to draw the scores level with


goals from Taylor and Jackson. Goals from Benfield, Cronow and


Jackson again made it 6-3 and gave Clitheroe a well-deserved win. O On Sunday Clitheroe travel to


Centre Vale to take on Todmorden. Kick-off is at 1 p.m.


another penalty drama, this time at the other end, when he gave away a spot kick, which was sent woefully


wide. Kidsgrove tried manfully


to make up for that error in the remaning half hour, but keeper. Kris Richens was in top form, denying the visi­ tors on several occasions. •, He pulled off a string of


top-drawer saves to pre­ serve a point and deserved-; ly claim the man-of-the- match award.


WESTERNTRAINH FIRST NORTH


FOOTBALL LEAGUE’ TABLE


First Division


FItwood Fport. 9 7 2 0 23’ Mossley.......... 10 7 2 1 23' Abbey Hey...... 11 G 3 2 21: Vauxhall GM... 10 G 2 2 20* Newcastle Town 7 6 i 0 19: CLITHEROE.. 12 5 4 3 to: St Helens..;..... 8 5 3 0 is;


p w D i p.


Bootle............. 9 5 1 3 16- Rossendaie Utd . 8 4 2 2 1 4 ; GtH'woodTn.. 11 4 2 5 14 ' Maine Road.... 11 4 1 6 13) Skelmersdalc.... 7 3 3 1 12- Kidsgrove Ath.. 12 4 0 8 12. Prescot Cables. 10 3 2 5 11' Ramsbottom.... 10 3 2 5 11 - GlossopNE.... 11 2 4 5 10; Leek CSOB..... 10 2 3 5 9- Salford City.... 9 3 0 6 9 ; N'wich Town.... 8 2 2 4 8 : Cheadle Town;. 10 2 2 6 8 Atherton Colls. 10 2 1 7 7 ’ Atherton LR.... 11 0 2 9 1 .:


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