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Redhead’s late winner seals


FA Trophy win I '


Bradford Park Avenuel- Clitheroe . . . . . . - . . . .2 SCOTT Redhead’s winner two minutes from time extended Clitherbe’s FA


, Carlsberg Trophy adven­ ture. Joint manager Neil


Reynolds had stated prior to proceedings that this was his side’s biggest game of the season to date. " And his players didn’t


' disappoint, .putting in a. -terrific performance to shock their UniBond Pre-


, mier Division hosts. ,■ However, they did have a helping hand from Avenue defender Rafael Evans.


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play, including gifting Carl Lomax the opening goal with a woeful backpass; saw him withdrawn at half-time. He also almost set up another goal for Anthony


- Johnson, only for his team­ mates to bail him out. A wet and windy Hors­


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fall Stadium saw Clitheroe start in nervous fashion, • with Stuart Rudd heading Mark B e t t ’s cross over Martin Fearon’s crossbar. But with just nine min­


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utes on the clock, Evans’ awful blunder: let in Lomax, and he gleefully


.tucked the ball past Jon Worsnop. . Rudd then went clean


'only to be denied by the legs of Fearon, before , Johnson blasted over after being handed a shooting


•chance on- a plate by - another Evans mistake. And he wasn’t done there,-. letting, the- ball


I f ' . ' A shocking first half dis­


bounce as Johnson nipped in to beat;Worsnop, only for the ball to be cleared at the second attempt by Mark Haran after hitting the crossbar and bouncing down on the goal line. Fo'rmer FC United


marksman Rory Patterson ■was introduced at the


• break,- blasting an early chance wide, before being, guilty of an awful miss when given a free run on goal, but with just Fearon to.beat, he pulled his shot wide of the far post.


. But Avenue did grab


their equaliser when sub­ stitute Mike Moseley got ahead of his marker to glance home Bett’s cross. - The home side pressed


for a winner at that stage, but Clitheroe broke, and when Lomax beat his man on the right, he crossed for Redhead to tap home at the back post. Barry Shuttleworth


could have given the Blues some breathing space -with a last-gasp penalty after Russ Clarke was adjudged ■ to have been fouled in the . box, but he saw his spot kick saved by Worsnop.


through at the other end, ■


-.: But the Blues held on to_ -move into the second qual­ ifying round, much to the joy of the travelling faith­ ful.


Clitlieroe: Fearon, Pilk-


ington,; Shuttleworth, • Flannery, Smith, Osborne, - Hankin (Clarke), Morley (Sharpies),. Johnson (Ward), Lomax, Redhead. Subs: Reynolds, Edging- ton.


. B yP h i l Simpson


HOW,often is it said that successful sides win when not at their best?- . Clitheroe did exactly;


• that on Tuesday against" Warrington; to make it


seven straight league vie- tories.


• . After the thrills and


spills of Saturday’s.PA Carlsberg .Trophy success at Bradford Park Avenue - which joint manager Neil


■ Reynolds regarded as the ' best in his'time at the helm - the Blues showed their alter ego in midweek. But de'spite' that, a .


home tie with Boston' United coming up o n ^ t - urday week,' Reynolds is :


Pool duo’s


clean sweep JAMES‘Whitwell and Gavin McQuade made it a ' clean sweep for'RBL A in ; the^Thwaites Clitheroe ' and District Pool League. The pair occupied the


top two spots in the Pre- mierDivipiori merit’win- ners’ table,-with 23 and 21 victories respectively.,


__:,And that helped,the side


secure theTeague-titleV' ! with their awar^ fittingly, ' handed to them at the ' league’s presentation night ; at their home -venue. .


- And that wasn’t.the en d -


of the individual awards for. Legion,'- with Paul Turner of the D team mn- ning the Third, Division merit league -with 20 wins, ahead of Rob Warburton of Kings Arms B. . -


Bev Brunker also took


'. the Ladies’ League merit ‘ silverware for Legion -with - 21 winsj -with team-mate,. Lois Knowles coming third with 19, just behind Sta­ tion’s Catherine Hickling (20) .


- Elsewhere, Paul Black­


burn of-Buck B took the First Division prize with 23 wins ahead of White


Horse A’s Steve Simpson (21) .


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V A massive 28 wins was- .niore -than enough for rDaniel Ridgeway of Kings Arms A to take the Second


; Division, with Rose'and Crown’s Barry Watson sec­ ond with25. -:


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And it was a.Victoria B one-two in the Fourth


. Division, with Tom Eglin ■ (21 wins) just edging out •


Simon-Waterhouse (20 wins).


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quick glance at the league ; table will'see them'two points behind league lead­ ers Ossett Albion, with a four games in hand. ; - And with an FA Trophy


more .than happy with' life ^ at the moment: .“if anyone -was there on Saturday,.


- they will have seen proba­ bly the best perforiijance in my time at Clitheroe^ , “That is probably true


BLl]ES^NEXT GAMES


yPG Ifiilifax Town, (.UniBond 'Firs! Division North);


, y Cuizqn'Ashtqh, away'' (UniBond First.Division North) V.;,,.hMonday,7-^5p.m,'.'^;’


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hear people say that the successful teams are the


.ones that win when they are not at their best. ' “'We have beaten War­


rington when we have been nowhere hear our best, so that speaks volumes.- . :‘T’ll be honest, we have


gpne from'one of the best performances in my time


• as manager to one of the worst, within four days. “But i ’ll take that - I’ll


. for a number of years,'but to turn that type of per­ formance in game in, game out isn’t going to happeni because otherwise these players yyould be playing in the Premier League and not here. ,.


; -‘‘We may well have got carried away jvith the emotion on Saturday,' but the amount of times you


.‘ take not playing terrific football every weekV as long as we win matches. “I t ’s been a hard few


days for the lads, and i am really proud of what they ha-ye.done for this club.'' - Oh Tuesday, it was a


. brace from defender Ian Flannery which saw them scrape their way to a 3-2 win over.a gutsy 'Wamng- tonside.i. ‘


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. He fired the Blues level via a deflection, after Paul Osborne had gifted the -vis­


itors a third minute lead when Francis . Smith lobbed Martin .Fearon from all of 30 yards.


. However, they were level for less than 10 minutes, as


. Phil Hadland raced to. the bye-line before pulling the ball back for Carl Rendell, and after his shot was saved, Kevin Towey tucked away the rebound. . Clitheroe were lucky to


go in at the break only one adrift, but they were level ju'st.befpre the hour as substitute Craig Sargeson’s beautifully cushioned .vol­ ley beat Matthew Harri­ son after, good work from Anthony Johnson.


: And i t was Flannery who popped up fi-ve min­ utes. from time to prod home the winner, which . Reynolds felt was harsh on - the visitors: “'We were well below par, -we might have been a bit tired from Sat­ urday'but-there are no


excuses for that. . ‘,‘It was a flat evening


and I think the phrase ‘after the Lord Mayor’s


- show’ came to the fore. “But there have been


many nights over the past few years where we have lost in this exact situation, and this time we haven’t. “Warrington deserved a


point, but we have ground put all three and I’m absolutely delighted.” • Clitheroe’s reserve team host Lancaster City on Monday (kick-off 3 p.m.) in the Lancit Haulage


' Lancashire League. ’ • Clitheroehave appealed to local business^ to spon­ sor thieir FA Carlsberg Trophy second qualifying round tie at home to


' Boston United on Satur­ day, November 1st. Anyone interested is


asked, to contact Andrew Jackson (07788 662294).


Craven : pair , Mark Robinson and Neil Taylor


landed the Doubles Part- nership merit title with


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nine wins from 11 games, while second-placed Vinriy Gilmore and Stefan Mar­ tin, of Dog Music Bar,


. scoring nine.wins from 13. Lindsay Lloyd of 'White


Horse A was the Ladies Player of the Season in the Mens League with 11 wins, followed closely by Victo­ ria A duo Gillian Coles (10


; -wins) and Catherine Hick- ling (eight wins).


-T Prizewinners and league


o ff ic ia ls . are pictured. (A161008/2)


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