Sport

Dunstablians RUFC 29Spalding RFC 5 Spalding RFC were unable to build on a strong start as they were handed a 29-5 defeat at Dunstablians in their opening game of the Midlands Three East (South) season on Saturday. Despite enjoying a strong pre-season and being full of optimism for the season, Town made the trip to Bedfordshire with a severely depleted ...

Spalding Town missed out on securing back-to-back South Lincs and Border League Premier Division titles after coming up short in their winner-takes-all tussle at Bourne 2nd on Saturday. Town, who could have clinched the crown the previous week but slipped up against Skegness, saw their total of 143 chased down by the hosts at the Abbey Lawn. That left Bourne ...

Moulton Harrox won by six wickets away to Claypole on Saturday to go top of South Lincs and Border League Division One after 13 successive victories. Skipper Simon Juckes lost the toss but was not overly concerned as the hosts opted to bat first on a used pitch that looked unpredictable. Alex Baker (2-27) removed both Claypole opening batsmen with ...

Spalding United 0Gainsborough Trinity 0(penalties 5-6) Unlucky Spalding United bowed out of the Integro League Cup after a 6-5 penalty-shoot out defeat to higher-graded Gainsborough Trinity on Tuesday night. Neither side managed a breakthrough in the regulation 90 minutes at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, meaning spot-kicks were needed to seperate the Lincolnshire duo. Although Scott Floyd, Kegan Everington, ...

Moulton Harrox slipped to their first ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division loss of the season as potential title rivals Peterborough North End Sports handed them a 4-2 reverse on Saturday. Two goals from Tiago Nassuncolo (2) and Josh Moreman fired the hosts to a 3-0 half-time lead, but Marcus Parry hit for Harrox back just after the break. Nassuncolo then completed ...

Clifton All Whites 1Holbeach United 3 In-form frontman Josh Ford netted twice to fire Holbeach United past a battling Clifton All Whites outfit in the Buildbase FA Vase on Saturday. Ford opened the scoring with a first-half penalty against the East Midlands Counties League Premier Division side at Green Lane, but only a few key saves from Ricky Drury kept ...

Chasetown 2Spalding United 2 By RAY TUCKER Injury-plagued Spalding United dug deep into their reserves to earn a very respectable share of the BetVictor NPL South East Division points at the Scholars Ground on Saturday. With seven potential first team squad members missing, mainly through injuries, the Tulips twice held the lead in a pulsating cut and thrust encounter before ...

Spalding RFC suffered a 29-5 defeat at Dunstablians on the opening day of the Midlands Three East (South) season on Saturday. More to follow. RESULTS Midlands Three East (South): Bourne 26 Stockwood Park 31; Daventry 9 Stamford 34; Dunstablians 29 Spalding 5; Huntingdon & District 42 St Neots 7; 24 Oakham 31; 40 Queens 14.

Pinchbeck United 1Rugby Town 1 Much-improved Pinchbeck United ended their four-game losing streak with a battling Uhlsport UCL Premier Division draw with Rugby Town on Saturday. The Knights made a great start at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field and went ahead when stand-in skipper Tyrone Burton expertly slotted home a side-foot finish on seven minutes. A string of stellar ...

Holbeach United marched on in the Buildbase FA Vase with a 3-1 victory at Clifton All Whites on Saturday, while in league action Spalding United drew 2-2 at Chasetown and Pinchbeck United drew 1-1 at home against Rugby Town. Starting with the Tigers, Josh Ford’s penalty gave them a 1-0 lead in the second qualifying round clash. The hosts levelled ...

John Martin and Harry Turner both secured trophies as Tydd St Giles Golf Club held their Sewell Salver and Ciuffini Shield 36-hole competition. The competition was played in gail-force winds and only the most hardy golfers wanted to be out there. Taking this all into account, some very good scores were recorded. The Sewell Salver winner, after two rounds, was ...

Members of Spalding-based Halmer Harriers had a very busy weekend. On Saturday, the club took over Crowland Park Run – with members assuming various jobs from organising car parking and being racer director to marshalling. Sunday then saw four members run the Newton Fraction half-marathon in Grantham. They were Ade Mills (1.53.44hrs), Andrew Hooker (1.54.28hrs), Rebecca Richards (1.55.04hrs) and Marie ...

With Spalding Cycling Club’s trial season is winding to a close, their riders are turning to other competitive forms of action to get their fix. The club was represented at the annual grass track festival at Mildenhall in Suffolk, with Velvet Bowser leading the way. As the only girl competing, Bowser had to race in the Juvenile Omnium B against ...

The Nene Valley Harriers under-17 girls’ track and field team were celebrating after winning the East Anglia League finals at Bury St Edmunds on Sunday, writes BARRY WARNE. In doing so the talented squad completed a notable double after winning the league last month. There were wins for Katie Calcut and Keira Gilman in the B sprints, with Calcut clocking ...

The Unlimited Banger World of Shale Championship took centre stage at the Adrian Flux Arena in King’s Lynn last Saturday. Firmly established as one of the biggest Unlimited Banger races, particularly on shale, the event drew a big field of almost 100 bangers. They put on a tremendous show alongside the no-holds-barred saloon stock cars. Crowland’s Callum White played a ...

Danny Hussey is adamant that going on a run in this season’s Buildbase FA Vase is a real priority for Holbeach United. The Tigers take a break from Uhlsport UCL Premier Division action to make the trip to visit Clifton All Whites in the second qualifying round of the Vase on Saturday (3pm). East Midlands Counties League Premier Division side ...

Struggling Pinchbeck United could have three new faces in their squad for Saturday’s tricky home clash with Rugby Town (3pm). The Knights are in the bottom four of the Uhlsport UCL Premier Division after losing four of their first five games, while Rugby sit sixth. Player/boss Ian Dunn feels that his side are struggling to find an identity and is ...

Andy Prior picked up two wins in two different competitions at Welland Yacht Club on Sunday. With the wind somewhat subdued compared to the previous two weeks, ten boats took to the start of the first race of the day – round four in the Sunday Points Series. Prior (Laser) started well and took the early lead from Tom Bell ...

Ben Wilson once again fell foul to the medical team when he was ruled unfit to race at Oulton Park last week. It is just five weeks since the Kirton rider fell from his Gearlink Kawasaki, breaking his right leg in two places in the process. Since then he has been having daily treatment in the hyperbaric chamber, plus frequent ...

A Spalding snooker player is continuing to pot the cash for charity. Nigel Brasier (49), who has Motor Neuron Disease, will be back competing at the UK Disability Snooker Championship which starts on September 20 in Northampton And it will be a particularly special one for the 49-year-old as the Motor Neuron Disease Association (MNDA) charity he supports is the ...