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A FIRST win of the new seasonfor Clitheroo's rugby


team inflicted revenge on Garstang after the locals';: double defeat, last season


by the same opposition. -. •A p a r t f rom a lap se .in ,..


co n c en tra tio n for 10 min- u te s e i th e r s id e of h a l f ­ t im e , C l i th e ro e h a d th is game b y th e sc ruf f of th e neck and Should have won - by a more convincing mar­


gin. A new centre back pair­ , ,


ing of Ben Curphey and. Chris S tot t took time to gel, but when it. did they looked a sturdy force at the heart of the backline. After some sustained dri­


ving play, Clitheroe added the first score courtesy of a Nathan Peel penalty. He was on target again


Shortly afterwards after S to t t had destroyed the Garstang defence for a fine opening try. By half-time the visitors had reduced the defecit to


. two points with a penalty and try of their own, and Clitheroe conceded another soft try just after the inter­


val.. The remainder of the


game was spent camped irt. their opponents territory and Rigby, finally clinched the victory, in the final few minutes stretching a long arm over the line for the winning try.


Pool final


ROSE and Crown and Whalley Arms A will con­ te s t the final of the Clitheroe Pool League Cup tonight. I t will take place at the


Rose and Crown and the league presentation even­ ing takes place after the


final. Meanwhile, Legion A.


defeated Low Moor 7-5 in a thrilling Chris Stewart Foundation Cup final a t the Craven Heifer. Pendle Witch secured


the Third Division ti tle without playing. Buck B lost 7-5 to Legion C, thus handing Pendle the title. Thirty-six men’s teams


and seven ladies’ teams will contest the Winter League which opens on October 17th and the Ladies’ Divi­ sion on the following Tues­


day. There will be four divi­


sions of nine teams, but- Premier Division side Low Moor have resigned from the league. The Winter League


Annual Meeting takes place a t the Legion on Tuesday, October 15th, 8 p.m. start.


t Derby clash starts badminton season


CLITHEROE Badminton Club's season got underway on Tuesday night with a derby clash at Roefield


Leisure Centre. The A team took on the B team in- the Blackburn and District First Division, with the match going the way of the A team, who won 13-3.


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IT was a case of "nice to see you, to see you, nice" for Myt- to n Fold GC club c a p ta in James Hindle last week. As a result of th e fund-raising


efforts a t the club this year, Hindle was invited to play at. Wentworth


lcisfc weekWhile not figuring in the prizes, he


did, however, have the pleasure of playing with Bruce Forsyth L an experience he will never forget. Meanwhile, a number of issues


were resolved last.week a t Mytton Fold. .


Jake Chadwick was crowned as .


winner of the Professional's Summer Series, and Roger Altham secured the Order of Merit Prize for 2002 with his fourth-place finish in the Champion of Champions Competi­ tion (74-5-69), which was won by Simon Pilbin (72-8-64).' Second, on the card, was David


Clegg, wh.o carded 90-23-67, with Paul Barrett third (76- 9-67). . In the Duffers Cup, Ian McDonald shot 84-20-64 to win by four strokes from Trevor Thomber (79-11-68). Third was. Graham Plant, who


went round in 92-24-68, with Frank Tunstall fourth (93-24-68). The International Pairs event was


won by Craig Taylor and Daniel Hol- gate with 45 points, from Paul Bar­ rett and Dave Colley (43). A point ad r if t in third were Steve Shoreman and Sam Pun-


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chard. Craig and Daniel now go for­ ward to play in the final of this event in Southern Ireland on Wednesday. Saturday sees the final of the Club’


Matchplay Championsip between the current holder of the title, Roger Altham, and the in-form Simon Pil­ bin, and Sunday sees the final compe­ tition of the year, the Captain's Team versus the President's Team. 9 TIM Stanley claimed the Bran-


urday. His excellent round of 84-15-69 put


him out in front. On the same day, Kevin Walker


claimed the Ultima Trophy lifter carding 85-20-65. The Division 1 winner was Andrew


Wray (77-7-70), with Stuart Dawson runner-up a shot adrift (82-11-71). On Sunday, Les Dearden won.the


morning Stableford by a point. His score of 37 just edged out Mal­


colm Grainger. The ladies'section held a Team


Greensomes competition, with Betty Dixon, Jennifer Eastwood, Gail Ainsworth and Margaret Heyworth coming out on top with 43 points. Whalley GC member Daphne


Dawson was celebrating last week after winning the Accrington Observ­ er competition a t Great Harwood, after beating Anne Rowbotham 4


and 3. • CLITHEROE Golf Club


Ladies’ Section held an open team competition which was won by the


Ashton and Lea q u a r te t of B. Wilkinson, P. Vickers, P. Metcalf and


S. Inglis with 88 points. Greenmount’s team of D. Willets,


E. Hollinson, M. Gardiner, M. Farn- worth were one-point further back in


second. The Clitheroe trio of S. Willis, S.


Willis and N. Mortimer joined Nel- ' son golfer F. Sparks to finish third on


dreth Trophy at Whalley GC on Sat- , K ry s ty n a Tay lo r winning th e silver


the card with 83 points, A LGU medal was a lso held with


medal a f te r shooting 93-20,73. T h e brorize.medal and goblet was. won by Carole Brown (94-26-68).. • A TEXAS scranible was held at


Clitheroe Golf Club and the quartet of E. White, S. Milne, T. P?ole, D. Finney came out on top with 52


points. Second place went to P. Robinson,


. S. Narayana, J. Beggs and J. Mercer after they accumulated 52.5 points. Third was the team made up of B. Stokes,-S- Hale, G. Moores and J. Crowther (53.8). The club also held a Medal round


with Paul Connolly (72-6-66) emerg­ ing victorious in the First Division on the card over Ralph Postlethwaite (71-5-66). Dave MacKenzie was third (77-10-67).: David Johnson was the Second


Division winner after he carded 85- 19-66 to finish four shots ahead of Steve Turner (83-13-70). Pete Foley \yas third after his round of 84-13-


71. But the B team were delighted to


improve on their whitewash defeat against their clubmates last season. Paul Ainger, Chantelle Morrow,


Steve Pirn, Louise Burrill and Mary Brass won all their games for the A


team. The season continues on Tuesday


nights, and the club are looking for a couple of ladies to play for their C


and D teams. Anyone interested should contact


Tony Bush (07787 154835). Our picture shows the badminton


club A and B team before their clash. (T021002/1)


B i g m o n t h f o r after Prescot defeat By CRAIG SALMON


CLITHEROE manag­ er Lee Sculpher admit­ ted Saturday’s top-of- th e - ta b le d efeat a t Prescot Cables was a major disappointment. The Blues were well


b e a te n 4-2 by th e Merseysiders who opened; up a nine-point lead over the second-placed Shaw- b r id g e rs on S a tu rd a y


evening. However, Sculpher (pic­ tured right) is confident


. th a t his men will bounce back strongly and main­ ta in th e ir form right through to the end of the


season. He said: “Obviously Sat­ urday was a massive game


' for us. We could have gone within three points o f . Prescot with a game in


. hand. “We just have to look to


do the best we can in Octo­ ber and get back up there by the end of the month. “We have six games in


i t ’s a long hard season. There’s 30 games still to be


played. “Results can change. If


you get one or two injuries or get a bit of bad luck then things can change quickly. “Presco t’s next three


games are Mossley, Salford and Fleetwood. If they win all three then th a t puts them in a strong position, b u t if they make three draws then th a t puts u's and the other teams back


October and realistically, looking at the fixtures and showing no disrespect to the other teams, we should win five of those games. “Prescot have opened up a good lead at the top but


in it.” The Shawbridge. supre­


mo felt the Blues lost the battle in midfield on Satur­ day, as Prescot recovered from the shock of going an early goal down to lead 3-1 at the interval. .


Sculpher added: “I


thought in midfield we were very poor. In a game like th a t , you need your midfield to take a strangle­ hold of the game. “We got off to a good


s ta r t with the goal after two minutes but for about the 25 minutes after th a t we did not perform a t all, unfortunately.' “We got back in the


game towards the end of the first half and if we had taken one of our chances, it would have helped us a great deal. “ I was quite pleased


with the reaction in the sec- ond half: We had a go a t them and created some chances.


“But we can’t keep com­ ,


ing back from two goals down which has happened three or four times recently. “They were a very good


attacking aide, probably the best we have played this season. “But we caused them as


many problems, if not more, as they did to us. If you look at the all 90 min­ utes we possibly created more chances than what


they did.” The Blues welcome


Newcastle Town to Shaw­ bridge on Saturday with


i-of-the-table goes the way of leader^ S f is Prescol, Cables........... 4


C li lh e ro e ....................2 CLITHEROE slipped to


defeat a t North West Counties’ First. Division leaders Prescot Cables on


Saturday. The Blues remain in sec-,


ond place in the table but went nine points behind the Merseysiders. Everything looked rosy


in the garden early on as on-loan Lee Buggie gave Clitheroe the lead after only two minutes. A cross delivered from


the right was met by a tow­ ering header from Buggie, who gave th e keeper no


chance. However, Prescot began


to boss possession and enjoyed the better of the play in the first half. They equalised on 13


minutes when Kris Richens could only parry an initial


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. , The Blues had a great chance to take th e lead again but Accrington Stan­


effort and the ball was rammed home by Mike Todd... ,


ley front man Buggie failed to convert from inside the area after latching on to Lee Cryer’s cross. Prescot made Clitheroe


pay for this miss when they went 2-1 up on 27 minutes when a corner was headed onto the bar by Todd and Karl Baker stabbed home the rebound from close


range. Cryer headed the wrong


side of the post when he met Adam Gardner’s right- wing centre, but the home side increased their lead when Baker lashed home an unstoppable drive from 22-yards after a cross had only been half-cleared. Just before the half-time


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ed wide from Lee S c u lp h e r ’s f re e -k ic k , -as. Clitheroe went in a t the


break3-1 down. Oil In the second]/ half,


Clitheroe tightened up in midfield and enjoyed more of the play but were unable •. to grab an early goal. Buggie screwed a shot


wide while Jason Jones’ header was tipped on to the bar by the the goalkeeper. From the resulting corner, Jones then saw another header cleared off the line: The Blues eventually


pulled a goal back with five minutes to go when Buggie tapped home after a goal­ mouth scramble. However, jClitheroe’s


hones of setting-up a grand-stand finish were destroyed moment later when indecision between Sculpher and Richens led


to John Benson nipping in to seabthe'match/for the league leaders.


NORTH WEST COUNTIES’ FOOTBALL


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LEAGUE! F irs t Division -P W. D


Prescot Cables. .13 9 Salford City . . . .11 7 Skelmersdale . . .11 7 CLITHEROE. .11 6 Fleetwopd Town 10 7 Mossley............10 . 6 Newcastle Town 13 ‘ 5 Nantwich.Town .8 5 Woodley Sports. .7 Flixton . . . . . . . .1 0 AlsagerTown...l0


L P 1 30


2 21 3 21


1 17


4 12 4 12


1 12


St Helens Town .10 3 3 4 12 AthertonLR ...10 3 2 5 11 Squires Gate . . . .9


2 4 3 10


Curzon Ashton .10 3 1 6 10 WinsfordUtd . ..9 2 4 3 10 Congleton............9 2 2 5 8 Abbey Hey..........9 2 2 5 8 Warrington Town 8 1 Ramsbottom Utd 8 2. 0 6 6 Atherton Colls. . .8 1 2 5 5 GlossopNE ....1 0 1 1 8. 4 • Up to and including Tuesday, Octo-


.ber 1st ,


more worries surrounding theirsquad. Neil Spencer is.two or


three weeks away from full fitness after undergoing an •. hernia operation in Sep­ tember while Andy Cowk- ing’s knee injury is likely to _ keep him out for another 10


days. New signing Mark Mul-.


ligan faces a fitness test before Satu rd ay ’s game while goalkeeper Kris Richens arid right-back Adam Gardner are in Bul­ garia watchirig Blackburn •


Rovers. On the plus side, Mark


. Stewart played his first game of the season on Sat­ urday while Chris Whit- tingham and Gary Rishton ■ should be available. Sculpher added “I never


use injuries as an'excuse because every team suffers from injuries but, perhaps, in the last eight months, we have suffered from injuries more than most. “Hopefully, come the


next few weeks, the injury situation will clear up. “But Newcastle will be a


though team to beat. I went to watch them.two weeks


ago and they are a good


attacking side.”. On Tuesday, the Blues


travel to Flixton.


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