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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 ...

Spalding United 3 Market Drayton 0 Resurgent Spalding United turned in an impressive display of controlled football at rain-swept Sir Halley Stewart Field on Saturday to get the festive month off to a winning start with their second successive 3-0 victory in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South. Opponents Market Drayton Town, although battling throughout, were comprehensively swept aside by a ...

ON Chenecks 0 Holbeach United 4 New boss Seb Hayes felt Holbeach United ticked all of the boxes he was looking for on Saturday as they cruised to victory in his first game in charge on Saturday. Tommy Treacher fired the Tigers ahead on 37 minutes, moments after his strike partner Josh Ford had rattled the bar with another effort. ...

Tulips boss Dave Frecklington believes his side need to show a patient approach to maintaining their push for a place in the EvoStik League Division One South play-offs. Spalding ended a four-match winless run on Saturday with a 3-0 away success at Loughborough Dynamo. They entertain Market Drayton at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field on Saturday (3pm) looking for ...

Spalding Snooker League player Mark Gray missed out on the chance to clinch Mosconi Cup glory for Team Europe last night.   Gray, and partner Darren Appleton, lost out in a final match thriller to Rodney Mark and Justin Bergman whose victory ensured Team America took proceedings into today’s final day of play.   With the Europeans leading 7-2 going ...

Pinchbeck player-boss Ian Dunn is hoping his charges will take out their frustrations of a double whammy of postponements by moving another step closer to Lincolnshire Junior Cup glory on Saturday.   Dunn’s side host East Lincs Combination Division One table-toppers Tetney Rovers at Knight Street on Saturday (1.30pm) aiming to book a place in the quarter-finals of the coveted ...

Spalding Snooker League star Mark Gray produced his best-ever Mosconi Cup performance as Team Europe piled the misery on a floundering American side to take a five point lead into the third day of the 2016 competition at the Alexandra Palace in London. They won three of the four Wednesday night matches to leave the USA with a mountainous task ...

New Holbeach United manager Seb Hayes wants to bring the good times back to Carter’s Park after landing what he describes as “the biggest job” he’s likely to have in Step Five management. Hayes was officially unveiled as Tigers boss after Saturday’s 2-1 win over Rothwell Corinthians, having left his role as joint boss at UCL Division One side Oakham ...

After a four-match winless run in Evostik NPL First Division South, the Tulips began the festive month in scintillating style with a commanding victory courtesy of three cracking goals. Dynamo, struggling for survival in the league but strengthened by five new signings, fully tested the Tulips resolve in the first half which ended goalless. But once the deadlock was ended ...

Holbeach United 2 Rothwell Corinthians 1 A dramatic injury-time penalty from Josh Ford earned Holbeach United a battling 2-1 ChromaSport UCL Premier Division win over Rothwell Corinthians on Saturday in Martyn Cundy’s final game as caretaker manager. With newly-appointed boss Seb Hayes watching on from the sideline, Ford had earlier put the Tigers ahead following a top team move on ...

Two of the chasing pack took the chance to close the gap on leaders Donington C in Spalding and District Snooker League Division One on Saturday. With the table-toppers not in action, Holbeach A and Tulips B both won to move closer to the title favourites – but second-placed Pyramid B slipped to a costly defeat. The Bourne side were ...