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48 CIHheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, November 27th, 2008 j i r o r r I k im matioh Dm


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J)Glitlieroe’s Kard-^fought


victory! .'A'jHARD-fought bat- i tldbrbught a narrow 9- .7.i)'-;.victory, when 'Clitheroe A played >Tag in Division One of ithe Blackburn Bad- ;mington League. .


By Phil Simpson <


NEIL Reynolds wants the feel-good factor back a t Shawbridge. , Saturday’s point at Sal­


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us 22 points from 36 in the league a t the start of the season, we wpuld have snapped their hand off. “Not only that, but we


have made £i0,000 for the club with the runs in both the PA Cup and the FA Trophy.


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first round proper of the FA Trophy), but we have only played 12 league g ^ e s and we have to start clawing


would love to be in the shoes of Curzon Ashton (who have reached the; sec­ ond round proper of the PA Cup) or Skelmersdale UniL ed (who have reached the


“Don’t get me wrong, I .


home g ^ e with Haiiogate, Railway (kick-off 3 p.m.), Reynolds said: “We have managed to get ourselves in a reasonable position with the start'we have made overall, and we cannot let all that hard work slip away. “If someone had offered


wants to use that point as a building block to get his sides’ promotion aq)irations back on track. Ahead of Saturday’s


ford City was the Blues’ first in the.league for just ovier a month, and ended a run of six straight defeats.' And the Clitheroe boss


: mal recent run. He has moved swiftly to rectify matters, with no


■ squad in place now.if ,we 'want to push on.’’ ,. Reynolds ■ has also stepped up to take his share ■ 'of the blame for their dis-


to play in the hew year, but with January and Pebhiajy to come which are notori­ ously bad for postpone­ ments. _ “I t looks like we are going to be playing Tues­ day, Thursday, Saturday "later in the season, which is why we need to have that


• fewer than seven new faces in reicent weeks, including.


■ two loan agnings.;, ; ; ■ Jonathan Forbes, Ridicio


: Accrington Stanley in their ■ PA Cup first roimd replay defeat at Tranmere two weeks ago. And the iriflux of fresh


■ King, Ollie McGee, .Ashley . Higgins arid Steve Maden • have all joined the squad, while Conor Kavanagh and Andy King have joined on loan - the latter having come off the bench for-


blood shows no sign on stopping, with Chorley


- midfielder Ashley Parillon also on the radar.


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MORE than 60 children' and their parents attended .


'. the Clitheroe Cobras pres­ entation in the clubhouse at Clitheroe CC. ,


Professional Paul Turn- . ., Ifr.r


er, .chriirmari Robin Sharp , and,,Cobras chairman Farouk Hussain made the ,


• sponsors Castle Cenient, who were publicly thariked


• awards along with the supr, ,, port of David Holgate of


- for their generous support ., of junior cricket’at Chat- bum Road. i Farouk Hussain paid-


special praise to the.suc- cess, of''the iriau'guaral. Cobras .Tour, an In te r . , League Under 10 Festival


need for more a'dults to come forward to assist- with trainirig'and team mariaging in order to build upon ,'the successes of recent years,-bearing in


and the creation of a girls’ section. He also stressed the


.mirid-tKe;eyer-growing-.- pbijularity’of the club. - -' The'- Under' l l and: ;


UnderlS teairis'who both clairned Lea^e arid Cup Doubles were honoured at , thVevent and mariagers gave ari'in-depth account of the season for these two teairis in particular. ■ - Oiir picture shows play-^ ers, officials and ^ e s ts at.


back on league fixtures. , ■ “Even if we play all our scheduled league games between now and Christ­ mas we, will only have played 16 league games, whichisdiabolical.-,- “That leaves us 22 games


And with the likes of


Gary Stopforth, Dave Han- kin, Craig Sargeson, Ryan Fisher, Adam Kozlowski ' Md'Barry Shuttleworth all


' returning from injury, not- to mention influential cen-. tre back pairing Ian Flari-r nery and Jonathan .Smith; all of a sudden, thin^ in the garden are looking rosy again. . .And Reynolds added: “I


thought I had got enough quality in the squad to chal- lengethetop^i “But I have quickly ,


realised in recent weeks that I had enough quality in the shape of 12 or 13 players, but that’s where it fini^ed. “There v s ^ ax or so that,


just were riot up to the level we need to be at. , “■We have had to endure


a lot of injuries and suspen­ sions all at once recently, and th a t gave me the chance to look at other members of the squad.'' ; “But I quickly realised I had to bring new faces in,


, but I shouldn’t have waited that long.


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games on the spin or so, that was the time to bring in some new faces to fresh-- en things up and give'that competition for places.” • Blackbimi Rovers Ladies are also in action at Shaw­ bridge on Sunday against Fulham, with thri game kicking off at 1 p.m.


.“When we had won seven Double winners are rewarded


the presentation, (s) ROLL OF HONOUR


George Drake; bowling, Sam. Bristol;'fielding; Matt Ash­ worth; manager’s award, JackKay.- Under 13 B: Batting, Gal­


ium Harris; bowling, Saiid. Ahmed; fielding, Robert Gibbs; manager’s award, ' Kristian Collinge. •, ■


Under 11B: Batting, Jack Burton; bowUng, Neil Shar- ma; ,>helding,' .'George Houldsworth; inariager’s award. Matt Driver." . * - Under; 13!;A: Batting, ■


.) Under;ll A: Batting,


Edward Drake; bowling. Josh Bristol; fielding, David Robinson; manager’s award, Niall Scorah.- ..


Dave Harikin . ■ Bernard Morley Blues’ losing run is over! Salford City . . . . . . . . .1


ance from Neil Reynolds’ side saw them full value for their point, but in truth it could, and should, have , been more.


end their wretched run of' six defeats on the trot in all competitions, ' An improved perform­


almost snatched a winner . late on, twisting and turn­ ing before watching a shot trickle agonisingly wide of the far post. But despite their failure.


Anthony Johnson ’ ,


to claim all three points, ■ mariager Reynolds, him­ self starting his first league of the game of the, cam­ paign in central midfield.


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minutes from time saw the Blues pick up their f ir s t ' league point for over a month. ’And it brought to an


Clitheroe. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CRAIG Sargeson’s free kick hauled the Blues o u t' of their losing rut. His 25-yard set-piece 15


up the UniBond League First Division North a t the start of play, went into the match full of confi­ dence after recording their first victory of the season the previous week. Reynolds fielded a riew-


can be more than happy with the effort shown by hisplayers. Salford, a side propping


included the welcome return of Gary Stopforth in midfield, after more than three months out through injury. ' . New signings Jonathan Forbes, Ridicio King and


look side in an attempt to, yield bet ter fortunes, including a complete new defence from the one that crashed out of the LFA . Challenge Trophy a t Rossendala - , Eight changes were made, with only keeper Martin Fearon, Re3molds and striker Johnson keepr ing their place. And those changes


Andy Smith - the latter on ’ loan from Accrington - all began the match, with Clitheroe startirig the brighter. . The Blues enjoyed sev­


r tinued to press and scored . a deserved equaliser when Sargeson rifled home his free kick that left the keep­ er rooted to the spot. - Smith’s ' strong'^ run


. sion to, until former - Clitheroe striker Danny Toronezak fired home from an acute angle.; • However, the Blues con-


- through the middle almost created a winner for John­ son after he latched on to the loose ball, but it wasn’t to be.


eral good chances to take the lead, as Smith saw his close-range effort flicked on to the bar, Dave Han- kin had a snap-shot saved and Reynolds saw a blis­ tering drive pushed over for a comer. And they enjoyed much of the second half posses-


' Christien.Smitton won all; four games partnering Graham •Morris in the mixed doubles''and Mary Brass in the ladies’ 'doubles.:: -..‘ And proving their strerigth in the ladies,


■Alison Lea-ver and Louise Burrill took their games conyinc- ingly. Stephen Pym, Paul


Cronshaw and Martin Meadows'^de up the squad.


^ Clitheroe Betook on Westholme A. Tony Bush played well with two wins when joined; by Julie Pym and Bill Robertson. Stephen Pyiri and Pete Woods scored the third vrin on the night.? , - '•


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Whailey are on


the lookout WHALLEY Under 16s are looking for new players to add to then- squad. The team plays its


football on Sundays in th e E a s t Lancashire Football Alliance. For more informa­


t io n , contact Dave ^ t l e y (01254 249601).


S P O R T S


.= D E S K C O N T A C T S 'Edward Lee


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