Lincoln Arms won the first trophy of the Spalding and District Darts League Finals Night with a comfortable win in the Kelly Foster Cup.Singles successes for Steve Stancer, Karl Rolfe, Luke Rhodes and Ted Howling were enough to seal victory against Consti E.The next trophy was won by Division Two league winners Oscar’s Bar, who beat Rose and Crown 5-3 ...

Kime Racing rider Tom Fisher got his season off to a good start with a win in the first round of the No Limits Pirelli Super Series 600 championship at Snetterton on Sunday.A wet qualifying session with poor visibility left the 2022 series runner-up in 20th position in a mixed grid of riders and ninth in his class with a ...

Bourne SC A are holding on to their place at the top of Division One of the Spalding and District Snooker League. They thrashed Consti E 6-0 on Thursday night to stay in first place.Second-placed Boundary A beat Services C 5-1, leaving them four points behind.The other two Bourne SC teams dropped down the standings as they both lost 4-2 to teams ...

Spalding Hockey Club hosted the Spalding Primary Schools Hockey Tournament Four at Glen Park, Surfleet, with 20 teams from 13 primary schools participating.Many of the 150-plus youngsters were making their first appearance for their schools.Teams were split into four graded leagues and in the Advanced League, Monks House A carried on where they left off in tournament three. Although they ...

Spalding Ladies’ 2nd 10Bourne Deeping 2nd 0Goals: Karen Timby (4), Amy Naylor (2), Kate Amess, Lauren Harvey, Zoë Moore, Pippa BembridgeA destructive first-half display saw Spalding put away eight unanswered goals against their local rivals. At one point it seemed that every touch turned to gold. The first goal went in after three minutes and within 15 minutes it was ...

Gosberton B are champions of the Spalding Billiards League, despite losing 5-2 to Consti A in their final match of the season.It went to the wire with just five points separating them and second-placed Holbeach B going into the final week.Holbeach B won 5-2 away at bottom-of-the-league Pyramid A but it wasn’t quite enough and Gosberton took the title by ...

Holbeach United 2Cornard United 0 Holbeach United celebrated the life of former player Adam Jackson on Saturday before comfortably seeing off Cornard United.After a minute’s applause and with the 34-year-old who died last week’s young family in attendance, first half goals from John Yambasu and Finley Henderson sealed a comfortable win.“It was a very tough and difficult day and we ...

Daventry Town 0Spalding United 9 New interim Spalding United manager Elliot Sandy joked he might have to retire from managing after an astonishing start to his period in the hot seat. The Tulips scored six goals in the opening 37 minutes at Daventry on Tuesday before sub Dylan Edge netted a second half hat-trick in their first game since the ...

A refereeing mistake has led to Holbeach United being told to replay a game they won comfortably.The furious Tigers have said they will refuse to replay the match against Harwich and Parkeston – which they won 4-2 – after the Thurlow Nunn League null and voided it.Callum Davies scored four times in the game which Holbeach won despite being down ...

RESULTS PITCHING IN NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUEPremier Midlands (Sat, selected): Corby Town P Spalding United P, Stamford 2 Bedworth 0. (Tue, selected): Daventry Town 0 Spalding United 9. UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUEPremier Division North (Sat, selected): Pinchbeck United P Eastwood P, Belper P Sleaford Town P, Leicester Nirvana P Boston Town P, Newark 1 Deeping Rangers 1. (Tues): Deeping Rangers 5 Mansfield ...

Archers from Silver Spoon Bowmen competed in Friskney Bowmen’s winter indoor series of five different rounds, shot between November and March, the final round being held on Sunday, March 5.Results from the final round were:Men’s Recurve – Dave Inglis 1st (PB), Jim Orford 3rd (PB).Men’s Longbow – Roger Sale 1st.Junior Men’s Barebow – Hamish Turner 1st.Junior Men’s Compound – Ioan ...

Spalding Town Tennis Club is holding a junior camp over the Easter holidays.The camp takes place on April 5 and 6 and 12 and 13, from 10am-2pm.It’s being held at the club on Holyrood Walk, Spalding and is suitable for youngsters aged four to 18.All abilities are welcome.There will be games, training drills and and fun for all.The cost is ...

Craig Fitter lifted his fifth Snooker Scratch title on Saturday night after seeing off Pyramid’s James Sharpe 4-2 in the show-piece match of the Spalding and District Snooker and Billiards League’s finals weekend. Services star Fitter, who first lifted the President’s Cup back in 1999, beat Sharpe 4-2 (29-47, 28-77, 64-50, 67-29, 58-28, 71-47).Sharpe got off to a great start, ...

Over the weekend, Ruby Hill, Chelsea Spencer and Annie Dunham represented England in the ladies’ international series at Abbeyview Indoor Bowls Club in Dunfermline, Scotland. Ruby Hill, Annie Dunham and Chelsea Spencer with the Clara Johns trophy. Hill led a rink with Laura Holden (Clevedon), Rebecca Willgress (Norfolk) and skipped by Michelle Coleman (St Neots).Spencer skipped her own rink with ...

With five matches left until the season ends, it’s still all to play for across all three divisions of the Spalding and District Snooker League.Three points separate first and second in Division One. Bourne SC A are just in the lead on 83 points, with Boundary on their tail with 80 points.On Thursday night Bourne beat Pyramid A 5-1, but ...

Spalding RFC’s away game against Huntingdon on Saturday was cancelled due to the home team’s clubhouse and ground being flooded.Stewarts and Lloyds took advantage, winning away at Biggleswade and leapfrogging Spalding into second place.Next Saturday will be key to Spalding’s promotion hopes as they play Rushden & Higham away, who lie fourth in the league, whilst Stewarts and Lloyds travel ...

Tydd St Giles Golf Club has appointed new Men’s and Ladies’ Captains for 2023.Men’s Captain is Andrew Hicks whose charity for his year will be Holbeach Hospital, while Ladies’ Captain Sylvia Illsley has chosen The Magpie Centre Riding for the Disabled as her charity.Both captains are looking forward to supporting their chosen charities throughout the year.Results: Men’s Medford Competition – ...

Cambridge University 2nd 5Spalding Ladies’ 1st 1Goals: Harriet MowbraySpalding started the game strong with some great link-up play in midfield leading to a through ball being received by Mowbray who effortlessly put Spalding 1-0 up.Cambridge were hungry to draw level and a series of penalty corners eventually led to them scoring a deflection to make it 1-1.Both teams were playing ...

Callum Davies celebrated committing to Holbeach United by scoring four times in an impressive win on Saturday.The Tigers bounced back from the 2-1 midweek defeat to second placed Downham Town to down fourth placed Harwich and Parkeston 4-2 on Saturday.And all four goals were scored by Davies after the club announced he’d committed to staying with Holbeach after turning down ...

Pinchbeck United’s double against the top two in the UhlSport United Counties League Premier Division yielded no points or even goals, but some decent performances.After the Knights were beaten 3-0 at home by second placed Anstey Nomads last midweek, they visited top of the table Loughborough Students on Sunday.They were able to keep it tight in the first half and ...