Sport

Depleted Moulton Harrox battled back from a 1-0 half-time deficit to pick up a 2-2 draw at Wisbech Town in their penultimate ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division game of the season on Saturday. Mark Hardwick’s penalty after five minutes gave Wisbech the lead, but Jake Cawthorne and Joe Townsend struck just after the break to put Harrox ahead. However, Neil Goodbourn ...

A comfortable 3-0 win over Sawtry on Saturday was enough for Pinchbeck United to wrap up second place in the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division. Goals from Tom Brooks, player/boss Ian Dunn and a Tyler Wright penalty were enough for Pinchbeck at Knights Street, against a Sawtry side that had a player sent off in the second half. Dunn admitted that ...

Pinchbeck United wrapped up second place in ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Sawtry. Goals from Tyler Wright, Tom Brooks and player/boss Ian Dunn did the job for Pinchbeck at Knight Street. But, while they clinched the runners-up spot, results elsewhere also meant that Peterborough Sports Reserves sealed the title. Behind them, Moulton Harrox were ...

Ambitious manager Seb Hayes has vowed to make Holbeach United regular contenders for silverware if he’s given time at Carter’s Park. Hayes, who replaced Tom Roberts as Tigers chief back in December, took charge of 21 games over the 2016/17 season – wining ten, losing ten and drawing one. That saw Holbeach finish in seventh place in the standings, which ...

Spalding United boss Chris Rawlinson has urged his players not to waste what has been one of the most memorable seasons in the club’s history. The Tulips missed out on promotion to the Evo-Stik League Northern Premier Division after losing in Saturday’s play-off final to Witton Albion. Goals from Bradley Bauress and Anthony Gardner either side of a stunning strike ...

Tulips B were crowned Spalding and District League Division One champions despite slipping to defeat in their final match of the season. They were beaten 4-2 at Gosberton B, but that was still enough to fend off the challenge of Donington C who had done all they could by thrashing Boundary B 6-0. Victories for Ady Sibley (O7) and Darren ...

Three Spalding Bowls Club players attended the Midlands Regional Finals of the EIBA School of Excellence at Melton Mowbray. Nathan Puttrell, Jonathan Field and Jamie Goodliff qualified from the local event in January, playing three games to the ‘sets’ format which was followed by a skills test in the afternoon. Points were awarded for the various events with Nathan finishing ...

The talented teens from Spalding RFC under-15s have completed a six-year journey by being crowned NLD Cup winners. Having reached the final of the competition for the third year on the spin, the Spalding lads finally defeated arch rivals Nottingham – who had beaten them in the previous two finals – 27-5 to clinch the crown. With the game less ...

Holbeach United under-13s clinched the Peterborough Junior Alliance Division Two title after a dramatic final match of their season. The young Tigers needed a point from their last day title decider against Leverington, who raced into a two-goal first half lead. However, Holbeach hit back with two goals in the final ten minutes to take the title and cap a ...

In-form Andy Prior enjoyed a second clean sweep of wins in as many weeks at Welland Yacht Club over the weekend. The bank holiday weekend took its toll on numbers for Sunday’s racing, with several people away. Some eight members in six boats prepared to start the first race of the day, which was the fourth round of the Morning ...

It was a bad day at the office for the G&S Racing Kawasaki team as the weather put paid to the racing for all three of their riders at Oulton Park over the weekend. Qualifying had gone well for the two Superstock 1000 riders, Sammy Coventry and Tom Fisher – but come race day it had been raining and, although ...

Spalding Water Polo got their Herts League season off to a winning start by defeating Hatfield 11-9 at the Castle Sports Complex pool last week. Hosts Spalding took control in the first quarter, with goals from Gareth Lord (2), John James and Ed Martin to lead 4-2. Hatfield then scored three in the second quarter to Spalding’s two, making the ...

Aaron Clarke picked up a strong eighth place in the Superstock 600 race at Oulton Park over the weekend. Despite again suffering from arm pump during qualifying – which slowed him down a little – the Kirton racer was raring to go in his race, which took place in difficult conditions on a drying track. The draperRACING ace started from ...

A virtuoso display from Woodhall Spa’s Ross Dixon handed Spalding Town a second Lincs ECB Premier Division defeat on the spin on Saturday. Dixon, coming in at number eight with the score on 95-6, blasted an unbeaten 102 from just 73 deliveries to power hosts Spa to 257-9 from their 50 overs at Jubilee Park. The all-rounder then snared figures ...

Long Sutton 1st made it two wins from two in South Lincs and Border League Division One after beating ten-man Timberlands by nine wickets on Saturday. After skipper Phil Barnes won the toss and elected to bowl first, they skittled their visitors out for just 64 at Paradise Field. Dylan Garfoot (37) batted well for Timberlands, but he was one ...

Ian Dunn bemoaned Pinchbeck United’s “joke” schedule after seeing his side lose 4-2 at Stamford Lions on Tuesday night. Goals from Callum Lawe and Tom Sergeant had seen the Knights 1-0 and 2-1 up, but a late Luke Ball hat-trick (67, 74 & 85) – added to a Dan Sheehan strike (23) – gave the hosts all three points. The ...

Joe Broomfield smashed a sensational 220 to give Moulton Harrox a huge 149-run win over Market Deeping 2nd in Rutland League Division Four East on Sunday. Broomfield’s brilliant knock, which is the performance of the season so far, included 26 fours and 12 sixes as he steered Moulton to 288 batting first at Harrox Playing Field. Only two of his ...

Top scorer Declan Earth bagged a double as Moulton Harrox Reserves celebrated winning the ChromaSport PDFL Division One title with a 2-1 win over nearest rivals Warboys Town on Saturday. Earth bagged goals number 33 and 34 of the season for Kev Nottingham’s side at Broad Lane, as they won for the 25th time in 29 games this season. After ...

Holbeach United 1 Wellingborough Town 2 A last-gasp goal saw Holbeach United end a transitional ChromaSport UCL Premier Division season with a 2-1 home defeat against Wellingborough Town on Saturday. The Tigers looked to be heading for at least a share of the spoils at Carter’s Park when George Zuerner jumped off the bench to bag a 68th-minute leveller, wiping ...

Player/boss Matt Cawthorn dubbed Long Sutton Athletic’s 3-0 ChromaSport PDFL Division One defeat at King’s Cliffe a “horror show”. A treble from Gary Hayes shot down the Magpies in their penultimate game of the season on Saturday – and to make matters worse, key man Billy Radeloff was sent off late on in the clash. Cawthorn said: “We were terrible ...