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.64 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, May 1st, 2008 LATESimATES: ■ 11 G) u n i in v x l i t h e r o e a d v e i t i^ ^ O O N U N E f f i play-off By Adrian Capstick


NEIL Reynolds considers. it a privilege and an hon- ■ our, along with fellow


-.-Clitheroe boss Pete Smith,., to be the first management team in four years to finish a full term in charge at


. Shawbridge. And it won’t be their last either, judging by their


■ plans to push the team towards the play-offs next season. Saturday’s 2-2 draw


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against Bamber Bridge saw the Blues finish 13th in the table, after finishing the season the in-form side of the bottom half of the UniBond League First Division North. It took the pair time to


get a settled side after los­ ing club captain Simon Gamer, vice-captain Gregg


' Anderson and play-maker Joel Byrom, all to higher league clubs,'but .their transfer efforts paid off in ■ the second half of the sea­


son. Jonathan Smith, Carl


. Lomax and Scott Redhead, joining the side in January


% proved the turning point, i so. news this week tha t experienced centre half . Smith has agreed,a 12-


; month contract with the }:club is ju s t the; start Reynolds.needed tb his


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•TiSummer search. He said: V'When^ you


' sign a player of his calibre, ^ it’s fantastic for the rest of the lads as he’s just’a rock., It took us three months to - replace Gregg’s aerial abili- ■ ty, and Jonathan has that


dominance. The back four have definitely Improved . as a result, and he’s helped :; James Mann’s game too. ^' “Keeping hold of Joel , Byrom was a massive dea l.;


■ for the club at the start of ■ la st season, b u t .th is is equally as big, as there " would be five to 10 clubs chasing him this summer.” He added: 'We’ve iden­


tified the three areas we need to improve the squad ,, in strength and depth; a left sided midfielder, a cen­ tral midfielder and a cen- v tre forward are all needed to beef it up, and we’ll go away now to pin-point those players.” Going seven league


games into the season before a win, and being, thrown out of the FA "Do- ; phy for fielding a suspend- ed player, saw.the side have; its fair share of trials arid tribulations. “It’s been difficult,” said . Reynolds as he summed


team talk that we’re all striving for the same goal.” ; He added: “When I first


took the job as manager o n : December 9 th,; 2006, someone asked me if I had ■ a departure date iri mind, a time to move on; I ’m here for the long term, to take the club to the next level, and ! can’t see myself ever wanting to leave the club.' ,' ::' > “And I ’d ju s t like to;


thank eve^one, the fans, committee, chairman and vice-chaimiari for all their support this season.” ‘ Saturday’s presentation


night ■ saw goalkeeper James Mann.scoop the iriajority of the c lu b ’s awards: Players’ Player, Supporters’ Player an d .; Supporters’ Club Player of the Year.: Managers’ Player saw


Reynolds choose Adam K o z low sk i ,,and Smith elect for Gary Stopforth,


. up the season.' “Losing ' players like Simon,.Gregg and Jpel was always going . to hit us, as when we got to Christmas, i t was har'd to : ■ come by plaiyers, and.I ■


;


admit I got a little disillu­ sioned. , “But we''stuck at i t , .


• and ; Ian-7Johnson -and turned it mxmnd."


- The Smiley Award went to “The Sheep’’ Sam Heap and both goal scoring acco­ lades - Leading &orer and


^Goal of the Season - to ^ "CraigSargeson.;:' , : . ..: Clitheroe - . . . . . . . . . .2 .'-


. Bamber Bridgey':-.'... .2 , IT finished honours'even for Clitheroe bn the final


. identified the players we?,-. wanted like Dave Hankin'•;


; day, of the seasoni'as.visi- tors ’ Bamber::: Bridge


■ secured the last play-off (plac e a t Shawbridge oh^


• “For theTirst'time.we .i.’ actually^oolflikea Uni- ■


i Bond side that can hold its . own, we’re moving the side . ■ forward.': It’s the happiest :


; dressing robrri' I ’ve been a part of, and I can see it in their eyes when I give the


^Saturday.";.:, v-v'- • pv:, The'.visitors needed a point td'guarantee them-.


PICTURED at the Craven and Peridle Pool League presentation are (from left) Stephen Hutton, Geoff Alderson, Andy Sudworth, Pete Sutcliffe, Dave Briggs and Chris Edwor- thy (T27’0108/18b)


Kings win ‘Hoppy’ tropliy


KINGS Arms B were pre­ sented the Peter Hodgkin-; son Memorial Trophy as 2008 Craven and Pendle Pool League champions on Saturday night. Donated by Harrison


and Kerr Butchers in hon­ our of the popular la te : landlord “Hoppy”, the presentatioii was made by ■


■ his two sonshSimon and Luke.


v. The same team of D.


Briggs, J. White, R. Hope, S. Whittaker, M. Cross- land, P. Hodges, G. Het- heringtonj C. Whittaker and C. Eaves also won the team knockout after beat­ ing stable-mates Kings


5 Arms A into second spot. Higher Buck A were run- ■ ners-up in the league. .. . And in the Second Divi­


sion the top honours were taken by Anchor over run- ners-up Lower Buck.


‘ Players-player of. the


NEW TROPHY: Luke Hodgkirison, Roger Hope, of Har­ rison and Kerr Butchers, and Simon Hodgkinson with the Peter Hodgkinson Memorial Trophy. (T270408/18)


honours, which saw Dan Ridgeway runner-up, as well recording the m o s t . singles -vdetories through­ out the entire league to be


' selves a place in the reck-. bhing for promotion to the ^ ■UniBond Premier Division'


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'■■year was awarded to Scott : Turner and the doubles ■ team to win the most i games throughout the sea- ■ ; son was Higher. Buck A- pair Joe Drachenberg and Andy Sudworth.


's


. Sudworth also ■ took . ' home the singles winner;.;


. named the main man; . But Kin^ Arms A play­ er Ridgway arid partner; Simon Ryan tMk the dou- ' bles honour, over, teamr mates Pete Sutcliffe and Tony Ridgeway.


. ..Meanwhile the captain’s


it was Geoff Alderson, the Black Bulk Oily Crookes, Buck'Inn ,J. Robinson, Cross Keys Paul Licastri,


; Fosters S. Clouston, High­ er Buck ;A Andy Sud­ worth, Higher Buck B


. Mick, Adamson,(Kings' .:Arms B Gareth Hethering- ton. Kings Anns A Simion. . Ryan; Lower: Buck Steve


^cup went' foPeridle. Inn’S : ; Scott Turner ■ Buckj runner-up-Steve iHattoriYi.;-;3.i(S'.:


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Each team also had a star player. For the Anchor


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Whalley lose opening game


FOLLOWING a success­ ful 2007 season, where


■ Whalley A team finished as runners-up to Black- burri Northern in the top divisibn"of the East Lan­ cashire Open Tennis League, the commence­ ment of the 2008 season did not go to plan. Whalley faced Burnley


A and lost 3-1. Club cap­ tain Andrew Moore and Henry Farrer lost 6-4,7-5 to the number one Burnley pair in a game which, with a b it more consistency, they could have won. ; 'The errors continued into the first set against


: the Burnley number two pairing with it being lost 6-


■2. However things started


to get into the groove and the lat ter two sets were wrapped up with the loss


' of just three games with the Whalley pair playing some excellent tennis. Whalley number two


pairing of John Lethard and Tom Ormerod were very unlucky in both their matches as they lost in three sets. This was a disappoint­


ing start to the season but hopefully good fortune will be balanced out during the season and some points can be picked up. . As the new season gets


;underway the club wel­ comes players of all abili- rties. Any potential new


•.members can contact either Roger Walker


■ ■ (01254 822047 ) or Paul • ’Jenkins (01254 822673) for


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