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Deflated skipper Sam Cooke admits that he doesn’t know what went wrong for Spalding RFC last weekend. Town were hammered 50-5 at Southwell (see page 46), despite going into the game full of confidence after earning their first Midlands Two East (North) win of the season the previous week. Cooke admits that his side probably underestimated the size of their ...

Relentless New Saracen’s Head C completed a perfect season in Grays of Holbeach Spalding and District Darts League by winning the Supreme Cup on finals night. The Division One winners, who won all 14 of their league games and amassed an amazing 100 leg victories, beat Lamb and Flag 15-6 at the Spalding Services Club event. It was a real ...

Leanne Wakefield reached the last 16 of the ladies’ national singles pool championship at Yarmouth last Thursday night. The Spalding and District Snooker League player, who is a member of Bourne Snooker Centre, was only beaten by current England player Lyndsey Roberts. From a starting line-up of 256 players, Wakefield won through four rounds (5-0, 5-3, 5-0 and 5-1) before ...

Nine members of Spalding Gymnastics Club came home from an East Region competition in Colchester with a host of medals. The competition proved very strong, with plenty of top clubs taking part. The morning session saw Spalding’s Niamh Ruston win the bronze overall in her age group and also bag bronze on bars, while Caitlyn Keyzers also was in the ...

The ladies from Spalding Golf Club have fundraising down to a tee – they’ve raised more than £3,000 for charity in the last year. When it came to choosing a charity, captain of the Ladies’ Section for 2014/15, Christine Vickers didn’t take long to nominate Bowel & Cancer Research because her brother, farmer Jim Middleton, died of bowel cancer in ...

by Andrew Tidswell Elite Sports Academy MD and Holbeach Utd player/coach The old saying ‘time doesn’t stand still’ is only too true when you talk about the football scene in Spalding. Since the last column I wrote, we had confirmation that Pat Rayment walked away from his role as Spalding United manager. In his time at the club, Pat led ...

The Championship was the place to be on Monday night as 18 goals across four games lit up The Spalding and South Holland Voice six-a-side League. Played amid wet and wild conditions at Surfleet’s Glen Park, the second tier action got under way with Maly & Team, who have been really impressive since joining the league, turning over previously unbeaten ...

Spalding Hockey Club’s leading side cruised into the last 16 of the England Hockey Men’s Trophy with a dominant 12-2 win at March Town on Sunday. They started superbly, as teenagers Joe Higgins and Joe Rogers scored early – but the home side pulled one back with a well-struck short corner to keep the tie alive. A period of March ...

It’ll be business as usual at Spalding United after Marcus Ebdon and Danny Hussey committed their long-term futures to the club on Tuesday night. Former Everton and Peterborough United winger Ebdon, who was number two under ex-boss Pat Rayment, has agreed a deal to become the Tulips’ new manager. Hussey, who was player/coach under the old regime, has also decided ...

Holbeach A passed a real test of their title credentials in Spalding and District Snooker League Division On last week as they swept aside a talented Long Sutton A side 6-0 on Thursday night. Impressive frame wins from Mick Pearl (O14), Jem Merrison (O35), Mick Ayres Jnr (R14), Bobby White (O14) and Mark Hubbard (O14) helped send Holbeach two points ...

An Ollie Maltby hat-trick fired Moulton Harrox to their 11th win from as many ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division games on Saturday. Harrox were 5-1 winners at Riverside, with defenders Bobby Patterson and Ashley Coddington the other scorers. Another defender, Jonny Clay, came on as a substitute for Dave Panton’s side. Clay, who was part of Moulton’s treble-winning side back in ...

Spalding Indoor Bowls Club will be extremely well represented at various international trials in the next few weeks. In addition to Ruby Hill’s success at under-18 level, Lucy Cooke, Chelsea Tomlin and Hill herself have trials for the under-25 team on December 12. Jordan Philpott and Ashley Caress have been invited for under-25 trials on November 22, with Graham Smith, ...

The young guns from Spalding RFC under-10 offered an exciting glimpse of their talent as they triumphed at the Leicester Tigers Prima Cup tournament. Town took a squad of 15 to the event and were drawn in Group D alongside Chesterfield, Newcastle, Burntwood and Trentham – all teams they’d never faced before. First up was Trentham, with Spalding 2-0 winners ...

Kirby Muxloe 1 Holbeach United 2 Two-goal Jake Clitheroe took the plaudits as Holbeach United booked their place in the last eight of the ChromaSport UCL Knockout Cup. The Tigers picked up an impressive 2-1 win at fellow UCL Premier Division high-fliers Kirby Muxloe, meaning they face either Long Buckby/Northampton Sileby Rangers or Boston Town/Potton United in the quarter-finals. Clitheroe, ...

Boss Kev Nottingham was left scratching his head wondering how Spalding United Reserves failed to earn at least a point from his Saturday’s 3-2 home defeat against Wittering Town. Two weeks without a game showed in the early stages at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, as the hosts went 2-0 down inside 15 minutes of the ChromaSport PDFL Division ...

Southwell 50 Spalding RFC 5 Spalding RFC crashed back down to earth with a thud on Saturday as Southwell handed them a sobering Midlands Two East (North) defeat. Having earned a stunning first win of the season the previous weekend, Town produced a poor performance in Nottinghamshire as they were crushed 50-5 by a home side that began the day ...

Leek Town 0 Spalding United 3 Danny Hussey heaped praise on his resurgent Spalding United side after seeing them sweep aside hosts Leek Town 3-0 on Saturday. Goals from Jake Newman (24), Paul Walker (57) and Josh Moreman (71) were enough to elevate the Tulips into sixth place in the Evo-Stik League First Division South table – just one position ...

Spalding United and Holbeach United both bounced back from midweek losses as they earned impressive away wins on Saturday. The Tulips were 3-0 winners at Leek Town in Evo-Stik League First Division South, while the Tigers won 2-1 at Kirby Muxloe to progress in the ChromaSport UCL Knockout Cup. Starting with Spalding, goals from Jake Newman (14), Paul Walker (57) ...

Spalding RFC were thumped 50-5 at Southwell in Midlands Two East (North) on Saturday as they failed to build on last week’s confidence-boosting victory. Town had hoped to make it back-to-back league wins for the first time in recent memory, but were dealt a crushing defeat by a side that began the day in the bottom five. The heavy loss leaves ...

Sam Cooke has always maintained that his Spalding RFC side would come good. His faith was finally vindicated by Saturday’s thrilling 26-22 win over Nottingham Casuals as Town registered their first league success of the campaign. Captain Cooke admits that the beer “tasted better” on Saturday night and that he was “proud as punch” by the performance. But he’s now ...