Sport

Victory in both of their Unicorns T20 matches against Staffordshire at Scunthorpe virtually assured Lincolnshire CCC of their place in the finals day of the competition at Wormsley in August. In the first of the two matches, Lincolnshire batted first and were principally indebted to Usman Arshad who made 53 off 25 balls (6 fours and 3 sixes) to propel ...

Long Sutton made it five wins from as many Rutland League Division Four East games by seeing off South Holland rivals Moulton Harrox 2nd by 84 runs on Sunday. Pace-setters Sutton won the toss and elected to bat first at Broad Lane, racking up 282-7 from their 45 overs as Dan Oldfield top-scored with 89. Harrox, who had Pierce Scourfield ...

Spalding Town’s trip to Graves Park on Saturday was among the South Lincs and Border League fixtures rained off on Saturday. Premier Division table-toppers Town stay three points clear at the summit after all but two of the top tier fixtures were washed out without so much as a ball being bowled. Both Town and Graves Park picked up eight ...

Excited Holbeach United boss Danny Hussey has announced verbal agreements with four big-name signings – and is hopeful of adding a few more before the start of pre-season later this month. Although the Tigers are still unable to get players on official forms, Hussey has revealed that he is set to sign Jon Fairweather (Wisbech Town), Luke Wilson (Pinchbeck United) ...

Moulton Harrox rounded off another hugely successful season with their presentation night on Saturday. Having won the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division under the charge of Kev Nottingham, there was much for the club to toast at their Broad Lane base. Joe Townsend took the coveted players’ player of the year prize, while Ashley Coddington and Dalius Kisla shared the manager’s ...

Skipper Jonathan Miles has heaped praise on his Spalding Town side after they produced the perfect reaction to their first loss of the season. Having won their first five games of the South Lincs and Border League Premier Division campaign, promotion-chasing Town were looking set to seize command of the title race. A home defeat against Grantham 2nd stopped them ...

Two-time European Cup winning keeper Peter Shilton will be the next big name to headline Spalding United’s annual celebrity dinner. The former England goalkeeper – who won a record 125 caps for his country – will be joined by current Ipswich Town coach and former West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Jimmy Walker, who will be hosting the evening ...

Spalding Golf Club’s top men’s team continued their 100 per cent start to the new South Lincolnshire Scratch League season with a home victory over Greetham Valley. They secured a 4.5-1.5 victory at the Surfleet course, with only one of their six pairs losing on the day in the Division One clash. Winning on the day were James Crampton and ...

Andy Prior enjoyed a clean sweep of victories at Welland Yacht Club on Sunday to take overall glory in the Flag Officers Cup regatta. Ace Prior secured wins in three of the races out on the water, on a day when the sun was shining and there was a decent breeze to aid all of the sailors. Some seven boats ...

Spalding Tennis Club’s B team picked up an impressive 7-2 win over Bourne in Division Two of the Peterborough and District League last week. The winning team was Carl Newell, Jack Howard, Dave Baldwin, Glenn Perkins, Joe Gill and Mike Sitch. In Division Three, the Spalding C team of Michael and Mathew Pearl, Andy Rix, Ian Argent, Steve knight and ...

South Holland racers were in the thick of the action as the Adrian Flux Arena in King’s Lynn hosted its explosive Big Weekend event. With two big championship events on the card, fans and race teams from across the country and mainland Europe journeyed to the venue and were witness to some of the best stock car and banger action ...

The Halmer Harriers were out in force at the Woodhall Spa 10k event on Sunday. The quickest runners for the Spalding-based club were Martin Wallis (44.40mins), Colin Crump (47.54mins) and Jordan Wallis (48.16mins), while Louise Southgate (51.44mins) was the quickest of the women to complete the course. Halmer Harriers times at Woodhall Spa 10k: Martin Wallis 44.40mins; Colin Crump 47.54mins; ...

A mouth-watering ‘Champions Night’ of darts is coming to Spalding this weekend. Held at the Drayman’s Arms on Sunday from 7pm, Lakeside 2019 World Youth champion Leighton “Boom Boom” Bennett – one of the sports’ most promising talents – tops the bill. He is joined by Steve “Dusty” Carrett and Dennis “Harbour Master” Harbour at the exhibition, which is aiming ...

The future looks bright for Spalding Gymnastics Academy as their up-and-coming talents impressed across the board at the Lincolnshire Level 7/6 Championships. Getting the ball rolling at Level 7, in the nine years age group, was Poppy Payne with an amazing gold medal. In the age ten years group, Charlotte Hinchliffe was seventh, but there was a Spalding clean-sweep in ...

A hotly-anticipated rivalry between red-hot Josh Wallis and returning star Matt Ellis was the highlight at Spalding Cycling Club’s latest ten mile time trial league meet. Ellis, who was back from riding overseas for a French Second Division team for a training break, was hoping to break Wallis’ recent stranglehold on top spot. On the night the result went with ...

A record entry of 84 players took part in Spalding Rugby Club’s annual golf day last Thursday. Played at Spalding Golf Club, the Surfleet course was in superb condition on what was a glorious day for the players – who were taking part in a pairs betterball format competition. Main sponsors Turnbull were delighted to be supporting the event and ...

Long Sutton suffered a 56-run reverse at Freiston in the South Lincs and Border League Premier Division on Saturday to make it three defeats on the spin. Sutton impressed with the ball after losing the toss, with Beau Newman (3-32), Adam Whitaker (3-19), Barry Stanway (2-31) and Dan Oldfield (2-6) all taking wickets. That left Freiston all out for only ...

Lincolnshire continued their winning start to the season with a resounding six-wicket victory against Cheshire in the Unicorns Knockout Trophy round of 16 at Bracebridge Heath. Cheshire won the toss and elected to bat, Lincolnshire immediately took a firm grip on the game with Alex Willerton leading the attack in devastating fashion. No Cheshire batsman reached 20 runs and in ...

Spalding Town emphatically bounced back from their first South Lincs and Border League Premier Division loss of the season by battering Skegness by nine wickets on Saturday. Captain Jonathan Miles impressed with the ball as his figures of 4-30 restricted hosts Skegness to just 175-9 from their 45 overs. That total never looked like being enough to deny Town, however, ...

Red-hot Moulton Harrox stormed to a whopping 221-run victory over Baston on Saturday. The side from Broad Lane made home advantage count in the South Lincs and Border League Division One clash, smashing 252-6 before bowling their opposition out for a meagre 31 in reply. Hosts Moulton made a relatively low-key start, losing Mike Kearns Snr (8) and Chris Beale ...