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/Thursday, April 28th, 2005 ; I! i I- Gastle crowned!


CASTLE secured the Clitheroe Pool League Harrison Challenge Cup with victory over Buck A. And Ian Townson clinched the Michael Humphries


Challenge Cup, after victory over Craig Whittaker in the final.


' ■ ^ The league’s presentation night is set to be held 15 i


tonight at the Red Pump in Bashall Eaves, commencing: at 8 p.m. Transport from 'Whalley and Clitheroe will be provid­


ed courtesy of the league. Bus tickets already issued will be needed to board the


coach, which leaves from the Victoria at 7-45 p.m., 8-20 p.m. and 8-30 p.m. Anyone wishing to come along without tickets is^


advised to catch the early coach, as the last one is full - please keep tickets for the return journey.


Caslle and Buck A prepare for the final. (A210405/10) isa Rudgyard q i_ with your sports team of Edward Lee, Chris Boden, Phil Simpson and Adrian. Capstick


PentatHletes excel ® m


RIBBLE Valley Modern


Pentathlon competitors Samantha Murray, Louise Highton, Sara Burns and Sarah Vandewalle all excelled for their country At the Great Britain Youth International Pentathlon held in Somerset recently. In this official interna­


tional event 13 countries took part, the majority from Europe with the exception of Canada and Egypt, and Under 17s competitor Samantha topped the local achieve­ ments by taking double gold thanks to excellent performances in both the triathlon and tetrathlon. She led throughout all


-B y Adrian Capstick


CLITHEROE manager Paul Byron wants to be able to show the fans of the town team what he


; _ can do with their local football • ^ club given the adequate resources.


He wants an “even playing


; . field” so that he can be fairly judged against the average teams in the UniBond First Division rather than trying to treat every game as a cup match against high­ er opposition. Even last season, after listening . to Martin Eatough, Byron has


S-S5.5' learned that the Blues didn’t score a huge number of goals to win the championship and that it was their defensive record that saw them top the league. So he believes now is the time to redress


. the balance if Clitheroe aim to compete in the UniBond league. And he was meeting with the


club’s chairman, vice-chairman and corporate manager in mid­


week to point out the severity of the problem that he can’t even compete with certain North West Counties League sides. He said: “I can do this job but it


has to be at the going rate. With­ out being a mercenary, the com­ mittee know that if they provide the funds I will do the football. “At the moment I can’t get any­


where near what players are ask­ ing for and we’re not talking silly money, just the going rate for the


. UniBond league. I need a basic level of cash just to be able to speak to players at this level. “It just sums it up really when


I loan Neil Spencer out to Fleet- wood Town and find that they’re now paying him double what he was getting with us, not just £20 more or so but double! Its a stand­ ing joke between the lads in our dresmng room as they all know what he’s getting paid. “Its a fact that we need a realis­


tic Mdget to do the job properly and attain a level playing field.”


Dolphins swim to success in chase of league leaders


CLITHEROE Dolphins followed


- up last week’s win in the Second . 'Division of the;North Lancs


■ ■' Swimming League with a second : place finish to hosts Chorley on


, Saturday evening. • ; Despite several key members of


the team being absent, Clitheroe ■ Dolphins again performed well


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amassing a healthy 131 points to league leaders Chorley’s 145. Blackpool took third with 112 ahead of Leyland B with 110.


■ ” Chorley have now concluded their fixtures leaving the final league placings to be decided at


’ V Blackpool on Tuesday with only Southport and Clitheroe able to


catch the leaders. Individual winners for Clitheroe


were Kara; Singleton (junior girls freestyle and backstroke), Victo­ ria Haworth (junior girls breast­ stroke),-Elizabeth Highton (open girls backstroke), Louise Highton (open girls freestyle) and Mark Jaggs (open boys breaststroke and backstroke). Team wins came for the open


girls freestyle relay team of Megan Phillip, Louise. Highton,, Carla Greenwood and Elizabeth Highton, and the junior girls med-


' ley relay team of Kara Singleton, Alicia Walker, Victoria Rodgers and Naomi Williams. -


He added: “It’s the same prob­


lem Lee Sculpher had, so it’s noth­ ing new, the difference is that it got Lee down like it did me at Bamber Bridge, but this is fresh to me and a challenge that I enjoy. “I just need enough funds to


bring in four or five good players and then utilise the rest of the lads, as we’re not a million miles away from where we need to be.” The type of players he wants are


the likes of Jonathan Smith who has recently been released by Accring­ ton Stanley, players who have at least a proven experience at Uni­ Bond level. Saturday’s 3-1 defeat to North Ferriby made clear to the Blues boss, the standard of players at the East Yorkshire club are a cut above his own. “I’ve got to admit we were just


beaten by a better side. At the end of the day quality shines out and when they have ex-football league and conference players in their side it is to be expected. “We did have the lions’ share of


possession and defensively we were sound but we didn’t stick away our chances. They were stronger than us, quicker than us and just generally better than us.” Turning his attention to Satur­


day’s relegation decider at home to Rocester, for which he has a clean bill of health, Byron believes it is a big ask for Rossendale to beat Stocksbridge and overcome the goal difference between the two sides, when all Clitheroe need to guarantee safety is a point against relegated Rocester. The final day opponents have


not won a game all season and only have six points, one of which was won against the locals back in September, so there is still plenty toplayfor. “We need a win if not just for


pride,” said Byron. “I won’t be over elaborating my team talk as the lads know what is needed and it means as much to them as it does to me to get a result knowing that Rocester have nothing to lose.”


Anna within an ace of national qualifying time


ANNA Griffiths’ athletics season started on Sunday when she com­ peted in the first National Junior League in South Leeds. Competing for Wigan, who


have just been promoted to the Premier Division, against the best cliibs in the country, taking in Liverpool, Leeds, Sale, Trafford, Wakefield, Birchfield (Birming­ ham) and Edinburgh, the Clitheroe athlete contested three


Ahrows, ran a superb leg in the 4xl00m relay and finished fourth in the 400m hurdles. This was Anna’s first-eyer


attempt at this hurdle distance, so a fantastic achievement given the


standard of competition. She ran a very well controlled race in a time of 66.8 seconds, which was just 1.8 seconds outside the required standard for the English Schools Championships. Next weekend Anna will be


competing for Wigan again on the Isle of Man in the first competi­ tion of the Northern League. She will be contesting the 400m hur­ dles, some tlmows and a leg of the 4x400m relay. Anna would like to thank Hicks


■ Gym on Chatburn Road for the help they have given her with her weights arid pilates classes.


her individual events, fin­ ishing third overall in the shoot with a score of 173, first in the 200m finishing in a time of 2:19.34 and then ran in fourth in the 2000m in a time of 7:26. The Bowland High School pupil then produced the best fence for her age group thanks to 25 wins. This performance also helped Britain to triathlon team gold as well as second to Germany in the relay competition. For the Under 19s


Louise received silver for the tetrathlon and bronze for the pentathlon as she completed the fifth event of horse riding. In the fence the Whalley


youngster, achieved an impressive 33 victories with just three defeats to take a run away lead but fifth place in the swim and 15th in the shoot saw her advantage dwindle,;and in the run she was pipped into second place overall. And by adding the horse


riding to her endeavours, where her mount had a couple of refusals at the last fence, she finished third in the pentathlon. Louise then teamed up


with Sara Burns and Sarah Vandewalle, who finished 14th and 17th respectively ; in ' the tetrathlon, to achieve gold in the team relay. ' v- The previous week the


Ribble Valley Modern Pentathlon team partici­ pated in the North West Triathlon Championships and several members qual­ ified through to the national competition that takes place next month. Held at the University of Manchester and the ' city’s Aquatics Centre it - was the turn of the club’s


masters to show young­ sters a thing or two. In the ladies competi­


tion Julie Pym completed a clean sweep by winning both the biathlon and the triathlon while fellow team mate Susan Burns made it a one two for the Ribble Valley by finishing second in the same disciplines. Where Julie had the best


swim of the day in a time of 1:10.87 Susan had the best run in a time of 3:26.2. And Pam Highton had


the best shoot of the com­ petition to finish fourth in the triathlon and sixth in the biathlon. And in the team event Susan Burns and Julie Pym teamed up with Susan Shaw to win both the biathlon and the A triathlon team events. ™ Meanwhile in the mens


events Tony Bush added more of the same with vie- ^ tory in both the biathlon and the triathlon thanks ^ to a best run time of 6:40.3 and best swim of 1:15.8. In the men’s team event


he joined forces with Andrew Smith and Peter Waddington to take gold yet again. Other success on the day


saw Sara Bums through for the Under 19s after she won


both the biathlon and the triathlon. Samantha Mur­ ray also secured her place at the national finals with sec­ ond in the biathlon and triathlon as did Elizabeth ; Highton with first in the ; biathlon.


j Further qualifiers were ,


Kathleen Walsh, third in biathlon, and Under 13s ; Charlotte Dickinson who won the triathlon and came second in the biathlon.


Sam Murray also pro- S


duced the best girls fence V to win the tetrathlon beat- ^ ing Sara Bums and Eliza- ^ beth Highton into fourth and fifth.


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Muldoons.....................7 : Chipping .....................2 DESPITE missing a few ; key players through work


commitments. Chipping i


. took all three points from , a trip to Muldoons. With goals from Ross and Fletcher, Chipping gained an excellent away win;


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