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That man Andy Prior was back on winning form at Welland Yacht Club on Sunday. The first two races on Sunday followed the pursuit format – which is where slower boats start earlier relative to their assigned handicap and faster boats start later, in theory evening out the fleet over the course of 50 minutes when all boats, sailed equally ...

Spalding racer Andy Molsom remains second in the Caterham Graduates Racing Club championship after a strong showing at Cadwell Park last week. The South Holland speedster secured second places in both races over the weekend at the Louth circuit.Qualifying on the Saturday went without a hitch, as Molsom sealed second place on the grid for both of Sunday’s races. As ...

The two Kime Racing riders Tom Fisher and Broderick Whitmore-Wilson both recorded three strong points finishes at round three of the No Limits Pirelli Super Series 600 championship held at Donington Park over the weekend. Qualifying on Saturday went well for Fisher, who finished the session in fourth place and started as the first of three racers from the middle ...

An unbeaten half-century from Mike Kearns Snr helped steer Moulton Harrox 2nd to a derby win over Spalding Town 2nd in South Lincs and Border League Division One on Saturday. Opener Kearns scored a typical 54 not out for Moulton as they made 94-2 in reply to Town’s 91 all out at Harrox Field to seal an eight-wicket success. With ...

Spalding Town 1st grabbed their first win of the new Lincs ECB Premier League season on Saturday as they beat hosts Louth by three wickets. After suffering back-to-back defeats at the start of the season, promoted Town are finally up and running after securing maximum points at London Road. Spalding skipper Chris Dring won the toss and opted to bowl ...

Abbi Pulling got her W Series season off to a strong start with two top six finishes at rounds one and two at Miami over the weekend. The Gosberton racer, who is part of the Racing X, placed sixth in race one on Saturday before improving to take fourth place in the second outing on Sunday. It was a strong ...

Bobby Patterson admits that everyone at Moulton Harrox needs to sit down and talk about the future after last Friday night’s crushing 7-0 Lincs FA Junior Cup final defeat against Wyberton. The joint Moulton boss describes the humbling loss as his “worst moment in football” and said that he and co-chief Tim Cole are hurting after the embarrassing result. The ...

Moulton Harrox 0 Wyberton 7 Co-boss Bobby Patterson admitted that he was left feeling “disappointed, hurt, embarrassed, upset and emotional” after seeing his Moulton Harrox side humbled 7-0 by Wyberton in the Lincs FA Junior Cup final on Friday night. Harrox had hoped to clinch their sixth victory in the county competition at Boston United’s Jakeman’s Community Stadium, with a ...

There was an element of déjà vu about the second round of Spalding Cycling Club’s ten-mile time trial championship. That’s after Josh Wallis made it back-to-back wins, clocking the exact same time of 19.56mins as he did at round one. On the night, there was another strong entry of 23 riders who took on the challenge. And, once again, there ...

Spalding darts legend Ian Tilley is delighted after earning a call-up to referee at the British Home Internationals in Wales later this month. Local butcher Tilley, who works for Grasmere at Vine House Farm in Deeping St Nicholas, is no stranger to the big stage having scored at the Lakeside World Championship in the past. But the Spalding and District ...

Moulton Harrox are bidding to win the Lincs FA Junior Cup for a sixth time on Friday night as they take on Wyberton in a blockbuster final at Boston United’s Jakemans Community Stadium (7.45pm). The Broad Lane side haven’t reached their usual high standards in the ChromaSport PDFL Premier Division this season, but co-boss Bobby Patterson – who won the ...

Mighty Mark Scourfield toasted a winning treble in Welland Yacht Club’s Tulip Trophy on Sunday. Scourfield won all three races contested on a day when only six boats took to the water, with all of the regular laser boats not in action. Race one saw the wind direction in a more normal quarter – giving a tack away from the ...

Long Sutton Hockey Club are looking for a goalkeeper to join one the teams in their ladies’ section next season. The club, who play their East Hockey League fixtures at the Peele Leisure Centre, can accomodate either a player who is experienced enough or ambitious enough to play in Division 2NW for the first team or a young player looking ...

Eden Inglis reigned supreme at Spalding Golf Club’s Gold Medal with a narrow one-shot victory at the Surfleet course. The ladies’ section event, which is contested by all of the monthly medal winners across 2021, Inglis took the victory with a score of nett 77. Lesley Williams finished as runner-up with a round of nett 78. Olive Gooderson won the ...

The weekend didn’t quite go to plan for the G&S Racing Kawasaki team in round two of the Pirelli National Junior Superstock championship at Oulton Park. A massive crash involving multiple bikes in the first of the two races halted both riders’ progress – and left Zak Fuller injured and Kevin Keyes at the back of the field. Both riders ...

A team of youngsters from South Lincs Competitive Club were in action at the first two days of the East Midlands Regional Championships – and it was another successful all-round. The weekend saw the Spalding-based club’s 11, 12 and 13 year olds take to the blocks across the strokes and distances, joined by the girls undertaking the 1,500m freestyle and ...

A team of 23 South Lincs Competitive Swimming Club members won an impressive 36 medals over three days at the City of Leeds National Qualifier event. The Spalding-based team acquitted themselves admirably as they achieved new personal best (PB) times and broke both club and county records too. Head coach Keith Haynes said: “The swimmers have had a great learning ...

Moulton Harrox’s hopes of doing a cup double this season are over after a 2-0 ChromaSport PDFL League Cup semi-final defeat at Deeping Rangers Reserves on Tuesday night. Goals in either half from Jacob Smitheringale (44) and Ben Cowles (74) got the job done for hosts Deeping, who have been promoted as Division One runners-up this season. They will now ...

There was derby delight for Long Sutton on Saturday as they defeated rivals Moulton Harrox by 66 runs at Paradise Field. Half-centuries in the middle order from Tim Norris (67) and Paul Edgeller (53) helped Sutton to 214-9 in the South Lincs and Border League Premier Division clash. Harrox could only manage 148 in reply despite a super 78 from ...

Spalding Town’s tough start to the new Lincs ECB Premier Division season continued on Saturday as they suffered a 152-run defeat at Bourne. An unbeaten 121 from just 77 balls by Peter Morgan inspired hosts Bourne to 307-3 at the Abbey Lawn, with Jonathan Cheer (88) and Sam Evison (61) also adding half-centuries. Opener Jon Manton batted superbly in reply ...