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Ten-man Pinchbeck were left disappointed on Saturday as they lost a high scoring encounter against Grantham in the penultimate over of the match. Slightly depleted for the South Lincs and Border League Division Two clash, Pinchbeck were in early trouble when the dismissals of Ed Grant and Sam Smith reduced the score to 28-2. But a magnificent stand of 152 ...

Billy King struck the only goal as Moulton Harrox finally grabbed their first win of the ChromaSport Peterborough Premier Division season with a 1-0 triumph over Holbeach United Reserves on Tuesday night. The midfielder’s strike settled a tight derby at Broad Lane and ended Moulton’s run of four draws from as many league games. It leaves Harrox in ninth place, ...

Super Spalding Town 2nd blew Woodlands away on Saturday to keep their South Lincs and Border Cricket League Division One title dream alive. Jamie Juckes was the catalyst for the 176-run triumph, smashing 50 down the order in Town’s 237 before taking 3-12 to help skittle out Woodlands for 61 at the Memorial Field. After last week’s shock loss at ...

Some 124 golfers took part in Tydd St Giles Golf Club’s a Crohn’s Charity open day as a whopping £2,014.80 was raised. Tydd’s senior section co-ordinator Brian Shales thanked all for attending the open day, which also made £157 for the British Heart Foundation thanks to the hard work of the members wives, who organised the halfway house. Amazingly, £20,000 ...

Spalding Golf Club’s 2nd team took a giant step towards winning their division of the South Lincolnshire Scratch League following a 5-1 away win against their counterparts at Sleaford. In a good team performance, the winning pairs for Spalding were Mark Mitchell and Mark Dodds (2&1), Jerry Philo and Mark Jones (2up), Phil Tweddell and Paul Johnson (1up), Richard Laud ...

Dave Roberts and Lynn Exley took the spoils at Gedney Hill Golf Club’s Dick Clifton Memorial Trophy. Roberts (41 points) took the spoils in the men’s category ahead of J Smith (38 points) in second and Keith Lawrence (35 points) in third. Exley (30 points) needed countback to edge Diane Moore in second in the ladies’ event, with Jacqui Rust ...

South Holland trio Chris Mycock, Eamon Cherry and Alan Cherry got their hands on The Castle Trophy. They were among 20 teams of three players, some travelling from Lincoln and Peterborough as well as South Holland, to be split into two groups at the Castle Sports Complex event. All teams played four games each, with three bowls per player, played ...

After a dismal few weeks littered with technical problems Ben Wilson returned to form with two points finishes at his home track of Cadwell Park over the weekend. The Kirton-based Gearlink Kawasaki rider picked up 11 championship points with finishes of 12th and ninth at Louth – taking his tally to 33 for the season. Despite the poor weather conditions ...

Carlton Town 1  Spalding United 1 Pat Rayment admits that he sounds like a broken record after seeing his Spalding side drop two points at Carlton on Monday. Andrew Tidswell’s 63rd minute strike earned the Tulips their first away point of the Evo-Stik League First Division South campaign, with Aaron Hooton (58) having put the hosts ahead. Having wasted a ...

Stilton United 2 Pinchbeck United 2 Pinchbeck United kept their unbeaten start to the ChromaSport Peterborough Premier Division season going on Saturday with a 2-2 draw at Stilton United. Adam Abell fired Pinchbeck ahead on the half-hour, only for Chris Joiner to haul the hosts level on the stroke of half-time. The in-form Abell added his second after the break ...

Holbeach United 3 Long Buckby 0 A double from Lee Beeson helped send Holbeach United two points clear at the top of the UCL Premier Division on Saturday as they eased past Long Buckby 3-0 at Carter’s Park. An early Tommy Treacher strike (4) put the Tigers ahead, before Beeson missed a penalty following a foul on Danny Steadman. The ...

Spalding United 0 Chasetown 2 An out-of-sorts Spalding United suffered their first home defeat of the Evo-Stik League First Division South season on Saturday as Chasetown deservedly collected all three points. Second-half strikes from Nathan Waite (50) and Dan Edwards (85) sealed the Tulips’ fate at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, on what was a bad day at the ...

Carlton Town 1 Spalding United 1 Andrew Tidswell’s first goal of the season earned Spalding United their first away point of the Evo-Stik League First Division South campaign on Monday. After a goalless first period, hosts Carlton Town looked set for their first win of the season when they went ahead on 58 minutes through Aaron Hooton. Prolific striker Tidswell ...

A double from Lee Beeson helped send Holbeach United two points clear at the top of the UCL Premier Division on Saturday as they eased past Long Buckby 3-0 at Carter’s Park. An early Tommy Treacher strike (4) put the Tigers ahead, before Beeson missed a penalty following a foul on Danny Steadman. The former Spalding United winger made amends ...

Louisa Thorold has added another accolade to her growing CV after being named the Lincolnshire FA’s Young Referee of The Year. The Spalding whistler received her award from former Premier League official Dermot Gallagher at the Lincolnshire FA’s awards evening at the Epic Centre in Lincoln. The 20-year-old admitted that she was shocked to win the event, which was open ...

Depleted Long Sutton put in a determined display before eventually losing against high-flying Lincoln Lindum 2nd on Saturday. Losing the toss, Sutton were inserted into bat on a flat Lindum track and began fairly solidly before Ed Booth (8) was dismissed. This brought Phil Barnes to the wicket alongside Chris Booth, who pushed the score along before Barnes (18) was ...

By Ruth Jones Nene Valley Harriers’ youngsters rose to the occasion as they beat off strong opposition to win their final Eastern Young Athletes’ League match of the season to secure their place in the cup final for only the second time next month. The relatively small Harriers have done remarkably well considering the size of their rival clubs in ...

A mixed Sutton Sunday side fell ten runs shy of what would have been an impressive victory against a strong Warboys side in Rutland League Division Three. Bowling first, openers Jimmy Hook (2-41) and Paul Edgeller (2-33) were impressive first up, but it was spin duo Jake Burton (3-22) and Rob Simpson (2-53) who altered the innings dramatically. However, a ...

Holbeach race ace Ashley Rudd continued his fine season by bossing his category in the Norfolk and Suffolk Motocross Championship. Amid awful wet and wild conditions made for a sloppy track at Hockham, the teenager finished top of Schoolboy 125 category on day two after taking a solid fifth 24 hours earlier. Fellow TRM members Ryan and Kieran Rudd – ...

Red-hot Moulton Harrox continued their superb form with a brutal domination of Woodhall Spa 2nd on Saturday. Amazingly, Harrox bossed the South Lincs and Border League Premier Division clash despite only having ten men at Jubilee Park due to a drop out. Having been put into bat, Moulton lost Jack Cusack for a duck second ball. But captain Chris Beale ...