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' ' V I CLITHER0EADVERTISER&TIME5 www.clithoroeadvertiser.co.uk Thursday, February20,2014 Thursday, February20.2014 www.clitheroeadvertiser.co uk SPORT LATEST AMATEUR SPORTS NEWS


Reds pull clear at top after 6-0 triumph


Lamb takes on the captaincy as former skipper Palmer becomes chairman Bt Dan Black .■ .


- damel.black@jpress-co.uk Twitter:@DanBlack84


It’s full steam ahead at Station


Road after Richard Lamb was : announced as Whalley CC’s ' new captain ahead of the 2014


' season.


The 33-year-old, ready to em­ bark on his fourth term with 0 the Ribblesdale League side,


will replace outgoing skipper : Richard Palmer, who has tak- en on the role of c h a i rm a n ; 1 Lamb will take the reins in the league’s inaugural cam-


z^ pa ign under the new struc- ture, with the senior set-up divided into Division A and Division B. ' - - W h a l le y ,'h a v in g 'en d -


ed 2013 in the top nine, will start in the former, along-


-m::• .side champions Clitheroe, Barnoldswick, Settle, Read, - Oswafdtwistle Immanuel; Baxenden, Ribblesdale Wan-~ derers and Great Harwood. “I’m really looking forward;


to i t ” said Lamb..“It’s a big challenge, but one I’m excit- ed about. ‘Dickie’ did a great job as captain ofWhalley over


. thelastfewyears.Hefinished* by getting us in to the top divi- v


■ - turesowe’llbesurroundedby good teams. “We’ve_got to h i t the,


. son. It’s important that we .. perform from the start be­ cause we’ve been slow out of


: sionoftheleague’snewstruc- • Richard Lamb in action for Whalley against Barnoldswick


the blocks in previous years. • We’ve finished seasons quite strongly, so we’ll give our­ selves a chance of doing well; if our start can match that.” ; . Wha lle y.hav e, enjoyed >


’ fruitful campaigns in recent years, finishing sixth in 20x2


and fourth the previous sea- :, son.


■■ ■ '-.. ground running next sea-. _ They also won the division­


al Twenty/20 competition in 2007, 2008 and 2010. How- : ever, it’s been 24 years since - the club last won the cham-;


pionship and 20 years since-


■ they lifted the Ramsbottom Cup. Now Lamb is hoping to - change all that.


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". . ■ “As a first team we’ve got - a very good group of players,” “ he said. “We’ve got a lot of ex-;


: perience with a mixture of youngsters. One ambition is ^ ■ todevelopthoseyoungerplay-


. ers and get the senior players to help with that. I’mjustlook- ing to achieve the best we can:, with the group that we’ve got; - “I’d like to think we’re ca­


• Tommi’s autotest


Junior rally driverTommi Meadows took part in a week­


- e n d of autotesting at the M65 -; -services.", ; :


compete on single venue ral- -*


r,:-^test Kick Energy Junior 1000 ^^knii]y.cluunpioiisdiipthisyear;' .


: i4-i7year old boys and girls to? "


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, lies in i litre rally cars before, they are able to drive on the: road. .


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. < The i4:year-oldBowland High v - - School pupil is hoping to con-; •


§The?championship is for ‘ > ^ * ''f'O


; “I entered the autotests .


this weekend as I need to get- three signatures from the ..clerk o f the course to enable:-:


metogetmyrally license,” said Tommi. -


't * “On Saturday I drove my v


Nissan Micra rally car and a Land Rover Discovery, and on ^ Sunday Ijust drovemy Micra.” v., Tommi managed to get all : the signatures needed and


. came away with ‘an imprest sive first in class on his first: autotest: -


- His first proper rally is on


March 2nd at Three Sisters: Race Track in Wigan.a


Tommi Meadows in action (s).;


pable of beating anybodyin that division. We’ve had a


good few seasons and we want to push on again. This will be :: my fourth season at the club and ‘Dickie’ has done a great


job. His running o f the team .was superb and he got every-; thing out of the players.” Lamb added: “Hopefully I


. can bring something differ­ ent to the situation. Richard - felt he’d taken the team as fa r ; as he could so I want to build ■ on that and bring a fresh ap­


Waddington Red have pulled clear atthe top of the Dorothy Southworth Indoor Bowling League at the Roefield Leisure Cen-


- tre in Clitheroe.


. In the latest round of games they h ad a convinc­ ing 6-0 win, while near­ est rivals Sabden suffered a surprising 6-0 defeat,


. thus enabling Waddington ■ to create clear daylight be­ tween themselves and the


. rest of the chasing pack. Once again winning


on both mats, Wadding­ ton Red are proving them- se]ves to be a formidable


- team and the team to beat. On mat one,- the trio of


Ian Jackson, John Cropper and Bill Rome overcame Clitheroe’s Jeff Cowling, Ray Black and Carol Sut-


; clilfeby2ishotsto 15, while on mat two, Kevin Ryder,


Jim Tierney and Ken Bark­ er had a more comfortable 28-13 victory over Philip Manning, Muriel Wilson and Bob Warburton.- Longridge. Commo­


proach with new ideas. I’ll be challenging the players and


' the group to improve them­ selves.


“We’ve had a lot of suc­ cess over the years in the cup


competitionswhichhasbeen importantfortheclub. That’s


something we will be target-• ing again; We’ve got a tough draw in Clitheroe at home in


the Ramsbottom Cup but we’ll be going all out to progress in that. Victory could open things up for us.”


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dores had a maximum points victory over Hurst Green, but a special men­ tion must be made of skip Tom Haworth, whohadhis game of the season, repeat­ edly breaking the hearts of his opponents by his con­ sistent accuracy.


- ' Theclosestfinish,how­ ever, came in the game between Read and West Bradford. As the final ends began, the scores were tied at 34-34. with Read’s triple o f Alec Slater, Sheila Hill and GeoffBarrett leading West Bradford’s Angela Whitworth, Denise Ather­ ton and Tom Bradshaw by 22 shotstoi3. Whileonmat two, West Bradford’s Mary Bradshaw, Helen Meadows and Ian Whitworth held a 21-12 advantage over Clift­ on Pollard, Keith Bradshaw


: and Gavin Ward. - ' '■ However, West Brad­


ford held their nerve, and by scoring a single on both mats, took the extra two points for the aggregate


• score of 36-34. . Sabden-slumped to a


surprising 6-0 reverse at the hands of Waddington Blue, with the Blues secur­ ing maximum points with


: a last end victory on mat two, after the score had been level at 20-20.


Maroons beat


. Birchfield RUFC..........;.....'.50 .Clitheroe RUFC.^..:.:...:..: .20


After several enforced inac-


. tiveweeksduetowaterlogged pitches, Clitheroe’s first XV


: finally got agame under their belts on Saturday.:• - r :


The hosts were Widnes side Birchfield, who are sit-


tingin the second promotion positionin North Lancs Div 2. ' ■ Instead of a muddy home


, pitch, the impressive Halton Stadium had been secured by Birchfield for the afternoon. - Playing in a stadium was a


novelty enough, but running out on the superb 3G surface was even better.


So Birchfield and Clit­ heroe battled it out on the


ground where, the day after, Widnes Vikings saw off Lon­ don Broncos in the Rugby


League Super League. _. Clitheroe’s only changes


saw Kieran Keough come in at tight head prop and. Alex Hough have his first start of • the season for the firsts on the flank.


Clitheroe opened the scor­


ingas full back GregBirch cut through on an angled run, as the home team paused -


for what they thought was a knock forward. :


All too soon Birchfield


were level and then pulled awayjust before the interval. ■ ■ . Glitheroe were showing


up well at the breakdown ar- ea, and were retaining and recycling the ball safely and efficiently. If anything they


Clitheroe RUFC line-up at the home o f Widnes Vikings on Saturday (s).


were guilty of over egging the offload at times when a ’ simpler layback would have proved the better option.: . W ith h a l f - t im e ap ­


proaching, Birchfield took command, and although Clit­ heroe were still in it, they had


to stem the rising error count. - In the second period, Clit- -


heroe could only-muster a‘ couple more tries. 1 ■ The first was after a pro­


longed period of pressure in ‘ the opposition 22; the pack went through several phases


Garner on target oh


Whalley’s Joe Garner made itIOgoalsineightstarts - sincetheturn of the year for Preston North End on an emotional day at Deepdale on Saturday.


Garner's^penalty earned-


.North.End a share of-the spoils against promotion ri­ vals Leyton Orient, taking his tally to 17 for. the season, as the town'came together to mourn the passing of Sir Tom Finney, who died on Fri-: day night. ;


The Preston players all wore shirts bearing Finney’s


. name, and there was barely a dry eye among the crowd of 13,440 during a minute’s si­ lence for one of notjust Pres- . ton’s, but England’s greats. _ v. Mathieu Baudry fired the .>


O’s into i :o half-time lead : , from Kevin Lisbie’s knock- . down, before boyhood North End fan Garner rescued a - point from the-spot after the break, after Baudry had v brought loan striker Craig :• Davies down in the area:


y ■ weather by switching.to 3G pitch, but hosts come.out on top


Triathlon 1 The Pendle Triathlon 2014, takesplaceonMayllthfrom West Craven Sports Centre.


Date is set for the Pendle ,


The event starts with a 750m ■ swim, followed by a fast 20km >


■ two-lap bike ride, finished off . by a 5km run.


■ - ' . ' Itis officially one ofthe old-


' est triathlons in the UK and has a capacity for 200 coimW


■■ petitors.' This year is the first year


v Pendle Triathlon Club are - ' , hostingtheevent,andthereis


a massive prize fund, for such asmall event.


- - PTC is newly-established, v. and at the end of 2013 already "1


: had over 30 active members. The club have linked in . with the British Triathlon Fed- - eration and are keen to sup- ■


. portandpromotethesportof • triathlon at all levels and age[3» ranges.


-


; 1 •. With a good mix of juniors and veterans racing under the Pendle triathlon name, train- ~ .ing sessions are held up to five i .times a week, and BTE level 2 ;,


i- • coaches are building the club ^ 3 up to a racing ability, k


Chatburn preparefor ^ thenew season


before the ball was spun out, leaving centre Chris Wad­ dington to pick a nice angle '


.to touch down near the posts. .« v ■■The final try was for Clit- V heroe'as well; after an all out attack keeping the ball alive, - the action swung from side


to side,’and eventually.-the'* defence was stretched and ‘ the ball came out to left wing


■ Wayne Latham, who powered 'over.


- - , On Saturday, both Clithe­


roe teams are at home hosting rnrnfnrtli


, Chatburn Cricket Club hold in- 4 door nets on Mondays at Bow- land School,Grindleton.


Thejuniorsstart proceedings from 6-7 p.m., and the adults ■


, follow on from 7-8 p.m. :>;•^ ’ New players are welcome. ■


‘ J»’ VaUey clubs


: invited to j • join Sunday League


v Ribble Valley football c l u b s • areinvitedtosubmitadvance »


..expressions of interest in - joining ^e Blackburn Sunday Football Leaguefor the 2014- y


J5season.. •■ '


.Anyone interested in joining .. this highly-competitive, well- . s


W


1 established league should e- • mail league-secretary Petey^ • , Fryer at pete.fiyerjantlworld.-"'


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