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Blues stun leaders to climb to sixth place


Clitheroe’s young guns ended leaders Northwich Victoria's 100% record at Shawbridge on Tuesday night, as they climbed to sixth in theEvo- Stik First Division North table.


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The Blues, with five teenagers on duty, had the bit between their teeth from thefirst whis­


tle, and inflicted the Vies’ first defeat with goals in either half fromScottBakkorandCallum


Hendry. BakkorandMichaelHamp-


son both had early sights of goal, before Hampson was forced off injured, replaced by Hendry after 16 minutes.


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Craig takes top spot at Mytton Home players win Four-man event


Clean-shaven Craig Hall took top spot by a hairsbreadth when Mytton Fold Golf Club held their September Stable- ford competition on Saturday. Craig’s 41 points and a


strong back nine pushed Ray Standring into second follow­


ing a card playoff. Angus Barr came home in


third position with 38 points ahead of fourth placed, and Division Two winner Ed­ die Scott, Division One win­ ner Garry Davies and sixth


placed Gordon Lucas all with 37points. Four players shared out the


Twos Pot with Gordon Lucas, John Whittaker and Martin Holden all birdying the first while Waynelvinsonjoind the


party at the ninth. As the season approach­


es its close Matt Oakley still holds a strong top spot in the Order of Merit with 86 points, some 14 ahead of Brad Hodge- son. This week’s winner Craig Hall is close behind in third


with 68 points Dave Penning­ ton, with 59 points, is hanging


on in fourth. The ladies held their Sep­


tember 9-hole Stableford this week and it was another win for Brenda Griffith, with La­ dy Captain Elect Tarja Wilson second, Gillian Pinder third and Lady Captain Ann Al­ mond fourth. In the Ladies’9-hole Order


of Merit, Gillian heads the ta- bleaheadofBrenda.withTar- ja lying in third.


Home players Denis Green­ up, Dave Heesom, Chris Vines and Peter Catlow won the Seniors’ Open Four-man


■ Team event at Clitheroe Golf Club with 87 points. A “Pop-Up” Open Four


Man Team competition on Friday was won by Tim Clarke, Clive Robertson, A. Thompson and J. Clarke with 91 points. Saturday’s Fourball Bet-


terball Stableford saw Ken Mantle and Denis Under­


wood win from AndrewDriv- er and Tom Riley in a card play-off on43 points. Stuart Nunn won Sun­


day’s Medal with 870-04-66. The ladies’ Jack Tatter-


sall Trophy on Thursday won by Kath Townley’s 88- 15-73. The 9-hole Stableford on the same day was won by Pat Brennan with 15 points, and Saturday’s Ladies’ EW- GA Medal was won by Sheila Cornwell with her score of 95-19-76.


And just before the half


hour, Bakkor added to his su­ perb effort in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at home to Ossett Town with the opener. Bakkor fired just over mo­


ments later, as Clitheroe went in ahead at half-time. Eight minutes after the re­


start, Bakkor turned provid­ er as Hendry latched onto his throughball and finished well to double the advantage. Northwich pressed for a


way back in the game, as they looked to add to eight-suc­ cessive league wins, but they found the Clitheroe defence in miserly mood, and, in front of


a crowd of 216, the Blues kept a clean sheet to claim a terrific victory. On Saturday, Clitheroe


went down 2-1 at Shawbridge against Ossett Town - their first home defeat of the cam­ paign. David Brown put the visi­


tors ahead after 19 minutes from the spot, after keeper Sam Guthrie - on his debut after signing on loan from Huddersfield Town - brought down the forward. Simon Garner’s men had


chances to level matters, and five minutes before the inter­ val, Bakkor and Louis Mayers


combined to release Hendry, but the striker was smothered by covering defenders. Right on half-time, skipper


David Lynch had a half volley clawed away from the top cor­ ner by Tom Morgan. Town doubled their lead


midway through the second half, as Nathan Curtis netted his 10th of the season, beat­ ing Gregg Anderson before firing across Guthrie into the far corner. The Blues’ travel to face


fourth place Warrington Town on Saturday, before they host seventh place Scar­ borough on Tuesday.


Clitheroe...................... -15 A dramatic come back for Clitheroe on Saturday saved them from what, at half­ time, looked like a deeply unpromising position. Clitheroe were under the


cosh from early on and strug­ gled to get into game. They found themselves


on the wrong end of a pen­ alty count - especially at the breakdown - where they struggled with the referee’s interpretation. Ormskirk scored two


tries in the first half, but had nobody to kick so the half ended with the visitors trailing 10-0. Clitheroe began to warm


to the task, and nice ball for the backs gave Chris Stewart the rare chance of cutting the line line at a great angle. Half a gap and he didn’t


need asking twice before he was through under the sticks. David Kenyon con­ verted and Clitheroe were back in it. NowClitheroewere gain­


ing the upper hand as the game seemed to be swinging their way. With the line outs working especiallywell,they probed for the corners and from five metres out caught and drove for the line in text­ book fashion. A pile up on the line and


up from the bottom of the heapwith ball was Clitheroe


numbereightJamesHaynes. The conversion just


sailed wide but Clitheroe were ahead 10-12 with 10 minutes remaining. Ormskirk rallied and


grabbed a try of their own to retake the lead, but Clit­ heroe launched a series of attacks to put them in the Ormskirk 22, and when the home team were penalised at the ruck, Clitheroe had a kick to square the game. Up stepped Joe Hopkins


to nonchalantly pop over the penalty kick.


Clitheroe 2nds...............80 Colne & Nelson 2nds.......22


Clitheroe’s seconds extend­ ed their unbeaten start against old adversaries Colne and Nelson. Colne opened the scoring


within thefirstfiveminutes, before Clitheroe levelled through wing Alex Wood­ ward. Further tries were add­


ed by Dan Smith, Richard Thornber, Steve Dowson and a penalty tiy, Jones add­ ing the extra points for all


but one. Martin Lafranchescina


scored three second-half tries, and Smith and captain Dave Watson went over, be­ fore Colne rallied and scored threegoodtriesoftheirown. Woodward rounded off


the scoring, and Jones add­ ed the conversion.


MOTOR RACING . Serious setback for


Russ’ title ambitions Clitheroe rally ace suffers second retirement of the season


Clitheroe's Russ Thompson rued a disappointing rally at the Eventsigns Woodpecker Stages in Shropshire, with a second retirement of the sea­ son dealing aserious setback to his championship ambi­ tions.


The Ribble Valley ace has led the standings in the Hyundai Genpower Production Cup since February’s season open­ er but, with the championship requiring competitors to drop their two lowest scores and to skip one of the nine events on the calendar, the advantage now sits with rivals Pat Nay­ lor and Tom Naughton. The erstwhile champi­


onship leader and co-driver Andy Murphy now need to win next time out on theTrackrod Stages in North Yorkshire, while hoping their rivals score lowon theseason ending Cam­ brian Rally in October to take the title. Thompson said: “The


championship isn't complete­ ly in our hands anymore and we’re going to have to count on a bit of luck if we are going to take the Cup and the class title.” “We needed a strong result


Clitheroe'sRuss Thompson


so we didn’t have to count on that and though that didn’t happen, we’re going onto an event where we have a good record. If we can do what we did last year, we’ll give our­ selves a chance depending on how things go on the Cam­ brian.” The day started slowly


for Thompson, with a hand- brakeproblemseeinghimfall almost 20 seconds behind N4 class Naylor leader over the


first two stages of the rally. He responding strongly


on the events middle loop to move up into third in class and ninth overall, but the gap to the leading pair remained an imposing 15 seconds, meaning further place gains would be heavily dependent on Naylor and Naughton encountering problems. The times Thompson was


delivering as he fought back showed a determination to


keep applying pressure and at­ tempt to force that error, but ultimately it came to nought, when a mechanical problem encountered midway through stage five of six couldn’t be re­ paired at the side of the road and put the Lancastrian over his time limit and out of the rally. The Dunnow Plant-backed


driver returns to action to take to the Trackrod Stages on Sat­ urday.


Adam climbs to seventh


Whalley’s Adam Morgan moved up in the British Touring Car Championship after the latest round at the Rocking­ ham Motor Speedway. Morgan qualified 19th, 0.75s away from pole position, and gained six places in the first lap alonebefore finishing in ninth place. Starting from the front row for the second race, Morgan came home fourth, and in race three, damage to his car @ saw him come home in 19th - only his third non points fin­ ish of the year. Morgan moved up to seventh place in the championship with 208 points, and the action continues at the end of the month at Silverstone for the penultimate round.


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Pat is second lady to win cup


Ribblesdale Wanderers Cricket and Bowling Club held the annual Ribbles­ dale Bowling Handicap Cup competition recently. The Ribblesdale Cup was first played for in 1914 and this year’s winner Pat Holt isthesecond lady to win it since Brenda Pilling won it in 2002, beating Martin Rimmer 21-11 in the final.


AspinaU tops field


in Medal Stonyhurst Park held iheir September Medal compe tition last week. Winner at the Hursi


Green club, with a round three under par, was Breni


Aspinall with an 89-23-66. Runner-up, two shoiS


adrift, was Dougie Bore- ham, after carding 82-14- 68.


And in third place was Dan Whalley, who shot an


Rimington storm back to win against unbeaten Rovers


Rimington............. ............ 5


Rock Rovers............... ........3 Reigning East Lancashire League champions Riming­ ton turned this game on it’s head to take all three points against previously unbeaten Rock, having been 3-0 down. Rock took the lead on 25


minutes, as a corner was only partially cleared and a shot from the edge of the area sneakedinoffthepost. Five minutes later the visi­


tors extended their lead, the centre forward getting in be­ hind Martin Aspinall to dink the ball over the keeper. Worse was to come when the winger was played in, in


behind Robert Lloyd, and he fired through the legs of Ker­ shaw on 36 minutes. In the dying seconds of the


half Rimington pulled one back as Gary Hickling’s cross was headed into the corner by the diving Thomas Eglin. In the second half, Hickling


headed into the path of Micky Walsh andhefiredinabeauty.


It was no surprise when Glen Dinsdale grabbed two goals to


put his side in front, and with 12 minutes remaining, Eglin scored his second with a pow­ erful header into the top cor­ ner from Hutchinson’s cross. Rimington are at Rock on


Saturday.


Holgate and Duffy at the treble for Dog in big victory


Arden Hall........................1


Dog Inn...........................8 Dog Inn put last week’s sur­ prise loss to Accrington Old Boys behind them with this convincing victory at Wil­ son’s on Sunday in the Harry Dewhurst Memorial League. Simon Holgate - making


his first appearance of the season - and James Duffy both netted hat-tricks for the Whalley side, while Matt Devine and Luke Chatburn were also on thescoresheet. Captain Nick Lord was


named man of the match for Dog. Manager Simon Kerins was delighted with the per­


formance and result: “After last week’s setback, it was vital to get back to winning ways and we did so with a re­ ally impressive team display. “Our excellent passing


and clinical finishing were underpinned with great or­ ganisation and desire, quali­ ties which are essential if we are to fulfil our potential this season.” Dog host champions Church at Wilson’s on Sun­


day. Local rivals Sabden went


down 7-3 to second place Church Town, and will look to bounce back at Heys Inn on Sunday.


Adam and Eric lift floodlight doubles title at Waddington


Clitheroe’s father and son pair of Eric and Adam Wal­ lace beat all-comers from an entry of 64 pairs to win the Waddington Floodlight OpenDoubles bowling competition. After two weeks of qualify­ ing rounds the final eight assembledon Thursday night to play for the title. In the quarter finals Adam and Eric took on Black­ burn’s Paul Brett and Dave Hoyle and ran out 21-10 winners. The semi final was a repeat of last year's final against Dave Walker and Arron Harrison but this time the Clitheroe pair reversed the result, winning 21-14. In the final, against Burnley pair Matt Har­ rison and Phillip Wilkin­


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son from St Andrews, Adam and Eric were never in trouble as they ran out 21-11 winners, much to the delight of the many specta­ tors who had supported the event,sponsoredbyBow- * - land Brewery.


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