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IT was all smiles in the Ryding family after Pendle Ski Club’s recent outing a t Sunderland in th e All England Champi­
onships. Three members starred a t
Silsworth Ski Slope, bringing home a haul of seven medals. They were part of a mixed
p a r ty of 23 mini, children, junior and senior members, competing h one of the tough­ est competitions of the season. Jo an n a Ryding was
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undoubtedly the highlight, as she picked up gold in the Junior One Female age group, and a silver over all. Brother Carl snatched a
bronze in the Male Masters, while David was just pipped at the post in the over all Male
category, finishing fourth. The club’s other gold medal
went, to Bill Lathom in the Junior One Male group, while there was a further silver for Emma Wigman in the Junior One Female section. Both the Senior Female and
Children One Female cate­ gories yielded bronze medals for Pendle, for Lindsay Allen and Hannah Knowles respec­
tively. The team event then took
place on Sunday, with Pendle able to enter two teams due to their strength a t competitive skiing. Team A - last year’s cham­
pions - consisted of Bill Lath­ om, Joanna Ryding, brother David and Paid Hothersall. However, due to equipment
failure the side fell a t the first hurdle and were eliminated. All hopes were now pinned
on Team B, which included Dan Wyatt, Emma Wigman, James Lawton an d Tom
Kenny. And after pulling out all the
stops, they battled through to the final before claiming the silver medal behind Arrows Ski Club of Swadlincotes. The racers t ra in twice a
week under the guidance of the race coaching team of Carl Ryding, Colin Tee and Lind­ say Alien.
Dramatic comeback
North Manchester.........12 Clitheroe......................22 CLITHEROE Rugby Club staged a dramatic comeback to snatch victory from North Manchester. This was their first victory
a t North Manchester in five attempts, and coming on the back of the excellent win a t Burnley the previous week, makes i t two out of two for Matt Dugdale’s team. Fitness was always a key
issue and i t was the Maroon and Golds who came up trumps with two tries in the last five minutes to steal the points. Outstanding throughout
were Dave Watson, flanker Ralph Rigby and man of the match Nathan Peel. Indeed, it .was Peel who
FROM A FAMILY FIRM THAT CARES By CHRIS BODEN_______
CLITHEROE chairman Dave Burgess has resigned from his
postatShawbridge. A number of factors, including
the decision to release Player of the Year Jason Jones from his con­ tract at his own request, culmi­ nated in the former Blues manag­ er stepping down. Burgess, who took over from
Steve Rush 18 months ago, said: “I felt in some quarters I didn’t get full backing, both from the committee and the spectators. “The Jason Jones issue was the
last straw really. “I t ’s not a decision I have taken
lightly, b u t i t is th e re su l t of a number of things.
“Things were said when I took
over that would be done, which haven’t, and I have given it 18 months. “But I can say I leave the club
in a healthier state, not just finan­ cially, but as regards the flood­ lights and pitch drainage.” He added: “90% of the com-,
mittee were fantastic, and with­ out them Clitheroe would not be where they are, but parts of the committee and the crowd, obvi­ ously didn’t feel what I was doing was right.” Burgess had earlier announced
that Jones has been released from his contract, but will remain d non-contract player at Shaw-. bridge.
... H e ex p la in e d th e s i tu a t io n : Smash and
Clitheroe. . . . . . . . . . . 0 Brandon United........1 A SMASH and grab raid ended Clitheroe’s interest in this season’s FA Cup. Arriving with a game
plan to defend in numbers and catch Clitheroe on the break, Brandon executed the idea to perfection. In truth Clitheroe domi­
nated the game, but their inability to turn possession into goals proved costly as Brandon scored with their only shot at goal. The visitors started
brightly and forced two comers in the opening min­ utes, which they failed to trouble Clitheroe with. Lee Cryer shot over and
Gary Jackson failed to cap­ italise on a knock down from Cryer as the Blues began to control the game. . The closest Clitheroe came to breaking the dead-. lock was on 20 minutes. A corner from the left
found its way to Jackson at the back post, but from
close range his shot came backoff the bar. The ball was only half
cleared and Simon Gamer’s shot from the edge of the area,was well saved low down by Waind in the Brandon goal. Cryer and Jackson both ’
went close • again ■ for Clitheroe, but saw their efforts saved by the visiting keeper. The second half followed
the same pattern as Clitheroe searched for an opening. Straight from the restart
a superb driving run from Paul Stansfield released Jackson on goal, but from a tight angle he saw his shot hit the post. A huge slice of luck
almost brought Clitheroe a goal on 55 minutes. The hard-working Chris
Whittingham fired a weak shot at goal from 25 yards,; and the goalkeeper looked to be under no pressure until the ball bounced up
off the pitch. Luck AthertqmCollieries . .3
appeared to be on the side , Clitherde. ....................3 of the away team though,'! ClilTHEROE twice had as the ball hit him on the to recover from a two-goal chest allowing him to. deficit ^eventually take a somehow scramble it
shareioL.the spoils courtesy around the post.
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when Brandon scored the ^ r Thefopenmg 20,minutes decisive goal on 68 minutes.' ‘ saw£t]iO||
Blues..toake a Kris Richeris, who had promi^g start with several
Clitheroe were stunned. ■ CryeR;’|^ : , :
been a spectator for the majority of the game, had-'/.jj’W}ft^*^lt minutes on
nochancewiththeshot. a i.___i_ j . , tm tita ,run. and shot from iraul
right hand side saw a p - amj moments later'Gary feet cross floated into the. Jacksin was denied by the
• Stahsfield was well saved,
PjValt7 a,re?,’ Yhere UmtI - woodwork from a Barrie ed’s Mark Paterson met
cornet
the ball on the volley to Chris Whittingham also smash home a stunning Wgnt close to openingjthe g°al-
With a one-goal advan—:shot , hit the p o s t^ a s scoring but he also saw his
tage, Brandon were co n ^ c i i th e ro e ’s ear,lyv:season tent to sit back and defendg|Attraction to thgwoodwork as the Blues searched fora^gontinued. equaliser, but never! re^iy|^Agairist the rmtlofiplay threatened the resolute;i?iitwaS;the homelsidh who Brandon defaice.4t}»fe^|ytv6pWed)tM ^ dn&iMter. On another” ' day ‘" Adam Gardner had given
Clitheroe could have run away a heedless free kick.',-, out comfortable winners. The set piece into the
' penalty area was missed by goalkeeper Kris Richens, to provide the Atherton strik­ er with a free header into the unguarded net. Jon-Paul Fagan came
.of a double strike fromLee
close to equalising for Clitheroe but his shot from the edge of the area was well saved. ' Fagan had gained a- place in the starting line up for Simon Garner whilst Neil Reynolds made a return to the team at the expense of Neil Spencer. Clithoroe began the sec­
ond half in search of an equaliser but were stunned to go 2-0 down when they were caught by a swift counter attack on 52 min­ utes. The home side’s two-goal
ton once more gain a two- goal advantage. Substitute Steve
McDonald reduced the arrears, scoring his first goal for the club directly from a comer. The last 20 minutes saw
Clitheroe dominate posses­ sion. A lovely flowing move from the Blues resulted in Spencer’s shot being saved, and Cryer couldn’t believe no one got on the end of a perfect header across the face of goal. With time running out
cushion only lasted for five minutes before a Cryer header bounced over the keeper to provide a glim­ mer of hope for Clitheroe. As the Blues pushed for­
ward they were again caught by a swift counter attack, which saw Ather­
the Blues once again found another late goal. A free kick from Hart was headed back by Stansfield, and Cryer was on hand to force the ball home as the game entered stoppage time. . Defensive frailties will again be a concern for Clitheroe, but the never- say-die attitude at least .ensured it wasn’t three con­ secutive defeats for the Blues. "•
“We put Jason on a contract at the beginning of the season. "1 “But since he has been'on con­
tract, certain off-field issues have affected his game, issues that'may’‘ prevent him.fulfiling his contrac- ■ tual obligations. We didn’t'want1 him to come off contract;' but he wanted to be fair to the club and
. not create a breach of contract “Rather than liolhagunlto his
head and hold him hard and fast to his contract, if pjayers have problems, we are'a club that will try and help and Toole after, our players.” . .
The chairman'! had; j^een V
annoyed by comments tram cer­ tain supporters on the club’s web-f; site, speculating abbut^^hat,! Jones and Burgess heldit^^her'!
on Saturday, and he added: “A fan saw me talking to Jason for 20 minutes after the match and jumped to the
wrong.concliision, that Jason might be leaving, v “But they don’t know what we
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were talking about, who instigat­ ed the meeting, the: reasons behind it or the outcome., ' “The fans, often only see what
they see on the field. Blit we are like a family at the club, we live in each others’ pockets for three days a week, and if.anyone has any. problems, we want to try and help”
Meanwhile, boss Lee Sculpher ;.
wants his side to be inoie ruthless after two defeats and a draw in a
;week, and is also stressed the need to tighten up at the back: “We
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have been going forward at will in games and we could have finished
sides off. "That is something we haye to
look at. We need to be more ruth­
lessin our finishing. : “In every game we have torn
.teams apart, but we seem to throw so many players forward,
. contrary to some spectators’ beliefs, and then we are at our most vulnerable when we have free kicks or comers. “Teams seem to pour out back
a t us, and we have to tighten up. “We are scoring a lot of goals,
but we have to because of the lapses at the back.” The Blues entertain Trafford
on Saturday, before a home game with Alsager on Tuesday.
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Important snooker meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Clitheroe and Dis­ trict Snooker League will be held at Clitheroe Conserva­ tive Club, Castle Street, Clitheroe, on Tuesday at 8p.m. All teams in the league are requested to send a represen­ tative on the night.
opened the scoring as early as the fourth minute with a well- struck penalty. Unfortunately for the visi­
tors it was downhill from then on during the first period, as the home team made the most of their chances to score good tries and move into a 12-3 half­ time lead. The second period, however,
belonged to Clitheroe. Rigby dominated the line
outs, centre Ben Curphy made some telling runs and forwards Paul Carberry and Andrew Thornber added a touch of steel to th e ir rucking and 'mauling. Curphy started the come­
back with a typical blockbust­ ing charge to the line, but as time ebbed away the home side’s defence was standing tall, only for the elusive Peel to stamp Ids mark on the game. The Clitheroe fly half
crossed for his second try of the season, despite being held short of the line, he then used his reach to slam the ball down
■ on the whitewash. An easy conversion fol­
lowed, and with Manchester now committed to attack, it allowed Clitheroe the chance for a counter attack from deep inside their own half, resulting in veteran Roger Holmes jink­ ing his way. over in the comer for a rare try. Peel’s kicking boots added the extras and Clitheroe ran out winners.
Competitors at Clitheroe Tennis Club’s finals day. A140903/2 : Louise serves up double whammy
LOUISE Burrill made the most of the glorious conditions on Sunday to round off the season at Clitheroe Tennis Club by serving a double whammy over her arch-rival Mary Brass on Knockout Finals Day. Having kept her nerve to edge out
Brass in two close sets in the ladies’ singles by 6-4, 7-5, Burrill and her partner Karen Famhill had to dig deep in the doubles at the end of the afternoon. Brass and Sarah Dewhurst
pushed the pair to three sets, hold­ ing a break point at 2-2 in the decid­ ing set, only to slump to defeat by 7- 5,5-7,6-2. In the men’s singles Stephen Pym
had won an epic semi-final battle with last year’s winner Phil Mile- ham, but nothing could prepare him for the strength and unerring accu­ racy of 15-year-old Ben Dyer who brushed aside his experienced oppo­ nent’s dogged resistance to win in straight sets 6-1,6-3. Things did not get any better for
Pym in the men’s doubles, as he and his partner Peter Hitchen scrambled
back from the brink of defeat against eventual winners Derek Parrott and Gordon Pimperton! The pair took the second set tie-
break convincingly 7-1, only to be outplayed in the final set as Parrott and Pimperton took the match with extra to spare 6-2,6-7,6-2. The mixed doubles final had the
crowd on the edge of their seats, as Sarah Dewhurst and Gordon Pim­ perton improbably snatched victory from the clenched jaws of defeat. ■ Their opponents Pam Bolton and
. Mirroring her father’s disappoint­ ment at losing two finals, Hannah Pym had to settle for runners-up- spot in both the junior girls’: singles
Ian Brown had taken a 5-1 lead in the final set, only to see it slip away as Dewhurst and Pimperton chipped away to win the next six games without reply to take the match 6-7,6-4,7-5. ,
and double finals. She came up against a very deter­
mined and talented.opponent in Jennifer Holgate, who needed to be : at the height of her game to over-.
come Hannah 6-4: in the singles decider.. < ^ >
bles, whereKate-Burrill partnered Jennifer to a 7-5 victory to top off a highly successful afternoon for the Burrill and Holgate households. . Andrew Hartley, left his mark in
I t was a similar story in the dou­ >
the boy’s singles draw, entering the tournament for the first time, v He had the edge over Matthew Hanson, exerting enough pressure to : take the match 6-3. i .
! Josh: Black and Jack Dewhurst ’ ■
• played some tight-tennis to over­ come Mark Higson and'Adam. Dewhurst in the boys’doubles by 6- 2, while young Matthew Cornish, partnering Andrew Hartley,-’gave, Jack Dewhurst and Callum Gunn'a run for. their money before losing 4-6 to the more experienced pair. Hdnourary life members Jan and;
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