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’presentation night © ■:V Nelson and Blackpool aces hand out awards at Catholic Club


• Clitheroe Wolves celebrated another successful season with their annual presenta-- tionweekend.


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It has become neccassry to split the event into two, due to the sheer size of the club - 27 teams represented Clitheroe Wolves in the 2013-14 season, with over 70 children training - at under six also.


@ Clitheroe Football Club kindly agreed to let the club have the use of their Shaw- bridge ground in order for us to hold a Festival of Football. This consisted of all the


under seven squads and younger playing a fun tour­ nament on the pitch. Former Wolves player


Jake Lloyd, now with North West Counties League First


• Division champions Nelson, kindly gave his time up to present the medals and tro­ phies to the children who had represented Wolves through­ out the season. There were over 70 chil­ dren tak ing p ar t in the


l " tournament, and all had an enjoyable time despite the weather not playing ball: Wolves would like to thank Clitheroe FC Chairperson


_ Ann Barker for giving access ® to the pitch and providing re­ freshments. Then the main event was


held in the Catholic Club. Lloyd was again on hand, along with another former


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Rimington celebrate another season laden with silverware


Craven Cup winners Riming­ ton held their presentation nightatLowMoorClub.


The villagers also incorporat­ ed a race night, run by Cheeky Chimps, to raise much-need­ ed funds. Everyone who attended


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had an excellent evening, in­ cluding a good choice of sup­ per, and the awards were given out as follows: Player


of the Season - first team, M.


-Walsh; second team, L. Con­ ti; Young Player - first team, D. Robinson; second team, A. Ratcliffe; Players’ Player- first team, J. Walmsley; sec­ ond team, M. Leach; Under 21s, M. Cox; Goal o f the Sea­ son - first team, G.Hickling; second team, I. Czapowski; Under 21s, R. Cattermole; Leading Scorer - first team, G. Dinsdale; second team, M.


Leach; Under 21s, C. Bailey; Manager’s Award-first team, A. Hartley; second team, 0 . Quigley; Under 21s. D. Rob­ inson; Chairman’s Award - D. Conti; Clubman - A. Hutch­ inson; Outstanding Perform-, ance - Reserve Team for their record-breaking four-suc­ cessive Norman Pratt Trophy wins. ManagerTerryBraithwaite compered the evening and


thanked everyone for their support, especially main sponsors Waterloo Timber and all other sponsors. He said: “All three teams


have been successful with the Craven Cup, Norman Pratt and the Under 21s runners-up and alsolosing their cup final. It says a lot when we feel it has been a disappointing season, yet still have silverware in the cabinet.”


Dog boss bemoans missed opportunity in cup final


Globe Bullough...................3 Dog Inn............ ................. 2


Dog Inn manager Simon Ker­ ins bemoaned the “litany of wasted chances" as his side lost the HDML B Cup Final at King George’s. Sloppy defending handed


the Accrington side a two-goal lead midway through the first half but, as Dog got a foothold in the game, they squandered a number of opportunities to reduce the deficit. The Whalley side started


the second half strongly, on­ ly for further sloppiness to


seemingly hand the match to Globe. However, they pulled a


goal back when, having been brought down, captain Nick Lord fired home from the spot. Connor Haworth then net­


ted from close range to make it 3-2, setting up a thrilling final few minutes. Dog had three chances in


the last two minutes alone, but failed to take them and the day


belonged to Globe. Kerins said:-“We were the


better team but we paid for sloppinessand wastefulness.”


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Connor receives welcome backing


Clitheroe climber Connor By rne has received a boost after being sponsored by Johnson Matthey.


The firm have offered to help him with the cost of travel insurance, which is necessary to compete in Europe for the Great British Senior and Jun­ ior teams, and the cost of entrance fees for these events. Connor said: “It is won­


derful to have the support of local industry and I will endeavour to do my spon-


• sors proud later in the year when I am competing on the Senior Circuit.” Over Easter he trav­


elled to Austria with the GB Junior Team to train on the International com- petitionwallsatlnnsbruck and Imst. He said: “The Imst wall


still had the routes set from the Senior World Cup last year. I Was pleased to get quite high on the two qualifiers routes and had a good go at the final route. “It was a bit daunting,


Clitheroe UnderlOs Yellow-cup winners-pictu red with Jake Lloyd andDominicTelford(s).


Wolves player Dominic Tel­ ford, who is a second year ap­ prentice at Championship side Blackpool Football Club. Alan Greenwood, secre­


tary of the Accrington Boys’ League, was also in attend­ ance as a special guest. It was standing room only


in the club with 19 teams rep­ resented from Under eight through to Under 13. Each team received a


Player of the Year, Manager’s Player of the Year and Team award. . It has been a very success­


ful season for the Wolves, with all individual honours being awarded on the night. The main club awards


went to Bryan Pierce, who won the Robin Dawson Me­ morial Award for services to the club. Bryan also picked up the


ADJFL official of the year award. The Trutex award was won


by Neil Hitchen for his con­ tribution as a coach, and the Martin Rimmer award for the team of the year went to the Under 16s Blue. Many thanks from the club


for the evening’s sponsors Ian Boocock Garage and main club sponsor McDonald’s res­ taurant and manager Karen


Howard. Clitheroe Wolves would


like to thank all sponsors for their continued support. The club went onto thank


Ross Hibbert and Andrew Pritchard for their hard work throughout the season. Anyone wanting tojoin the


club can contact Clitheroe Wolves either through www. clitheroewolvesfc.co.uk or clitheroewolves@gmail.com


but then it would not be Senior World Cup stand­ ard if it was easy. “I also used one o f the


women’s qualifier routes from the Senior World Cup to train on, this was quite an enjoyable route. “I would like to thank


all my sponsors, with­ out whom the cost of rep­ resenting GB would be prohibitive:- Sports Aid, Beyond Hope, Lancashire Rising Star and UClan, RVBC and Whalley Physio.


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Champions take over at top after derby win


By D a n B l a c k


daniel.black@jpress.co.uk @DanBlack84


Champions Clitheroe are the new leaders of the Houlds- worth Ribblesdale League seniordivisionafterarain- affected Bank Holiday pro­ gramme. The Chatburn Road side took


advantage of previous lead­ ers’ Earby’s washout to take top spot after five games of the new campaign. They lead by three points


courtesy of a seven-wicket win over Ramsbottom Cup hold­ ers, Ribblesdale Wanderers. And it was another fine


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performance with the ball by Sri Lankan star, Janaka Gu- naratne, that laid the platform for victory. His figures of 6-34 from 18


overshelpedrestrict Wander­ ers to 89-8 from their37 overs.


Facing a revised target of


83, Clitheroe streaked home in 17.1 overs, losing only three


wickets in the process. They now boast the only


100% winning record in the division.


“They had us at 16-3 so it


could’ve been close,” said skip­ per Paul Gaskell. “The team showed great


character to seeit out though. There’s always plenty said ahead of the derby so it’s al­ ways nice to beat them. It was good to keep them quiet. “We took early wickets and


our pro again was exceptional. He’s really showing how good a player he is now. We were delighted to pick up 10 points, though it’s a shame it wasn’t 12. Gaskell added: “It’s still


early days where the league is concerned but we’re in a great position. There’s another dou­ ble-header ahead so, though it’s a cliche, we’re taking it one game at a time.”


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Afterlosingtheir100% league record on Sunday, Whalley skipper Richard Lamb is determined to bounce backthisweekend. .


Whalley went down to a 91- run defeat at home to Os-


waldtwistle, after Saturday’s game at Earby was washed out.


But Lamb’s men have a Janaka Gunaratne, centre, in action for Ruhuna


chance to respond at Settle on Saturday, before hosting Barnoldswick on Sunday. Oswaldtwistle open­


. After a war of words between KyleO’Connorand Callum Clarke had spiced up the Rib­ blesdale Cricket League der­ by, Read eventually did their talking on the field.


The Whalley RoadandArbories skippers are close friends on the outside, but friendship was cast toonesideasReadand Padiham did battle at the weekend. The fixture had plenty of


promise with both sides in good form, but the Section A side proved too strong for Clarke’s men who were demoted to the lower tier of the league’s new template after finishing bot­ tom last term.


O’Connor and Joe Marshall


have formed a prolific partner­ ship when opening for Read, and followed up their 160-run stand against Brinscall last weekend to put on 144 for the' opening wicket at the Arbories. The captain fired five fours


and two sixes in reaching 46 while Marshall shot to 209 runs for the campaign when smash­ ing 11 boundaries in a knock of 78.


In reply, the bowling attack


of paid man Brandon Scullard (3-56), Elliot Lowes (3-24), Rich­ ard Sharpies (2-25) and Warren Eastham (1-0) forced the home side to fall 111 runs short. “It’s always good to win the


derby with local bragging rights at stake,” said O’Connor. “It was a very hard fought game but at the end we had too much for them, especially with the bat. Our total was far too much for them to chase down. “Myself and JoeMarshall put


144 runs on for the first wicket which took the game away from them. We were 15 overs in when we lost our first wicket. That al­ lowed others that followed to express themselves. Joe was outstanding again and he’s a man in form. He looks like he’s going to get a lot of runs.” However, 24 hours later.


Read were dumped out of the Lancashire Knockout Cup with


defeat to Prestwich Sport CC. Though they bowled well - extin­ guishing the hosts for 155, they uncharacteristicallyfailedwith the bat and lost by eight runs. Marshall, however, stayed true to form and hit 64. “As a unit we bowled better than I’ve ever seen," O’Connor


said. “Everybowler bowled with discipline and never slipped from their lines and length. “Brandon showed his class


when going for just 15 runs off eight overs, Elliot bowled bril­ liantly to take 4-24 and he’s improving every game, and 16-year-old Kieran Grimshaw showed his quality for the fu­ ture with 3-28.”


Salesbury fall just short in run chase


Cherry Tree's Mark Hadfield hit the highest Ribblesdale League score on a soggy Sun- daywith 88 out ofhis team's 225-4 in aclose encounter at Salesbury.


The Red Caps were set a re­ vised target of 165 before even­ tually falling nine runs short.


Tree had first knock, but


Susantha Pradeep removed opener Jack Woolridge for two, with the score on 26. However, captain Had­


field put on a partnership of 129 with Amar Ullah, which proved pivotal.- Hadfield was eventually outtoJoshBristolforago-ball


88, but Ullah continued with overseas amateur Ruan Sadler (36),sharing 66,with UUahun- beaten on 68 at the close. Further rain saw Sales- bury’s target reduced, and


they made a decent fist of their reply, anchored by Aneeq Has- san, who made 83 off 58 balls, crashing seven fours and


three sizes after coming in at number three, initially shar­


ing 78 with opener Jason Raw- son (18). But Salesbury fell narrowly


short in their run chase, as Ul­ lah claimed 3-41. The Red Caps have a free


date on Saturday, but travel to face Brooksbottom on Sunday.


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ers Oliver Jones and Phil Howard put on 106 for the first wicket, before Simon Gorton (5-50) and Sean Duckworth (2-44) helped peg them back to 185-7 after their 37 overs. Whalley slipped to 9-4


EJ7iii-sh Richard Palmer made 33 of Whalley’s all out total of 94


in reply, before being dis­ missed for 94 - with former skipper Richard Palmer


making 33 and GortonTg © notout. Lamb said: “We knew


Sunday would be tough, but they got off to a good start and batted with positive in- tent. It was a decent s c o r e d


onagoodpitch,butwewere happytopegthembackfrom what was looking a score of 200-plus, with Simon and Sean bowling well.


. . “We needed a good start- —.


in reply, but their bowlers put in a good opening spell, and there was no way back from 9-4. “We were always going to


have a knockback, but we’ll focus and look to bounce back” .


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Wanderers sink deeper in league


Wanderers' poor start to the campaign continued as rivals Clitheroe inflicted a crushing seven-wicket loss in the derby at Chatburn Road.


Skipper Charlie Jackson was themainstayoftheawayside’s innings, surviving 100 deliver­ ies to fire an unbeaten 33.


However, vice-captain Ric


Clarkson was the only other amateur to hit double figures with 22 at the tail end. Clitheroe paid man Jana­


ka Guneratne did the damage with figures of 6-34 from an 18-over spell. In reply, the hosts knocked


the runs offinjust 17.1 overs - when chasing a revised total of 83 - though Wanderers did apply the pressure when re­ stricting the champions to 16- 3 early on.


. JakeSunderlandtook2-26


from six overs while Ian Brit- cliffe added the only other scalp at the expense of35 runs from eight overs. -


Wanderers are currently


scrapping at the basement end of Section A, with Settle


and Baxenden for company. a • Houldsworth Solid- W


tors Ribblesdale Cricket League fixtures for Satur­ day, May 31st: Barnoldswick vRead;BrooksbottomvGreat 3 Harwood; Clitheroe v Brins- w call; Earby vBaxendenjEden- fieldv Cherry Tree; Euxtonv 5


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Padiham; Ribblesdale Wan­ derers v Oswaldtwistle Im- .. manuel; Settle v Whalley. Sunday, June 1st: Brins­


call v Edenfield; Brooksbot- @ tom v Salesbury; Cherry Tree v Clitheroe; Earby v Euxton; Great Harwood v Padiham; Oswaldtwistle Immanuel., v Baxenden; Read v Settle;-* Whalley v Barnoldswick.


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