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Paul misses out on Open date


By EDWARD LEE Dwyer, who played in last year’s championship at St


LITHEROE golfer Paul Dwyer has missed out on a place in the Open Champiionship at Royal Lytham and St Annes.


Andrews, played in final qualifying at Southport and Ainsdale on Sunday and Monday. But a first round 77 left him with little chance of


qualifying. And when he added a second round 72 he missed out on a place in the Open by 10 shots. ■ John Cockroft, currently attached to Gary Coope,


Links. A level-par 72 in the first round gave him an outside , . . . ,


chance. But a round of 74 on the second day pushed him firmly out of the picture as he also finished 10 shots off the pace required. Wayne Pendlebury shot 70 to win the Southworth


"Blackburn's Anthony Harwood. “ Mel Link (Burnley) was third with 75 after a multi


ple'card play-off with home members Rob Andrew, Paul Marlow and David Heesom and Ian Perkins of


Wilpshire.


enwood’s R. Leadbetter (74-7-67) by two shots from Clitheroe members Mike Fletcher (82-13-69) and John Willis (83-14-69). M. Ilarling (Ulverstone) was fourth with a score of 77-7-70 with Clitheroe’s Paul Ainger (78-


The Holgate Trophy for the nett prize went to Brack- . ' , . .


7-71) in fifth place. Scott Thompson (78-11-67) won the recent midweek


DARREN GOUGH tees up his ball as team-mates (from lefO Simoii Singleton, Mark Blundell and Nigel Hargreaves look on T100701/1


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Galaxy of stars shine at Gough benefit day


Bv CHRIS BODEN


the Ribble Valley came together in Clitheroe last


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Tuesday. A golf day at Clitheroe


GC, held in honour of York­ shire and England pace bowler Darren Gough's Benefit Year, attracted sev­ eral household names. Gough's international


•Matthew Hoggard all took part, while from the football world, former Blackburn Rovers boss • Kenny Dalglish, Blackburn End idol David Speedie, Dean Saunders, David Fair- clough, Craig Brown, Andy Gray, David Johnson, Mike Newell and Ian Snodin also


team-mates Michael Vaughan, Craig White and


took part, along with top jockeys Richard Johnson, Tony McCoy, Carl Llewellyn, Graham Bradley, Ollie McPhail and Simon McNeil. Blackburn-based former


World Snooker champion Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne also took their place


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on the tee bed. . The event, organised by


Clitheroe-based hospitality company HFU Limited, in conjunction with Concerti­ na Events,, was a massive success, with over 100 golfers taking part, includ-


DARREN GOUGH (right) with Scottish international football coach Craig Brown (centre) and gala dinner compere Mike King


ing the special guests. S+S Steel Fabrications


Clitlieroe won the competi­


tion at Whalley Road with 86 points, the team includ­ ing Stephen and Simon Cherry, John Blockeel and


played. George Michael's one-time band-mate Andrew Ridgeley ,


former Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley footballer


Gordon Owen. In second was Begbies Traynor Preston, a point


behind. Their team was Dave


Acland, Gerald Swarbrick, Damian Walmsley and


Ollie McPhail. Also on 85 points, in


■ Gough said: "Thanks to


third, were H+E Scaffold­ ing Shropshire, John Han- ley, David Coppack, John Brindle and Carl Llewellyn. Top celebrity on the day was Dennis Taylor.


great organisation and a wonderful course, this has been the best event of my


benefit year to date. "I'm looking forward to


visiting Clitheroe again in the future."


In the evening, a gala din­ '


ner took place at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clay- ton-le-Moors, attended by 200 guests, including Royers defender Simon Grayson and former Blues midfielder Billy McKinlay, who run HFU Limited along with John Tyrrell and Chris Jones. Scotland boss Craig


Brown was guest speaker, while Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne hosted an auction. Compere for the evening was the irrepressible Mike


King. Everybody involved


would like to thank Ted . Speak, Andrew Geddes and ;


all the staff at Clitheroe GC ; IO r p re p cU m g U ie w u i a c i championship standard.


HE greatest assort­ ment of celebritites ever assembled in


medal ahead of Gary Moores (82-12-70), Archie Moro (82-11-71) and Peter N. Harrison (78-7-71).


The combined efforts of Stuart Payne, Gordon Wil­ „


son and Simon Swindells were good enough to compile 84 stableford points and win the three-man team event


at Mytton Fold GC. Steve James, Mick Bryan and Chris Hughes were sec­


ond with 80 points after a card play-off with Roger


Altham, James ICennerley and Jim Ilindle. Colin Elliott and Pauline White (93-17-76) led them


78.5) in third place.


Medal at Clitheroe GC with a score of 83-11-72. Bronze division honours went to Krystyna Taylor (93-21-72). Joyce Andrew, Linda Hart, Daphne Dawson and


Marilyn Fletcher won the silver division of the LG U .


Eileen Bridge (92) won the ladies’ open team event at Whalley GC. Lady captain Gail Ainsworth, Liz Duck­ worth, Marian Parry and Georgine Powell were a point adrift in second place with Carole, Kath and Gillian Blackadder and Shirley Palich (88) in third spot. Carol Cherry (107-39-68) won the under 40 handicap


home in the ELGA Mixed Foursomes qualifier at Myt­ ton Fold. Mick and Barbara Bryan (97-21-76) were sec­ ond with Roger Altham and Ann Ormond (96-17.5


By CRAIG SALMON


Trophy in the James Braid open singles at Clitheroe GC on Saturday. The home golfer won by two shots from


_____ .Blackburn Rovers awaits Clitheroe in their opening pre-season friendly on Saturday at Shawbridge (kick-off 3 p.m.)


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TOUGH proposition in the shape of Premiership outfit


the professional at Mytton Fold GC, led regional quali­ fying at Wilmslow last week and hoped to carry that form through to the final qualifying at St Anne’s Old


B Premiership new boys are first opponents


Blues major test promotion


I t was originally thought that Royers


would send a team from the youth acad- emy but Clitheroe manager Dave Burgess is delighted that his team will be pitting their wits against seasoned professionals. He said: “It’s going to be a very good test for us. To be honest, I am expecting


Rovers’ boss Graeme Souness has promised to send a team packed full of first-team experience:


a bit of a run-around. “But we are not gearing up to play


Prominent n am ^ ik ^ ^ fe a tu reV ® - J= include £750,OOO.maufcSimojiiGrayson; • .


•T_,_^gearing up for our first league game c . >


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Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. We are on


very attractive game for


and ingland Under 21^en?ational U the fans! I justfhope people will come Rovers’ first-teamsquad tayeJetted Meanwhile,Burgess admits that tins


out to Europe totake.part m a 12-day k ^as been a real eye opener for him- tour of Austria and Germany vthis week


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but those left behind seem certain to turn-out at Shawbridge.


of course> have been train-


he former Leicester City man, who • ^ n ^ u iu e i a t ». spent spells on loan at Stockport Couri- pound youth acad y


‘ Grayson was bought by Brian Kidd «. 0„i-knm Dnunro1 TTnHpr 16s coach tin July 1999 from AstonVilla. However,; j ^ C^ u d e ra t thcSdubif multi-million ty and Sheffield Wednesday last season," • • And Burgess is hoping much of


t jlis week under the watchful eye of ,' . J S S S f i S B K S R S f a .


turned the Fylde Coast outfit down and pledged his allegiance to Clitheroe. However, the pull of his former club


under new management, a higher level of football coupled with substantial financial rewards proved too hard for the tough tackling midfielder to resist. Burgess added: "I am very disap­


pointed. Neil was playing up at Kendal last season in a team struggling in the


..UniBond League. “We brought him to Clitheroe and he


became a higher profile player. “But he’s gone back there. He always said he’s not interested in the money. “But a three-figure signing-on fee " i along with a three-figure wage had


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something to' do with it. , “I don’t blame him but I would chal-3


lenge him though if he said he.has gone/ to a higher standard of football.


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ty and Sheffield Wednesday last season, .V to dO T ^ ^ ^n gW e r t is e ' will have : “I think Rossendale will prove that; "3& S £ »w S s i iE i is y i


league but it’s not a higher level of foot-.' ball.


“He may have gone to a higher; •


^ £ “ h ,.« b ,« n d o i„8 thei6Elo f havestayedbrith usand/played in thb


C fm o re t tS t i 30 first team appear- work with us as they would with the UniBond as a championship, winner . * * t o ^ o n t . t a n . a t s e a ^ i ^ . j n ,


12 games while on loan at Swindon We ve b f “ <*omg a lot of^taiMBa the league,//• Town ’


Richardaand former St Mirren pair amemties last


July Medal at Mytton Fold GC on a card play-off. Angela Cherry (100-32-68) was runner-up with Bar­


bara Bryan (99-28-71) third. In the over 40 handicap, Gwen Park came out on top by six clear shots, carding 121-45-76. Second was Maggie Howells (127-45-82) and third place went to Doreen Hammond (129-45-84).


ROEFIELD LEISURE


CENTRE FIVE- A-SIDE


FOOTBALL Storm v Cantona's Seagulls;


LEAGUE • FIXTURES


New Inn v The Crafty Butchers; Norfolk And Good v Rag Legs; Clockwork Orange v Clitheroe Clowns; Centre Of Excellence v Helmed Athletic; Walking All­ stars v Ileys Inn. To be played on Sunday. TABLE P W D L P


Cen. of Excellence!! 11 1 2 34 Seagulls....... ... 14 10 3 1 33 Keys Inn.......... 14 10 1 3 31 Helmed Ath. .... 13 9 0 4 27 Clithcroe Crowns 14 8 2 4 26 Clockwork........ 14 7 0 7 21 New Inn.......... 14 5 1 9 16 Norfolk...... .... 14 4 1 9 13 Rag Legs..... .... 13 4 1 8 13 Walking Allstars 14 4 0. 10 12 Crafty Butchers 14 2 1 11 7 Storm........ .... 14 i i 12 4


THE Ribble Valley


Netball Club held its first- ever presentation evening last week. A full report


and picture can be found on page 27. Josie Thompson, Lucy


Clarkson, Liz Parkinson


Laura Marlow and Laura Alston are pictured


proudly displaying their trophies at the club presentation night. (PC120701/3)


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after returning from a stint in Australia playing for Northern Spirit where he picked up the Australian League’s Under 21 Player of the Year award. Tottenham Hotspur-bound goal­


keeper Alan Kelly may also play in the unlikely event his move to White Hart Lane breaks down.


. and ball work. It’s definitely dtfferengfo “But obviously if we don’t win-the .


team action likely, to'.feature include / l; The Blues made use of Bte^ ^ ? :^ ?X > d n ^ 'g e t lm e wrong, ihe^aTOod Darren Dunning, James Thomas, Marc state-of-the-art hydra pool


Burton O’Brien and David McNamee. thefacdite for afmaltime tomgMJt^ . To easd the los of-Reynolds,^Burgess Ben Burgess also looks set to play


ityof our squad.” lit: lc tcmwea iu i a u n w


his disappointment regarding the departure of midfielder Neil Reynolds who has returned to his old club Kendal Town in the UniBond League First


Meanwhile, Burgess has spokerf of


Division.Reynolds had attracted, interest from fellow NWC club Fleetwood Freeport a t the back end of last season but


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has moved swiftly to capture former Blue Andy “Tails” Taylor from Great


same standard and I am also hopeful of, signing two other players but 1 am wait­ ing for them to come back off holiday so I can’t really name them.”


Harwood. He added: “Andy is a player of the


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Other olavers with a taste of first'. .. what we have done before;’^ ^ < ^ ^ , ^ ^ e ^ e i i heb made the right decisio^ He definitely improyMth^ual-


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LITHEROE Dol­ phins held a charity gala in aid of the


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Breast Cancer Appeal. Over 100 swimmers


turned out on Friday to swim in one of the three teams supported by local


companies. The companies involved


in the event were Reality IK


. (formerly GUS), Tosco and Time Computers. Comprising relays and


individual .races, the 36 event gala resulted in lots of ■ superb swims and countless personal best t uimes by the


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TEAM CAPTAIN Lizzie Wiggin starts the gala with a splash at the Clilhcroe Dolphins Charity night.Pi3O701/3


local swimmers] ■ last race being a 12-swim­


mer relay. The Reality team did,


, those who turned out were nesses, for assisting the


right down to the wire, the Breast Cancer Appeal with 6


however, just sneak into first place a t the end, in front of Tesco and the Time


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. Computers team. . However, on the night all


The final result went winners, not least of all the "


final figures expected to be


in excess of £500. The organisers would


like to thank all friends and parents for helping with the


event. A special thanks also goes


to the supporting local busi-


Selected teams for, the weekend Saturday


• Clitheroe (v Barnoldswick, away, meet 12-30 , pm!) N, Bolton, S. Coulter, N. Bibby, M. Preston, Simon Bishop, Stephen Bishop, M. Hargreaves, A. ■ Bums, M; Dewhurst, E. Musson, Fitton,


1-15 p.m.) P. Atkinson, C. Seed,-P.-Bishop, S. Graham,1


'' team on Sunday v Great Harwood, homo, meet "" 1-30 p.m. except G. Monk for I. Tomlinson.


I palmer, P.A. Hall; B. Spencer, R. Whalley, P. • Spencer, J. RainM. Tomlinson, Nawaz. Same


Driver, T. Goodman, R. Gaskell, G. Kershaw. Ribblesdale Wanderers (v Read, home, meet 1-30 pirn.) D1 Howard, M. Briggs, M. Davies, R.


■ Clitheroe 2nds (v Barnoldswick, home, meet R. Dinsdale, B. Glover, F. Hussain, K.


. b~j !.■ Sunday .


Ribblesdale Wanderers 2nds (v Great Har­ wood, away, meet 1 p.m.) I. Britchffe, C. Hall,


appeal with their generous gifts and donations. The full list of companies


include Reality, Tesco, Time Computers, NJB Sports, Sainsburys, Thresh­ ers, D. Byrne and Compa­ ny, Pendelfin and Abu, Gypsey and Figg. .. '


CLITHEROE MEN'S SUMMER DARTS


M. Wriglcy, M. Peel, W. Slingcr, M. Proctor, J. Q Braithwaite, R. Gladwin, I. Bythcll, R. Wilson, Crav^ ^ B G. Maguire.


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A. Hacking, D. Musson, D. Walker, O. Young, J. clack Horse Warburton, S. Punchard, G. Sutcliffe, W. Car-


tlcdgo, D. Pickles, P. Cox, C. Gunn. Ribblesdale Wanderers 3rds (v Read, away,


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start 2 p.m.) D. Binns, I. Kirk, P. Cottam, G. Maguire, J. Dewhurst, T. Jeffs, G. Clarkson, R. Wellock, B. O'Neill, R. Clark, R. Devine, A.


Clitheroe 3rds (v Earby, home, meet 1-30 p.m.) . cS a!!"!


Ilmlilingliin's First Division W


LEAGUE TABLES


HE match of the day in the I Je n n in g s R ib b le sd a le League saw league leaders


R e ad e n te r ta in th ird -p la c ed Earby on a seemingly moderate


Earby invited the home side to . Gary O'Connor, promoted to • • . . .


bat, and soon inflicted a shock as Michael Whalley was caught


behind off an Alex Scholefield deliv- ery.


opener in the absence of captain Nick Marsh, played stylishly and effectively until he was out; lbw to Trevor Kegg playing forward, for


24. Joey Marshall square-cut a


Scholefield ball for four before being comprehensively bowled by the pro­


fessional for nine. At 45-3, professional Akram Raza


played a most responsible innings. Never able to cut loose in his


usual extrovert stylo due to the movement off the pitch, he put on


<45 runs with.Terry Little until the latter'was given out lbw to Andrew


Rushton for 19, Warren Eastham, captain for the ,


day, then hit a couple of boundaries, but was well caught low down at - . mid-wicket by Rushton, who then 25 ' - stepped up to bowlrSam Marshall


23 i ' with a beauty at 118-61 17 :(!i VeteranV]Mhlcolm.Heyworth then


Commercial....... 6 4 2 25 Brown Cow A..... 6 5 1 zz Legion..............; 6 2 4 20


Stella A r io is Second Division P W L F


■ i vityhit a series ol Sixes, one on to the main IF (road, one into the car park and one on ' to the adjoining building’s roof, until he was yorked by Keggfor38.;, Oliver Newby batted very sensi­


Horseshoe......... 6 . 1 . 5 20 BrownCowB..... 6 3 3 19 Brown Cow C..... 6 3 3 18


bly so th a t the eventual score of 199-8 was very creditable on a ■ seaming wicket.


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Read are triumphant in match-of-the-day clash Turn to page


27 for the rest of the local cricket news


Craig Walton opened Earby's


strong batting line-up and instantly , hit two superb fours from Newby's


first over. He went on to hit six more bound­


aries in a free-scoring innings until he was too adventurous from Raza, only to be stumped by Paul Swar­


brick for 33. His fellow opener Stephen Pickles


was brilliantly caught for 0 by Mar­ shall, diving one handed as the big leg-side hit appeared out of the sun. Stand-in captain, Eastham, then


bowled Chris Walton for four, but at 71-3, Earby' were still in a healthy


-position.' ■ . However, Paul Tilbury, soon fol­


lowed, being bowled"by.an Eastham yorkcr, before ; .Ian i'(Clalfkson responded by hitting Raza' into the


football field. ' , Fortunately for, Read; iljarby pro­ (


fessional Scholefield, who.had-bat- ted well, played,;a:'p6pr shot off


'Eastham and^w as .,caught .by O'Connor for 40.;-


vThen, Read'came outroL their ’> ■ • ■'


: shell and began to show: the .visitors why they are top of the league. Clarkson was beautifully caught


by Little on the tricky boundary won.


slope for 44, Steve Rushton heaved to deep square-leg to find the safe hands of Newby, and Kegg hit the same shot only to find Michael


Whalley. Newby was recalled to clean bowl


the dangerous Steve Hipgrave, to give Read seven points and make Earby wonder how they eventually lost a game that they should have


Read v Earby READ


G. O'Connor lbw b Kegg............. . -24 M. Whalley c Proud b Scholefield . .0


J. Marshall b Scholefield ..................9 Raza lbw b Scholefield............. .. .33 T. Little lbw b Rushton ........... .19 W. Eastham b Hipgrave'............. . -13 S. Marshall b Rushton ......................4 M. Heyworth b Kegg . ! ..................38 O. Newby not o u t ......................—12 P. Swarbrick not o u t ..............' " ' Extras ............... "•......................


Rushton 7-0-46-2. t $. • • EARB1(;


Craig Walton st Swarbrick b Raza .33 S. Pickles c Marshall b Raza . . . . . ; .0. Scholefield c O'Connor b Eastham .40 Chris Walton b Eastham 1. . .4 P. Tilbury b Eastham \ \ . . . . . . . . . . . 2 I. Clarkson c Little b-Heyworth ,44 A. Rushton lbw b Eastham ............. .8 S. Hipgrave b Newby ......................28 S. Rushton c Newby b Heyworth .11 T. Kegg c Whalley bEastham---- - .6 D. Proud not o u t ' . .............. ,0 .Extras . . . . . . A ............... • T o t a l ' ; . . . . . . . . . . .........••••••184 Bowling: O. Newby 8.3-0-45-1; Raza


14-2-60-2; W. Eastham'14-3-47-5; M -Heyworth 7-0-27-2.


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Junior cricket coaching courses


will be hosting summer cricket coaching cours­ es throughout August. The first course starts


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on Monday, August 6th, where all that week there will be a course for under 11 and under 13 age groups. The course will be


Kegg 14-0-62-2; S. Hipgrave 8-1-23-1; A.


Total (for 8 ) ...............................199 Bowling; Scholefield 16-3-39-3; T.


between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. each day of the week and will,be led by qualified senior coaches who have gained an ECB Proficiency Award. The following week,


Monday, August 13th to Wednesday,'; August 15th, there will be beginners course/ for seven to 10-year-olds.-


■ . This will be.between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day, and players will be coached by teachers who have been involved in cricket for many years.' > If anyone is interested


in either course, sould contact Mr D. Gidlow (01200424982).


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