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It is all down to the last day of the Northern Premier League season to decide who goes up as Midlands Division champions and who must battle through two more games. Spalding United will be backed by a huge crowd at the Sir Halley Stewart stadium as they welcome Coleshill Town where a victory will secure the crown. However, anything ...

National League North promotion hopefuls Scunthorpe United hit back from two goals down to destroy Spalding United’s Lincolnshire Senior Cup hopes at Lincoln City. However, the Tulips soon overcame that disappointment with a stunning 7-1 Pitched In Northern Premier League win at Sporting Khalsa to put themselves firmly in the driving seat to clinch the league title.At the LNER Stadium ...

A superb second-half recovery saw Holbeach United end their Thurlow Nunn League season on a high. They hit back from a goal down at half time to beat Stanway Pegasus 3-1.George Frost, Sam Harris and Ryan Cook found the net to ensure manager Danny Clifton’s last match in charge was a successful one and confirmed sixth spot in the Division One ...

Spalding Hockey Club celebrated their annual end of season awards night on Saturday with many of the club’s members present. The evening started with the awards to those who have developed other club members with their coaching skills, these were presented to Junior Coach of the Year Camille Rogers and Senior Coach of the Year Barney Harris. Callum Fravigar was rewarded for ...

Spalding Seconds were denied victory in the NLD Merit Cup semi-final by the narrowest of margins in controversial circumstances against Leesbrook. The hosts went down 25-24 to their Derby visitors but thought they had won it when James Holland curled a conversion high between the posts with eight minutes to go. However, although the linesman indicated a successful kick, the ...

The new Spalding League season is already delivering surprises in all three divisions. In Division One, Drayman’s beat reigning champions Tigers C 7-2 with singles wins for Steve Urch, Logan Goddard, Josh Grainger, Phil Newton and Kev Newton. Goddard and Newton both hit 180s, Urch had a 14-dart leg and Goddard an 18-dart leg.After two losses in a row, Consti ...

Moulton went through quite a transformation over the winter and are aiming for another top-three finish in the South Lincolnshire Border League Championship. Captain Mark Ramsden said: “We have worked continuously to improve our facilities and are incredibly grateful to have been sponsored by 36 companies, which has allowed us to purchase new covers and a new artificial surface.“We are ...

A second-wicket stand of 126 between opener Blake Wolstenholme (75) and Josh Newton (56) formed the backbone of Moulton Harrox’s opening day win over Burghley Park in the South Lincs Border League Championship. They went on to score 198/9 from their 45 overs with only Matthew Rose (13) joining them in reaching double figures.In reply, things looked rosey when the hosts ...

South Lincs & Border League champions Long Sutton faced a tough challenge at the higher level when they travelled to reigning Lincolnshire Board champions Lindum and lost their top order cheaply to slip to 27/4 in their opening match of the season. Tim Norris stuck around to score a patient 30, hitting one of Sutton’s two boundaries, but when he ...

Spalding made up for a slow start to return laden with honours at the Lincolnshire County Finals at Louth & District Indoor Bowls Club. Brian Martin, Stephen Harris and Dominic McVittie lost 17-12 to Rod West, Nathan Dunnington and Jonathan West from Boston in the men’s triples final and Jan Sinclair, Carole Nunney, Maisie Belding and Julie Hicks went down ...

Adam Caress was the sole Halmer Harriers runner to finish in the top ten of Saturday’s Snowden Field Parkrun in Crowland. He completed the 5K course in 21mins 26secs to cross the line in fifth place, second SM30-34. Richard Williams was 14th (23:18), and Rebecca Pearce 41st, (32:47) of the 53 finishers.Deborah Preston clocked 30:54 to finish 349th at Ferry ...

South-east Lincolnshire-based G&S Racing Kawasaki made a terrific start to the 2024 British Supersport championship at Navarra in northern Spain on Sunday, all three riders picking up points in both races. On Saturday, Asher Durham finished 12th, just ahead of Jorel Boerboom, 13th, and Sam Laffins, 14th.Sunday’s feature race over 18 laps saw Durham take 10th place from Laffins in 11th ...

Chilly but good conditions greeted the riders on Tuesday for Spalding Cycling Club’s first ten-mile event of the season, following the previous week’s cancelled five-miler due to high winds. New signing Dominic Righini-Brand backed up his five-mile form with victory in 21 mins 45 seconds on his TT machine. He was followed home by arguably the ride of the night ...

Tydd St Giles ladies enjoyed a 9-5 win over Burghley Park in the Tasker Trophy, played singles matchplay home and away over two rounds. Tydd returned from the away leg with a 5-2 lead but had to be at their best in a hard-fought return, eventually prevailing 4-3.The club’s Men’s B team drew 3-3 at home to South Kyme in the A ...

Spalding made a great start to the Hertfordshire League Water Polo season with a 14-6 win against Hertford. Spalding went 1-0 down in the first quarter, which was fast-paced with countless end-to-end attacks and great build-up play but poor finishing.Spalding began to dominate play, attacking the deep end and were 5-1 to the good at half-time with great defensive work from Steve ...

Lincolnshire County Cup Final Spalding United 2 Scunthorpe United 3 Spalding United manager Elliot Sandy says he doesn’t know how his side lost as Scunthorpe United came from behind to beat the Tulips 3-2 in the Lincolnshire County Cup Final at Lincoln City’s Sincil Bank. Sandy was left proud by his Tulips’ performance and effort, particularly in a first half ...

Spalding United went into Wednesday’s Lincolnshire County FA Senior Cup final on the back of a nine-point boost to their league promotion hopes. The Tulips were due to take on Scunthorpe United at Lincoln City’s LNER Stadium after the Voice went to press (see next week’s edition for report and pictures) but were lifted when they learned Pitching In Northern Premier ...

Fleet’s Chloe Payne is celebrating her first major trophy after winning the plate competition at the Ultimate Pool Tour in Blackpool. Payne beat Lucy Walker 5-3 in her opening group game but lost the other two 5-4 to Fran Calvert and Sue Fletcher respectively.That put her into the plate where she beat Louise Sutton 4-0 in the first round and Jenny O’Loughlin ...

Spalding Colts suffered a heartbreaking defeat against Ilkeston in the NLD Colts Bowl Final at Chesterfield. A penalty from the last play of the match secured the Derbyshire side a 13-12 victory.Spalding took an early lead when Jack Bowser sliced through Ilkeston’s defence for the opening try, with James Holland convertingIlkeston battled hard against the wind but with half-time approaching, ...

A Holbeach martial artist has been selected to compete for the United Kingdom at the European Tae Kwondo Championships in July. Graham Pound, of the Lone Wolf Tae Kwondo Club, qualified as an individual and is also in the selection process for a place in the team event.He said: “We took a team to compete at the Nationals and came ...