Sport

The Spalding Fishing Club matches on the River Glen continue to improve match by match.This week’s match saw Gary Hardy lead the way with a terrific 10lb 12oz from peg 14 with some bulky perch topped up with small roach.Second place from end peg 13 was Alan Thomas with 7lb 4oz of roach with some better fish showing this week.Third ...

Spalding 2nds 29Skegness 26 Having assembled a large squad of players captain Richard Stevenson was delighted to lead his Spalding 2nds team out against Skegness. The squad was swelled with a few Colts players having no match this weekend and a sprinkling of first teamers with their scheduled opponents, St Neots, having conceded the game resulting in a bonus point ...

Over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, February 11 and 12, Spalding’s Ruby Hill and the rest of the England under 25 team travelled to Ffrith Indoor Bowls Club in Wales for the ladies under 25 international series.Hill played number three in a rink skipped by captain Rachel Tremlett (St. Neots), with Leah Bamford (Folkestone) and Natalie Harrison (Swale) at ...

Gosberton B are still at the top of the Spalding and District Billiards League following a 5-2 away win over Consti B.Shane White (O50) and Des Forbes (R50) were the winners for Gosberton, with Jason Rose (R20) getting the better of Marcus Pell (O40) to get the points for Consti.White knocked in breaks of 38, 32, 25 and 20 and ...

RESULTS PITCHING IN NORTHERN LEAGUEPremier Midlands (selected): Spalding United 0 Hinckley LRFC 1, Stamford 3 Chasetown 2. (Wed, selected): Shepshed Dynamo 0 Spalding United 2. UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUEPremier Division North (Sat, selected): Anstey Nomads 7 Wisbech Town 1, Heanor Town 1 Pinchbeck United 3, Heather St John’s 1 Deeping Rangers 3, Loughborough Students 0 Boston Town 0. (Wed, selected, 7.45pm): ...

A sensational 67 break from Jason Bates helped Bourne SC B to a brilliant 6-0 win in Division One of the Spalding and District Snooker League on Thursday night. Bates (O77) beat Consti E’s Martin Anderson (07) in the final frame to finish off the rout.Nick Cunnington (O14), Elliot Gaunt (O28), Joel Scampion (R7) and Kieran Richards-Witham (O21) were the ...

Spalding Ladies’ 1st 2Norwich City 2nd 5Goals: Evie Maltby, Georgina Maplethorpe.On a mild Saturday afternoon, Spalding 1st were at home to Norwich City; the game started at a fast pace with end-to-end play.After some great play Norwich were awarded a short corner which led to the first goal of the game.After a fast break from Spalding, some great play in ...

There was a huge win for Moulton Harrox as they comfortably beat Dor-Jan Peterborough and District League Premier Division leaders FC Peterborough.Goals from Louis Steadman, Declan Earth and Harry Machin earned an impressive 3-0 win that leaves Moulton eight points behind the leaders but also with three games in hand.Both sides finished with ten men, Robbie Relf seeing red for ...

Framlingham Town 3Holbeach United 3 Two goals from Will Barnes deep into injury time rescued a point for Holbeach United against leader leaders Framlingham Town on Saturday.The Tigers showed plenty of fight to earn a 3-3 draw.And it averted a dressing down from manager Danny Clifton who thought his team were the better side on the day and shouldn’t have ...

Spalding United bounced back with a 2-0 win against Dereham on Tuesday night after being humbled by league leaders Halesowen on Saturday. The weekend’s match up between the Pitching-In Northern Premier League Midland’s top two didn’t live up to expectations as far as the Tulips were concerned as the West Midlands side continued their unbeaten home record and comfortably won ...

The losing run continued for Pinchbeck United on Saturday as a late penalty saw them go down 2-1 at home to Kimberley Miners Welfare.Though the Knights were much improved on previous showings and took the lead in the 28th minute through Andre Williams’s tenth goal of the season.But James Shaw responded three minutes before the break to level it up ...

Spalding U14 had a convincing win against their Sleaford opposition on Sunday, winning 52-0.Try scorers were Charlie Chilvers (2), Jack Collet, James Crichton, Callum Farr, Danny Garratt and Evan Saunders (2). Conversions were added by Henry Delay, Oscar Harrison and Evan Saunders (4).

Tydd St Giles Golf Club Seniors held their AGM and trophy presentation for 2022 on January 31.The club champion for 2022 was Gary Brown.Results: Seniors’ Individual Stableford Division 1 – 1st Ken Doughty 42 points (ocb), 2nd Michael Flint 42 points, 3rd Brian Newby 39 points (ocb); Division 2 – 1st Mark Amor 42 points, 2nd Wayne Davies 41 points, ...

Melton Mowbray 36Spalding 26 Taking a strong team over to Melton Mowbray, Spalding, with a mistake-ridden performance, came away with a losing bonus point with their third successive loss. The home team moved up to fourth in the Counties 2 Midlands East (South) League, with Spalding clinging onto second place by five points.From the kick off, Spalding looked to be ...

It was a week of whitewashes in the Spalding and District Billiards League as all three matches ended up 7-0.Second-placed Holbeach B closed the gap on leaders Gosberton B, who didn’t have a match, thanks to their win over Consti B.Chris Chamberlain (R50), Neil Harvey (R50) and Denis Hix (R70) saw off Jason Rose (R20), Mick Johnson (O150) and Steve ...

On Sunday, Lincoln & District Indoor Bowls Club hosted the men’s county singles playoffs.Spalding’s qualifiers were Martin Spencer, Graham Smith, Dominic McVittie, Jordan Philpott and Kevin Ekins.After winning three games, Spencer and Smith progressed to the semi finals.Spencer had wins against Dennis Skayman (Lincoln) 21-6, Colin Barks (Dunholme) 21-17 and Jake Meakins (Grantham) 21-12 whilst Smith beat Jeff Pitt (Stamford) ...

Carl Parnell (O28) got his team off to a great start in the Spalding and District Snooker League thanks to a win and a 57 break. Unfortunately Sutton Bridge went on to lose 4-2 to Donington C in Division One but Parnell’s break offered some consolation.Parnell’s win was followed by a victory for Glenn Ryan (O28) before Donington hit back ...

RESULTS PITCHING IN NORTHERN LEAGUEPremier Midlands (selected Sat): Halesowen Town 3 Spalding United 0, Daventry 1 Stamford 2. (selected Tue): Spalding United 2 Dereham 0. UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUEPremier Division North (Sat, selected, 3pm): Pinchbeck United 1 Kimberley Miners Welfare 2, Belper United 3 Deeping Rangers 1, Boston Town 0 Anstey Nomads 0, Wisbech Town 3 Melton Town 2. (Hinchingbrooke Cup ...

Spalding Ladies’ 1st 9Watton 1st 1Goals: Charlotte Maplethorpe (4), Harriet Mowbray (3), Maddie Haunch (2).Spalding got back to winning ways in fantastic fashion with a 9-1 win over league strugglers Watton.Creating chances from the off, Spalding soon took the lead and found themselves 3-0 up within the first ten minutes of the game.Watton looked to get back into the game ...

Long-standing Kawasaki team, G&S Racing is pleased to announce the signing of Asher Durham who will contest the Pirelli Junior Superstock championship this year for the Wyberton-based team.Having been with Kawasaki for 14 years, the team has vast experience with the Ninja ZX-6R, taking the first win for the 636 specification.Both the team and Durham will be looking to repeat ...