62 Clitheroe Advertiser & T im e s , Thursday, March 16th, 2006


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Clitheroe ...-.. .. .2 Bridlington Town . . . .0 A SECOND successive Shawbridge clean'sheet helped 'v :' continue Clitheroe’s resurgence bn Saturday. The UniBond First


Division side thrived off the 303 crowd, the largest of Saturday’s .league attendances by some way, to overcome a side who had beaten them earlier in the season. In fact; no side has yet •


done the double over the Blues, and there looked little danger in Bridling­ ton changing that. Victory surely did care­


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taker manager Mark. Smitheringale’s chances of taking full time control a world of good too. And if he hadn’t got the,


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job, it wouldn’t have been through a lack of effort, as in six games in charge he ' has returned rounded fig­ ures of won two, lost two, drawn two.. . Clitheroe had several


By Ad rian, Capsi iclf


..good goal scoring oppor­ tunities besides the two that found the back of the net. Andy Taylor, on his


home debut, could have given Clitheroe the lead as early as the first minute.' 'Craig Sargeson put


James Featherstone clear on the right wing, whose cross was perfect for Tay­ lor to bury, only he spurned the chance wide


■ from sbr yards out. . Clitheroe continued to break with flowing foot­ ball, and impressive centre back Gregg Anderson


. very nearly scored when he half volleyed a Sarge--


■ son free kick just wide of the mark. And Taylor had anoth­


er bite of the cherry when he forced a near post acro- batic save out of the Bridlington keeper, all in the first half hour. But a goal eventually


came for the Blues in the 45th minute when Paul Stansfield :• charged through the Bridlington defence, exchanged passes. with Sargeson and Feath­ erstone, before rifling home a shot from the edge


: of the area, hobbling over the keeper'and into the .


■ net.-. ... Bridlington captain Lee


Harper had the ball in the back of the net in reply, but the injury time effort was found to be off-side, a position the -visitors found themselves in on more than one occasion due to Clitheroe’s outstanding back four. - Bridlington heaped fur­


ther misery on themselves in the second half when left-back Martin Ramsay beat Taylor to a Sargeson free kick to head past his own keeper and put Smitheringale’s Lions 2-0 ahead. Gregg Anderson contin­


ued to poach balls from under the Town forwards’


feet with the swiftest of tackles, Ryan Parr stopped all that tried to get past him and right- back Scott Priestley was in top form.too, leaving Peter Collinge very little


. to do in the Clitheroe goal. Owen Roberts and


Stansfield continued to pour forward as Bridling-- ton were put on the back : foot, very nearly forcing a penalty through Feather- stone only to be waved on


: by the referee., Bridlington had their,


best and only real oppor-, tunity of the game in sec­ ond-half injury time when wing man Wa3me 'Wallace finally got goal side of Priestley and Parr only to ■ cannon his shot against the bar. • ■Whereas this perform­


ance did wonders for the start of one manager’s reign, it signalled the end' for another. . Bridlington boss Billy


Heath, and his assistant Mark Carrol, resigned


Moorby hits fine <i treble


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Blackpool 5ths . . . . . \ .0, Clitheroe2nds . . . .... .5: HAVING pre-viously’been beaten by Blackpool, ^ Clitheroe Hockey Club’s % second string were expect­ ing another tough match only to'convincingly come out on top thanks to a Pauline Moorby hat-trick.' Clitheroe had the


advantage for. most of the! game, but it took them until midway through the first half to open the scor­ ing with a well-worked deflected Moorby goal. - : The locals continued to


Andy Taylor, p i 10306/3


after the game, while in charge, the reason being Smitheringale . was rewarded with the full­ time manager’s job. The Humberside pair


left the fourth-in-the- league side by mutual agreement after six years


the debt ridden club’s crippling financial posi­ tion - echoing a haunting message Clitheroe know all too well, that a play-off place is no good if you haven’t got a club!


but Glitheroe then slip up in the wet!


Clitheroe................................2 Warrington Town ..... .. .3 DESPITE the wet conditions, Shawbridge witnessed an enter­ taining and competitive game between Clitheroe and Warring­ ton Town on Tuesday night. The Blues eventually lost by


the odd goal in five, but they faced a solid side that belied their relegation zone status. Warrington are second bot­


tom in the-UniBond League because they have played the least,number of fixtures in the league and have poor away form. . This was only their second


league away win of the season and their fifth in total, but if it


had rained any more, this fixture would have been another to add to their long list of postpone­ ments. Town • put pressure on


Clitheroe at every opportunity, especially at set pieces, as the absence of Ryan Parr in the Blues’ defence was felling on more than one occasion. Clitheroe had enjoyed a good


share of the opening exchanges with some fluid passing produc­ ing efforts from Gregg Anderson and Craig Sargeson, while Simon Garner was called upon


‘ to clear the Clitheroe line. ‘ But their inability to defend comers cost them on 21 minutes


when striker Kevin Towey tucked away a flicked on near post effort. The Blues retaliated, though,


^ and despite the fact they were also missing tPaul Stansfield due to injury, they crafted several efforte ongoal. ■ Alan Coar chased everything,


in the Warrington half, and every time he was rewarded with something for his efforts as he battled for the ball. His best effort was when he connected with a deep Owen Roberts cross, only to nod the ball over the bar from close range. An equaliser eventually came from the boot of Andy Taylor,


his first goal for the Blues since joining last week, after a Garner free kick was nodded into his path. Coar and Sargeson continued


to force the issue after the break ' but Warrington’s Mitchell brothers, Graeme and Phil, gave Collinge plenty to do at the otherend.


. The latter struck a cracking


•20-yard shot that the Clitheroe keeper managed to force out for a corner, but yet again this set piece led to another goal on 60 minutes.. - '


- A lack of marking gave War­


rington’s Michael Owen a free header in the centre of the box


. spot.


that left Collinge rooted to the . ■ -


And Town’s third came two


minutes later. On the break, a Warrington


ball fonvard took a deflection off a Clitheroe player straight into


■ the path of Phil Mitchell who raced away to round Colliinge and score. Chris Clark, in for Stansfield,


- wasn’t done though, as the spon­ sors’ man-of-the-match scored an exceptional goal from the tightest of angles, smashing the ball past Town keeper Richard Mottram from 20 yards along the bye-line to add some hope for a late equaliser.


Cavaliers give good account in defeat ■


Clitheroe Cavaliers . .15 Fylde


. . .. .. .3 8


. AFTER a week off due to the cold weather, the Cav­ aliers were itching to


- resume their league battle, knowing they should be in a higher position. .


At the start, it was


Clithefoe who took the. game directly to Fylde, intent on showing the .third-placed team they


--were no pushovers. .. Clitheroe kicked off to give the big Fylde pack the chance to drive into


: the home forwards, but it was Clitheroe that made the ground! Mark Curphey turned


the ball over, allowing the pack to ruck over the ball. . However, this resulted in ;


the backs, who were run­ ning, in: short at the defence, being brought


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down by the Fylde open side flanker.. A recycled ball gave new


boy Rob O’Brian the chance to drive in close with some excellent crash ball, but the Fylde defence withstood the assault and eventually cleared the ball.: Some sound line out


play from Alan Nuttall and John Sharpe kept the game in the centre of the ■ park.


. , This style of play con­


tinued untiUhe ever-keen Kieran Keough began to run at the gaps in the Fylde line. By choosing some perfect .


running lines he broke through the defence three times in a row, only to be final­ ly brought down ^ort. At this point Clitheroe.


were on top! and the Fylde: men were becoming frus-.


trated at not being able to get their usual game in hand.


, After a line out to Fylde,


James MacAlonan inter­ cepted the pass as Fylde tried to spin the ball out to their backs, and he ran in the ball for an individual try.. . Bill Thatcher slotted it


through the uprights to put Clitheroe 7-0 ahead. ■With Fylde not getting


the ball, a high tackle fol­ lowed which gave Clitheroe a penalty and another chance to score,: which Thatcher took to . give Clitheroe another three points. It was then that Fylde,


decided to change their tactics. They kept the ball. close to their forwards, and from rolling mauls scored two tries.


However, they only


managed to convert one, which put the half-time score 12-10 in Fylde’s favour. : ' ^ Fylde started the second ^


half in the same manner as they ended the first, and continued to keep Clitheroe from winning. any quality ball.


- Fylde kept it close after


set pieces and two more . tries came from rolling mauls that Clitheroe were unable to defend. . Both tries were convert­


ed and Fylde increased their lead to 26-10. Fylde’s. confidence .


remained high and as they : were hungry for victory, they changed their game' • again and started to move theballwide.


, : Only sound tackling by -Simon Gretton and the-


rest of his backs stopped them coming.through. In a blind side move by


Clitheroe’s quick scrum half Anthony Kinglake, the ball went to wingerJan Poole. The decisive winger


chipped the ball over the . Fylde defence, then the flying back row Thatcher scooped up the ball and scored. It was a move right.out


of the top drawer.' . However, it was too lit-,


tie too late, and Fylde scored two more tries in the dying stages. The score does not


reflect the commitment: the Cavaliers gave, and with more experience, and training, Clitheroe can beat these bigger clubs that have depth of knowl­ edge and players.


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FOR the second week running. Dbg:


Dewhurst Memorial League match called off. . The Budweiser Boys were due to take on 'Wood­ lands at Wilson’s, but snow on the ■ morning of the match saw yet another postponement.


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' Manager Simon Kerins ■and his players can only hope that the weather improves in time for his team to' take on Oswaldtwistle Refugees at - Bullough Park on Sunday. “One of my'players


reminded me last week : that, since we played four games in the opening two weeks of the season, we have only played eight league games in six months,” said Kerins. - , “I cannot praise the play­ ers highly enough for retaining their form and enthusiasm when we are going weeks without a game.”


battle away and play the ball around the pitch skill- fully, opening up . the Blackpool defence on a' number of occasions, but they failed to capitalise. • On a Blackpool hit out,


Clitheroe cleverly sur­ rounded the ball and with a great interception, Moorby managed to get around the final defender and cleanly struck the ball into the left-hand comer. With four minutes to go


until half-time, Clitheroe managed to have another two shots on goal which . the keeper saved. • ■ ' ' After a half-time talk by


captain Anita Vine, the Clitheroe side came out in ( positive mood and pro­ duced some excellent two- touch hockey. Substitute Bronte Box-


Mortoii cleverly intercept­ ed aBlackpool ball, which, she then passed to Dawn Treanor, who in turn, evaded two defenders to slot the ball through for Helen Hutchinson to strike a home with an unstoppable shot.. Blackpool fought back


Inn 'saw their Harry


valiantly and put pressure on the .Clitheroe defence a couple of times, but Clitheroe. keeper Kat McMillan made some fan­ tastic saves.- '


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' The Clitheroe defence also made some excellent


. clearances which, during one such attack, saw defender Rachel Hough intercept the ball, with passes from Laura Petty and Treanor. ending with o Moorby slotting the ball past the keeper for her hat- trick.: Then, with eight min­


utes to go, Box-Morton dribbled the ball from the Clitheroe defence up to the halfway line before passing for Petty and then Tre­ anor before Moorby | deflected the ball p^t the right-hand side of the keeper. Clitheroe’s player-of-


the-match was Treanor. Next up Clitheroe face


Lancaster fifths at home, and hope to continue their good run of form.


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I ;interpiay tfy:Blaickledge I'and'iGart'er,::which savw 'Th'reHall-'firiish.'.tlie; move. - All i.the-'hard! work


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.mihiitesto: gb,‘!Rimihgf ton rallied.,


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..Carter}’ rbuii'de'dt the keeper;-iantlir'slott'ef homeK'calmly, ,",'ahd Blackledge ■gqt.;tHe%


;h'edese'ryed,\ip'o'uhc oh a,-l6bse,b'all:iii};he area to'level bhe gamel| , .Rock. Royers, had


i,^ur'hed;int6'?pebbies>§ '.this stage,' and pro'ceed-: ed to give the. ball


'straight to' Rimington from kick-off.,;',.. V • ' . The locals didnT need


ito;be: asked, twice as they attacked on every opportunity.


Workhorse McGlean


^ found himself :free com- jihg from the right?: a n | ■yolleyed the ball powerf fully; past the keeper4b give Rimin^on the lead


gfor the first tinie. .Rock tried to push for


!the.equaliser,;butrieft spaces at ■


the back; and


Rimin'gton sp'rb'duced chance- af ter/chance| leping it for',Threlfall


;.to claim;his:hat-trick; palmly slqttiiig.theball:


antq,the':cofher. having' been left free in the box,’ with Leach .having squared the ball., The, game didn’t : end


.there, as.’B urgessvwas i alleged.'to havejhandled;


.the ball in: the'box ;for a penalty to Rock. Aiidefsbri saved .well


.as justice was'done; as ;the refereemissedabla-’


• tant push in the back of. Burgess.;.'


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Qiialitji goals earn victory


Rimington__ _. . . . . . .3 , Settle United................ .1


ON a veiy heavy pitch, both sides tried to play open attacking football, with Rimington coming out on


■ top courtesy of some quali­ ty finishing.. .. . . .


\ Settle started brightly but the home side were soon attacking down both flanks through O’Neill and Coul­ ter, prompted by the young


. midfield two of Walmsley, • Green and'Whalley. However, the quality of


the final ball was missing, and so chances to score were


i restricted to efforts from outside the box.


AsRimingtonpressedfor- , : ward. Settle caught them on


the break and Kershaw had to be alert on more than one occasion, diving at the feet of theonrushingforwarda A move resulting from a


poor defensive clearance let Settle in, and a cool finish which Kershaw could do nothing about saw the visi-. tors take the lead with the last kick of the half. . Rimington responded magnificently from the restart with two goals in a minute inside the first five minutes of the second h^. Penman’s clqse control


before a swivel Md powerful left foot drive left the keeper


with no chance, and Coulter raced clear of the defence before sending the keeper the wrong way. The home side looked


likely to score again as they played at a terrific pace, anil


. the back four, of Curtis, Sayle, Nelson and Walker were solid and helping to set up attacks. O’Neill was unceremoni­


ously upended by the last defender as he seemed set to race through on goal, but amazingly only a yellow card was shown.


' Rimington could not find


killer third goal, and they had Kershaw to thank when a Settle forward went through, but the big keeper somehow kept the goal- bound effort out. Penman finally sealed the


points wth a typical glanc­ ing header from a pinpoint O’Neill comer.: Andrew Hartley replaced


Whalley for the last 10 min- utes and the youngster acquitted himself very well. 'This win keeps Riming­


ton challenging on three fronts and they travel to Set­ tle this weekend for a Craven Cup quarter-final tie, before a game under floodlights on Tuesday at Rossendale against Good- shaw.


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Waddington’s sad day Oxenhope


Waddington ..............1


W A D D I N G T O N ’ S Craven Premier League game against Oxenhope was played with a great degree of sadness following the death of local teenager Luke Makenson. The Waddington play­


JEAN Davie.s and Chris Hughes drive in as the new captains of Mytfon Fold Golf Club. (D11030G/1) New captains drive in


THE new season began with a hugely competitive Captain's Drive-In at Mytton Fold on Saturday. New captain Chris


Hughes, as is customary, teed off on the first to huge expectancy as most of the membership had partici­ pated in a sweep on where his ball would finish. As it transpired, the new captain belied his winter


form by putting the ball 15 feet from the pin to huge cheers.


In the competition itself,


a hotly disputed foul on the Waddington goalkeep­ er, which was seen by everyone in the ground except of the referee. Following the challenge


ers took to the field" wear­ ing black armbands, and a minute’s silence was impeccably observed by. both teams and a large off the pitch


crowd in memory of Luke. The home team took the


lead midway through the first half following a free kick that cannoned off the crossbar and an Oxenhope player reacted quickly to place the ball past Willacy. During the remainder of


the half, the home side missed a few more chances, but-the best of the lot fell to Waddington, with Peel shooting narrowly wide. Cane forcing the home keeper into a good save, and, following a good cross from Stephen Holden, Tierney just failed to make


- contact with his head. ■ With Waddington play­


ing downhill in the second half they created chance - after chance to equalise, but were continually thwarted by eithei' good palkeeping or bad finish­


ing. ■ , ■ - ' The honie team scored. their second goal following


on Willacy, which left him lying in agony just inside the penalty area, the refer­ ee allowed play to continue for a further 15 seconds before an Oxenhope player hit the ball into an empty net, with Willacy carried


With 10 minutes


remaining, the referee tried to- amend his mistake when he awarded Waddington what can only be described as a sympathetic penalty.


' From the resulting kick,


the normally dependable Tierney saw his spot kick ’


. saved by the keeper, but from the clearance the ball fell to Dean, who scored with a well-struck shot. : During the remaining


time, Waddington missed , several good chances to salvage a point, and at the final,whistle felt disap-


- pointed that they had taken nothing from the game:


■, Waddihgton’s next fix- •


ture is away to Clitheroe Lions in the quarter-final


■ of the Craven League Cup, ' at'Roefield, kick off 1- 30 . p.m. All Waddington play­ ers are to meet at Roefield • at 12-45 p.m.


blessed with the only fine day of the week, Gary Davies and Paul Green­ wood carried off the prize with an impressive 44 points - the second year in a row that Davies has won the seasonal opener. Second place went to


Dave Botur and Steve James with 40 points, and


NEW lady captain Mar­


garet Duckett drives into office at Stonyhurst Golf Club. (D1I0306/2)


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the future-and-past-cap- tain combination of Tony Cross and Jim Bridge claimed third place on 39 points after a three-way card play off.


Spot prizes were won by


Shaun Livesey, Paul Greenwood, Ray Stan­ dring and John Back­ house. In his prize-giving


speech, Chris Hughes praised the condition of the course which augers well for a good season ahead.


Battling Chipping bow out of cup


Eccleston and Heskin ..d Another great through Chipping........................1 ball by Danny Austin set CHIPPING bowed out of Melling clear again, but the Guildhall Cup at Pre­ mier Division Eccleston and Heskin. • ;• De'spite defeat, the vil­


this time the keeper did well to block his effort. Eccleston responded by


lagers came out of the game with a great deal of credit as they pushed their hosts throughout and were unlucky to lose by such a margin. Chipping surprised the home side from the outset


■ w ith :their passion and commitment; and' also their quality when in pos­ session. . The villagers’ early dom­ inance was rewarded when a excellent slide rule pass' found Joe Melling in the clear, and he made no mis­ take. • •The lead could have been extended shortly after as


'Eccleston struggled to cope .with the pace and precision of Chipping’s football. >


putting together a few good moves, but were repelled for most of the half by the- outstanding back four of Tom Draper, Mick Garth,- Ryan Hilton and Pete Marsden. • However, the equaliser


did come with the home side’s only effort on target in the first half. • Matt Ireland was unfor­


tunate to see his punch from a corner land at the feet of a home player,'who


.fired in the equaliser. : • .; • Eccleston returned for/


the second half much more focused and playing some ; good football.


' • However, Chipping had


the first clear chance as Austin fired a shot goal- ward when put through.’


Somehow- the home


keeper let the shot through him, and the ball looked suspiciously over the line when cleared, but the refer­ ee waved play on, much to Chipping’s disappoint­ ment. Shortly after Eccleston


put together a superb move to take the lead. Good play down the


bright found the winger in .


: space, and he provdded an inch-perfect cross for the striker to net with a bullet ;. header.


Despite going behind, • Chipping continued to play ■


• • ;


some football and came close to equalising through Mark Fordham. An excel­ lent run from Eordham found him'in'space on the ' edge of the box and he fired ’ in a rasping drive. ; ■


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: - The ball thundered off the crossbar, clearly cross­ ing the goal line, but again the referee received no help


from his linesman and waved play on. The ■villagers never gave


up hope of finding the equaliser and risked more and more players forward


• in the later stages. . The inevitable happened'


as they conceded two fur-, then goals in the dying min­ utes to give the score a flat-; tering appearance. The entire team can be


extremely proud of their performance as they pushed one of the league’s top sides' all the way and, given a little luck, could have produced a mammoth upset. : :The:Villagers now need


to take this level of per­ formance into their remain­ ing league games as they aim to finish the season on . a high. This begins \vith a trip to


■Walmer Bridge on Satur­ day (kick-off 2-30 p.m.).. ' ’


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