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Clitheroe to host touch rugby


A fixture of Clitheroe Rug­ by Club’s summer calendar, the Annual Touch Rugby Tournament takes place this Saturday at the club’s Littlemoor Road HQ. It is an mixe d fun e vent, open to anyone aged 16-60I The teams are decided on the day so individuals can justturnupatip.m.and "


signup. There willbeabarbeque and the bar will be open for refreshments. The event brings this sum­ mer’s successful Touch Rugby Series to an end, with over 50 players bat­ tling it out on a Tuesday.


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Kieron storms back to claim memorial trophy


Superb back nine sees Hunt home at Clitheroe


It looked like just another day attlieofficefor14handicap- per Kieron Hunt when he coveredthefirstnineholesin a nine over par 44.


But the back nine told a differ­ ent story when six pars, a bird­ ie and only two dropped shots helped him storm back to the clubhouse in 37 to record the winning score in the Peter Geddes Memorial Trophy at Clitheroe Golf Club on Satur­ day with an 81-14-67. With birdies at 16 and 17,


Tommy Poole only needed to par the last to better Kieron’s score but a dropped shot put paid to his chances as did a bogey 6 at the 18th for John Braithwaite who took the third best nett prize. The Divisional prizes went


to Colin Barker (Division One), Nick Brice (Division Two) and Phil Snape (Division Three). ' Sunday’sMedalwaswonby


Kevan Abrahams with a score o f a score of 94-24-70 with Ni­ gel Clowes in second place on


78-7-71- Fresh from his triumph in


the Open Qualifier at Glasgow Gailes, Mark Young teamed up with Clitheroe Golf Club


members Chris Silverwood, Paul Woods and Rob Hilton to win the Clitheroe Cricket Club Golf Day last Friday with a team score of go points. The Senior team’s hopes of


a first ever Ribble Valley Sen­ iors’ league Championship title received a setback at Ley- land Golf Club last week with a 10-2 defeat, allowing rivals Shaw Hill Golf Club to take top spot for the first time this season. But a 12-0 win over Fleet-


Carol celebrates ace at 9th hole


Whalley Ladies held their July Open onThursday, sponsored by Goldilocks handbags and ac­ cessories. Winners with 92 points were Anne Prior, V iv Birtwell, Jean Sanderson and Maureen Board. The highlight o f the day was a hole-in-one on the 9th by Carol Ashley. Wilpshire Ladies contested the EG Medal, won by Donna Hindle (85-22-63), from runner-up E. Stebbings (72-1-71).


wood on Monday has kept them in the race for the title. Clitheroe face Shaw Hill in


a crucial double header later this month which may well decide the destination of this year’s title. Josh Connelly took the


Junior Captain’s Prize by six clear shots with an impressive round of 83-19-64. Louis Barrett was the run­


ner up ith the low round of the dayof78-o8-70withBenjamin Dowds afurthersixshots away in third. Sam Geddes was on top


form in the third round of the Junior Summer Champion­ ship with an impressive score of 73-5-68, nine shots ahead of runner-up Josh Connelly. The Jane Panter Shield


winner was Elizabeth Birt­ well whose score o f 101-34-67 was two better than runner- up Debra Wood’s 94-25-69. Michelle Fielding recorded thebestgrossscoreof82. A 9 hole Stableford was


won by Janette Ranson with 15 points followed by Eileen Lambert and Gill Wightman on 14 points.


Ayrton’s title hopes suffer a blow


Ayrton Knowles is cur­ rently trailing rival Lome Sinclair by 32 points in the British 250 open champion­ ship with three rounds left after round six at Gritten- hamMX. He was fourth in race one, and second to Sinclair after a long battle in race two. In race three,his engine died, and he ended up fin- ishingl2th.


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Canning stars again in Wanderers’ win


Ayrton Knowles(s).


South African Ryan Canning notched his fourth league ton of 2015 as Ribblesdale Wanderers beat Earby by four wickets.


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Ribblesdale professional hits fourth century of the season C an n in g now has 914


league runs at an average of 83- 09fortheseason-or40.5i%of the team’s runs! Can n in g’s compa tr iot,


Earby skipper Matt Haines won the toss and elected to bat, as Chris Walton contrib­ uted 71 out o f the home side’s 229-8. Ian Britcliffe took a season­


al best 5-57 for Wanderers. And Canning (106 not out


off 101 balls) and Mick Clark­ son (57 not out) shared an un­ beaten seventh-wicket stand to bring Wanderers home in the 43rd over.


Keegan Petersen, reached three figures for a second- successive weekend, backing up his 139 against Edenfield, with 144 not out from Read’s 254-4 against Baxenden. Liam Watkinson and David


Mills hit half centuries for the visitors, who eventually fell 20 runs short. Read will face Os waldtwis-


tle Immanuel in the quar­ ter-final o f the Twenty20 competition a fte r beating


Clitheroe at Chatburn Road on Friday night by 44 runs to finish second in Group Two. The defending champions


travel to New Lane tomorrow night. SkipperKyleO’Connortop-


scored with 44 in his side’s 147- 5 tally, having put on 63 for the opening wicket alongside Pe­ tersen (31). Michael Whalley (16) and


Joe Marshall (10) pushed the tally towards 100 before un­ beaten knocks of 25 and 14 from Thomas Turner and El­ liot Lowes respectively gave Read the initiative. C l ith eroe professional


Janaka Guneratne fired 47, but the pairing of Lowes (4-9) and Petersen (3-23) proved too prolific. Back to the league, and


Great Harwood’s Jack Edgar hit 14 fours and one six on his way to a 147-ball innings of 110 against Salesbury. Harwood’s total o f 208-4


proved plenty as Salesbury were dismissed for 169, with Paul Newton taking 5-28. This weekend, Ribbles­


dale Wanderers face a Ribble Valley derby at home to Read on Saturday, while Salesbury travel to School Lane to face Brinscall.


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Action from Clitheroe'sTwenty20 clash with ReadatChatburn Road on Fridaynight


Picture: Keith Driver


Clitheroe kept the pressure on Ribblesdale Cricket Leaguelead- ersSettlewith victory overCher- ry Tree and topped off a fruitful weekendbycementingamouth- watering LCB Knockout Cup tie with Burnley.


The defending champions re­ stricted the hosts to 174 at Pres­ ton Old Road; Will Calov's sixth wicket brdught the innings to a close offthefinalball. Opener Bilal Ahmed struck


59 in the run chase before he was fifth man out on 122. . Naeem Ashraf chipped in


with 36 to secure a three-wicket triumph. And a four-wicket win over


Lytham the following day in the county cup means they’ll host Burnley at Chatburn Road in a quarter-final tie on July 26th. With the home side culmi­


nating the innings on 190-6, last year's semi-finalists got over the


linewithJackDewhurst top-scor­ ing with 64. Meanwhile, Station Road cap­


tain Richard Lamb praised duo Richard Palmer and Sean Duck- worthforrescuing Whalley from the brink of defeat. The hosts were struggling on


32-7atonepointagainstBrinscall until a 71-run final wicket stand between theaforementioned pair sparked a miraculous recovery. Palmerwentontohit70 while


Duckworth finished unbeatenon io .


“We were in all sorts of diffi­


culties,” said Lamb. “Richard con­ tributed with a fantastic innings which wasjust what we needed in that situation. “He batted out the overs


which was a great achievement and Sean batted alongside him. They did the business, it was re­ markable, and that's probably close to a club record for a final wicket partnership.”


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Victoria helps GB win team gold at Euro Championship


Joshua adds to medal haul in Estonia


British number one clay pigeon shooter Joshua Bridges won team silver at the World Compak Champi­ onships in Estonia. The 17-year-old finished seventh overall from over 500 competitors in the indi- vidualworldrankings. “If he’d have gone any­


where else and competed in any other competition he would’ve won,” said dad, John. “The scoring was in­ credibly tightatthetop.lt could’ve gone either way. He did very well and I’m really proud of him. He’s a future world champion for sure.”


The former Ribblesdale High School pupil won the British Grand Prix Junior title recently at two disci­ plines, and landed bronze for Team GB at the Euro­ pean Championships in Hungary in May, as well as securing fourth place indi­ vidually.


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Victoria Wilkinson compet­ ed in the European Mountain Running Championships, representing Great Britain last weekend, in Porto Moniz in Madeira. Victoria ran a fantastic race to finish sixth, helping


. GBwomenwinteamgoldwith Emma Clayton third, Rebec­ ca Robinson ninth and Annie Conway 11th. Victoria, who works as a


sports therapist at Denise Park’s Physiotherapy Clinic in Clitheroe, has now won three team golds and competed in eight European Champion­ ships over the last 10 years. The course thisyear suited


her, being very steep through woods, climbing up steps be­ fore opening out onto a pla­ teau to finish the last couple of kilometres on fast running tracks.


Dave wins top award


for Dog Inn Eleven years after he first won the award, Dave De- whurst has been named the Dog Inn players’ play- er of the year for 2014-15. Vice-captain Dave, son


of late league founder Har­ ry Dewhurst, has been in­ spirational since rejoining the side in 2013. Club captain Nick Lord


Victoria Wilkinsonand herTeam GB teammates (s)


was Simon Kerins’.pick as Manager’s Player, while Si­ mon Holgate was again top scorer.


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