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Thursday, June 11th, 2004 Isa Rudgyard on. y^!l|1y?l*r.?Pp,^? team.of Edward.Leei Chris.-Boden, Phil Simpson and. Adrian Capstick 72 / promotion bid
CLITHEROE Tennis Club's teams all enjoyed resounding victories at the weekend. The Open A team
matched their 4-0 cup win over Blackburn Northern C in the league, earning a vital five points in their drive for promotion. Phil Mileham and
Derek Parrott won 6-2, 6- 2, while Stephen Pym and Mick Dewhurst also com pleted their rubber in simi lar fashion 6-1, 6-2. In the return matches,
Mileham and P a r ro tt made heavy weather of overcoming the second pair 6-3,6-3, while the fire works were reserved for the other court. Dewhurst and Pym lost
the first set, regained their composure to take the sec ond, and the third swung several times before finally being taken 7-5. The mixed A team beat
last year’s First Division champions Blackburn Northern. Louise Burrill and
Stephen Pym lost the first set of their first match, but ra tt le off the next three sets in rapid order. Julie Pym and Tony
Bush crumbled to a 6-1 reverse in their first set, but dropped a mere five games in the subsequent
three sets to help Clitheroe to a 6-2 victory. Following on from* a
WHALLEY B succumbed to a stronger Crow Wood A in the Second Division of the East Lancs Open Tennis League, despite producing a spirited per formance. Gordon Pimperton an d .
Mathew Cuynes, and Andrew Cuynes and Robert Houseman both lost their first rubbers in straight sets to some pow erful and aggressive ten nis. In the second rubber,
the Crow Wood first pair powered to a straight sets victory again, and it
, looked as though the sec ond pair were about to do the same. However, Pimperton
and Cuynes fought hard to take the second and ran out eventual winners in three sets to salvage a point for Whalley. Elsewhere. Whallev C
resounding 7-2 win against title hopefuls Towneley A last week, the Junior A team cemented another excellent 8-1 win, against Parkwood from Haslingden. Jennifer Holgate was
drafted in to replace A team regulars in both fix tures and played to her full potential to help the team secure handsome victories. Matt Hanson stepped
up to play with first pair regular Will Aspinall, and they won 6-2, 7-6, follow ing that up with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Parkwood's sec ond pair. Clitheroe's second pair
of Jennifer Holgate and Andrew Hartley, playing together for the first time, finished the firs t set in record time with a compre hensive 6-0 win. However,
Par.kwood
turned it around in the second set to win 6-4. Holgate and Hartley
had an epic battle against the first pair, coming out eventual winners 7-6, 7-6. Holgate then returned
for the B team, helping them to a convincing 8-1 victory over Whalley. Partnering Mark Hig-
son, they did not drop a set in either of their matches, while Matthew Cornish and Jack Dewhurst allowed the Whalley team the consola tion of just one set out of four.
Spirited performance
lost by the same score in their top of the table clash against Third Division opponents Burnley C. The visitors fielded a
strong and experienced team and defeated Whal- ley's Peter Hayes and debutant John Lethan in straight sets. But Whalley's second
pairing had an unusual start to the match. James Burke had to run
from Clayton to Whalley following a mishap on his bicycle, and despite this he and partner Roger Walker narrowly lost the first rub ber before storming back to win the second in straight sets with some excellent serve and volley tactics. As a result of this fix
ture, Burnley have replaced Whalley at the head of the table.
NEWLY-FORMED WFC Clitheroe are pictured cele brating the sponsorship of two new strips.
The club, who will play in the Craven and District
League, would like to thank Gee Co. and Highmoor Mortgage Services, as well as Everest Double Glazing for match balls.
GISBURN race ace Thomas Corn- thwaite has taken the prestigious Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix series by storm. The 19-year-old former Clitheroe
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Royal Grammar School pupil cur rently heads the field of the gruelling long distance competition, a 10-cir- cuit schedule that takes in fell races, road races and hill climbs, including the arduous Pendle Hill Challenge 8 mile Road Race. As yet, only four of the 10 races have
been contested but Thomas has already established himself as the firm favourite having won all four events. This success began last month with
the Pinhaw Moor multi-terrain race near Earby, which he completed nearly a minute ahead of his nearest rival. Thomas, who runs for Blackburn
Harriers, followed this with another tremendous win in the Burnley Lions 10km road race two weeks later, this time finishing 32 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. In both races he beat last year's
Grand Prix champion Andrew. Stubbs by nearly a minute, which proved to be great headway in preparation for last weekend's double dose of race fixtures. In less than 24 hours Thomas amaz
ingly won his third and fourth com- petiton and set a new course record too.
First up was the Kelbrook Fell Race
on Saturday afternoon, that saw 96 runners compete over a three and a
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THE Ribble Valley Mod ern Pentathlon team have continued their fine run of form in national competi tions.
fTU P DlLLIn They recently travelled to
Wolverhampton recently for the Modern Triathlon Championships, taking a total of 14 members down to the annual event. Julie Pym retained her
title in the ladies’ masters, while Louise Highton fin ished a close second in the
Runaway winner! H
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TALENTED young athlete
in a remarkable perfor mance in terrible weather conditions at the North of England Championships. Competed at her
home track, Wigan's Robin Park, the Clitheroe youngster threw another personal best in the discus -
Anna Griffiths turned
32.25 metres - to earn fifth place in the event. In a competition
hampered by (he rain, Anna was the only girl in the top five to improve on her previous best throw. However, despite an
impressive recent run of form in the discipline, she remains agonising ly close to the English Schools' qualifying
half mile course that starts with a hill climb.
And the Ribble Valley resident com
pleted the race in a time of 21.26 min utes, 30 seconds ahead of second and third position.
Then less than 24 hours later,
Thomas stormed to victory in the Burnley Boys' Club 10k Urban Trail with an Under 20s record time of 33.57 minutes, continuing his perfect start to the Grand Prix series. He just missed out on the overall
course record by two seconds, but smashed his own record, set last year, by over two minutes.
the event, sponsored by East Lan cashire Newspapers, Pendle Borough Council and Tesco, and Thomas' strongest opponent proved to be Steve Littler, who ran on the teenager's shoulder for nine of the 10 kilometers.
In total, 106 runners took part in
mark of 33 metres, and only has Saturday's Lancashire Schools' Championship meet to reach the target. Anna, in the middle
of her GCSEs, was also due to run the 300m at Wigan, but a large field in the discus held up the event, and she sub sequently missed out on the three-quarter lap
But his challenger was unable to
keep pace for the final stretch as he fin ished 18 seconds behind him in second. At present, Clayton's Stubbs is
Comthwate's nearest rival for the over all title, but if the Ribble Valley runner continues to perform as he has done in recent weeks, then the title should be his for the taking. The fifth race in the series is the
Hendon Brook 13.5 mile road race that starts from Nelson's Marsden Park Golf Club this Sunday, followed five
days later by the Besglos Barley Fell Race. The series then moves into the Rib
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Under 17 girls category. The two-day event took
in shooting, swimming and running, and Julie excelled in all three disciplines to win the swim in 1:09.62, and the 1,000m run ahead . of team mate Sue Burns, as well as recording fourth place in the shoot. She also won the team
event alongside club mates Pam Highton and Bar bara Smith. Meanwhile. Louise
recorded second place in the shoot, and second place in the swim, before winning the first heat of the Under 17 girls run and finishing second in the sec ond heat. There were also four
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and fifth place for Under 15s competitor Elizabeth Highton, who won the-
100m swim with a time of 1:09.62. And both Pam Highton
other top six finishes from the local team, that included fifth place for Under 17s competitor Samantha Murray, who recorded a personal best of 2:21.68 in the 200m swim,
and Tony Bush finished sixth respectively in the masters ladies’ and men’s competitions. Another notable perfor
mance on the .day saw Sarah Vandewalle finish
second in the Under 19s swim.
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ble Valley on Monday, June 28th for the Pendle Hill Challenge, which starts at the Wellsprings, at the Nick O' Pen dle at 7-30 p.m.
Julie retains masters championship
Carp anglers hoping for tight
lines! THE prestigious British Carp Angling Championships have added Barrow’s Pendle View Fishery as venue for the heats. Now in its sixth year,
the national event will arrive in the region on Friday, June 18th, and will last for three days. And the fishery is
expecting some big names, such as Carp Talk, Carpworld, Mainline,
Fox,
Armalead, Morgan SBS and Carp R Us. The venue is fast
gaining a reputation as a big player in the North West, containing high amounts of carp from singles to thirties. There will be an indi
viduals event where anglers can team up with a partner and fish an eliminator round to qualify for the finals, with the top two pairs from each eliminator advancing. The final of the
event, sponsored by Korda and televised on Sky Sports in Septem ber, will take place at the prolific Nickolls Leisure in Kent. Tickets for the event
at Pendle View Fishery are priced at £4 between noon and 9 p.m. on Friday, June 18th, and between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on both Saturday, June 19th and Sunday, June 20th. For more informa
tion, contact BCAC HQ (01948 880440), or check out the website at www.anglingintema-
tional.com. All enquiries are to
be sent to BCAC HQ, Birchwood Farm, Moss Lane, Whixall, Shrop shire, SY13 2RU.
READSTONE
United's presentation evening is tomorrow ight a t Padiham Town Hall, at 6-30 p.m.
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