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Spalding Water Polo Club’s first match in the 2014/15 East Midlands League involved the two home teams – and it turned out to be a thriller. The town’s two sides – Spalding Sharks and Spalding Orcas – did battle, with the Sharks running out as eventual winners at 15-12. The Sharks started the match at a frantic pace, with Tim Shields ...

Holbeach brothers Ryan, Ashley and Kieran Rudd all impressed for Team TRM at the first round of the Winter Series at Peterborough Motocross Club’s Chatteris track over the weekend. In the Juniors’ section, ten-year-old Kieran grabbed a hat-trick of second places. He also grabbed two holeshots, which earned him the ‘holeshot trophy’. Ashley had the exact same set of results ...

Polishborough are the only side in Division One of the Spalding six-a-side Leisure League to have a 100 per cent record from three games after battling past Brennan’s Sports on Monday. Captain Tomasz Rabiega picked up his third man-of-the-match gong in the physical clash, as Borough went two points clear at the top. Earlier in the night at Glen Park, ...

Junior football: Spalding United youth round-up Sam East fired a late winner to earn Spalding United Blue under-15s an exciting 3-2 win over Wisbech Yellow under-15s at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field. In what was their first game at the Sir Halley this season, Spalding started slowly and fell behind. But they were soon level when Jake Hollis used ...

Holbeach United 5 Harrowby United 1 Free-scoring Holbeach made it ten goals in five days as they returned to the top of the UCL Premier Division in style by hammering Harrowby on Wednesday night. The Tigers bossed the Carter’s Park clash from start to finish and led 2-0 at half time thanks to Jamie Clarke’s third goal in two games ...

Loughborough Dynamo 0 Spalding United 6 Proud Pat Rayment saluted the best result of his near three-year tenure as Spalding United boss on Tuesday night as his side obliterated Evo-Stik League First Division South leaders Loughborough Dynamo 6-0. The terrific Tulips led 2-0 at the break thanks to goals from Ash Burbeary (13) and Andrew Tidswell, before Mitch Griffiths (53 ...

Doubles from Glenn Perkins and Hector Moore guided Spalding 2nd to a sublime 5-0 win in their first East Men’s Hockey League Division 3NW clash on Saturday. Their victims at Glen Park were St Ives 2nd, who found Spalding too hot to handle in every department. Mike Riley opened the scoring with a neat flick into the net, before Perkins ...

Spalding 2nd (244-2) v Long Sutton 2nd (120-8)  (match abandoned) Spalding Town 2nd skipper Steve Norris toasted the best performance of their season after seeing his side clinch promotion to the Premier Division of the South Lincs and Border League on the final day. Simon Juckes clubbed 93 off just 48 balls as Town made 244-2 batting first at Paradise ...

There’s seemingly no stopping Gosberton D and Pyramid E in Division Three of Spalding and District Snooker League. Both sides made it four wins from as many games last Thursday night, with Gosberton D edging out Consti E and Pyramid E seeing off Services D. Gosberton’s win was incredibly hard-fought, as they needed frame victories from Nigel Goodwin (R21), Shane ...

Holbeach Bank picked up South Holland’s sole three-point haul in the ChromaSport Peterborough and District League on Saturday. On a weekend dominated by cup action, a double from Lee Hunt and strikes from Steve Parker and Jamie Forman eased Bank to a 4-0 Division Four success at Glinton and Northborough Reserves. In the same division, Joe Deboo’s double helped sentence ...

By Andrew Tidswell (Spalding United player and Elite Sports Academy MD) The lower regions of the Football League and the entirety of non-league football are on my agenda this week. Many of you on the outside and looking in on the day-to-day running of a non-league club can easily be misled. The ‘many’ I speak about are often the fans ...

Both Spalding Poachers 1st and Long Sutton ladies’ 1st made incredible starts to the new East Women’s Hockey League Division 2NW season on Saturday. Spalding, who won the county title over the summer, continued their outstanding pre-season form by thrashing Ely City 1st 11-0 to go top. Katie Gray (5), Kelly Tuplin (4), Kelly Slater and Jacqui Hunter all notched ...

Injured skipper Harry Sharman chose to take the positives after seeing his Spalding RFC side demolished 77-8 by Midlands One East heavyweights Derby. Town only had a Tim Waltham try and Dan Mackie’s early penalty to shout about during Saturday’s Memorial Field clash, which put a damepner on the club’s well-supported President’s Day. Sharman, who still faces around three weeks ...

One of Spalding Golf Club’s most popular individual competitions, the Overson Trophy, attracted a field of 140 entries and with weather and course conditions favourable, some very good scores were recorded. A Stableford format, the trophy was won by Steve Phillips (17 handicap) scoring a superb 44 points. Phil Wakefield (12) was second place with 41pts and Neil Clarke (16) ...

Ben Wilson had a mixed weekend as the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship visited Assen in Belgium. The Kirton rider was back in the points after completing the first race at the Cathedral of Speed circuit in 13th place. But as the second race began he was involved in a four rider incident on the first lap – and after ...

Pinchbeck ended their South Lincs and Border League Division Two season with a disappointing 21-run defeat against Burgh at Spalding Grammar School. In cool, cloudy conditions the away side surprisingly chose to bat first and with Andrew Beeston picking up the early wicket of Nigel Underwood. However, Burgh skipper Richard Underwood and Phil Sharp countered stubbornly with a second wicket ...

Spalding United 1 Newcastle Town 2 Pat Rayment bemoaned a “joke decision” as a hugely controversial penalty helped Newcastle Town end Spalding United’s five-game unbeaten run on Saturday. All looked to be going to plan in the Evo-Stik League First Division South clash when Andrew Tidswell fired in a superb 15th-minute opener. Town hit back on 32 minutes with a ...

Wellingborough Town 0 Holbeach United 5 John Chand lauded Ashley Fuller’s best performance in a Holbeach United shirt as his hat-trick sunk Wellingborough Town in the UCL Premier Division on Saturday. Winger Fuller bagged on 13, 64 and 70 minutes at the Dog and Duck after being restored to his preferred position on the left wing. New recruit Jamie Clarke ...

Ash Fuller hit a hat-trick as ChromaSport UCL Premier Division leaders Holbeach United won 5-0 at Wellingborough Town on Saturday. And there was two goals for Jamie Clarke on his debut for the Tigers. The Doughboys had been looking for their fourth straight win but it never looked likely as Fuller and Clarke’s first goals either side of half-time put ...

There was next to no joy at all for South Holland sides in league action in the ChromaSport Peterborough and District League on Saturday. In fact, the only team in the district to win was Holbeach Bank, who romped to a 4-0 success at Glinton and Northborough Reserves in Division Four. In the Premier Division, Pinchbeck United got a draw ...