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Lancashire crown won
- way to f i l l e r success in the golfing ranks. - ‘ ,
vfrpm sdihie of theworld’s'hottest prospects to triumph in the US IUds Int'eniational Golf Totamament held in East l^thiah, Scotland, has now been victorious in the
Lancuhire Girls’ Championships, played over 36 holes at Formby Golf Club. ■ ■
- And the Westbolme pupil’s rise to unchartered heights doesn’t end there because her rapid progress and
development has recited in her handicap being chopped totwo. '■
■ The Lancashire Junior Championship has just taken
: She got her first handicap of 45 just three years ago. “ P—“
Moran, said:
place at F^ormby Ladies’ hi perfect conditions. - -V “It was a pleasure to see some exceptional'golf from
“dr-youn^ters and the scores prtved this. • , , “Congratulations to ail the winheis and especially to
our 2012 Jimior Champion, Sophie Lamb from Clitheroe GdIfCliib^c>\i>,\..;.-r
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VVINI^ERf S ophie Lamb receives her trophy from Val Moraii.
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SKILFUL teenager Sophie Lamb has steamrolled her olTcoihpetition
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and tested during the fixture, at Shawbridge on T.uesday evening Tom Davidson, on as a second-half substitute, scored the only goal of the game in the 65 th minute.
BLUES boss Paul Moore lauded his squad after beating NWC Premier Division outfit Maine, Road in their first pre-season friendly. : 1 In total, 22 players were tried
Goalkeeper Hakan Burton, I I :
club captain Ollie Deveriney, v ic e -c a p ta in Lee Pugh, midfielder Simon Nahgle and forward Stuart Frazer were all absent for the clash, but Moore ’
w.as pleased wth what he saw. _ “It was a good run out, and
that’s basically all it was,” he said.-.
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to give everybody a go, whether it be an hour or in one'or two cases a full game.
“It gave us the opportunity .
by Dan Black to repeat th a t level o f
performance and start stepping rt up over the next few games now.
;
' _ ■ “We were-putting principals in to play that we’ve been, practisrng.
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“We p la y ed fo o tb a l l , retained the ball, looked
, hungry to maintain possession, ' md we looked sharp. ; • , “I t was a positive starting
point and we seem to be moving in the ri^it direction.”
Several familiar faces have ’ returned to Shawbridge over
the summer as the Clitheroe boss looks to mould his squad
■ for the forthcoming carnpaign. And, though those specific ■
. “In;.the. main, questions were answered over a couple ' of players/and we now know ■'
where w e : want to go with them and there .was also a few • surprises.
“Those players will, have .
playere may have been shipped out of the club once, Moore is ready to give therh a'second chance to prove their worth. “One of the concerns that- i.
many people may!have is that one or two players have come back to the drib who had
previously.been loaned out; o f shown.ifhe door by mahagemerit in the past
opening game becaiise they may not have had
: ; the necessary quality,” he said. “That may have been the
case at the time, but we’ve moved on a bit so I wanted to- invite everyone back, so I had an opportunity to work with them to see whether or not their exclusion was justified. ' -“I want to give every player ‘
who wants to play for Clitheroe Football Club a chance to prove themselves. 'I,
- . “The squad will start to take more shape over the next few ' games.” ' The,Blues lost. 14 league games' by a solitary .goallast
teriri, though they coriceded 76 ' . oyer the course of the 2011/12' ’ campaign.
And that’s a statistic Moore
is looking to rectify; 'i!. • “We’ve been wo'rking hard :
defensively,” admitted Moore. 1 “We’ve focused-ohi'bur-
shape, working in numbers
, and looking to cancel out the opposition as a urrit. “Maine Road had chances
■ towards the end but you are going to get that in games. ■ “The pleasinjg thing is that we limited them to a handful
concede and things came off f o r u s .
'right' at the back, limiting our defensive lapses, arid correcting a high percentage of errors from last season, then ;
. -Vlf we start putting things
I suggest that we will win many more gaimes. ■ . • ; . ^ - “I t ’s .a fine line in thrs division.” ;
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‘ Meanwhile, Clitheroe will kick-off the new campargn away at ;Garforth Town on Saturday, August 18th.
of chances, most of which were from outside the area. “I’m delighted that we didn’t
.
: Moore. “I’ve been there twice with Warrington and I’ve not been
play-offs last season, so it will be a good benchmark to start
: off with as to what standard we ’ are at after the first game.”, • The Blues will then entertain
Harrogate Railway Athletic on the first home fixture of the, season on Tuesday, Augusf ' 21st, before rounding off the month with a.FA Cup preliminary round clash against Radcliffe Borough on Saturday, August 25th, and an away encounter with newly- promoted Ramsbottom United
■ on Monday, August 27th:' : .; “It’s a decent first home
league fixture for us,’! Moore , said.
• .' • “If we can get something:,
from Garforth Town and build on that against Harrogate then It will be a great start for iis. “I’m looking foiward to it
and I think it’ll be an exciting season.
“It’s a tricky one,” conceded
beaten yet, so hopefully that, will stay the same. “They fin ish ed in^the
“What we’ve got to do is look after ourselves and not
; worry tbo -'muchrabout • the opposition. :
-division as us so as long as we apply ourselves' in the
They are in: the same
right manlier, be profe'ssibrial - and work hard then we will ■ compete.” ' ^ r
• Clitheroe face Runcorn Linnets in a pre-season friendly at Shawbridge on Saturday, (kick-offs p.m.).',':':^
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