Sport

South Lincs Competitive Swimming Club’s head coach enjoyed the success of 15-year-old Luke Elliott’s British Championship 400m freestyle swim, along with new personal bests from Will Swain (14), Matthew Gray (15), Tom Mitchell (17) and Alice Gowing (15) at the Burns Open at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, last weekend. Callum Lawson said: “This was a level one competition showing some of ...

The Spalding and District Table Tennis League – sponsored by Vital Recruitment – moved into the second half of its season. In addition three Marylands Cup matches were completed from the previous week. In Division One, what should have been a routine win in a top v bottom fixture turned out to be anything but. Bladerunners defeated JAG 4-1 but ...

Holbeach United’s management will not lose any sleep over the Lincolnshire FA Senior Trophy exit on Tuesday. The Tigers went down 2-0 at Grantham Town, of the Evo-stik NPL Premier Division. They made eight changes to the starting line-up from last Saturday’s 1-1 league draw with AFC Rushden and Diamonds. And it was a mistake from one of the three ...

A thoroughly entertaining night in The Spalding & South Holland Voice 6-a-side league on Monday 75 goals across the 12 matches – and not one draw. Division One Brennan’s Sports suffered their second straight defeat for the first time since the league began. They went down 5-1 to Baltic United in a result which was closer than the score suggests. ...

Spalding Utd 2 Rainworth Miners Welfare 0: It was not a pretty match for supporters to watch, but nevertheless productive for the Tulips who picked up another three points at the Sir Halley Stewart Field and regained fourth spot in Evo-Stik League Division One South. The Tulips are now on a 14-game unbeaten run in league and cup, their last defeat being in the ...

Spalding Grammar School reached the last 16 of the NatWest Under-18s Vase competition after beating St Albans’ Beaumont School 23-12. It is that first time in recent history that the school have made the regional final and consolidates yet another rugby season for the school teams. The win sets up another away trip – to King Edward VI School Aston ...

Spalding United manager Pat Rayment is considering bolstering his squad after a costly Lincolnshire Senior Trophy defeat at Stamford on Tuesday. The Tulips head to Evo-stik Division One South leaders Newcastle Town on Saturday with serious concerns over Mitch Griffiths (ankle), Jordan Nuttell (dead leg) and Jordan Hempenstall (knee). All three hobbled off in the 1-0 loss at Stamford – ...

Holbeach Utd 1-1 AFC Rushden and Diamonds: It’s as you were in the ChromaSport UCL Premier Division title race after a draw between the top two on Saturday. A goal by Russ Dunkley in second-half added time rescued a point for league leaders Diamonds. However, with four matches in hand and eight points adrift, Holbeach will be the happier when ...

Tom Waumsley scored again as Spalding United stretched their unbeaten league run to 14 matches with a 2-0 win over Rainworth Miners Welfare. The striker – also on target last weekend in the draw with Norton United – put the Tulips’ noses in front on 47 minutes. However, home fans were only able to breathe easy in the 89th minute when ...

Spalding United host lowly Rainworth Miners Welfare on Saturday (3pm) looking to push their unbeaten league run close to four months. The Tulips were last beaten in the league on October 4, at Sheffield FC. In 20 league and cup matches since then, the Tulips have won 15, drawn 4 and lost just once. However, Pat Rayment’s side got out of ...

Gosberton B are starting to look over their shoulder at the Division Two drop zone after a thrashing from their A side. It was an ‘away match’ which held no fears for the one-from-bottom A side, who romped to a 6-0 win. Only two of the games were tight, but Carl Ward and Peter Waterfall prevailed against David Nichols and ...

Alan Charevicius scored a goal and was instrumental in the other as Spalding 5th grabbed a 2-0 win at Bourne/ Deeping 6th on Saturday – their third straight win. Both teams started off well and looked to be evenly matched in this East League Division 6NW (N) clash. End-to-end hockey followed and, with good link-up play between Spalding’s midfield and ...

The pressure is on AFC Rushden and Diamonds in Saturday’s UCL Premier Division top-of-the-table clash, according to Holbeach United co-manager John Chand. With the Tigers eight points behind the league leaders but having four matches in hand, Chand believes the onus is on Diamonds to win at Carter’s Park (3pm). And he reckons that Diamonds’ capture of former Corby Town and Daventry ...

Ben Williams has been appointed the new head coach at struggling Spalding RFC as they try to snap a run of 17 straight league defeats at home to Kettering on Saturday (2.15pm). Town have gone for a “new direction and fresh approach” by replacing Andy McMahon, who they say has done an admirable job under tough circumstances in Midlands One East this ...

Spalding Sharks were unlucky that their home match against Kettering finished in a 7-7 draw, having dominated the play for most of the match. Sharks opened the scoring, with a goal after 15 seconds from Jordan Templer. Two more goals in the next two minutes from Templer and Chris Scotney, scoring from a goal throw, showed the Sharks’ dominance in this ...

Nene Valley Harriers’ cross country team manager Russ Prosser hailed this season’s North Midlands League as one of the club’s most successful in years. The Harriers finished the 2014/15 season as league champions in the mixed U11 and U17 men’s tables, and saw the ever-improving Alex Hampson crowned U17 men’s individual champion at the final fixture at Wollaton Park, Nottingham. ...

The semi-finalists in Spalding and District Billiards League Shield are now known. Crowand B, Consti D, Gosberton and Long Sutton are the final four after Monday’s quarter-finals. Consti B had the largest winning margin – and arguably the most impressive win. Steve Spencer, John Keeton and Mick Johnson all won to send league leaders Donington packing. Norman Gookey’s side had little ...

A mixed evening of football in The Spalding and South Holland Voice Six-A-Side League saw a failure to show, dismissals and a handful of sin-bins – not to mention the end of a 15-match unbeaten run! Division One got under way on a chilly night in Surfleet with Polishborough making light work of You’ve Got No Fans. A convincing 6-1 win ...

A night set aside by Spalding and District Table Tennis League – sponsored by Vital Recruitment – for the Marylands Cup matches began with three being postponed, while another was a player short. However, eight matches were still played – at least in part – with teams rearranging or completing league fixtures. Neither the holders nor runners-up were able to ...

Spalding’s mixed top club team are through to the last 16 of the country after a comfortable 16-0 points victory against Horncastle last Sunday at the Castle Sports Complex. Spalding lost in the final last year and will be hoping to go one better this year. Chelsea Tomlin recorded the first points for Spalding with a 23-9 win in the ...