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Tydd St Giles golf club results:Seniors’ February medal competition: Division 1 –1st (ocb) Mick Vassall 80-9=71, 2nd Gary Allen 89-18=71, 3rd (ocb) Derrick Marsh 89-17=72. Division 2 – 1st Stephen Horton 87-20=67, 2nd Steve Skoulding 89-20=69, 3rd Dave Punshon 90-19=71. Division 3 – 1st Salvatore DiBella 96-28=68, 2nd Geoff Chappell 102-31=71, 3rd Ken Walker 102-29=73.Men’s February stableford: Division 1 – ...

Spalding Fishing Club anglers in round five met a very uninvitingly coloured and fast running River Glen on Sunday but having cancelled two matches due to recent inclement weather the anglers voted to fish in these difficult conditions.The fishing, whilst hard, was better than expected with 60 per cent of the field topping 2lbs.Leading the way was the consistent Steve ...

Stockwood Park 33Spalding 14 Spalding travelled to Stockwood Park, Luton, knowing that they had never lost to the home team in league games. However back in November, at Centenary Park, Spalding scraped home by the narrowest of margins 28-27 so a closely fought game was being expected by all.Within two minutes of kicking off it looked like Stockwood would be ...

The South Lincs swimmers have completed three weekends of Lincolnshire County Championships, held in January and February at Grantham and Louth. The team of 40 swimmers collected an impressive 124 medals over the championships, comprising 47 gold, 44 silver and 33 bronze.There were some very impressive swims and results from the South Lincs athletes.Francesco Monaco led the way in the ...

Holbeach United are still in the hunt for the Thurlow Nunn Division One North play-offs, but they could really do with finding their form away from home. Saturday’s 3-0 loss at Norwich CBS is now four matches without a win and four defeats in a row away from Carter’s Park.They’ve only won once away from home since September 2, a ...

Moulton Harrox are one point behind Peterborough and District Football League Premier Division Leaders Uppingham Town after beating the weather and Oundle Town on Saturday. Water-logged pitches were the order of the day in most of the league, but the Harrox Playing Field was in a fit enough state to play.The club was glad to have got the game on ...

It was a wet weekend for Spalding United as their scheduled Pitching In Northern Premier League Midlands Division match with Lye Town was postponed. Spalding visit 13th place Bedworth United on Saturday.Despite them not playing a former Tulip helped aid his old side’s title charge.Dylan Edge was on target for Cambridge City in a 2-1 win over third placed Anstey ...

Four second half goals sunk Pinchbeck United as they came up against United Counties League Premier Division North leaders Sherwood Colliery on Saturday.The Knights competed in the first half having their own chances as they made the visit to Nottinghamshire.But former Nottingham Forest and Notts County striker Craig Westcarr gave Sherwood the lead in the 50th minute.Jobe Shaw then doubled ...

Spalding Ladies’ 1st 1Cambridge City 5th 4Goals: Ellie HollandSpalding started the game well with great attack play from Amy Naylor and Kate Amess with Holland taking shots in the D, but none were converted.Cambridge then started piling on the pressure with attack after attack. The bounce of the pitch led to Spalding mistakes and Cambridge got two goals in quick ...

On Saturday, Spalding Lightning made it through to the final of the Denny Cup for only the second time in the club’s history. The Denny Cup is often described as the FA Cup of bowls and Spalding put their name in the record books when they lifted the trophy in 2022.In the semi-final on Saturday against Falcon, a club based ...

A fantastic 68 saw Sutton Bridge’s Thomas Horspool take the accolade for highest snooker break so far on Thursday night. Horspool (O35) knocked in the break during his win over Jordan Philpott (R7), in the Spalding and District Snooker League, although it wasn’t enough to stop Services C beating Sutton 4-2.Winners for Services were Craig Fitter (O63), Shane Cummings (O14) ...

Three teams handed out 7-0 drubbings in the Spalding and District Billiards League on Monday night – although league leaders Bourne Snooker Centre weren’t one of them. They did chalk up a win though, beating Consti A 5-2, keeping them at the top.They’ve only lost three games so far this season, and currently have 70 points.Their winners were brothers Elliott ...

More than 90 cheerleading and dance athletes took part in a national competition recently. Youngsters from Empire Elite, which has bases in Spalding and Crowland, travelled to Warwick University to compete in Allstar Cheerleading and Dance.The youngsters, who are all aged between five and 18, have been working hard since September and saw their efforts rewarded with some fantastic results ...

Long Sutton Mens’ 1st 8St Neots 1st 2 Sutton hosted St Neots this week.In the reverse fixture, the boys travelled with 11 men and won 2-1 in a game that was a real turning point in the lads’ season. Since then, they have only lost once.Sutton started with a bang. They were two goals up inside the first five minutes.A ...

The hunt is on for a Spalding United league and cup double. The Tulips made short work of Boston United on Tuesday night in the semi final of the Lincolnshire County Cup, beating their higher level opponents 3-0 to reach the final for the second successive time.They will face either Cleethorpes or Scunthorpe in the final.“It was a great win,” ...

The Peterborough and District Football League Premier Division title race is set to be an interesting one with Crowland Town ensuring they’re in the conversation with a 2-1 win at ten-man Moulton Harrox. Goals from Danny Firth and Lawrence Stewart earned Crowland the home win against a Moulton side who were reduced to ten men after just half an hour ...

Holbeach United were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Diss Town on Saturday in the Thurlow Nunn First Division North. The second consecutive draw meant it’s now no win in three for the play-off chasing Tigers.They did though have to come back from a goal down and hang on for a spell with ten-men towards the end after ...

Pinchbeck United slumped to a 6-1 defeat at Heanor Town in the United Counties League Premier Division North. The home side were dominant and led 4-1 at the break.Heanor had already gone close on a couple of occasions before Max Thornberry gave the lead in the seventh minute after the Knights failed to deal with a corner.After hitting both the ...

Spalding 14 Long Buckby 14 Spalding came agonisingly close to a victory despite a poor performance against Long Buckby on Saturday. Earlier in the season Spalding first team had won 33-17 in the corresponding fixture in Northamptonshire.The visitors are now firmly rooted to the bottom of Counties 1 Midlands East (South) table with just the one win, whilst Spalding are ...

Donington have done the double over Holbeach B in the Spalding Billiards League, beating them 7-0 both times they have met. They whitewashed them back in October when they first met this season, and then did the same again on Monday night in the reverse fixture.Winners were Nigel Brasier (R60), Ben Wrigglesworth (R10), who got a 42 break in his ...