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New Spalding Golf Club captain Andy Rafferty was supported by 120 members at his Captain’s Drive In event last weekend. The event was played out over 16 holes at the Surfleet course – with two out of action – and was won by Graham Hutchings (12 handicap) with a score of 35 Stableford points. Completing the top three were Kenneth ...

Gerri van Haren and Gail Follington both enjoyed victories at Welland Yacht Club on Sunday – but it was serial winner Andy Prior who claimed two series successes. Although he wasn’t present on the day, Prior had already done enough to claim both the Sunday and Autumn Points series titles. Three boats took to the start of the morning’s race ...

Spalding’s Ryan Leeks was among the winners at an action-packed Halloween Carnival at the Adrian Flux Arena over the weekend. Following a torrential forecast for Saturday night, the King’s Lynn meet was postponed a day to the Sunday afternoon – which proved to be absolutely the right decision as the arena basked in a lovely autumnal sunny day. The change ...

Spalding 2nd were involved in one of the best games of the weekend in the East Men’s Hockey League on Saturday. Their Division 3NW fixture at Cambridge City Vets ended in a thrilling 5-5 draw at the Wilberforce Road Sports Ground. Glenn Perkins (2), Ryan Mountney, Steve Rogers and William Steed all found the net for Spalding in the ten-goal ...

Carter’s Park will play host to a charity football fixture that aims to raise money for Children With Cancer UK this Sunday. Organised by Rob Green – who fought off cancer 18 years ago when aged 11 – the fixture at the home of Holbeach United gets under way at 1.30am. Entry to the game is just £2, with under-16s ...

After a mixed start to the Spalding and District Snooker League Division One season, Services A showed that they are still a force to be reckoned with on Thursday night. The Spalding side picked up an impressive 5-1 success at much-fancied Bourne SC A, with Vince Fitter (O28) and Mike Knight (O21) bagging breaks of 32 and 24 respectively as ...

Bedford Queens RFC 24Spalding RFC 5 Spalding RFC slipped into the bottom three of Midlands Three East (South) after going down 24-5 at Bedford Queens on Saturday. Once again depleted by injuries, Town had a few chances to open up a lead in the first half but were soundly beaten by the rejuvenated hosts in the end. Despite the atrocious ...

Pinchbeck United 1Melton Town 5 Pinchbeck United’s poor run of results continued on Tuesday night as they were thrashed 5-1 by lower-graded Melton Town in the KitmanUK KO Cup. The Knights fielded a much-changed side that included debuts for Steve Puckering, Ashley Miles, Scott Lowman, Andrew Bullivant and Luke Blondel – with the latter getting their consolation goal. But goals ...

Moulton Harrox Reserves enjoyed their best result of the season so far on a rain-hit Saturday that saw a host of games postponed. ChromaSport PDFL Division One side Moulton romped to a 10-0 triumph over their Division Three hosts Wittering Harriers Reserves in the League Cup, with the in-form Ashley Wilson helping himself to a hat-trick. Martin Sandall and Tom ...

Heavy rain on Saturday wreaked havoc with the football schedule nation-wide – and South Holland teams didn’t escape the plethora of postponements. The biggest game to be rained off was Spalding United’s BetVictor NPL South East clash at Frickley Athletic. A fixture that was hastily brought forward from November, Spalding were perhaps not too worried by the game’s demise given ...

Spalding United have announce that the club is now under new ownership with new shareholders and directors welcomed in a restructure of the company and the board. The club’s existing shareholders Rod Quinton and Graham Chappell welcome local businessman and solicitor Paul Turnell as a new shareholder. The three are joined by shareholder/director positions for Andrew Gay, Jennifer Gay, Eddie ...

Sunday saw another clean sweep of victories for ace Andy Prior at Welland Yacht Club. His victories came across two different events – one in the Sunday Points Series and the latter two in the Autumn Points Series. Six boats took to the start for the first race of the day, with a reasonable breeze apparent and the odd strong ...

The BriSCA season reached a fantastic finale at the Adrian Flux Arena on Saturday. In the BriSCA F1’s Spalding’s Jim Bamford finished in an excellent fourth place in the opening race, but unfortunately problems with oil pressure in his Chevy V8 meant he had to load up for the rest of the evening. Mark Sargent, also from Spalding, didn’t fare ...

Don Green rolled back the years to show them all how it was done at Tydd Gote Angling Club’s Sunday match at Main Road. Green drew golden peg four and was into the fish almost from the off, with good roach and skimmers coming to his maggot hookbait over hemp. That also accounted for a 4lb plus tench, boosting his ...

Lynn Exley and Cherry Harpham were the winners of Tydd St Giles Golf Club’s Marshland Trophy pairs competition. Their score of 29 points was enough to push Maria Taylor-Vassall and Christine Burton in second on 27 points. Liz Miller and Christine Young (22 points) were a little way back in third. Seniors section: Stableford vouchers competition: D1 – 1st Stephen ...

Danny Hussey is backing his Holbeach United side to end the perfect start of Uhlsport UCL Premier Division leaders Shepshed Dynamo on Saturday. Table-topping Dynamo will arrive at Carter’s Park (3pm kick off) with 11 wins from as many games, scoring 35 goals and conceding just one – and that was last weekend in a 3-1 victory over Oadby Town. ...

Runners from Spalding’s Halmer Harriers ran their own version of the Peterborough Great Eastern Run over the weekend. Six members of the club wanted to earn the medal they were awarded for being contestants in the original run, which was cancelled the previous weekend. Those in action were Dawn Allen (2.30.40hrs), Vanessa Smithson (2.30.40hrs), Di Lettice (2.30.40hrs), Alexandra Gills (2.20.00hrs) ...

Spalding Indoor Bowls Club’s mixed top club team made a winning start to their campaign away at Charnwood IBC in Loughborough. The competition is played in a format of men’s singles, ladies’ singles, mixed pairs, mixed triples and mixed fours, with two points available for singles and four points available for every other discipline – meaning that there was a ...

The G&S Racing Kawasaki team enjoyed a productive end to the season with all three riders recording strong results. The two Superstock 600 riders TJ Toms and Kevin Keyes were exceptional in their race on Sunday – with Toms a super second and Keyes fifth – while Milo Ward rode well to complete his race in the Stock 1000 class ...

It was something of a disappointing end to the Pirelli National Superstock 1000 Championship season for Aaron Clarke over the weekend. Kirton racer Clarke was deemed to have jumped at the start of the Brands Hatch race and was penalised – meaning he was only able to finish his race in 28th position in Sunday’s final round. Clarke gave the ...