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Buck extend lead in race for pool title


WITH second-placed Whalley Arms ; not in action, Buck A extended their lead at the top of the Clitheroe Pool League Pre­ mier Division after a 9-3 win over Royal British Legion A. Station Storm also won


9-3 against Craven Heifer A, while there were 8-4 vic­ tories for Castle and Royal British Legion B against White Hart A and Stork Hotel A respectively. F irst Division leaders


Brown Cow of Chatburn were beaten 7-5 at second- placed Waggon and Horses A, while third placed Stork Hotel B won 7-5 a t New: Inn. Buck B had a comfort­


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able 9-3 win in the Second Division over White Horse A, while the two games in the Third Division includ­ ed a similar win for Craven Heifer B over Station Hotel B.


• The semi-finals of the


Clitheroe Pool League Challenge Cup will take place next Thursday, March' 27th, with Royal British Legion guaranteed a representation in the final. The B team face the A


team a t the Buck, while the other semi-final sees Stork A take on Buck A at the Royal British Legion. Referees will be supplied. • All teams should now


have received a voting form, in order to nominate an individual for their involvement with pool for the Norman Garner


Memorial Trophy. This representative does


not need to be a player, with the trophy awarded on presentation night. The league ask that the


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forms are returned a t the registration night a week tonight, March 27th, at the Buck between 8 p.m. and 9-30 p.m., or handed in at the Royal British Legion in an envelope prior to the committee meeting on Monday, April 7th. • A team registration


form will need to be filled in with a list of players, prior to the start of the sea­


son. No unregistered play­ er will be allowed to play,, and playing an unregis­ tered player will forfeit the


'the result of games played. Players who are excluded


from the league and wish to appeal, must put a letter in writing for the committee, when you will be invited to a ttend and explain why you wish to join. Fees for registration are


£40 for men and £30 for ladies.


• The league’s presenta­ .


tion evening will be held at the Rose and Crown on. Thursday, April 17th. A raffle will be held on


the night, with tickets available shortly from com­ mittee members. Anybody wishing to donate a raffle prize should contact any


committee member. RESULTS :


Premier Division


Stork Hotel A 4, Royal British Legion B 8; White Hart A 4,


■ Castle 8; Station Storm 9, Craven Heifer A 3; Royal British Legion A 3, Buck A 9. First Division


Waggon and Horses A 7,


Brown Cow Chatbum 5; Brown Cow 10, Horse Shoe B 2; Pendle Hotel B 6, Dog Music Bar 6; New Inn 5, Stork hotel B 7. Second Division


Buck B 9, White Horse A 3;


Royal Oak A 7, Pendle Hotel A 5; Bay Horse Barrow 7, White Hart B 5.


Third Division Craven Heifer B 9, Station


Hotel B 3; White Horse B 8, Buck Wrinkleys 4. TONIGHT’S FIXTURES Premier Division


Whalley Arms v Stork Hotel


A; Royal British Legion B v White Hart A; Castle v Station Storm; Craven Heifer A v Royal


British Legion A. First Division


St Peter’s Hurst Green v Wag­


gon and Horses A; Brown Cow Chatbum v Brown Cow; Horse Shoe B v Pendle Hotel B; Dog Music Bar v New Inn. Second Division


Billington Band Club v Buck


B; White Horse A v Royal Oak A; Pendle Hotel A v Bay Horse Barrow; White Hart B v Bridge A.


. Third Division ■


Simonstone Hotel v Legion C; Bridge B v Craven Heifer B;


Royal Oak B v White Horse B. TUESDAY


Ladies’ Division Billington Band Club v Royal


British Legion; Bridge B v Pen­ dle Hotel; Whalley Arms v White Horse; Royal Oak v Bridge A.


Bowling green open


WHALLEY Bowling Green is now open for the season, and visitors are welcome. The Wednesday round-robin matches will commence on April 2nd. Players are asked to book in by 12-45 p.m.


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Stan Ternent Ternent heading for Shawbridge!


. COLOURFUL character Stan Tement will ' be the guest at a second Clitheroe Football • Club “An Audience With...” night at Shaw- ; bridge next month.' After the resounding success of the visit o f :


Manchester City’s Kevin Keegan and Carlo Nash to the club in October, the Burnley boss is to participate in a question a n d :: answer session on Thursday, April 17th.1 •,. ;


- Only 125 tickets have.been produced for the evening, and are already on sale, with demand expected to be high. Chairman Dave Burgess,’an admirer of


Tement, despite being a Blackburn Rovers fan, was over the moon with the news: “I can’t believe it, I ’ve been chasing him for a • few months, but I didn’t think it would hap- pen. ■ “And the fact he’s come at this stage of the


season is testament to Stan. . •: ;“Isenl?letters out to three managers, and


he was the first one to get back to me - and with a positive replyl That showed me that he would like to do it if he had the time, and now we have set a data ■ “As it stands at the moment, it will just be Stan, but hopefully a player will come too. , ‘fit’s not often you get people of that level


coming down here, and it’s just tremendous for the club. : “As busy as he is at this stage of the sea­


son, the fact that he has given us his time for an evening is brilliant.” He added: “And the fact big name man­


agers can come down to grass roots football is a big plus for everyone. “I t ’s nice to get someone local, after we persuaded a world name like Kevin Keegan


to come down., and hopefully we can get


other people like Stan in the near futurfe.; “They’re big names - Kevin Keegan, Stan


Tement - and it shows what we are trying to do. I t shows how far we’ve progressed as a club, coupled with our exploits in the FA Vase in recent seasons. ■ . “We’ve travelled all over the country, and


the acknowledgments we receive.for our achievements is a tribute to our club.” The night will be run in the same style as


the “Audience with Kevin Keegan” with the event again compered by broadcaster Peter Stevenson. But the evening will also help the club raise money to replace their Shawbridge


floodlights. The lights have been at Shawbridge for


nearly three decades, and need to be replaced


should the club progress forward into the UniBond League. , Burgess added: “The league have hit us with a bill for new floodlights, and we need


■ to find 20% of that - about £5,000. “The lights are around 28 years old, and


all the bulbs need to be replaced as well - at about £200 a bulb. ■ “We got the lights from a Football League


club, and so they’re old, and need to be replaced soon. •’ “By some ways or means, we need to raise £5,000, and this evening will help us enor­


mously.” • • Dave Burgess will be available to talk to at Saturday’s game at Padiham, or altema- tively, contact him on 01200 445738. Tickets are £20 each, and include a free raffle and a pie and peas supper.


Blues promotion bid receives major boost


CLITHEROE’S North West Counties’ League F ir s t Division champi­ onship aspirations have been given a real shot in the arm this week. Defeats for leaders


Prescot and promotion rivals Mossley, has seen the Blues move to ju s t 13 points behind the lead with four games in hand. Prescot suffered their


second successive defeat on Saturday in a 1-0 defeat to AlsagerTown.


, And having been, at one


stage, 22 points ahead, the Merseysiders wil} be look­ ing nervously over their shoulders at Lee Sculpher’s • men after they recorded two fine wins over St Helens Town on Saturday and.Flixton on Tuesday evening.


•iMossley’s 2-l,defeat at ')


St Helens on Tuesday now sees them drop nine points behind Clitheroe, although they do have three games in hand. However, the Blues have


to p u t league, matters behind them on Saturday as they face Padiham in the re-arranged semi-final second leg of the Worthing­ ton Challenge Trophy. Clitheroe go into the


match protecting a 4-1 aggregate lead and they will have noted that Padi­ ham - who are riding high at the top of the NWC Sec­ ond Division - thrashed Oldham Town 6-1 la s t weekend. ’■ .. Clitheroe travel i to


. Abbey Hey on Tuesday. The reserves are at home to Ashton Town (kick-off 3


p.m.) in the second round of the cup. Clitheroe .................4 Flixton ..................0 A HAT-TRICK from Mark Stewart helped Chtheroe to a comfortable victory over lowly Flixton on Tuesday night. The visitors arrived only


10 minutes before kick-off and must have wished they had stayed on the mini bus as Clitheroe dominated the game from start to finish. Defender Stewart stole


the limelight with three goals as Clitheroe threat­ ened to score at will against a poor Flixton side. He opened the scoring on


10 minutes when he rose unchallenged from close range to head home a Jason Jones’ comer. His second arrived on 26


minutes when,Neil Spencer skipped into the penalty area and was brought'down by Mike Burnett. Stewart confidently scored from the resulting penalty kick, giv­ ing the goalkeeper little chance with a well-struck kick. Stewart had to wait until


the 76th minute for his and Clitheroe’s third. Barry H a r t’s surging run down the left saw the marauding full back brought down in the penalty area by Craig Hindley. Stewart again stepped up and repeated his first half penalty kick to complete his hat-trick. < Lee Cryer, making his first start since recovering from a recent ankle injury, and Gary Jackson, both had-chances to add their names to the score sheet. ■


Clitheroe......................38 Carnforth ....................20 PENCILLED in by skipper Matt Dugdale as a must-win fix­ ture at the start of the season, the men from Littlemoor did not dis­ appoint as they ran in five fantas- tic tries. The combination of youth and


experience spread throughout the team is at last beginning to pay dividends. In the front row, the experience of Harry Proctor and Adrian


, Oldrqyd team up with baby-faced hooker Will Jones, in the back row, knarled old veterans Ralph Rigby and Roger Holmes team up with the youthful Edward Finch-Hacking, while in the backs, the greying Dave Watson keeps a eye on his half back part­ ner, the exuberant Nathan Peel. , However, i t was one of the


other young guns who stole the eye, second rower Ben Graves had his best game of the season until


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: an untimely hamstring injury forced his withdrawal on the hour. ■■ Graves notched his first try for the club with a barnstorming effort early in the first period, and his blockbusting runs caused the > Camforth defence all sort of prob-1 lems. ’ : Three Peel penalties and an opportunist try from centre Chris


Clitheroe quintet of fantastic tries


■ The forward pair wasted


great chances when through on goal at the end of the first half. The second half didn’t


see their luck change. Jack- son saw his low shot well saved by Bibby in the Flix­ ton goal and then Cryer saw his headed goal disal-


. lowed by an offside flag. Flixton’s best chance of


the game actually came from Clitheroe’s Lee Sculpher in the first half. As the Clitheroe player manager went to clear a Flixton free-kick he only succeeded in slicing the ball towards his own goal and was relieved to see it go out for a comer. I t was left to substitute


Simon Gamer to round off the night. As the referee played added on time Gar­ ner found himself through on goal and kept his nerve to slide the ball past Bibby and into the net to com­ plete a convincing win. Clitheroe. . . . ........... 2 St Helens Town ........1 WITH other results going in Clitheroe’s favour, this was another important vic­ tory for the Blues. Prescot's defeat a t


Alsager means the perfor­ mance from Clitheroe goal­ keeper Kris Richens in the la s t five minutes of the game could be crucial come the season’s end. Having gone in at half­


time ra th e r harshly labelled as the villain, the Clitheroe shot-stopper made amends with three tremendous saves late in the game. Clitheroe created the


best chances early on as they continued their rich vein of recent good form. A Barrie Hart free kick


on 20 minutes almost gave Clitheroe the lead. His 30-yard effort took a


wicked deflection and land­ ed at the feet of Gary Jack- son. The striker, somewhat caught by surprise, saw his close-range effort well tipped over by Bagnall in


■ the St Helens goal. . Indeed it was from a free kick that Clitheroe eventu­ ally took the lead four min­ utes before the break. From a position near the


right corner flag, the left foot of Paddy Lauber swung a low cross into the middle. The ball evaded the outstretched legs of attackers and defenders


alike and somehow found it's way into the bottom corner, without a touch from anyone.. Less than a minute later


and Richens made his first telling contribution of the afternoon. Mark Wilde broke clear of the Clitheroe back line and attempted to take the ball round Richens. The Clitheroe keeper


appeared to get a hand to the ball, but Wilde went down under the challenge. The referee had no hesi­


tation in awarding a penal­ ty, and Dave Dugdale con­ fidently converted. An injury to Chris Whit-


tingham just before half­ time resulted in Jason Jones moving from central midfield out to the right wing, and he was a thorn in the side of St Helens


throughout the second half. On the hour mark it was


Jones who provided a great opportunity. His through ball found Jackson in the area, but the striker blast­ ed his shot over. Less that a minute after


this missed opportunity, the same combination linked up again, to put the


.Blues back in front. Jones broke free down


the right and his strong run and drilled cross found Jackson charging into the six-yard box to smash the ball home. Jackson and Neil


Spencer both had headed opportunities to make the game save bu t failed to trouble the keeper. I t was left to Richens to emerge the hero aiid secure


time, a goalmouth scram­ ble looked like providing an equaliser for the visitors, b u t somehow Richens bravely dived onto the ball. Then a minute later


the crucial victory. Three minutes from


came his best save of the match. A screaming half volley from Liam Blake- ,.' man looked destined for the top corner u n til Richens’ outstretched hand tipped the ball over. Even the referee couldn't


believe he had saved it and awarded a goal kick! There was still time for one last effort from St Helens, and another long-range effort was acrobatically tipped over the bar by Richens. This time the referee did


give him the credit he deserved and awarded the comer kick!


Frances drives in


Massey helped the Maroon and Golds build a healthy 19-3 half­ time lead. The second half was an end-to-


end affair, with both sides deter­ mined to make use of the excel­ lent playing conditions of warm sunshine and a firm pitch under­ foot.


Massey crossed for his second


try, and Peel converted, only for Carnforth to hit back with a seven-pointer of their own. The try of the game, however,


fell to Clitheroe as they launched a counter attack from deep inside their, own half. The final pass found Oldroyd


in acres of space, and showing a surprising turn of speed for one so bulky, he touched down under the posts. "


. Attack and counter attack


continued up to the final whistle, but not before young Finch- Hacking had crowned his return to first time action with a typical surging run and a well-deserved five-pointer. Peel added the extras to leave


Clitheroe victorious 38-20. . ; • The club dinner and p re s e t .


• tation evening is to be held at The


, Swan and Royal on April 26th, i tickets are available from Roger: Holmes and Andrew Burrill at £15 each.


■ MALCOLM Taylor was man of the match as Clitheroe Men’s Superleague darts team beat St Annes 7-3 at the Catholic Social Club


on Sunday. r Taylorwon his game, with an average of 76.88 to help the locals to a


fine victory. Peter Taylor, Joe Marsden and Mick Lyne all recorded 3- 2 wins in the first three gained before Ray Hargreaves went down 3-1. ’ * Reece Jeffries,’Mick Duxbury and Taylor then put Clitheroe into an unassailable 6-1 lead. ) ’


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, ’Barry Cunliffe and Rick Jones lost their games, although James Hargreaves ended the inatetfon a high with a 3-1 success, y,: f t ; - . ’The ladies came away from Morecambe in defeat afterthey lost 6-2. Judith Cunliffe and Audrey Southwell botli tasted 2-1 defeats, but Roisen Hayward and player of the match DaphneHcap (average 35.36) won 2-0 to level the scores!


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■ft However, Carol Joy,’■Irena Seed, Linda Waring and EmmaTumer couldn’t maintain that form as they went down.11 M '


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FRANCES LEE drove into office as new lady captain at Stonyhurst Park Golf Club on Saturday. Having delayed her


driving-in ceremony a week, following the awful weather the previous weekend, Frances finally ■ got to tee off in traditional style to open her term.


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■: Frances has been playing golf for around •eight years, taking up the sport “as retirement loomed”, and she is very, much looking forward to her year at the helm: “It’s a great honour.. ■ “Stonyhurst Park is such a lovely, friendly club, and there is a lot of great support and , ; interest.”


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