Sport

On-song Spalding Orcas ran out 14-7 winners in their latest league match against Northampton at the Castle Sports Complex pool. The Orcas – who are part of Spalding Water Polo – were dominant in the first quarter, with Steve Rogers scoring their first goal within 20 seconds. John James quickly added two more, before Rogers netted his second. George Rogers ...

Champions Moulton Harrox enjoyed a title party at Broad Lane as they beat Peterborough ICA Sports 4-0 in their final ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division game of the season on Saturday. For once, it was all about events off the pitch – with boss Dave Panton and his side getting their hands on the trophy after the final whistle. On the ...

The finals night of Holbeach and District Pool League showcased some incredible matches as a host of South Holland’s top talent went head-to-head at Sutton Bridge’s Anchor Inn. Headlining the evening was a marathon three-hour Knockout Cup final between by the top two teams in Division One – Woadmans Arms and Golden Lion. In the end it was Lion who ...

An impressive 12 boats took to the water for the annual Tulip Regatta at Welland Yacht Club on Sunday. Contested in an ever increasing wind, Andy Prior (Laser) took first place in race one ahead of Tom Bell and Ros Nickols by a short margin. As the wind increased Bell, using the smaller Radial rig on his Laser, managed to ...

Charles Lacey will represent Spalding Golf Club at this year’s EGU national competition at Woodhall Spa following a superb 66 in the qualifier held at the Surfleet course. The two-handicapper birdied six holes to finish two shots clear of Matt Richardson on 68, with Dougie Alexander, Jake Lilley and Dick Parker a shot further behind on 69. All players earned ...

A local golfer is looking for a ‘hole’ lot of support as they aim to help drive funds towards a charity. Kasim Beetlestone (31) has organised a golf day to try and raise money for Wish Upon A Star – an organisation that tries to bring smiles to the faces of children living with a life-threatening illness. Some 32 players ...

Nene Valley Harriers finished a creditable fourth in round one of The East Anglia League at Colchester – despite fielding a massively depleted team. Incredibly, the Harriers won all seven of the men’s shot put competitions in what was an unprecedented clean sweep. Several of the Nene Valley throwers are coached by legendary shot putter and strong man Geoff Capes, ...

Taking a break after three individual time trial competitions, Spalding Cycling Club’s season continued with a new event for 2016 – the ‘Mix n Match’ two-up team time trial. Drawing names from a hat, each team comprised a slower rider with a faster rider rather than the usual format of riders with similar times and ability. The random draw proved ...

Holbeach United 5 Wisbech Town 3 Holbeach United clinched fourth place in the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division with a thrilling 5-3 win over Wisbech Town in their final fixture on Wednesday night.  Jake Clitheroe put the Tigers ahead inside ten minutes at Carter’s Park, but a six-minute hat-trick from Michael Frew (13, 16 & 19) put the Fenmen 3-1 up ...

Ben Wilson managed an eighth-placed finish at Oulton Park at a wet and wild round two of the Pirelli National Superstock Championship. Throughout the weekend the weather threw everything at the riders – from hail to heavy rain and high winds – making qualifying difficult. Kirton ace Wilson was seventh in Q1 but, with no change in the weather, he ...

An incredible 134 from Joe Broomfield steered Moulton Harrox to a 77-run triumph over Hampton 2nd in Rutland League Division Six on Sunday. With skipper Alex Sowerby winning the toss and opting to bat, Harrox raced to an impressive 285-4 from their 45 overs. The majority of the runs came from centurion Broomfield and opener Lance Bettinson (71). Broomfield helped ...

Spalding Gymnastics Academy enjoyed another day to remember as they hosted their annual Tulips competition. Clubs from Bletchley, Sleaford and Rushden joined the Spalding team at their Cradge Bank home for competitions at levels five, four, three and two. At Level Five, the junior team of Tandhine Snell, Keris Moore, Beth Macfarlane and Darcy Orford won the silver, with Snell ...

Spalding Indoor Bowls Club’s season came to an end with their finals weekend and annual presentation night. Spectators were treated to some excellent finals, with trophies presented by world number one and current world champion Nicky Brett. Winners: Ladies’ singles – Rebecca Simpson; Men’s singles – Graham Smith; Ladies’ pairs – Ruby Hill & Chelsea Tomlin; Ladies’ drawn pairs – ...

Captain Rob Ambrose admitted that he was a little disappointed to see Spalding Town slip to a three-run defeat against defending South Lincs and Border League Premier Division champions Market Deeping 2nd on Saturday. Having restricted Deeping to 150 batting first at Spalding Grammar School, Town looked set to make it back-to-back victories before being bowled out for 147 in ...

Terrific Tydd St Mary made it two cup wins this season when they beat Whittlesey Athletic A 3-0 at Yaxley to lift the ChromaSport PDFL Intermediate Shield on Friday night. Much like in the Spalding Inter-Services final, the Division Three Saints were underdogs once again as they took to the pitch against a Whittlesey A side from a division above. ...

Moulton Harrox made a winning start to their South Lincs and Border League Division One season by beating Welby Cavaliers by five wickets on Saturday. Hosts Welby won the toss and elected to bat, racking up 179-9 from their 45 overs. Fardin Satari (57), Tom Wilkin (30) and Vidit Matta (29) all scored well for the hosts – but a ...

Spalding Town 2nd got their South Lincs and Border League Division One campaign off to a flying start with a hard-fought four-wicket win at newly promoted Grantham 3rd. On a bitterly cold and rain interrupted day, Spalding won the toss and put Grantham in to bat. Simon Juckes quickly had Grantham danger man Max Everett, caught behind for a duck. ...

Player/boss Ian Dunn toasted a five-star Pinchbeck United performance on Saturday. Having fallen behind at Uppingham Town thanks to a cracking direct free kick from James Howe, Pinchbeck roared back to lead the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division clash 2-1 at half time. That’s after Nick Bishop turned home a Brad Murrell cross and Liam Ogden buried a Tony Edwards delivery. ...

All eyes were on Division Two on the final night of the Spalding and District Snooker League season – and it was Services C who held their nerve to clinch the title by three points. The Spalding side beat Consti G 4-2 to secure the four points they needed to be sure of the title, with Geoff Hemsil (R21), Kev ...

With a return to League fixtures the Spalding and District Table Tennis League (sponsored by Vital Recruitment) was much busier last week. Even so, just six matches were completed – along with one of the Guardian Cup semi-finals. In Division One, Bladerunners made up ground on leaders South Holland with the latter not having a match. A clean sweep against ...