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Moulton Harrox’s Saturday sides took on Newborough at the weekend with both XIs falling to defeats, Playing away from home in the South Lincs and Border League Championship, 1st XI captain Chris Beale lost the toss with Newborough electing to bowl on a very warm spring day.Beale and Jamie Juckes opened the batting against the home side’s strong attack.Juckes began ...

Last week saw the return to the old classic Pode hole Tuesday night TT.There was a reduced field of riders for this course due to the tricky road surface with 12 entrants.Neil Palmer was back to winning ways posting a time of 22:27, chased closely by Chris Ward steadily riding himself into form.Absent from the top was Frazer Wallis, this ...

Tydd St Giles golf club results:Seniors’ Individual Stableford Division One: 1st Mick Vassall 39 points, 2nd (ocb) Michael Flint 37 points, 3rd Peter Sharpe 37 points; Division Two: 1st Tom Ainsley 41 points, 2nd (ocb) Malcolm Pack 38 points, 3rd Ken Doughty 38 points; Division Three: 1st Malcolm Miller 39 points, 2nd Steve Skoulding 38 points, 3rd Stephen Horton 36 ...

Spalding Golf Club’s ladies were victorious playing in a four-way match.The match was played as a cumulative Stableford with eight women in each team.Representing Spalding were Jean Wilkinson, Lizzie Cooke, Sally West, Beryl Clay, Jacquie Walton, Jane Blom Shirley Gurbutt and Elaine Hancock.The score was 267pts to Spalding. Second was Belton Woods with 226pts, third Melton Mowbray and fourth Greetham ...

Spalding Town Tennis Club held their first open day of the year on Sunday (May 28).A great day was had by all, with new members enjoying coaching from club coach Enoch Annan and junior assistant on the day Charles Dallas.Spalding Town Tennis Club, based at Holyrood Walk, is always ready to welcome to new members of all ages and abilities.For ...

Welland Yacht Club racers took to the water for the Flag Officers Cup at the weekend. An excellent turnout of 11 boats started race one in a gentle breeze that was set to build throughout the day and with a course of number 1 to number 3 it gave the boats a chance to experience all the points of sailing.The ...

It’s a role often not given the credit it deserves. But the new kitman at Spalding United has played an integral part of the club’s success this season. Rob Green says his first campaign amongst the Tulips’ voluntary support staff has been a blast.And he’s completed every match home and away alongside his dad Ian and Dylan, one of his ...

Recognised bowler Barry Stanway made a super contribution with the bat to send Long Sutton top of the table in South Lincs and Border League Championship.His 78 was pivotal in the five-run home win over Newborough.Stanway smashed six sixes and as many fours before falling caught and bowled to Joe Mills.He was last man out as Sutton posted a target ...

Skipper Jon Manton and Chris Dring smacked unbeaten half-centuries to steer Spalding Town to an eight-wicket win. Woodhall Spa had failed to make much of an impression in the Lincolnshire Cricket Board Premier League match after electing to bat.Prasanna Jaywardene was caught by wicket-keeper Ethan Lawrence off Nilantha Attapattu and fellow opener Matt Carter was dismissed for obstructing the field ...

Moulton Harrox pushed early pacesetters Woodhall Spa 2nd but came up short in South Lincs and Border League Championship.With a relatively unchanged side and a positive looking top five, Moulton skipper Josh Newton was thrilled when Woodhall won the toss and elected to field first.Brothers Matt and Jack Barnett reunited their opening partnership, navigating a strong Woodhall attack.The partnership reached ...

A late Luke Gardner goal saw Moulton Harrox through to tonight’s (Thursday’s) ChromaSport Peterborough and District League Cup final.Kev Nottingham’s side will be hoping for a cup double when they take on Warboys Town at Yaxley United’s ground (7.30pm) in their final match of the season.Moulton took a firm grip of last Saturday’s semi-final at Crowland Town midway through the ...

Spalding Cycling Club’s round of the Hereward League took place last Tuesday night with another strong 41-rider field, headlined by the eventual winner Hayley Simmonds, of AWOL-O’Shea.Fourteen Spalding riders took to the course. Frazer Wallis took top honours among the Spalding riders with a 21:50, which was enough for fourth overall.Enough to pip Neil Palmer who was coming of the ...

Prostate Cancer UK was the chosen charity for Stewart Barnett’s year of fundraising as Club Captain of Spalding Golf Club.He set himself the target of running a marathon and personally raised £455.During his captain’s year, £5,000 was raised by donations, raffles, golf competitions and sponsorship at the golf club.Barnett would like to thank everyone who donated to the charity and ...

It was an excellent weekend for Wyberton team G&S Racing Kawasaki at Donington Park for round three of the Pirelli Nation Superstock and Junior Superstock championships.Asher Durham took a fourth and a very close second place in the Junior Superstock races while Jorel Boerboom rode to a solid 20th place in the senior class.Despite this only being the second time ...

Welland Yacht Club welcomed a good number of visitors on Sunday for their annual Open Day to have a go at sailing. The weather was kind as the sun shone all day and the wind arrived in ideal conditions. It was a little strong at times but there was only one capsize and swim reported – testament to the helm’s ...

The curtain came down on another Spalding and District Snooker and Billiards League season with the annual trophy presentation evening on Friday. All of the 2022/23 season’s trophy winners got their hands on silverware at the Spalding Services Club bash – which included snooker Division One winners Boundary A and billiards champions Gosberton B.The traditional dinner and dance also saw ...

Spalding stock car racer Finn Sargent is celebrating after securing a win in his first outing in his new self-built stock car.After many hours of work on the car Sargent (21) managed to secure a heat win in his new F1 stock car at Skegness Stadium Speed Weekend on May 6.Sargent, who is just finishing an apprenticeship with Williams F1, ...

Spalding Town were in T20 cup action at Bourne on Saturday.In the three-team group, Spalding lost comfortably to the current league champions and hosts.Spalding posted 87 for 6 from their 20 overs with Ethan Lawrence top scoring with 20.It was a total Bourne knocked off three down with more than four overs to spare.Brandon Andrews claimed 2 for 26 in ...

A teenager from Fleet is making waves as one of the rising stars in the sport of pool. Chloe Payne (18) reached a plate semi-final at the World Women’s Snooker Open last weekend at Birmingham.It follows on from reaching a last 16 finish in the International Pool Association World Championship at the first time of asking and she managed to ...

Moulton Harrox have missed out on the Dor-Jan Peterborough and District Premier League title, but they have another cup semi-final to look forward to.Declan Earth is in fine form and he netted four times for Moulton in the 7-1 win over bottom tier AFC Marlborne in Tuesday’s League Cup quarter-final.Ashley Coddington, Louis Steadman and Ian Bradbury also scored as Moulton ...