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i - Dolphins in boats! page 46 Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Promotion is aim for Blues
By Adrian Capstick
PROMOTION is Mark Smitheringale's aim for his young side as there will be no half measures a t Shawbridge next season. The Blues boss is still unsure as to
what form his squad will take as his new players continue to gel together, with the likes of Simon Gamer, Peter Collinge, Craig Sargeson, Gregg Anderson and Owen Roberts, but the standard is high. Saturday's 1-1 draw against Leigh
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RMI and Tuesday night's 3-2 defeat to Radcliffe Borough both raised pos itive points for next season, which Smitheringale has high hopes for: "Our aim is to push for the play-offs. With the players we've got we are very much setting our stall out for promotion. "I'm reasonably pleased with the
last two games. Overall I was a little disappointed with Tuesday night's performance as we had two spells of 20 minutes where we weren't playing to the game plan, and in my opinion conceded three very poor goals from
inexperienced group of players who are not yet used to UniBond football and playing together, so it is still experimental at this stage." Smitheringale is reluctant to name
the new influx of trialists he has on board, as he knows players can easily come and go as they please up to the start of the season. He has to have a squad signed on a
week before the league starts, but that doesn't prevent further players join ing as the season progresses. Clitheroe's pre-season continues
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slack marking, a cheap free kick and poor defending at a comer. "We created chances and looked
quite lively going forward, but it is still early days yet. “We have a young and relatively
next week when they entertain FC United of Manchester on Wednesday night. The supporter-owned club, set to take the N o rth West Counties First Division by storm this season, just like they did the Second Division last, have reportedly had 70 players down for pre-season. As a result, the Blues will not be
playing United's first team, who are in action the same night against fellow Gigg Lane side Bury, but face their reserve team instead. The Blues don't have a game this
Saturday, but travel to face Ramsbot- tom United next weekend.
Chris achieves golfers’ dream
CHRIS Blackadder achieved every golfers' dream during the Texas Scramble competition at Whalley with a hole-in-one on the ninth - members enjoying the customary drink generously provided afterwards. In the competition itself, a gross
round of 59 (nett 55.1) gave victory to the team of Martin Foulds, Mel Earle, Donald Blanch and John Kearsley, while a nett 56.5
saw.club secretary Stuart Dawson, Geoff Mayoh, Keith Grimshaw and Derek Shirtcliffe take second placa On Sunday the annual men v ladies
versial team selections by the Lady Captain - took the trophy by 5% points to 3%. Gordon Rothwell hit top form to
gross prize. Martin Cane carded an incredible
Rob Andrew carded 73 to take the
68-3-65 to win the midweek medal ahead of the consistent Denis Greenup (72-1-69) and Kevin Roger- son (78-8-70). Two players ran away from the rest
of a large field in the Cavalier Putter at Mytton Fold on Saturday. Scoring was generally good in one of
match for the Thomber Trophy took place. The ladies - thanks to some contro
the major events of the season and Jan Van Boekel must have thought his 79-17-62 was good enough to land the prestigious prize. However, Kevin Shanley came in
members were in action at Clitheroe. Pat Brennan and Janet Bailey (45)
took second spot after a card play-off with Chris Stokes and K. Stanworth. Pat Murray and Pat Taylor were
fourth on the same score. Sharon Turner and Deborah Cat-
low (36) won the club stableford by a point from Kath Townley and Sheila Willis. Agnes Seery scored 41 stableford
points to win the Lady Captain’s Charity event at Whalley GC, with the British Heart Foundation the ben eficiaries. Wendy Green was a point further
with a spectacular 75-15-60 to win the event. These two scores were well clear of
take the Jubilee Plate a t Clitheroe with a round of 76-12-64. But he needed a card play-off to beat 14-handicapper Peter Folly into
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second place. Simon Swindells (74-7-67) was third
with Mike Tattersall, Harry Richard son and Granville Pilling filling nthe minor places.
the divisional prize wiimers, with the ultra-consistent David Clegg (79-11- 68) taking Division One from Shaun Livesey (81-12-69). Division Two prizes went to Gary
Davies (83-15-68) and Gordon Lucas (89-19-'70), with the Division Three winners being Buddy Lee (96-26-70) and Frank Wilcox (96-25-71). Maureen Cox and Marie Finney
combined well to total 48 points and win the professional’s prize when lady
back, taking second place on the card from Bridget Rees. Jack Rothwell completed a family
double at Clitheroe when he scored 85- 13-72 to win the professional’s event for juniors. James Sumner (93-18-75), James
Taylor (91-14-77) and Lewis Rothwell (126-38^) took other prizes. And Harry Lambert (99-35-64)
won the president’s prize for juniors ahead of Andrew Mercer (83-18-65), Jacob Foley (90-22-68), James Taylor (84-14-70), Stefano Coppola (95-24- '71) and William Kenyon (100-28-72).
SEMI-FINAL JOY: Clitheroe CC (S160706/5m)
Treble chance for Clitheroe CC
By Adrian Capstick
THE TREBLE is very much on for Clitheroe Cricket Club. Victory over Ribblesdale
Coulter (28), Danny Glover (19 not out) and Mark Proctor (24 not out) as they posted 285-7 after what had been a nightmare start. Neil Bolton (6) exited to
Wanderers in Sunday's entertaining Ramsbottom Cup derby means the Chatburn Road side will face Great Harwood in the final at Baxenden on Sun day, August 6th. Neil Bolton's men have
already set a date to face the Hyndburn side in the final of the Twenty20 Cup next Friday, and they in the driving seat for the Veka Ribblesdale League title too. But Sunday's clash at
Farouk Butt finished Rib blesdale off to see him fin ish with 3-32. Nawaz was the chief
a second Ibw decision in as many days, and Mark Bolton went the same way, next ball for a golden duck, both to Scuderi. At 16-2 in the third over,-
it did n 't look good for Clitheroe. But Nawaz and Ashraf
quickly put on 161 for the third wicket, establishing a grea t platform to build upon th a t saw the side push on towards 300. By comparison Scuderi
home to rivals Ribblesdale Wanderers could quite eas ily have spoiled their plans for a clean sweep, as the Church Meadow side made for an exciting finish after both professionals had racked up centuries. Whatever Clitheroe's
Shahid Nawaz produced, Ribblesdale's Joe Scuderi was out to equal as both paid men had an exception al weekend, having bagged a century apiece the day before. The only difference? The
scored more with 112 in reply, enjoying his bes t partnership with Stephen Woods (36). The Australian stood his
wicket tak er with 4-41, with Josh Marquet chip ping in with 2-41. Clitheroe have now beat
en all of their Ribble Valley opponents on route to the final. Opponents from out of
the area, especially a side they have lost to in the league this season, may be a tougher challenge, but captain Bolton is adamant his side will win at least one of their two cup finals against Great Harwood. He said: "Following the
ground, and at 200-2, Clitheroe had a fight on their hands. However, Daniel Turn
er's catch to remove Scud eri off the bowling of Nawaz changed every thing, as Ribblesdale's lack of experience in the late order showed. Further runs came from
former Nelson man was on the losing side each time, while Nawaz was a winner. Playing against his for
mer club, Nawaz made 107, and Clitheroe had another big knock in the form of Naeem Ashraf's 72, aided by the support act of Simon
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Martin Peel (11), Ryan Gladwin (14) and Robert Lloyd (26), but the two third eleven inclusions in the tail, along with Barry Spencer and Terry Braith- waite (1 not out), failed to wag. Thirty runs were needed
Twenty20 next week, the Ramsbottom Cup is a big day for the club, which we are due a win in as it is 13 years since we last had one. "It should be a high scor
ing game on a small pitch, and hopefully we will do well. “Great Harwood are an
explosive side and will be a tough nut to crack, but out of the two, we'll win at least one of them." • All the weekend crick
et scorecards and selected teams are on page 47.
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