Sport

Tydd St Mary’s eight-game unbeaten run came to an end on Saturday as they were narrowly beaten 3-1 at ChromaSport PDFL Division Two leaders Whittlesey A. After a strong start it was the Saints who took the lead when Jordan Ainslie whipped a great cross in for Tim Lowe to smash home first time into the bottom corner. However, Whittlesey ...

Gresley 0 Spalding United 2 Spalding United maintained their resurgence in form with a third successive victory – and another highly satisfying clean sheet – to retain third place in Evo-Stik NPL First Division South. The overall team performance against a Gresley side that had hammered them 4-1 in the FA Trophy back in early October, was considered to be ...

Ashbourne 78 Spalding RFC 14 Ravaged by injuries, unavailability, late withdrawals and a virus Spalding RFC were always on a hiding to nothing at Ashbourne on Saturday. With just 13 reasonably fit players making the always tough trip to Ashbourne, Town put in a remarkable first-half performance to only trail 25-14 at the interval – before eventually succumbing 78-14. That ...

Spalding Indoor Bowls Club are celebrating the outstanding achievement of having TEN international players following recent success at the trials. Amazingly, every player from the Castle Sports Complex-based club that attended their trial has been selected for the England squad in their respective groups. Jordan Philpott has kept his place in the men’s under-25 team, while Ruby Hill and Chelsea ...

It looks like Spalding RFC will need to launch a great escape in 2017 after a heavy 78-14 defeat at Ashbourne on Saturday. That loss leaves Town rooted to the bottom of Midlands Two East (North) at Christmas – and they are some ten points from safety. Having only won once in 11 games, The Elephants will need to hit ...

Both Spalding United and Holbeach United enjoyed impressive wins in their respective matches on Saturday. Goals from Conor Higginson and Matt Varley earned the Tulips a 2-0 victory at Gresley in Evo-Stik NPL First Division South, while Josh Ford, Callum Madigan and Jamie Ward all netted as the Tigers beat Leicester Nirvana 3-0 at Carter’s Park. Starting with Spalding, Dave ...

Holbeach United 3 Leicester Nirvana 0 Seb Hayes admitted that he was pleased to see his Holbeach United side “win ugly” in his first home game in charge on Saturday. Strikes from Josh Ford (21), Callum Madigan (45) and sub Jamie Ward (79) earned the Tigers a convincing success over ten-man Leicester Nirvana at Carter’s Park. That made it back-to-back ...

Division One champions Ship Albion added two more titles to their trophy cabinet to complete an impressive Grays of Holbeach Spalding and District Darts League treble on finals night. Having won all 16 of their league games en-route to the title, they defeated nearest league rivals New Saracen’s Head C in the Supreme Cup final to complete a league and ...

Nene Valley Harrier Charlotte Taylor announced her arrival into the big time with a fourth place finish at the European Cross Country Championships under-23 race at Chianti in Sardinia on Sunday. The 22-year old from Spalding had qualified impressively for the Great Britain team in the trials at Liverpool last month, and started the race with conviction running towards the ...

Spalding United supremo Dave Frecklington has paid tribute to skipper Nathan Stainfield after he made his 150th appearance for the club on Saturday. Central defender Stainfield was presented with a special award by the Tulips to mark the occasion before the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field clash with Market Drayton Town. He duly led his side to a 3-0 victory ...

Seb Hayes has talked up the attitude of new Holbeach United signing Zak Munton after prising him away from hometown club Bourne Town. The prolific young gun, who is the son of Wakes legend Darren Munton, became Hayes’ second signing as Tigers boss earlier this week. Having notched 11 goals in 22 games for UCL Division One Bourne this season, ...

Paul Burton stormed to his third Frostbite Series win of the season so far at Welland Yacht Club on Sunday. Race five of the popular series saw another good turnout with 12 boats taking part. Indeed, with 20 boats competing overall the winter series is one of the best attended of the season. The crowded start line got under way ...

Alex Hampson’s finest hour in a Nene Valley vest came back in 2013 when he won the Under 17 South of England Cross-Country Championship. The long-striding 18-year-old has had his fair share of ups and downs since then but now seems to be returning to his consistent best. He demonstrated this with a sparkling run in the North Midlands Cross-County ...

Daniel Dorey gained revenge for last year’s defeat in the final of the Paddy Palgrave Hard Bat competition by winning this season’s Spalding Table Tennis League tournament. Dorey defeated Sasha Martin in a repeat of last year’s final after battling through a group stage and then three knockout rounds. Twenty-five players gathered for the event which uses old bats with ...

Bullish assistant boss Paul Crowson insists that Moulton Harrox are focused on retaining their ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division title after Saturday’s 3-0 win at Deeping Rangers Reserves. Second-half strikes from new signing Dan Woods (2) and Joe Townsend gave Harrox the points at The Haydon Whitham Stadium – and leave them one point behind leaders Netherton United with a game ...

Despite suffering a shock defeat, table-topping Donington C remain on track for honours in Division One of the Spalding and District Snooker League. The current leaders went down to a surprise 4-2 away loss at struggling Pyramid A, but their closest challengers were unable to make the most of the rare slip. Stable-mates Donington A did the pacesetters a massive ...

Player/boss Matt Cawthorn described Long Sutton Athletic’s 8-2 ChromaSport PDFL Division One loss at Oundle Town as the worst game of his reign so far. A well-worked goal from Damien Ramm couldn’t stop Sutton going in 2-1 down at half-time – having also played with the famous slope in their favour. The Magpies should really have scored a few more ...

Improving Spalding United Reserves were cruelly denied a ChromaSport PDFL Division One draw by a last-gasp Stamford Belvedere strike on Saturday. Tom Holland’s strike from a corner gave the hosts a 2-1 victory – and left the Tulips’ second string cursing their luck. Lucas Williams put Stamford ahead in the first half following a defensive mix-up. Spalding improved after the ...

Pinchbeck United have defended their decision to pull their Reserve team out of ChromaSport PDFL Division Two following an alleged assault by one of the club’s players on a referee over the weekend. It is said that Pinchbeck Reserves’ Reece Parker attacked Spalding referee Phil Hayes as the team left their field at half time at Tydd St Mary on ...

Spalding RFC 19 West Bridgford 21 An agonising last-gasp penalty miss from James West denied Spalding RFC a much-needed boost in Midlands Two East (North) on Saturday. Town slipped to a 21-19 defeat against fellow strugglers West Bridgford at the Memorial Field and remain bottom of the pile with one victory from ten matches. Fly-half West’s penalty – which would ...