Sport

Just two years after playing for Pinchbeck United Juniors, Jack Withers is looking forward to life with a Premier League club. Swansea City fans scanning the news of who the club had signed on Transfer Deadline Day last month were confronted with the name of the 18-year-old centre half from Pinchbeck. Even looking online they may have struggled to find ...

Spalding 1st breathed fresh life into their season by securing a first-ever East Men’s Hockey League Premier A victory on Saturday. After picking up just two draws from their opening 16 games of the season, Spalding picked up a historic 4-3 victory over Chelmsford 1st to keep their faint survival hopes alive. Captain Josh Rowbottom opened the scoring from close ...

Karen Timby’s late leveller earned Spalding Poachers 1st a 1-1 draw with Cambs Nomads 1st in East Women’s Hockey League Division 2NW on Saturday. The first half saw both teams making some attacking play, with a cracking shot from Ellie Holland just going wide and a few shots from Charlotte Morris saved. Not long into the second half, battling play ...

Star man Rob Childs reeled off the biggest break of the Spalding and District Billiards League season so far on Monday night. Childs, who plays off a huge O250 handicap, made a massive 140 break in Crowland B’s 4-3 victory over Long Sutton. In the same game, Sutton’s Mick Cooper (O180) bagged breaks of 51, 48 and 39 unfinished, while ...

A 67 close and break of 46 from Mark Gray (O105) was the highlight as Spalding and District Snooker League Division One leaders Bourne SC A continued their winning ways. They beat Pyramid B 5-1 with Gray sandwiched between two black ball wins from Ian Gibson (R7) and Oliver Player (O28) while Max Ayliff (O14) had a break of 25 ...

The Spalding and District Table Tennis League held its annual competition for the Roy Gibson Memorial Rose Bowl last week. In this event, each player starts on a handicap and plays to 31 points, best of three ends. There were 23 entries who were divided into four groups, with one player seeded in each, the top two going through to ...

Spalding Indoor Bowls Club talent Aaron Barnes has qualified for the final stages of the national under-18 singles event. Having beaten brother and sister duo Danielle and Aaron Wild – both from his own club in previous rounds – Barnes played Kieran Chambers from Leicester IBC in the area final, played at Melton IBC. There, Barnes won by a perfect ...

NOTTINGHAM MODERNS 38 SPALDING RFC 22 Basement boys Nottingham Moderns completed a Midlands Three East (North) double over Spalding RFC with a 38-22 home success on Saturday. Although Town at least picked up a losing bonus point by virtue of scoring four tries, the disappointing reverse sees them lose ground in the race for a top five finish. The Elephants ...

CHASETOWN 2 SPALDING UNITED 0 A fully-committed Spalding United performance was not enough to win any vital Evo-Stik NPL First Division South points in a hard-fought encounter in Staffordshire on Saturday. The Scholars Ground has never been a happy hunting ground for the Tulips over recent years, with just a single point taken, while they’ve not managed so much as ...

ON CHENECKS 1 HOLBEACH UTD 2 Daz Edey reckons that Saturday’s dramatic 2-1 win over Northampton ON Chenecks was no more than Holbeach United deserved. Midfielder Spencer Tinkler hooked home a last-minute winner for the Tigers at Old Northamptonians Sports Ground, moving them back up to third in the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division in the process. Danny Brooks had earlier ...

Spalding RFC missed the chance to climb into the top six of Midlands Three East (North) after slipping to a surprise loss at basement side Nottingham Moderns on Saturday. Town were beaten 38-22 by their struggling hosts, who have now done the double over them this season. See www.spaldingvoice.co.uk early next week for a full report.  RESULTS Midlands Three East ...

PINCHBECK UTD 4 MELTON TOWN 0 Ian Dunn felt his Pinchbeck United side were always comfortable on Saturday as they moved ten points clear at the top of ChromaSport UCL Division One with a 4-0 win over Melton Town. A first-half strike from Aaron Eyett after a super Josh Smith run gave the Knights a deserved half-time lead, before the ...

Both Holbeach United and Pinchbeck United enjoyed important wins in their bid for ChromaSport UCL silverware on Saturday, but their was more away misery for Spalding United in Evo-Stik NPL First Division South. Starting with Holbeach, Spencer Tinkler struck a late winner to give them a potentially pivotal 2-1 success at ON Chenecks in the UCL Premier Division. Danny Brooks ...

Angry Holbeach United boss Seb Hayes has ruled out any more talk about winning the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division title – unless his side rediscover their best form. The Tigers chief has been bitterly disappointed by the performances his Tigers have put in since what looked like a season-defining 2-0 win at title rivals Yaxley two weeks ago. That culminated ...

Buoyant Pinchbeck United player/boss Ian Dunn wants to see his side finish the ChromaSport UCL Division One season unbeaten en-route to clinching the title. The Knights go into Saturday’s home date with Melton Town (3pm) with a seven-point lead over second-placed Raunds Town, with two games in hand, after last weekend’s trip to Stewarts and Lloyds was postponed. Dunn knows ...

Chris Rawlinson sees no reason why his revitalised Spalding United side can’t improve on their recent away woes at play-off chasing Chasetown on Saturday (3pm). The Tulips more than held their own in the 1-1 draw with Stocksbridge Park Steels – another play-off hopeful – on Saturday and the Tulips chief is hoping to see more of the same this ...

Spalding Poachers 1st almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as they were forced to settle for a 3-3 draw at home draw with Pelicans 1st in East Women’s League Division 2NW on Saturday. An Amy Wells hat-trick looked set to give the Poachers a 3-2 victory after they’d fought back from 2-1 down at Glen Park. But King’s ...

An encouraging return from James Doolan was the highlight as Spalding 2nd suffered a 4-2 defeat against St Neots 1st in East Men’s Hockey League Division 3NW on Saturday. Spalding took the game to St Neots from the off with some scintillating passing hockey and raced into a 2-0 lead through goals from Pete Wright and James Reston. This left ...

A 7-0 victory over Donington sent Crowland A 19 points clear at the top of the Spalding and District Billiards League table on Monday night. Their 13th win of the campaign makes the leaders red-hot favourites to clinch the crown with seven rounds of fixtures left to play. Second-placed Holbeach C – who have two games in hand on the ...

Spalding Hockey Club hosted the third of five Primary School Hockey Tournaments at Glen Park with around 130 youngsters in 15 teams from 12 local primary schools participating. The teams were placed in three leagues – advanced, intermediate and beginner – and all matches were played in a highly competitive and sporting spirit. In the advanced league, previously unbeaten St ...