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CLITHEROE’S Kirsty Taylor survived a late scare to win the Wales Ladies' Championship. Formerly Kirsty Speak and
with family members still active at Clitheroe Golf Club, Kirsty ended a long wait for a European Tour title. At Machynys, Llanelli, the 34-
year-old dominated from the first tee on day one to the final green on day four to score her first tour win for more than a decade. She stamped her authority on
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Kirsly Taylor celebralcs victory on tlic final green, (s)
the event with an 11-under-par 61 in the first round - a new Ladies’ European Tour low-scoring record - and built on that lead with cards of 68 and 70 in the next two rounds. Seven bogeys in the first 12
holes in the final round, however, saw Taylor was tied with playing partner Trish Johnson. But she recovered to card a 75
and her 14-under total saw her fin ish two shots ahead of Johnson and Laura Davies. Taylor, who lives in York, takes
£52,500 in prize money after keeping her lead all day despite playing with the defending cham pion Johnson and behind a fast charging Davies. “I’ve waited ten-and-a-half
years for this and it’s been frus trating waiting for it but thank goodness its come,” said Taylor. “It was a tough, but Thursday
set me up for the rest of the week.” Taylor had her husband Alas- tair acting as caddy for the week
and also credited her sports psy chologist Karl Morris for her men tal toughness. “He gave me a few thoughts out
there and it seems to have made a huge difference,” she said. There was a near collapse when
she dropped four shots in a row from the ninth to be level with Johnson at twelve under par after 12 holes. She recovered, however, with
birdies at the 14th and 15th holes to regain the outright lead, which she kept until the last putt went in.
“Fourteen was huge,” she
admitted, after despatching a downhill putt from 25 feet. “I was more despondent at 13 than at 12 after I didn’t hole the
England By Adrian Capstick rvt-
CLITHEROE midfield dynamo Paul Stansfield can’t wait to get to grips with his old club Harrogate Railway. The Blues travel to Sta
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tion View for Saturday’s FA Cup Preliminary Round tie (kick-off 3 p.m.), and the match-up brings back fond memories for the former Burnley trainee. Stansfield featured in
Railway’s televised Second Round proper fixture against Bristol City in December 2002. His old club may have
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draw at home to Brigg Town proved to be a good start for the Blues, but Tuesday night’s mauling on the North West coast was disastrous. Lawson said: “I’m very
manager Tommy Lawson e.xpects more from the likes of Stansfield and his Blues’ teammates if they are going to sustain a decent cup run. Saturday’s opening 2-2
been there something like four seasons now, and each year he has added another quality plaj^er to his side, and tliat is really the differ ence. “I’m undergoing a total
against Fleetw-ood. They are a committed side who have the crow'd behind them. “Tony Greenwood has
disappointed. After the good signs that we saw on Saturday, and the accept able result we got, I thought we had something to build on. “But Tuesday night it
lost 3-1 that day, but it went down in history all the same as the Northern Counties East club’s biggest achievement, in front of a record crowd of 3,500. He said: “I ’m really
PAUL STANSFIELD rr.
looking forward to it as I haven’t been back since I left, and although none of the players that I played with are still there, it will be good to go back. “I had a good couple of
seasons in Harrogate, first at Harrogate Town in the league, and then of course the cup run at Harrogate Railway. “I then came to
Clitheroe and we won the North West Counties title, so last season was a bit of an anti-climax.” All of the 2002-03 squad left the Harrogate club
after an internal fall out, and Stansfield moved clos er to his home in Burnley to complete his PGCE teacher training in Liver pool, and as a result Clitheroe benefited from his services. However, this season he
^ at the back was telling, lie 'marshalled it w'ell at the back and netted too. “I can’t afford players
rebuild at Clitheroe and I don’t have the money to pay for the likes of Steve Macauley.’ His experience
didn’t happen. Fleetwood is never the easiest of places to go, and after going down to such an early goal, it was always going to be difficult to get back, but that per formance was just not acceptable. ‘"rhere were some really
expects to meet up with some of his former playing colleagues in the league: “A good few of the lads who I played with during my time at Harrogate Railway are now at Goole, who we’ll be playing later this year. “I’ve been texting them
for some information on Harrogate to see if there is anything we can use to our advantage.” However, after Tuesday
night’s 4-0 league defeat at Fleetwood Town, Clitheroe
poor performances, and I was disappointed in some of the lads, as I know that they are better than that. “Changes are on-going,
that Bank Holiday Mon day’s home game against Spalding (kick-off 3 p.m.), subject to FA Cup replays, has taken on added impor tance for the Blues boss: “We need to get points back on the board, so Spalding becomes so important. “It doesn’t happen auto
like that and have to give youngsters time to impress.” ■This result now means
we’re not going to be a championship side immedi ately, and it is going to be trial and error, but they will have to do more than that to stake a claim on a shirt.” He added that Fleet-
wood manager Tony Greenwood has built a for midable side for the seaside club’s first season in the UniBond: “I t ’s always a very physical battle
ace makes step up to major tour
CLITHEROE pool player Lindsay Lloyd has stepped up to play the Eng land Singles Tour. The 17-year-old cueist has
impressed in her games with the Eng land team over the jiast few months and she is now ready to take on Britain’s best in the individual stakes. Lindsay, wdio.^lso plays for Lan
cashire, the White Horse and Buck B ladies, w'on three of her four games at the Anglo-Welsh Cup in Gloucester recently, and before that won six of her seven games in an England friend ly in Grimsby. And although England lost to
Wales 23-19, Lindsay was still named player of the match. All of this is made even moifp
remarkable given that she recently broke her arm, continued to play with a cast on and then performed well as she did in Gloucester just w'eeks after having it removed. However, in order to make her
matically, we’ve got to earn it, pull our sleeves up and be at full capacity to progress - and if w'e don’t measure up within a cer tain period of time, then W'e’ve got to assess it. “I ’ve given them the
benefit of the doubt up to now in pre-season, they’ve had first shout, now i t ’s time for them to prove themselves.”
dreams of playing the national scene a reality, the talented youngster is looking for sponsorship to aid wdth entry, accommodation and transport. The singles tour starts in March
and runs over five weekends through out the year, alongside the England team competitions that Lindsay wall continue to feature in. ■Anyone interested in sponsoring
Lindsay, who w'ill display sponsors on her cue case and clothing at national events, should either register an inter est with the Clitheroe Pool League (01282 680855) or contact Lindsay’s mother Kim (07788854669).
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putt there. Alastair just gave me a good talking to and said, ‘you’re tied for the lead. You’d have taken that on Thursday morning. Just stick in there and keep going’.” After 14 she sank a putt from
eight feet at the 15th for her next birdie and from then on, par was good enough to see her to victory. “1 was really relaxed until that
last putt went in and it was great to play with Trish. She was des perate for Solheim points as well out there, so it was very enjoy able,” she said. “Trish has been hard on my
heels all week. Her and Laura were the ones I was worried about.”
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