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Dran^thetopdriverihthep '! BTRDA Production Cup class s i'J -:- and fifth in the overall stand- > -mgs. ; - -_;


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:/-,.vThe_26-yearrold delivered a v ^ S p n - 1 day of consistent and precise V W^M


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■ Evo'gJ building on a prom-" ising pre-season and more


^Jfij^an matching his pre event r targets of being at the sharp few 4 end of the order.


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- ghisknowledgeof theper- class entry, Thompson was : continued to go from strength Thompson said- “We’re S S f f r S S r S l S S ! ' g S 5 S t , ~ ^ ^ “ ■?,yn8ttiy .h a ,e d e b u& -veryp,e.Ld i S t ^ S


e,c? ° re 1 ° ^ fr Pr0Vl t]?at °fthe Second Placed N4 a«ion saw Thompson’s day ingsZrt ofimpressTve j -v ' - j r .■ ' . .—y . ' i ' * running within lb seconds of went.' wiumi ±u accuilUb U1 Weilu of his new s*teed,Thomp-; for the rally. ~ ' •• j .vs. -t


red a .ste-ady ™ n Retirements for three the pace of third place and “We’d set ourselves the mng-


^^BMa^cpI^PMialstage, sawThompsonclaimtheclass-- overall and with’two stages to ' overall and thmilnVliio to sit a comfortable ninth on lead and move up to fifth over- go, an overafipodiumwasbe- fZ e t W v p n t


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overall after stage two, Sal- ' Racecourse. , _ ^


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ley rom Hull in the semi-final of the Northern Counties Cup,


jTffJ ^ n l y to lose to a disputed pen- v a ity in the second half.


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fM % # v v na^ asaiast Lancashire cham- • ■ W.jg ; — pions; Eagley, the stakes were


*’ . high', and the villagers looked


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^sfe^Mgue"side looked comfort- able oh the ball; playing with a *:


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,, strongwindat their backs and pushing the locals back into their own half for long spells; On 15 minutes,a freekick


just outside the box brought a- good save from Kershaw, with


i. the ball being cleared off the line to safety.


'• Beverley won several cor­


ners, using the wind to curl - . the ball into the danger area,’


but Rimington kept them at bay.’--'^'''


^ V ‘ '_ ' - iThe villagers'fmally got '


r some deeent possession in the v ^ oppositionhalf andHickling’s ’r turnandcrosswasalmostmef


by Jackson, and the former Clitheroe man had the best chanceofthehalfwhenhewas; found by Blackburn. He attempted to flick the


ball over the keeper, who just got a touch on it, and in doing


so slowed it down enoughfor a defendertohackitofftheline. -At the other end; Fagan’s;


last-ditch tackle was'perfectly '


: timed,'and both sides had one: more chaneebefore half-time. Beverley.had a free kick which only justsailed over,;


andthenBlackburncombined with Hickling, whose cross '


was inches away from Walsh’s surging run into the box; ’


In the second half, Rim­ ington were hoping to use


•;■ the wind to their advantage, but the Hull side came out the blocks fastest, breaking away ’


v in the first minute, only to be thwarted by Kershaw.


, ' ®Vt evenhe was powerless


. • four minutes later, as a Bever- ,Jrleymidfielder struck a post' -when it seemed he was cer- "tain to score.


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-.?• On 67 minutes, a forward running into the box lost the • .ball to Hartley’s perfect tack-


■ le.However, the player went . down under challenge from


• straight down the middle. • Rimington went to three at


another player, and the ref­ eree decided there was suf- ficient.contact to award a spot kick, which was struck


. in search of the equaliser." . . The last 10 minutes was > rnore like the usual Riming- , ton. but they found the visit-


. ing keeper in no mood to be beaten.


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the back, and they pushed on


Joyfor Meloyin order of merit


G. Meloy blewthe rest ofthefieldaway witha fantastic 33 points from 13 holes in the Jamie Hunt: winterorderofmeritat Whalley Golf Club. ’ . ,


- Second place went to in­ form Ed Gierat with 30 points,,which lifted him into firstplace in the or-


; der of merit; and third was Trevor Thomber (28).


t u b places on the final stage be- Cruelly however, a bro- target S H K i S that possibility and while he get much better really. i t o i „ gMrs s r s b' o m b i y S v T n g f t ; s


This improved to eighth fore service at Chepstow ken rear bar after clipping a t ^ a S S S S f f i S i S ’ Resuming under bright- ditch on stage six put paid to much more to come, it doesn’t


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v: . W i th th e .e v e n tb e in g for the six-mile test matching that made up the afternoon’s - Thompson’s result was noth’ ^ r h


’ J.°WYaIle.ts> with his time ening skies, the three stages ' dropped back to fifth overall “It ,was a challenging ral­


ly and I have to say thanks to the guys at Proflex Suspen­


sion who are helping us learn about setting up the Evo. “The event was fairly


bumpy and the last two stages were particularly rough, but < we were very pleased with the handling of our car.” • Russ’ next event is the Mal­


colm Wilson Rally in Cumbria on Saturday, March 8th.


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Dog Inn’s first game since early December saw their


. Terry Catter'mole Trophy campaign get off to a win­ ning start at Memorial. The Whalley side, run-


. ners-up in last season’s fi- nal at Accrington Stanley, made the ideal start when Naidan Holgate fired home after barely 30 seconds.


■ ished confidently after 20 minutes, before Naiden


slotted home a third before half-time. Dog were guilty of slop-


. piness that quickly gifted Baggy’s two goals early in he second half. However, the tie was


made sa fe when Luke Chatburn, who enjoyed an impressive debut as a sec­ ond-half substitute, head-


■ ed home from close range. Midfielder Arron Rip­


ley was named man of the match.


• Dog take on Bees Knees in the league at King George’s on Sunday.


Sabden............................12 AFC Bacup................... ....4


Sabden racked up an im- pressive i2Tgoal haul to deliver what could be a vital dent to AFC Bacup’s Burnley Sunday League First Division title chal­ lenge.-- -1' - Goals came from David


(3), Paul Astin (4), Jonny Heap (2), Adam Fuller and Ricky Grayston (2). , ' James Duerden 17, was named man of the match.


7 His brother Simon fin- Wakefieldcpllectforst home win of the season at expense of Glitheroe


Wakefield.............................2 Clitheroe.;........:.......:..^........0


After an enforced four-week break due to adverse weather and to.the fixture computer, - Chtheroe suffered a fifth-suc­ cessive defeat at Wakefield on Saturday as they registered a 12th game without a win. . In what was Wakefield’s /


first home win of the season, ■ the hosts went ahead within two minutes as Robert Bord- . man was impeded as he drove: towards goal, and he picked


. himself up to nonchalantly slotted the spot kick home. Shortly after, Simon Nan-


gle, back from a spell at Colne, floated a free kick dangerous­ ly into the Wakefield box, but Scott Byrom could only slice the chance wide........ Boardman was the sole


threatfrom Wakefield all day, but he was sufficient to cause real problems. A hopeful punt saw Bor-


dman free again; and as he bore down on Ben Proctor, he skewed the ball wide. After quarter of an hour,


Clitheroe. had the ir best chance of the game.-A su­ perb inswinging cross from


■ therightbyChrisBaileyarced perfectly onto the head of Paul Coote, who missed the target from six yards. • ' ; Midway through the half, -


Bordman again caused the problems as his cross-shot hit the far past and bounced. to safety. - Charlie Gollinge replaced . .


Action from Saturday’s game


Kial Callacher before half-* time and AlexRalphreplaced; the. unusually out of s o r t s : Matt McNamara for the start of the second half.


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Ralph promised much, and- he worked well with Coote


■ he slowly petered out of the ■ game.7


to fashion two openings, but -


On the hour; calamity-


struck as an old fashioned hoof from defence by Wake-: field was picked up by the - right corner flag; and the re­


sulting cross caused mayhem; in the Blues defence before _


- Proctor dragged down the at- ■ tacker, andBordman doubled the lead from the spot.


. • Still the Blues did not fire into life, and while half chanc­ es fell to both sides, a long dis- -


Murray aims for Mexico final


Clitheroe's Samantha Mur- - ray is the most experienced ■ : member of the eight-strong : British team contestingthev first modern pentathlon : , World Cup of 2014 at Acapul-. - co in Mexicothisweek." -


London 2012 Olympic silver- medallist Samantha Murray, - at 24, heads a team in which: half the athletes are 21 or younger.


- : Murray, currently ranked


16th in the.world, is joined j in the women’s.team by Kate -•


French, whose 10 th place fin­


ishes in the individual com? petitions at last year’s World


. and European Champion- ■ ships sawher climb to 21st in the world rankings. Two Scots complete the


GB.line-up for the women’s competition-FreyjaPren-;


- tice, who returned frominju-; ryto finish fourth at last year’s


- Europeans, and 19-year-old 7J0 Muir, whomadeher World


Cup debut in Palm Springs a =year ago, and nowcontests


Jamie Cooke is joined by-


Joe Evans, Sam Curry and* TomToolis.for themen. - : ■ Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GBj s


; Performance Director, said: v - “Thisisthesecondyearofthe - - Olympic cycle leading up to ...


:: Rio, so the bar is rising gradu- ■ aRy for athletes.


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- “They all have a lot more : experience now and we ex- 7


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pect them to show a good in- - ternational standard at the ;


-first World Cup oftheseason.” • ; --Rartu said current world.;


7 her second World Cup._ : • v 7-rankings -- based on results*


over the last 12 months - should - not be considered pointer to performances in coming events. “Each season:everyone starts again on zero really, it’s an open - book.


- “They need to forget.what’s :. happened in the past.


■ - “ It’s a new season with new: dynamics.” _ - - Women’s qualification took


place yesterday, with Murray hoping to be in action tomor-, row in the women’s final, ahead - of the mixed relay competition - on Sunday.^


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- * - Picture:PeterRyan . tance effort from Collihge,


: spilled by.the keeper and almost falling to the feet o f :


■ Coote,wastheirbesteffortas : thegame ended withawhim- ■ per for Clitheroe in front of a


* crowd of 45 at the 12,000 ca­ pacity Belle^Vue stadium.


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Disco Ninjas hold onto • five-a-side - league title-


LastSundaysawtheendof. . the current S-a-side league at Roefield Leisure, where Disco Ninjasheldontotheirtitle,


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despitegoingdown5-1totheir - . closes rivals, Nottin.


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After defeating Coping Badly 4-0 earlier on, Nottin had to beat Ninjas by sixcleargoals t o ^ -


, take the title away from th em ;* 1 * Afast and furious start to


< the game saw both sides go - . close, however Nottin took the , lead midway through the first, half, but soon extended their


- lead just before half- time. A mistake-at the begin­


ning of the second saw Nin- Q


j as pull a goal back, but then Nottin turned the screw, and


■ relentlessly attacked the Dis­ co Ninjas goal, adding 3 more


• leaving the Ninjas hanging on .■ by a knife’s edge for the f in a k^ two minutes of the game. •" • Chances fell to Nottin, three glorious opportunities,


- but they were denied by Dis­ co’s manager and goalkeeper PhilRidgway.


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Chatburn back in nets


.ChatburnCricketClubholdin- ^


- doornetsonMondaysatBow- - land School,Grindleton.


Thejuniorsstartproceedings from 6-7 p.m., and the'adults foUowonfrom7-8p.m.--„- - -• Newplayers are welcome.


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"•■ '/AThe new league is due to .,; ' commence on Sunday, andfor


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