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Moulton Harrox chalked up another impressive milestone in their stellar season as they thrashed Leverington Sports 8-0 in the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division On Saturday. The unbeaten leaders moved six points clear at the top of the table with their 16th win from 17 league games – and netted their 100th goal of the campaign in the process. Ian Bradbury ...

Goals from Jake Farrell, Matt Rose and Edgaras Buzas gave Spalding United Reserves a much-deserved victory as they booked their place in the semi-finals of the PFA Challenge Cup with a 3-0 victory over Oundle Town. After their barren run of recent weeks, this was the performance Kev Nottingham’s side have been threatening as of late. Right from the kick ...

Tydd St Mary and Spalding Town both pulled off Spalding Inter Services Trophy upsets on Saturday as they set up a final showdown at Carter’s Park in April. ChromaSport PDFL Division Three outfit Tydd stunned Division One rivals Long Sutton 2-0 at London Road, while Division Two promotion hopefuls Town knocked off Sutton Bridge United, another Division One team, 1-0 ...

Spalding Poachers 1st earned a vital 3-2 victory over Letchworth 1st on Saturday as they did their hopes of staying in East Women’s League Division 1N the power of good. Having won just one of their previous 14 league games, it was vital that the Spalding girls won in order to keep themselves in touch with the clutch of sides ...

Loughborough Dynamo 2 Spalding United 2 Two moments of magic helped Spalding United secure a deserved 2-2 draw at relegation-threatened Loughborough Dynamo in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South on Saturday. It looked liked the play-off chasing Tulips were heading for a disappointing defeat when Kevin Hemagou bagged a quick-fire first-half double for lowly Loughborough (10 & 19) at the Nanpantan ...

Spalding RFC have paid a fitting tribute to chairman Geof Nichols, who died on Friday after an 18-month battle with leukaemia. Geof, who was associated with Town for 35 years, spent more than two decades as chairman. A minute’s silence in honour of Geof, who was 72, was held before Spalding’s 20-17 defeat against Melbourne at the Memorial Field on ...

Spalding RFC 17 Melbourne RFC 20 On a day overshadowed by the death of respected chairman Geof Nichols, Spalding RFC slipped to a potentially costly 20-17 defeat against Midlands Town East (North) relegation rivals Melbourne on Saturday. A minute of silence was held as mark of respect to Town’s late chairman (see story, above) – and sadly the Elephants couldn’t ...

Spalding and District Table Tennis League’s (sponsored by Vital Recruitment) Marylands Cup got under way last week with the round one fixtures. Unfortunately, this event is no less immune to the League’s chief problems this season – no shows and postponements. Of the eight, matches one was postponed in advance, another had a no-show on the night and two others ...

Spalding RFC were beaten 20-17 by Midlands Two East (North) relegation rivals Melbourne on Saturday – just hours after the death of chairman Geof Nichols. Town, who had won four home games on the bounce, had led 12-6 at half time thanks to tries from Harry Sharman and Taylor Crowson. Sharman added another try in the second period, but they ...

Spalding United produced an impressive second-half comeback to net a 2-2 draw at Loughborough Dynamo in Evo-Stik NPL Division One South on Saturday. The play-off chasing Tulips trailed 2-0 at half time against a Dynamo side that started the day in the bottom two after two Kevin Hemagou strikes (10 and 19). It was far from game over, however, with ...

The pressure is very much on Spalding RFC to keep their fine run of home form in Midlands Two East (North) going this weekend. Town are in the drop zone ahead of Saturday’s Memorial Field battle with relegation rivals Melbourne (2.15pm) – some seven points behind their visitors. Lose, and Spalding will give one of their main rivals a serious ...

It’s crunch time for Holbeach United’s ChromaSport UCL Premier Division title hopes on Saturday as they make the trip to unbeaten Kempston Rovers (3pm). The Tigers, currently fifth in the table, are ten points behind the second-placed Walnut Boys with two games in hand ahead of the first meeting between the pair this season. Tom Roberts’ side do come into ...

Marcus Ebdon admits that he and his Spalding United side are looking forward to visiting Evo-Stik NPL Division One South rivals Loughborough Dynamo on Saturday (3pm). The Tulips produced one of their best performances in recent memory when they romped to a 6-0 success at Nanpantan Sports Ground last season. Ebdon, then assistant to former boss Pat Rayment, has fond ...

The all-Spalding Water Polo derby served up 22 goals last Tuesday night as the Orcas beat the Sharks 12-10 to gain revenge for their defeat in the December reverse. The first quarter was evenly matched at the Castle Sports Complex pool and finished 4-4, with a superb hat-trick from John James and a goal from Harry Bumfrey for the Orcas. ...

The opening weekend of the Lincolnshire ASA County Championships was one to remember for South Lincs Competitive Swimming Club. The Spalding-based club made the short trip to Grantham’s Meres Leisure Centre for their first competition of 2016 – and there were some stand-out showings from South Holland’s finest. The racing kicked off in great style, with Mollie Briggs, Hannah Willis, ...

Club records continued to tumble as a host of Nene Valley Harriers attended the London Games in Lee Valley over the weekend. The meeting was for the under-13, under-15 and under-17 age groups – with the older athletes in action this coming weekend. On Saturday, Josh Akinwumi ran his first round under-17 60m hurdles and came out the blocks slowly. ...

Ollie Maltby helped himself to a hat-trick as Moulton Harrox picked up their first ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division win of 2016 by seeing off South Holland rivals Holbeach United Reserves 3-1 on Saturday. The in-form midfielder notched twice in the first 30 minutes at Broad Lane, only for an own goal from Bobby Patterson to haul a strong Holbeach side ...

Tydd St Mary Reserves stormed into the last four of the ChromaSport PDFL’s League Shield with a 6-3 win over Parkside on Saturday. Despite not playing a game for six weeks, Tydd started the first five minutes brightly and went ahead when Kyle Davis slid the goal past the bewildered keeper after some lovely football by Dale Parnell. A crazy ...

A last-gasp Steve Boon equaliser denied Spalding United Reserves their first win since December as they were held 1-1 at Stamford Belvedere on Saturday. Although Tulips chief Kev Nottingham will be pleased with what he saw from his side in the ChromaSport PDFL Division One clash, the late leveller was a real kick in the teeth after an improved performance. ...

Ace goal-getter Stuart Cunnington smashed a terrific treble as Spalding 1st continued their promotion push in East Men’s Hockey League Premier B with a 4-3 derby win at Wisbech 1st. In what was a very physical game, Spalding went 1-0 down after ten minutes as Wisbech attacked with pace and venom straight out of the blocks. But Cunnington soon turned ...