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CUTHEROEADVERnSERSTIMES SPORT FOOTBALL, RUGBY UNION


Blues bounce back from '■ heavy away defeat In style


Garner’s men impress as they beat promotion favourites at Shawbridge


Clitheroe earned an impres­ sive 4-2 win at Shawbridge against ScarboroughAthletic


- c onTuesdaynight-afterade- pleted Blues sidewentdown 5-0 at Warrington Town on Saturday.


Captain David Lynch, Jimmy Heywood and Roberto Bon- aminio returned to the side,


• 'and helped Simon Garner’s men to a convincing victo­ ry against a side who were among the pre-season pro­ motion favourites. Scarboroughwent ahead


XL after eight minutes, as Tho­ mas Corner headed in after Joe Fox’s effort hit the bar. But.the Blues equalised


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midway through the first halfwhen former Nelson man JonnyHession capitalised on . a mistake at the back, broke


• clear and finished well for his first competitive goal for Clit-


• heroe. And Cltheroe went ahead


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eight minutes into the second half as Callum Hendry fed Lynch, who teed up Jimmy Heywood to lash in his first of the season from just out­ side the box. Corner hittheposti8min-


_ utes from time, and three


® minutes later, the Blues had the chance to make it 3-1 when Nathan Peat pushed Louis Mayers, when poised for a tap-in. Peat was fortunate to only


to awarded a yellow card, but Scott Bakkor blasted home


Waddington climb to


thirdplace


in the table Waddington rose to third place in the Door4 East Lan­ cashire League Second Divi-' sion with an impressive 3-1 win over Colne United. Playing sharp, attacking


football from the start, Wad­ dington created some early opportunities, with both cap­ tain Gary Brunskill and Chris Baron going close. A goalless first-half was testimony to Colne’s gritty determination to contest every ball. Waddington continued to


drive forward in the second half, and Baron opened the scoring with a fine individual effort, twisting and turning to make room fora low shot into the bottom corner. Colne equalised almost im­


mediately, forcing a corner from the kick-off from which their powerful centre forward placed an unstoppable header into the top corner. Waddington replied, and


on 70 minutes the influen­ tial Joe McTear’s early cross caused panic, and with Luke Conti challenging, an unfor­ tunate Colne defender turned the ball into his own goal. Waddington extended


their lead }0 minutes later as Sam Dean’se powerful shot forced its way past the keeper. Goalkeeper Jason Farmer was man of the match.


Skipper David Lynch, right, netted Clitheroe’s fourth goal on his return to the side against Scarborough Athletic on Tuesday night the penalty.


At Warrington Town on Town doubled their ad- sponded well as Karl Wills ished the rebound. a harsh looking off-side call, edshot. Substitute Ben Deegan- Lynch made it 4-1 when Saturday, Ciaran Kilheeney vantage before the break crafted the fourth goal as his


he broke into the area, rode opened the scoring on four as Nathan Burke’s shot was shotwasblockedbyadefend- a challenge and drilled past minutes, but the Blues re- saved, and Chris Gahgan fin- er’sarm,andGahgansecured thekeeper.


thematchballwithawell-tak- Scarborough pulled one was forced to make a fine Gahgan made it 3-0 on 67 en penalty,


back in injury time when save from JamesWalker.be- minutes, bringing the ball • In the closing minutes,• Gary Bradshaw scored direct foreagoalwaschalkedofffor down,andfiringinaleft-foot- Deegan added the fifth after from a free kick.


holding off two defenders. Clitheroe maintain good form


ClitheroeRUFC................ 36 ValeofLune3rds...............16


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Clitheroe put Vale of Lune firmly to the sword at Little- moor, scoring six tries in a gritty,ifsiightlyerror-strewn performance. Clitheroe, found them­


selves under the cosh early on, opening their account with a penalty after five min­ utes. They managed to settle,


and although slightly against the run of play, captain Rich­ ard Few snapped up a loose


ball and carve up the midfield to dot down under the posts. David Kenyon popped over the extras. By the interval Few had


nabbed another one and Clit­ heroe were 14-3 up: The visitors nicked back


a score o f their own after the restart, but a well-placed pen­ alty kick from Kenyon put the Maroon and Golds five metres from the line, and Clitheroe showed England how to do it with Will Dickenson. Man of the match Few


pounced for two more tries, showing a sharp pair of heels to his would-be tacklers, and young pretender Joe Weld- Blundell showed a touch of class to wrap up the scoring. Clitheroe seconds main­


tained their unbeaten start to the season, winning 48-0 at Preston Grasshoppers fifths. Clitheroe’s first try came


from a simple move, ending in Dave Watson crashingover. Mitch Jones added the extras. Austin Wensley went in for the second, before Jim


Smith powered over from short range. Jones adding the extras. The final score of the half


also went to Smit, making it 24-0. Joel Levins and Miles


Sharpies, both on their first starts of the season, crossed for tries in rapid succession. Jones converted both


scores. Levins added another,


and Ben Graves rounded off the scoring, Jones once again with the conversion.


Hurst Green Youth ease through in


LFA Trophy Coppull United Blues..........2 Hurst Green Youth.............9


Hurst Green Youth progressed through to the third round of the LFA Trophy following a su­ perb display. Green centre forward Dec


Barnes continued his fine early season form by helping himself to a brace, the first a


stunning 25-yard free kick. Green’s wing wizards Tom


Reede and Sam Musker both getting on thescoresheet, man of the match, Ollie Shipston, smashed home the fourth,


while substitute Tom Jacques helped himself to a fine brace. Full back Tyler Baron


scored the pick of the goals as


he ran half the length of the pitch before smashing an un­ stoppable shot into the top left


hand corner.


Morgan eighth after penultimate round


Whalley ace is 12th, 11th and eighth at world-famous Silverstone


Whalley’s Adam Morgan was in action as the British Tour­ ing Car Championship tookto thetrackforthe penultimate round last weekend atthe world-famous Silverstone


circuit. With 23 cars within a second of pole position, qualifying was a hectic affair. Morgan qualified 13th, just


o.4ofasecond away from pole position. Starting well, Morgan bat­


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tled to hold his position, side by side with Mike Bushell for almost the entire first lap, glued to the back of Rob Aus­


tin’s Audi, while at the same Gaining a place at the start, time trying to keep an eye on Adam got on with the job in histeamateAidenMoffat,who hand and rapidly made his was advancing up the order way up the order, behind him.


Gaining a place every few Moffat eventually caught laps, Morgan was soon head-


up with Morgan on lap seven, ing towards the points posi- and after a briefbattle, pushed tions, but after losing time his way past.


with a couple of battles, he was Morgan was not finished running out of laps,


though, and continued to Eventually the chequered hound his team mate, eventu- flag halted his charge, and he ally getting back past him in crossed the line in 11th posi- the final few laps to finish in tion.notashighupashewant- 12th place.


ed, but an important points Based on his fastest lap finish never the less,


from race one, Morgan started Starting from 11th put Mor- thenextraceofthedayin20th gan in a good position for the place, which is never ideal.


final race of the day. Gaining an impressive


three places on the first lap, his charge was halted by the safety car coming out at the start of the second lap. After four laps the race was back on, but try as he might, Mor­ gan could not find a way past Gordon Shedden in seventh. Keeping pressure on right


to the chequered flag, Morgan was forced to settle for eighth place. Morgan now sits eighth in


the championship with 226 points. The final round of the 2015 championship takes place in two weeks’ time at Brands Hatch Circuit.


Winners, from left, Brenda Griffith, Nigel Fairhurst, Carole Maher, Ann Almond,QraigHall,FrankHindleandPeterMain(s).


Craig Hall won Mytton Fold Golf Club’s Bill Almond Me­ morial Trophy competition at the weekend, on what would have been Bill’s 81st birthday. His 42 points was three


clear of Senior Trophy win­ ner Frank Hindle. John Kwasniewski was


third with 38 points with fourth-place Gary Ashton (37 points) taking the Di­ vision One prize and sev­ enth-placed Ryan McGarrie Division Two with 33 points. In the ladies’ section, Past


Lady Captain Carole Maher won from Gillian Pinder, with Brenda Griffith third. Mytton Fold’s ladies


played their own version of the Solheim Cup, and the USA won (again) following a drawn match and a sudden death play-off between cap­ tains Brenda Griffith and Ca­ role Maher. Steve Worrall (87-14-


Popular floodlit pairs bowls competition gets underway at Ribhlesdale Wanderers


RibblesdaleWanderersCrick- et and Bowling Club are again holding the popular Floodlit Pairs bowling competition, kindly sponsored by Rectella International Ltd. Festival competition one


has prize money of £820 on offer.


There is £200 for the win­


ners, £100 for the runners-up, plus £60 for semi-finalists. £40 for quarter-finalists and £30 for reaching the last 16. Qualifying rounds began


on Tuesday, and continue to­ morrow night, Tuesday, and the following Friday. Qualify on the night to go


through to finals day on Sun­ day, October 11th, when the last 16 will compete down to a winner from noon, with a scratch time of 12-30 p.m. In qualifying, practice is


between 6-15-6-45 p.m., with a scratch time of 7-15 p.m. No subsciptions after


roundone-nopay.noplay! The entrance fee is £10 per


pair. The draw for qualifying to­


morrow night is as follows: D. Parkinson and D. Butler (Nel­ son) v G. Cullen and B. Black­ burn (Burnley). M. and M. Cox (Gargrave) v


G. Barratt and K. Crook (Read). F. and J . Jolly (Preston) v


A. Whitehead and C. Cornall (Clayton le Moors). S. Barnes and R. Cook (Ac­


crington) v B. and T. Williams (Bacup). M. Beardmore and D. Har­


greaves (Blackburn) v G. Evans and P. Wellman (Nelson). B. McLellan and T. Lane


(Burnley) v S. Gall and A. De- whurst (Clitheroe). A. Lord and G. Emmison


(Blackburn) vK. Moore and B. Turnbull (Gargrave). M. Rimmer and S. Roberts


(Clitheroe) v J . Hodson and P. Stringfellow (Preston). For more details, contact


the club oh 07880 568489 or e-mail info@ribblesdale- wanderers.co.uk


73) won the third round of the Kevin Shanley Char­ ity Trophy competition on Thursday, but just failed to overhaul club captain Mick Bryan, whose best two- rounds-from-three scores gave him the trophy. Derian House Children’s


Hospice received a cheque for£375. Finals Day at Clitheroe


Golf Club on Sunday saw George Young snatch victo­ ry at the first extra hole from Andrew Blockeel in the Sin­ gles Knock Out Final, and Tom Riley won the Dugdale Trophy at the final hole when Steve Clash put his approach shot out of bounds when all square. Sam Geddes took the


Castle Cup by 4 & 2 over Stu Woodruff: Norman Fielding defeated JohnHolt by 6 & 4 in the Seniors’ Kershaw Putter


and Louis Barrett overcame George Nightingale 7 & 6 in the Junior Knockout Final. Geoff Duxbury won Sat­


urday’s Single Stableford with 40 points. Divisional Winners were


Chris Hamer (Division One); Matthew Day (Division Two) and Norman Entwistle (Divi­ sion Three).


Simon Swindells won .


Sunday’s Stableford after a * card play-off with Tom Poole, both scoring37 points. , Divisional winners in


the ladies’ “Wear it Pink” Two Division Stableford on Thursday were Val Fairless (Division One) on 32 points and Sue Kirk (Division Two) on 35 points. On Friday, Clitheroe jun-


iorswerepresentedwiththe ' East Lancashire Golf Asso- ® ciation Junior Town League champions’ trophy. Team members who have repre­ sented the club during the year are Sam Geddes (jun­ ior captain); George Young, Oliver Smith, Louis Barrett, Louis Phelps, George Night- ingale, George Bland, Josh Connelly, James Gardener and Jack Mercer. W h a l le y h e ld th e £


'Brandreth Champion o f Champions and Ultima com­ petitions. John Hamilton’s nett 71


won the Brandreth from 0 Mike Conroy (72) and Toriy n Moore (73). The Ultima trophy went 51


to Chris Summers (69), 0 ahead of Paul Irwin (70) and Dave Flanagan (71). On Thursday, Whalley la­


dies’Autumn Invitation Day was won by Margaret Calvert and Karen Thompson from Whalley, alongside BevDodd from Rossendale and Hath _ _ TownleyfromClitheroewith ’ 70-6.3-63.7.


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