Sport

Nene Valley Harriers’ under-17 girls showed their mettle with victory in the North Midlands Cross Country League meet at West Glebe in Corby, writes BARRY WARNE. The talented trio of Josie Fortune, Amber Park and Ellie Piccaver finished sixth, seventh and ninth respectively to register a comfortable win over their main league rivals Corby AC and Derby AC. With two ...

Jokers beat JDM 5-0 last week to take a firm grip at the top of the Division One table in Spalding and District Table Tennis League. In fairness to the losers, they were forced to bring in a substitute for an injured player in the shape of young Tom Chesworth – who performed very creditably despite finding the opposition a ...

Boston Town 1 Holbeach Utd 0 Fuming boss Seb Hayes launched a scathing attack on his Holbeach United side after seeing them lose 1-0 at rivals Boston Town on Tuesday night. Will Britton’s classy finish on 74 minutes was enough to give hosts Boston an unlikely three points at the DWB Stadium, with the Tigers guilty of spurning a host ...

Champions Moulton Harrox Reserves returned to the top of the ChromaSport PDFL Division One table with a 3-1 victory over previous leaders Peterborough Polonia on Saturday. A double from Martin Sandall and a Keith England strike steered Kev Nottingham’s charges to all three points at Broad Lane, despite a Rafal Kowalksi effort. That result leaves Harrox two points clear at ...

SPALDING RFC 14 NOTTINGHAM MODERNS 17 Struggling Spalding RFC produced an uninspiring performance on Saturday as they became the first Midlands Three East (North) side to lose to Nottingham Moderns this season. Town, who were playing Midlands One East rugby as recently as 2015, lost 17-14 to the basement boys at the Memorial Field to seemingly suck them into another ...

NORTHAMPTON SILEBY RANGERS 1 HOLBEACH UTD 7 Buzzing boss Seb Hayes saluted an “unbelievable” opening 25 minutes as Holbeach United smashed hosts Northampton Sileby Rangers 7-1 on Saturday. Mitch Griffiths helped himself to a hat-trick on his return to the Tigers’ first team following injury, while top scorer Lewis Leckie took his tally for the season to 18 with another ...

RAUNDS TOWN 0 PINCHBECK UTD 1 Ollie Maltby’s first-half header was enough to give Pinchbeck United a 1-0 win at title rivals Raunds Town on Saturday as they opened up a four point lead at the top of the ChromaSport UCL Division One table. Top scorer Maltby nodded home a Josh Smith cross on 43 minutes to settle a close ...

Holbeach United ran riot with a 7-1 victory at Northampton Sileby Rangers on Saturday, while Pinchbeck United won 1-0 in their top-of-the-table clash at Raunds Town. Starting with the Tigers, a hat-trick from Mitch Griffiths inspired them to a huge ChromaSport UCL Premier Division victory at Fernie Fields. Lewis Leckie (2), George Zuerner and new signing Jacob Fenton – a ...

Spalding RFC were unable to make it back-to-back wins in Midlands Three East (North) as rock-bottom Nottingham Moderns defeated them 17-14 at the Memorial Field on Saturday. The loss leaves Town in the bottom three and firmly in the relegation battle. Full report to follow on Monday. RESULTS Midlands Three East (N): Ashby 21 Mansfield 6; Birtsall 42 Kesteven 29; Spalding ...

Spalding Utd 1 Gresley 2 Two second half goals from Gresley’s Matt Melbourne sentenced out-of-sorts Spalding United to a fourth-successive 2-1 defeat on Saturday. All looked to be going to plan for the Tulips at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field early on, with Gary King firing them ahead on 16 minutes. Spalding should have been out of sight in ...

Ian Dunn says he can feel the confidence flowing in his Pinchbeck United squad as they prepare for Saturday’s top-of-the-table showdown at Raunds Town (3pm). The table-topping Knights make the trip to ChromaSport UCL Division One title rivals Raunds as the league’s in-form side, having picked up 30 points from the last 33 available. That puts them a point clear ...

Spalding Water Polo enjoyed an 11-5 win over Dunstable in a well-contested clash last Tuesday night. Spalding had the upper hand for most of the Castle Sports Complex clash as Dunstable only arrived with the minimum of seven players to start the match. However, the home team could have scored a few more times had they worked together and not ...

Upbeat boss Chris Rawlinson reckons that it’s time everybody at Spalding United stopped feeling sorry for themselves. The Tulips slipped into something of a crisis last week when the club cut the weekly budget, forcing Rawlinson to shelve any plans of a promotion push in Evo-Stik NPL First Division South. There was no mass player exodus, however, with the players ...

Worried Holbeach United boss Seb Hayes admits that the current “injury nightmare” at the club may force him to dip back into the transfer market. The Tigers, who crashed out of the Buildbase FA Vase with a 5-0 loss at Walsall Wood on Saturday, were down to the bare bones for Wednesday night’s 2-0 win Sleaford Town and still will ...

Paul and Lucy Burton made a flying start to Welland Yacht Club’s Frostbite Series as they took top spot at round one on Sunday. With a strong wind and cold temperatures forecast only four boats took to the starting line. The powerful Phantom of Gerrit Van Haren pulled away on the first leg to the first mark, but he capsized ...

Joe Rogers netted a last-gasp penalty to earn Spalding 1st a 2-2 draw at fellow strugglers Blueharts 1st in East Men’s Hockey League Premier A Division on Saturday. Ahead of the clash of two of last season’s promoted sides, both needed to build on their haul of just one point from seven games – but in the end they had ...

Spalding Indoor Bowls Club ace Jordan Philpott was the runner-up in the Sportsman of the Year category of the 2017 Lincolnshire Sports Awards. Philpott was among around 300 people at the awards ceremony held at the Epic Centre at Lincoln Showground, hosted by BBC presenter Delyth Lloyd. Lincoln City football management team Danny and Nicky Cowley attended as special guests ...

Holbeach A won the battle of the heavyweights in Division One of the Spalding and District Snooker League as they pegged back leaders Bourne SC A 4-2 on Thursday night. A black-ball win from Colin Dodds (O7) in the opening frame set the tone for second-placed Holbeach, before Mick Ayres (O7) and Mick Pearl (O14) won the final two frames ...

The boys from Spalding Gymnastics Academy did themselves and the club proud at the Northants county four-piece championships. Spalding were invited to the Irthlingborough event and performed well across the categories. In the novice level, Lewis Burton was the club’s only gymnast. He performed very well despite not medalling. In the intermediate level (age nine), Elliot Brookes won the silver ...

Some nine matches were contested in the Spalding and District Table Tennis League last Tuesday – although not all reached a conclusion. In Division One, Jokers replace Moulton SE at the top, on alphabetical order. Jokers faced the Underdogs and came away with a 4-1 victory. Sasha Martin won another double while Guntars Briedes added a third with the doubles ...