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By Adrian Capstick


A NEW era is upon Clitheroe Football Club yet again, as the Shawbridge side's third manager in four, months takes charge against Bamber Bridge on Saturday.


^ , The answer to who that


' will be was decided last night at a special commit­


tee meeting, after the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times went to press, but the two key candidates vying for the job were car^ taker manager Ash Berry and long-standing player Nell Reynolds, who rejoined his home town team from Bamber Bridge last week. To see who got the job,


. viduals from the world of non-league football have shown an interest and sev­ eral CVs have been perused by chairman Carl Garner, but it looked as though the two individuals best known to the club were at the top of that list. Saturday's game is spe­


log on to www.clitheroeto- day.co.uk for the club's offi­ cial statement. I understand other indi-


cial in more ways than one, as besides unveiling a new manager, it will also be the


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club's first home game in a month after five successive away trips in both cup and league fixtures. So Garner is calling for


the fans to come down and get behind the Blues, whether they be led by Reynolds, against the club he left to rejoin Clitheroe, or Berry, who originally left Wakefield Town to become assistant manager at Clitheroe. Saturday's UniBond


League game down at Shawbridge kicks-off at 3 p.m. That is followed by a trip


to Warrington Town on Tuesday (7-45 p.m.). Marine..............................2 Clitheroe FC ..................0 CLITHEROE exited all


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cup competitions on Tues­ day with this Lancs FA United Co-operative Tro­ phy defeat at Marine. However, unlike their last


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fell down, though, as a 55th minute corner was netted by captain James Connolly and a 73rd minute slip in defence allowed Ian Lath­ am in on goal for a second. Playing with the wind,


Clitheroe were limited in their moves going forward but they closed out Marine’s threatening strike force of Nicky Young and Peter Cuminsky. A left-wing cross from


David Dempsey came on for Ian Johnson. Gregg Anderson and


right-back Jamie Nay proved solid a t the back until the first goal went in, when Connor rose a t the back post to head home a right-wing comer. Meanwhile fellow centre-


two cup outings, the Blues acquitted themselves well at the third in division Uni- Bond Premier club, a team that plays at a level of foot­ ball th a t Clitheroe have been striving for since the beginning of the season. Former manager Chris


Stammers was in the crowd taking in what is a local Liverpool game for him, and he was pleased with what he saw as Clitheroe held their hosts to a goalless draw at half-time. I t was just against the


wind, and predominately set pieces, that the locals


Cuminsky found Young and he rifled a low shot wide of the post, and five minutes later, Clitheroe keeper Paul Horridge pulled off a great save from an Latham free kick that was drilled through the Blues’ wall. Followed by another


good reaction save low at the feet of Horridge, after left-back Wayne McDer­ mott fired a free kick into a pack of players in the Clitheroe six-yard box. In the second half more


of the same was seen from Marine going forward as Horridge had to be at full stretch to tip a Latham out for a comer. But Craig Sargeson had a


handful of strikes a t the other end, some better than others on target and off, while an improvement was seen going forward when


back Garner intercepted and clawed the ball out at the back at every opportu­ nity to clear the danger, only he picked up an early yellow card in doing so to add to the endless number the club has racked up this season. And the second strike


came when Latham got inside last man Anderson, having rode out a challenge, Horridge went to ground to half block the winger’s strike, but Latham reacted first to find the back of the net. Former Blues player


Tony Evans made an appearance as a Marine substitute and had an effort blocked by Horridge too. While the usually prolific


James Dean had just one good chance in front of goal at the opposite end but the ball was nicked out from under his feet just as he was about to tee up an 18-yard strike.


RUNNERS pre­ pare for the start


of the Stonyhurst race as a Royal Artillery gun crew from the 103rd


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Clitheroe RUFC...........19 Carnforth.......................27 ALTHOUGH any Carn­ forth team is welcome at Littlemoor, Clitheroe played the generous host far too well, gifting 17 points without reply in the first quarter alone. The mistakes were of


trolled game, using their territorial advantage well. Another penalty closed


the gap to put the Maroons within sniffing distance. The forwards had their


schoolboy proportions and being made by the bucket load, extracting a chorus of frustrated groans from the pitchside faithful. For every step forward it seemed, at times, like it was two steps back. Eventually, however,


Clitheroe did manage to get themselves going, and after a period of pressure man­ aged to get a couple of penalty kicks over. This seemed to give them some confidence and after some strong driving play, it even­ tually led to a try for centre Nathan Peel.- Although this was uncon­


verted they were back in the game with a vengeance. After the half-time break,


Clitheroe played some of their bes t rugby of the match. They cut down on the


gander up and forced a posi­ tion close to the line. After a series of rucks, it almost seemed like the chance had been lost, but some slick hands p u t wing Simon Gretton over in the corner, for a well-deserved try. In spite of battling hard


for the rest of the half the gap couldn’t be closed. Clitheroe were left ruing their early lapses that cost them the game. A tremendous improve­


ment in attitude and per­ formance compared with the previous week, but they still need to cut out the ele­ mentary errors that are hin­ dering them. Saturday sees Clitheroe


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FRIENDLY rivalry was the spirit of the day when just under 300 runners aged from 17 to 68 took part in Stonyhurst College's 30th anniversary cross-country race. ' Students from local and regional


schools joined current pupils and old boys for the invitational race, which was filmed from a helicopter so that spectators below could fol­ low all the action on a giant 10- metre screen in front of the school.


St Anselm's College from Liver­


pool won the team event in which Stonyhurst finished seventh out of 16.


The girls' race, which was just


under five miles, was won by Claire Lilley of Giggleswick in a time of 23.04 minutes, and the boys' five mile race was won by Manchester Grammar School's Jay Gilmore in 27.43 minutes. The first former pupil to com­


plete the course was Tim Navin- Jones in a time of 32.05 minutes. A Royal Artillery gun crew from


the 103rd Regiment (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) fired a 105mm gun to herald the start of the race. And Ronan Treacy, who was


head boy of Stonyhurst in 1977 when the Invitational Cross-Coun­ try race was first held, presented the prizes.


The celebration event was con­


cluded with a black tie dinner and a DVD of the day will soon be available as a souvenir. Stonyhurst College Admissions


and Marketing Manager Jonathan Hewat said: "It was a very success­ ful day. Two hundred school chil­ dren took part and it was a great opportunity for the 45 former pupils to rekindle their youth and catch up with old friends."


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