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c-aie. Thursday, October 19th, 2006 with your sports team of Edward Lee, Chris Boden, Phil Simpson and Adrian Capstick
‘We will come good’ - boss!
I - " - By Adrian Capstick
"WE will come through it!" T h a t is the message from
Clitheroe manager Chris Stammers in light of recent below-par per formances. Expectation levels have been set
high since the club's exceptional s ta r t to the season, so recent dis plays like Saturday's 7-3 defeat at Bradford Park Avenue have been hard to swallow for some. Injuries and more questionable
refereeing did not help their cause on Saturday, but in Tuesday's 2-2 draw against Chorley they only had theirselves to blame for points lost in a game they dominated. Stammers said: "I think there
were more positives than negatives on Tuesday. “Expectation levels have been
high since the beginning of the sea son and I honestly believe that if we stick together we will come through this tough spell -
it will come good
again." "Two errors cost us and we were
disappointed n o t to come away with the points. "I thought we bossed the first
half. 'The pitch wasn't the best and we tried to be more direct than our usual passing style, but if only we'd taken our early chances..."
the back for the Blues a t Bradford on Saturday, but keeper Alan Fitz patrick was suffering from concus sion sustained ag a in s t Bamber Bridge, and unbeknown to Stam mers, tod been medically advised to sit the game out. The Blues boss said: "Saturday
Something was seriously amiss at
was one to forget and it didn't help players telling me after the game that they weren't fit. "Seven attempts were put into
our box and all were netted, credit to Bradford for being so clinical, but it should never have been that easy. All the players in question have apologised, but of course now is too late. "If you take away the first 17
minutes or so i t would have been quite even, but a t the end of the day it's been costly” The Blues return to the FA Tro
phy at Warrington on Saturday, fol lowed by a trip to Bamber Bridge on Tuesday Stammers sa id:-"I t's another
away game, but we've already done better away from home this season than last. “I've said to them they've got to
keep on going, as if we keep on pick ing up a point every away game, th a t's only what I would expect from us if we were in-form." Centre back Gregg Anderson
Elizabeth’s second title!
WHALLEY'S Elizabeth Highton has claimed her sec ond national title of 2006. Competing a t the Junior
Chris Stammers
(ankle) looks to be sidelined for four weeks, but Anthony Daniels (ankle) is back in contention. Chorley........................................ 2 Clitheroe FC................................2 TWO sides on the back of heavy defeats ran out with a point apiece at Chorley on Tuesday night, but it was definitely two points lost from Clitheroe's perspective. 'The Blues missed several chances
to take the lead in the first half, only for managerless Chorley to go ahead when a right wing cross was slotted home a t the back post by Adam Carden. Clitheroe n e t te d a deserved
attack, parry and riposte. This triumph follows Eliz
and Cadet Fencing Champi onships at RAF Cosford in Wolverhampton, the epee competitor defeated last year's champion Sissi Albini 15-14 in a close Under 17 Ladies' Cadet final. Her route to success saw
her start in the seeded group stage, where the first oppo nent to five hits in three min utes wins, up against seven other competitors in a 45- strong field. The Clitheroe Royal
round victory over Ply mouth's Toni Denham to enter the quarter-finals. There she overcame
Grammar School pupil won five and lost one to achieve fifth place overall, and entered the first-to-15-hits- in-nine-minutes elimination stage. Her passage through the
equaliser before the break thanks to good work by Simon Gamer, releas ing James Dean for a piledriver. But the second half was without
firs t round saw her beat Bolton's Olivia Faye 15-3, followed by a 15-10 second
note until the final few minutes, when the in tro d u c tio n of Paul Lamb, Jason Jones and Dave Dempsey produced what should have been the winner. Lamb's pace turned the Chorley defence, to find Jones on the edge of the box, and from his blocked shot, Dempsey scambled the ball home. But calamity befell the Blues in
injury time when Peter Collinge caihe out to meet a long ball, only for centre back Jeff Underwood to head over the keeper and grant striker John Bluck an opportunist's goal.
Will sweeps the board! By Adrian Capstick
WILL Driver's outstanding cricket ing achievements this season were acknowledged a t not one but two presentation evenings. The 17-year-old Read and Lan
cashire CCC all-rounder set the crease alight at Whalley Road this year, out-batting and put-bowling many a professional in the Veka Rib- blesdale League. He was inevitably named the club's leading player with both bat
, and ball. But aside from sweeping the board
with the batting and bowling tro phies, and claiming both the player and performance of the year acco lades at Saturday's presentation, he was also presented with a miniature cricket bat in a case, complete with match by match scores to mark the feat of scoring over 1,000 league runs and breaking the club's amateur bat ting record. The previous night, the Lan
cashire Under 17s captain, who broke into the county's second team this year, won the Lancashire Junior
four centuries in five innings in the space of 12 days back in July, two for the Under 17s and two for Read. And understandably the talented
young cricketer was overjoyed with the recognition, and how his game has developed. He said: "I'm delighted at how
things have gone. I've been in previ ous years to Lancashire's presenta tion evening, but there were nowhere near as many people, so Friday was overwhelming really. "They've just selected the acade
my again and I'll be back training at Christmas. Hopefully I'll work hard in the winter and look to establish myself with Lancashire seconds. "I improved a lot last season and I
think I can improve as much again. I aim to better my taliy next season and get more wickets for Read." In the meantime. Will continues
Player of the Year award in front of nearly 400 people at Old Trafford. He received the trophy from first
team player Tom Smith, a product of the same Lancashire Cricket Acade my, and director John Stanworth made particular reference to Will's
his studies at Burnley College, where he is undertaking a sports course, and he would like to thank Warren Eastham, his dad Steve, and both Kyle and Gary G'Connor for their support. Will is pictured after receiving his awards. (B171006/3d)
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Truro's Jessica Osbaldeston 15-6 to set up a 15-7 triumph over Redhill and Reigate's Natasha Lewis-Oliver in the final four. The final against Albini
abeth's tetrathlon victory at Bath University in February. The following day, the 16-
year-old joined her older sis ter Louise for the Under 20 Junior Championship. Both went out of the com
petition in the final 16, Louise finished 10th overall and her younger sibling five places behind her. The Sun day event was won by Albini. As a consequence of this
feat in the Midlands, Eliza beth has been selected to rep resent Great Britain in Por tugal at her first internation al junior A grade event.
proved a real tussle, as one opponent pulled two hits ahead only for the other to haul herself back into the contest right up to the final
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