Sport

It was a quiet week for the Spalding and District Table Tennis League – which was scheduled for the Guardian Cup second round. Underdogs faced MatDuf and a likely heavy handicap, but got off to a slow start reaching 2-11 in the first game before fighting back. In the end, as expected, Underdogs took all four games for 132 to ...

Spalding Gymnastics Club held its popular annual Tulips Team and Individual competition recently – and once again it was a massive success. Clubs from different regions took part, meaning the Cradge Bank event gave a good representation of the standard of gymnastics in the different areas. In the level five junior team, Spalding’s Nell Soltys, Lily Kelk, Paige Owen and ...

A potentially worrying neck injury suffered by teenage talent Jonny Lockie saw Spalding United’s clash with Frickley Athletic abandoned on Tuesday night. The Tulips were 2-0 down in the Evo-Stik NPL First Division South clash at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field thanks to goals from Danny Burns (11) and Gavin Allott (78). However, Spalding sub Lockie landed horribly on ...

PETERBOROUGH NS 0 HOLBEACH UTD 4 Holbeach United returned to something like their best form on Tuesday night as they roared to a 4-0 derby win at Peterborough Northern Star. Goals from Mitch Griffiths (24) Stacy Cartwright (53), Will Bird (61) and sub Danny Barker (81) fired the Tigers to a comfortable victory at the Branch Bros Stadium and moves ...

Two goals from Sam Cooper fired Sutton Bridge United to a 3-2 victory over Warboys Town in the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division on Saturday. Joe Sutton was also on the mark for hosts Bridge at Memorial Park, with Matt Brown and Ben Duncan hitting back for Warboys. That victory keeps Sutton Bridge seventh in the table, three points off fourth ...

SILEBY TOWN 16 SPALDING RFC 12 Relegation rivals Sileby Town handed Spalding RFC a 16-12 reverse on Saturday to leave Town still looking over their shoulders at the Midlands Three East (North) drop zone. A victory would have given the Elephants a sizeable cushion over their rivals at the bottom but, despite fielding an exciting team, they couldn’t get the ...

KIDSGROVE ATH 0 SPALDING UTD 1 Spalding United turned in a five-star performance at Kidsgrove on Saturday to secure three highly valuable Evo-Stik NPL Division One South points thanks to a superbly delivered Danny Brooks free-kick on 34 minutes. The victory was the Tulips’ first three-pointer on the road since the 2-1 triumph at Romulus way back in October – ...

COGENHOE UTD 1 HOLBEACH UTD 0 Seb Hayes slammed Holbeach United’s performance as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat at mid-table Cogenhoe United on Saturday and lost ground in the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division title race. Sean McBride’s 18th-minute strike gave the Cooks all three points at Compton Park, with Holbeach offering very little as attacking force during the 90 ...

Spalding United picked up a 1-0 win at Kidsgrove Athletic in Evo-Stik NPL First Division South on Saturday, while Holbeach United went down 1-0 at Cogenhoe United and Spalding RFC suffered a 16-12 loss at Sileby Town. Starting with the Tulips, a first-half free-kick from Danny Brooks gave them a first victory away from home in Evo-Stik NPL since October. ...

Chris Rawlinson reckons that three more wins will secure Spalding United’s future in Evo-Stik NPL First Division South for another season. The Tulips chief wants those points to be accrued as soon as possible in a bid to get perfectly prepared for next year – and sees no reason why his side can’t make inroads into that target over the ...

Holbeach United boss Seb Hayes admits that he’s still looking for the right blend in a bid to get his side’s title tilt back on track. The title-chasing Tigers are in need of ChromaSport UCL Premier Division wins at Cogenhoe United on Saturday (3pm) and Peterborough Northern Star on Tuesday night (7.45pm). Hayes, who serves the final game of his ...

Adam Keogh admits that his first year as Spalding Golf Club’s resident professional has been a bit of a whirlwind – but it couldn’t have gone much better on a personal level. Having won both the PGA Lincolnshire Professional of the Year award and the PGA Midlands Professional of the Year title in recent months, Keogh couldn’t have expected much ...

Spalding RFC have the chance to ease their relegation fears this Saturday as they visit second-from-bottom Sileby Town (2.15pm). Town are six points clear of the drop zone in Midlands Three East (N) ahead of the clash, but also just seven points shy of the top five. Meanwhile, Spalding’s home date with Rolls Royce, which was postponed last Saturday, has ...

Having won the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division title and golden boot twice in his career, many eyebrows were raised when Andrew Tidswell opted to end his self-imposed exile and sign for Pinchbeck United last summer. One of the top South Holland talents of the past decade, many saw playing for the Knights – then newly-promoted to UCL Division One – ...

Spalding and District Sunday League side Cowbit Athletic are hosting a charity celebrity football match in aid of Save the Children UK in May – and you’ll need to be quick if you want a ticket. The match will see Cowbit take on a team of celebrities and is being held at Peterborough United’s ABAX Stadium on Saturday, May 19 ...

Race aces Aaron Clarke and Tommy Philp have just returned home after spending a week in Spain to test their new draperRACING Yamaha machines in a shakedown test prior to the official British Superbike test later in the month. The two Lincolnshire riders, their mechanics and team manager Bill Philp headed to Circuit de Calafat situated an hour south of ...

Holbeach D stormed into the top six of the Spalding and District Snooker League Division One standings with a maximum victory on Thursday night. On an evening that saw just seven fixtures played across the three divisions due to the treacherous conditions in South Lincolnshire, Holbeach’s 6-0 triumph at Consti F was the most eye-catching result. Richard Lowe (O14), who ...

Harrowby United 0 Pinchbeck United 1 Chris Shipley’s second-half goal was enough to earn Pinchbeck United a 1-0 win at Harrowby United on Tuesday night – and send them a huge 16 points clear at the top of ChromaSport UCL Division One with just eight games left to play. Midfielder Shipley netted the only goal of the game at the ...

The Spalding and District Table Tennis League was hit last week by the bad weather – but there was some play in nine matches. However, with just a third of the season left – and some of that taken up with individual championships – there are over a third of matches to be played or completed. None of the top ...

There was national glory for Spalding Indoor Bowls Club’s Ruby Hill, Chelsea Tomlin, Martin Spencer and Mathew Orrey as they won the Mixed Fours title after beating Ben Paulley’s rink 19-9 in the final. Having qualified through the regional rounds, the foursome headed to Loddon Vale, Basingstoke for the finals over the weekend – where they faced a tough opener ...