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CLITHEROE came away with a fine haul of medals - a fourth place overall - at the recent Northern Counties Masters Swimming Cham­ pionships in Macclesfield. The team, coached by Jonathon


Preston, won 10 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze medals in total to crown a superb competition for the locals. Peter Jones, in the 30/34 years sec­


tion, won the 50m freestyle and backstroke, adding the 100m back- stroke gold, all in new championship record times. And Julie Pym touched home first


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in the 40/44 years 50m breaststroke, while also winning silver in the 50m backstroke, butterfly and freestyle. In the 50/54 years section, John


Stanworth won a set of medals, gold in the individual medley, silver in the 200m freestyle and bronze in the 50m freestyle, while Brad Keegan


won the 200m freestyle and was run­ ner-up in the individual medley. Laura Simpson won the 25/29 50m


backstroke and was third in the 50m freestyle, and Isobel Taylor, in the 40/44 group, took silver in the indi­ vidual medley and 100m butterfly, adding bronze in the 50m freestyle. Further gold medals came from


Sheila Dixoii in the 45/49 50m freestyle, and Raymond Keefe, in the 65/69 years 50m butterfly - also claiming bronze in the 50m freestyle. Steven Nicholas won a pair of


bronze medals in the 35/39 years 50m breaststroke and butterfly, and Jill Taylor picked up four top three finishes, taking silver in the 35/39 200m freestyle, and bronze in the individual medley, 50m backstroke and 50m butterfly. John Taylor, in the 45/49 years section, won silver in the 50m


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freestyle and backstroke, while ( Michael Weddle, in the 40/44 years event, was second in the 100m back- stroke, and John Dixon (55/59 years) took silver in the 50m butter­ fly. In the team events, the ladies’


160/199 years team - Jill Taylor, Kay Brown, Isobel Taylor and Julie Pym - won the freestyle relay and took silver in the medley, while the men’s 120.159 years squad of Peter Jones, Achille Ramambason, Steven Nicholas and John Taylor won silver in the freestyle relay. The men’s 200/239 years’ team of


Ray Keefe, John Stanworth, Peter Jones and Brad Keegan took bronze in the freestyle and medley. The Clitheroe team are pictured


with the medals they won at the Lancashire League competitions. (S041104/3)


ambition! By Chris Boden


BLUES boss Lee Sculpher sees no reason why Clitheroe cannot put together a play-off charge. But the influential cen­


tre back admits the forth­ coming sequence of games ahead of the festive period will be vital to their hopes. Leaders North Ferriby


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United come to Shaw- bridge tomorrow, with Clitheroe unbeaten in four league games. And Sculpher feels if his


side can build on their run of form - cup defeats aside - they could be in a posi­ tion to challenge over the second half of the season. He said: “In the next


two weeks we play first and third, with Gresley


i away to come,’ but if you ;


’ ■' were unfortunate to lose to them, we beat Telford in


! fifth, and Stocksbridge are fourth and we were unlucky to lose against


, them. V “It’s a. tight league and


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look at the league table, Ilkeston are second and we


there is stiff competition all the way through. “But we are on a mini­


run of four unbeaten in the league, we are making our way nicely up the table and hopefully we can take heart from that. “If we get something


against North Ferriby, that keeps the run going, and maybe the other teams will realise we are adapting well to this level.” And he feels the club


should aim high: “One more win puts us in mid­ table, and we can get right in amongst them. “The next six or seven


matches up to the Christ­ mas period will be very important for us. “If we can pick up


maybe 12 points from 18, we would be into the 30- point bracket and right among the top 10. “Sixth place is the last


play-^ff place, and I think we can get up there, with­ out a doubt. “We have shown in the last few weeks we are


adapting to the league and we uii^derstand what it is all about. “At times we will be on


the defensive, and other times we will have to attack in numbers, but I’m confident if we plaiy as we have done of late in the league, there is no reason we can’t be challenging up there.” Sculpher was delighted


with his side’s efforts in the 4-0 Marsden Trophy loss at Conference North Bar- row on Tuesday, and felt the scoreline flattered the home side: “I was disap­ pointed with the final result,, but overall, throughout the game, we did quite well against a team from two leagues higher. “On occasions in the


past, to be honest, we’ve been under pressure for 90 minutes against teams like that, but we had a bit of a go, kept the ball well at times and created a few


•good chances. “Barrow probably had five or six chances and


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scored from four, but you would expect that against better players. “The only disappointing


thing was the start we made - going behind so early put us under pres­ sure.” And the return of Lee


Cryer and Russell Clark was a bonus - although Gavin Cooper has left to rejoin Colne: “Lee Cryer played an hour, although he has to do more training before he gets back to what we would expect, but it is a big boost to have him back in the fold, as well as Russell Clark after suspension. . “However, it was a


major blow to lose Gavin Coooer. who has gone back


to Colne. “He seemed to be set­


tling in quite well and played four or five games, and it came totally out of the blue. “Saturday was the first


time he hadn’t started. “Whether he was not


happy about that, I don’t know - he’s not spoken to me about it. “But to just get up and


go was very disappointing. “It’s happened before to


us though, and we will go out and have another look around, but the left side is not as much a priority as it has been - Paul Stansfield has done well out there, and Steve McDonald is versatile enough to fill that role.”


Last minute dash gives Gregory race win


YOUNG Gregory O’Con­ nor of Hurst Green emu­ lated Paula Radcliffe when he stormed home to win a prestigious cross­ country race in the Ribble Valley. Just like Paula in New.


York, Gregory, 13, was neck and neck with his closest challenger all the way through the race, but put in a last-minute dash to the line to win by seven seconds. Gregory (pictured) was


running for his school, St Mary’s Hall, in the Under 13 section of the Schools’ (lAPS) Cross Country Championships. A total of 250 pupils


took part in the largest preparatory schools’ cross­ country event in the North West, which was hosted by St Mary’s Hall, the prep school for Stony- hurst College. Fifteen schools were rep­


resented in the champi-: onships, which were divid­ ed into Under 13 Boys, Under 13 Girls, Under 11 Boys and Under 11 Girls. Despite Gregory’s hero­


ic efforts, his team finished fourth in the Under 13 boys, which was won by Chetwynde School in Bar-


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row-in-Furness. St Mary’s also came


fourth in the Under 13 Girls, which was also won by Chetwynde, who also won the Under 11 Boys - St Mary’s came in eighth. The Under 11 Girls was


won by Stockport Gram­ mar School, with St Mary’s again in fourth place. The schools taking part


were Chetwynde (Barrow- in-Furness, Cumbria), The . Ryleys (Cheshire), Beech ® Hall


(Tytherington, t)


Cheshire), Malsis (Skip- ton,), Lyndon Prep (Col- ^ wyn Bay, North Wales), ^ Caterall Hall (Settle, ^


North Yorkshire), Pow- nam Hall (Wilmslow, Cheshire), St. Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst, Terra Nova (Holmes


Chapel,


Cheshire), Stockport' Grammar School, Rossall, (Fleetwood), Liverpool College, St Pius X (Pre- 1 ston), Sunnymede, (South- port) and Kingsmede, (Hplylake, Wirral).


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