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ping five goals in defeat in the FA Trophy at Salford City by com prehensively dumping Conference North Fleetwood Town out of the LFA Co-Operative Challenge Trophy last Tuesday night. And they backed that up with
FOUR points over the week have sent Clitheroe soaring up to 12th place in the UniBond Lea^e First Division North - and justified Peter Smith and Kenny Mayers’ faith in their side. The Blues responded to ship
Blues bounce back by Chris Boden______
Ryan Fisher at centre back, as he was rested with a hamstring strain as a precaution. The visitors started brightly
from 2-0-up to 2-2 against Harro-— gate, but went out and won the game again, and they showed great character, like they have all season, to be fair. “That’s why, even though we
games over the week, at Ossett Albioh on Saturday and a derby at rock-bottom Rossendale Unit ed on Tuesday, and Mayers said: “It seems to be clicking into place^ at the minute. Early season we felt things weren’t going for us, with one or two decisions going against us, but we even got a cou ple of penalties on Tuesday - it was like waiting for a bus! “The lads were pegged back
ing into mid-table, and assistant boss Mayers feels the side can fur ther progress over the coming month. They have two more winnable
but we’re a lot closer to where we want to be.” On Tuesday, in front of 152
fans on a miserable night, Jonathan Forbes came, in for
ranted more than we were get ting, and I.’m delighted for the lads that things are starting to come together. “There’s still a long way to go,
weren’t too far up the table, we weren’t panicking.. “Performances, we felt, war
a 1-1 league draw at Salford on Saturday, and a 4-2 home win over Harrogate Railway Athletic. on Tuesday. That has sent Clitheroe climb
soon after when Zach Clark drib bled his way into the area and slotted home. Railway halved the deficit from
the penalty spot, and went in level.
But Smith got the response he
required from his men after the break as they went on to win. When Clark was upended in
the box, Nathan Taylor convert ed cooly from the spot, and the Blues wrapped up the points when sub s titute Jerrome Matthews was brought down, and this time Jason Jones slotted in the penalty. On Saturday, Clitheroe were
unlucky not to avenge theu 'Tro phy exit at Salford. ■The Blues dominated the first
half and created numerous chances, with Nathan Taylor driving a shot across goal, before -forcing a fine save and then seeing
an acrobatic overhead kick sail just over. Taylor could have had a penal
noses in front seven minutes after the restart through a half-volley from just inside the box from Clark. However, the hosts grabbed a
fortuitous equaliser when Han ford failed, to gather a high free kick, and the loose ball was bun dled in. Mayers looked back on the week: “We’ve tightened up since
ty on half-time as he was clipped by the keeper, but the referee ignored appeals. Clitheroe eventually got their
DELIGHT: Kenny Mayers
the Trophy game, we obviously beat Fleetwood, and then we drew on Saturday, when we felt we probably should have won but for a rare error from Danny. “He would normally claim
those no problem, but these things happen and he’s saved us in other games so you have to accept it.
football of the season at Salford though, and then went out and beat Harrogate. “We thought we were coasting
“We played some of our best
a t 2-0, but at half-time, Pete shook the lads up a bit and it did the trick. “We always felt we were capa ble of winning the game.”
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and forced a number of early saves from Danny Hanford, before the Blues went in front on 19 minutes courtesy of Andrew Naylor, who rifled in a shot from the comer of the area. Clitheroe doubled their lead
Lewis is a superstar
Readstone United Vnder-Bs Blue.........7 Pendle Forest.......... 1 STAR man Lewis Lorenzon hit a hat
-trick as Readstone recorded a convincing win last weekend. Joel Bentley also
weighed in with three goals, while Adam Col- lison was also on the scoresheet. Barnoldswick.......... -i Clitheroe Wolves Vnder-14s................ 3 WOLVES let a half time lead slip as they lost
out to
Bamoldswick. Ben Shackleton net
ted twice with Robbie Read also on target, as Zak Robinson took the man-of-the-match award.
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