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DEVONSHIRE CARPETS CRAVEN AND DISTRICT
FOOTBALL LEAGUE TABLES
Premier Division
^ Oxenhope...... . .9 6 2 1 20 Waddington........ .9 6 2 1 20 WFCClitheroe ...11 5 2 4 17 CononleySports ..11 5 0 6 15 Bradley..............10 4 3 3 15 HeUffield Sports...10 4 2 4 14 GrasangtonUtd ..10 4 2 4 14 Erateay.............. .9 3 0 6 9 Carleton ..............7 2 3 2 9 Gargrave.............. 9 2 0 7 6 Bronte Wands ....10 0 2 8 2 First Division P W D L P
SldptonLMS........9 7 0 2 21 p W D L P i ‘ Mm , ma
^ B'wick Barons Res 11 3 2 6 11 HTield Sports Res ..9 3 1 5 10 Carleton Res........9 3 1 5 10 Bradley Res .......9 2 2 5 8 Cowling Res........11 0 1 10 1
Earby T n .............9 7 2 0 23 Pendle Renegades .10 7 2 1 23 SilsdenWhitestar .10 7 1 2 22 Oakworth Res ....11 6 2 3 20 SkiptonTnRes ...10 5 2 3 17 GrindletonRes__11 4 0 7 12
Gaigrave Res__11 10 1 0 31 Barrowford Utd .. .13 9 2 2 29 Oakworth...........11 9 1 1 28 Chatbum........... 10 5 1 4 16 CononieySports ..11 5 1 5 16 Gr’tonUtdRes ...12 6 1 5 16 Horton.............. 12 4 2 6 14 SldptonLMS Res .12 3 2 7 11 Bar’wickBarons ..10 3 2 5 11 Waddington Res ..13 0 3 10 3 Rolls-Royce Res...11 0 2 9 2 Third Division P W D L P
Darts
RIBBLE VALLEY LADIES’DARTS
Pat Dobson Memorial Trophy Final: Low Moor 8, Craven 4. HIGH SCORES
ASSOCIATION RESULTS
dock, D. Stevenson; 133 - M. Waddington, M. Brown; 129 - M. Bowman; 126 - L. Lambe; 121 - D. Townsend x 2, D. Brown; 120 - C. Stanley; 118 - J. Gallagher; 116 - D. Ryan; 111 - L. Whittaker; 102 - R. Linacre; 100 - L, Celestial, D. Stevenson, J. Gallagher, D. Townsend.
180 - D. Brown; 140 - A. Hay- RIBBLESDALE High School Tech
nology College met with unprecedented badminton success at a Hyndburn and Ribble Valley School's tournament. The Clitheroe school excelled in every
TABLE
Low Moor ................................. .71 Catholic SC................................ 69 Black Bull ..................................65 DeLacy.................................... .63 BillingtonBC .............................58 Judge ........................................57 Craven...................................... 51 Castle........................................49
I.egion........................................49 Black Horse................................44 Bay Horse ..................................37 Brown Cow ................................ 35
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APRIL
CLITHEROE cage fighter Michael Bisping became the first British fighter
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section at the Under 16s event to come away with three victories and three run ners up from five different categories - including two all-Ribblesdale finals.
MARCH WHALLEY'S Elizabeth Highton
emulated the success of her older sister Louise in being crowned Under 17 British Tetrathlon champion. She was then crowned the Ladies 100m
backstroke champion of Lancashire towards the end of the month. The 15-year-old's winning time at
Manchester Aquatics Centre ensured qualification to the National Champi onships
STONYHURST College's first-ever netball tournament was a success.
Oxenhope...........11 9 1 1 28 ChtheroeLions ...14 8 3 3 27 FendleAthletic ...12 8 1 3 25 Sidpton Tn..........11 6 1 . 4 19 Keighley.............12 6 1 5 19 -SGrindleton........11 6 3 2 18 Cowling.............. 13 5 2 6 17 Intake................14 4 2 8 14 Long Lees...........11 3 2 6 11 Rolls-Royce........10 3 2 5 11 Embs^Res........13 1 4 8 7 Trawden Celtic ...12 0 4 8 4 Second Division p W D L P
Valley sporte stars of 2006 ... Valley sports-stars-ef-2006 ... Valley JANUARY
CLITHEROE golfer Paul Dwyer was
about to live his dream as the profession al won a European Tour card for the 2006 season to tee off alongside some of the biggest names in the sport.
THE Sporting Trials season came to a
close once again and the Kibble Valley's very own mudplugger yet again met with success. Bill Rhodes had another easy win in
the Northern Phoenix Trials Car Club's 2005 championship. But he was unable to retain the British
Trials and Rally Drivers Association Sil ver Star as competition from Ireland was too strong.
^FEBRUARY"
■ THE nibble Valley's sporting endeavours have easily lived up to past yearly exploits and, in some ways, surpassed them. There have been the usual suspects, of course, who continue to excel in their chosen
discipline, as well as a few newcomers. But the undoubted individual and team success stories of the year were to be found
in the summer months on the region's cricket pitches. Clithcroe Cricket Club completed an unprecedented league and cup treble, as the
accomplished Chatburn Road side stormed the Ribbicsdalc League and won both the Ramsbottom Cup and Twcnty20 Cup. ; Meanwhile, Read Cricket Club's Will Driver made league history of his own as he became the first English-born amateur to make over 1,000 runs in the league’s histo ry, setting a new amateurbatting record for the Whalley Road club. The Lancashire Under 17s captain also broke into the county's second team this
year and won the Lancashire Junior Player of the Year award. Arid the other individual who stands out is cage fighter Michael Bisping, who
realised his dream of competing in America by winning an American Ultimate Fight-. ing reality, show in Las Vegas.
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ADRIAN CAPSTICK looks back at some of the highlights of individual sporting and outstanding team achievements the Ribbic Valley had to offer in 2006
to enter an American reality fighting competition when Ultimate Fighter 3, a televised reality fighting competition, was aired in this country and the US. The former upholsterer and part time
D J endured a gruelling daily regime of ju-jitsu, judo, muay thai, karate, boxing and wrestling before retiring to the Ulti mate Fighter House, knowing that any day he could be forced to fight one of hfe house mates. At the time he knew he had made the
final but until the pre-recorded fights had been aired he wasn't allowed to disclose the fact. But as he said at the time, “This is the
start of big things potentially, very big things if ail goes to plan,” and he wasn't wrong as we later found out in August.
CLITHEROE golfer Paul Dwyer
claimed his highest European Tour finish of the season when he tied for 53rd place in the Portuguese Open.
CLITHEROE darts ace Andy Gud
geon was victorious as England earned a seventh-successive British Darts Organi sation Internationals title in Merthyr Tydfil. The Swan and Royal A and Lan
cashire county player contributed to the win, alongside some of the leading pro fessionals in world darts, including the
likes of Martin “Wolfie” Adams and Tony “Silverback” O’Shea, against Scot land and Wales.
ON the first day of the 2006 Veka Rib-
blesdale Cricket League Clitheroe duo, professional Shahid Nawaz and Naeeni Ashraf, started the season as they meant to go on, by cracking an unbeaten centu ry apiece in the Chatburn Road side's opening victory over Earby. Nawaz scored 112 as Clitheroe posted
a huge total of 252-2 from their 45 overs, and his partner Ashraf, weighed in with a gloriously crafted 103.
MAY CLITHEROE Royal Grammar
School’s Under 13 Girls football team ran out at the Riverside Stadium for the Coca-Cola Northern Schools’ F7nal. The Rihhle Valley youngsters took on
defending Northern champions Arch bishop Beck Sports College from Aintree at the home of UEFA Cup Finalists Middlesbrough and narrowly lost 3-2.
WADDINGTON FC won the Craven
League Cup at Gargrave by beating Grassington on penalties after the gamp ended 1-1 after extra time. RIMINGTON FC were crowned East Lancashire League First Division cham
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Sports Diary FEBRUARY
7 - Blackburn, Darwen and Hyndburn Junior and Yotuh Football League meeting, Furthergate WMC, Barnes Street, Blackburn, 7-30 p.m. All clubs must send a repre sentative.
12 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix meeting, Burnley Boys’ Club, 7-30 p.m. All races must be rep resented.
MARCH
7 - Blackburn, Darwen and Hyndburn Junior and Yotuh Football League meeting, Furthergate WMC, Barnes Street, Blackburn, 7-30 p.m. All clubs must send a repre sentative.
APRIL MM
pions for the first time in their 34-year history. And earlier in the month, the same
side won the Craven Cup for the third time in five years with a solid 3-1 win _ against Bamoldswick Town Reserves. 9
CLITHEROE Dolphins were named
2006 North Lancashire Swim League a Second Division Champions.
And as a result, the Ribblesdale Pool
team returned to the top county division ” for the first time since 1992. ^
CLITHEROE Royal Grammar
School Under 16s Basketball team secured their second successive Lan cashire Cup victory to complete a two- year winning streak.
LOCAL rugby player Will Tattersall
was part of the successful Lancashire side that lifted the cup in the National Colts Rugby Sevens competition at Leicestershire.
JUNE CLITHEROE was represented at the
World Cup in Germany this month - the Medical World Cup that is. Sven-Goran Eriksson may not have
picked him, but local GP and keen ama teur goalkeeper Dr John Zak was select ed to play for the British Medical Team in an international tournament held in Mainz near Frankfurt. His team didn't win but it was a fulfill
ing experience against the world's best footballing doctors.
CLITHEROE Canoe Club’s Jonny
Noblett was crowned champion at the Red Bull sponsored Liquid Life Festival - the largest white-water kayaking event of its kind in Europe.
JON Penman scooped three awards at
a historic Rimington presentation night as the celebrated their first East Lan cashire League title.
CLITHEROE Tennis Club’s Jennifer
Holgate won the prestigious Slazenger East Lancashire Ladles’ Singles Cup.
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sports stars of 2006 ... Valley sports stars o f 2006 ... Valley sports The 15-year-old defeated the experi
enced Christine Baron from Blackburn Northern in a three-set, three-hour epic, played in the sweltering heat.
IT’S not often that you witness a real
top quality innings that will stick in the mind for many years to come. But those lucky enough to venture to
Chatbum Road on a drab Sunday after noon saw two as Clitheroe beat Whalley to reach the semi-finals of the Ramshot- tom Cup. Clitheroe captain Neil Bolton called it
“the stuff of dreams” as his side came back from 54-4 to post a staggering 300-5 thanks to Shahid Nawaz’s batting prowess of 186 not out - which was very nearly matched by Bradman Ediri- weera’s Whalley reply of 147 before being last man out.
MICHAEL BISPING realised his
ultimate dream. The Clitheroe mixed martial arts
expert won the Ultimate Fighter 3 light- heavyweight final in Las Vegas to secure a six-figure contract in America’s biggest growth sport of cage fighting. The undefeated 27-year-old, famous
for dispatching his opponents in this country in under a minute, took the American-dominated satellite television show by storm to become its first British winner.
o JULY CLITHEROE canoeist Jonnie
Schofield won gold in the Wild Water Racing World Cup Series. The 21-year-old pushed hard for a
medal in the men’s kayak-singles (Kl) class, and his efforts more than paid off.
CLITHEROE Dolphins reflected on a
season of achievement after their senior team was crowned champions of the North Lancashire League Second Divi sion. The club was awarded the prestigious
Swim 21 Charter mark from the Ama teur Swimming Association and in recog nition of this success the Dolphins was awarded the title of Ribble Valley Sports
Club of the Year. THE TREBLE was on for Clitheroe
Cricket Club after victory over Ribbles dale Wanderers in the Ramsbottom Cup semi-final derby pitched the Chatburn Road side against Great Harwood in the August final. Captain Neil Bolton's league-leaders
secured their first piece of silverware against the same Hsmdbum side a week later by winning the Twenty20 Cup, and were going full guns in the league too.
CLITHEROE FC and Blackburn
Rovers joined forces to announce that the Premiership Club's top-flight ladies football team would be playing aU their home games in the Rihble Valley town at the UniBond side's Shawbridge ground.
AUGUST CENTURION Naeem Ashraf
inspired Clitheroe to their first Rams bottom Cup final victory in 13 years, and sealed the second leg of the Chat- bum Road side’s treble bid. An undefeated 122 from the all-round
er saw the league leaders to a four-wicket win over Great Harwood at Baxenden upon resumption of play, following late rain the day before. And at the end of the month the
inevitable was achieved as Clitheroe scooped the Veka Ribblesdale League title and completed an unprecedented treble with three games to spare. Victory away at Whalley, and then
town rivals Ribblesdale Wanderers on Sunday, wrapped up a season's hard work, and called for another space to he cleared in the club's trophy cabinet.
CHAMPIONS Arsenal took on
Blackburn Rovers Ladies at Shawbridge in the FA Women's Premier League opener. Rovers, in their first-ever season in the
top-flight, lost their first top-flight fix ture 3-0.
CLITHEROE CC’s Jack Dewhurst
was named in the North of England squad to play in a four-day festival at
Taunton. The Chatburn Road and Clitheroe
Royal Grammar School Under 13s all- rounder has imdergone a series of coach ing sessions and trials at Newcastle, Bradford and Headingley to achieve his
-goal, and will now line-up against the Midlands, West and South in Somerset.
SEPTEMBER SAWLEY skier Dan Wyatt was
crowned Scottish Slalom Champion at the Scottish Artificial Ski Slope Champi onships in Edinburgh.
AND Jonnie Schofield, also of Sawley,
went wild again to win the World Uni versity Wild Water Racing Champi onships. The 2006 World Cup Champion and
Loughborough University student has consolidated his position as one of the fastest wild water racers in the world.
OCTOBER CLITHEROE Dolphins were named
Community Club of the Year at the Lan cashire Sports Awards at Ewood Park. The local swimming club, who won the
Ribble Valley Borough award earlier in the year to reach the ceremony. As a result, the Ribblesdale Pool-based
club was nominated for the BBC North west Sports Awards Community Club of the Year held in December.
ROYAL British Legion took the top
honours in the Thwaites Clitheroe and District Pool League. The Whalley Road team pipped Cas
tle A to the Premier Division title, and were presented their trophy at the pres entation evening at the Station.
SAB DEN biker Alistair Haworth
completed a bumper season having accel erated at quite a pace away from the rest of the pack. The 37-year-old won the Preston and
District Formula 400 championship at the Three Sisters Circuit in Wigan, despite starting the season a race after
the rest of the field. NOVEMBER
READ cricketer Will Driver made
league history at the Veka Ribblesdale Cricket League presentation night. After becoming the first English-hom
amateur to make over 1,000 runs in the league’s history, he not only set a new amateur batting record for the Whalley Road club, he also claimed a unique dou ble. Driver was named as both the league’s
Player-o-the-Year and Young Player-of- the-year. And no other player has ever walked away with both coveted titles.
CLITHEROE rally-cross racer Simon
Horton finished the 2006 British Cham pionship season in top form at Croft International Circuit. With two titles being contested on the
same day the team had to work hard to give the local driver the best chance of success and finish third overall for the year.
PROMISING Whalley tennis player
Conor Bunting turned out for Great Britain and won four of his five games against Swedish opposition.
DECEMBER CLITHEROE Dolphins’ coach Bar
bara Jones was awarded the BBC North West Sports Awards' Unsung Hero Award. As a consequence she was invited to
attend the televised BBC Sports Person ality of the Year Awards, in contention for the national award, which was won by North Shropshire Special Olympics Club's Val Hanover for her commitment to people with learning disabilities. At the same Birmingham ceremony,
world champion horse rider Zara Philips was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
4 - Blackburn, Darwen and Hyndburn Junior and Yotuh Football League meeting, Furthergate WMC, Barnes Street, Blackburn, 7-30 p.m. All clubs must send a repre sentative.
123 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix meeting, Burnley Boys’ Club, 7-30 p.m. All races must be rep resented.
MAY
G - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Hameldon Hill Race.
11 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Pinhaw Fell Race.
20 - Pendle and Burnley ■ Grand Prix, Colne 11 Race.
25 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Burnley Lions 10k Road Race.
JUNE
2 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Kelbrook Fell Race.
8 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Barley Fell Race.
17 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Hendon Brook Half Marathon.
24 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Burnley Boys’ Club 10k Urban Trail Race.
JULY
31 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Whalley Nab Fell Race.
AUGUST
5 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Lancashire Sports Repairs Six.
6 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix meeting, Burnley Boys’ Club, 7-30 p.m. All races must be rep resented.
8 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Trawden Seven.
12 - Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix, Worsthorne Fell Race.
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