SelbyPost 17 January 2013. - Global Title

PAGE FIFTY TWO Thursday, January 17th, 2013
SELBY POST SPORT
Ten and eleven
are the best
The Viking Saturday Open returned
on Hawk pond, turning into a battle of
pegs 10 and 11, with both anglers
fishing bread across to the far bank,
and matching one another fish for fish.
Leeds’ Richard Hook was the
eventual victor on peg 10, with 72-1-0 of
Carp. Second on the next door peg was
Roger Summerscales of Ossett with 70-
5-0, and In third place was Dave
Cheetham (Frenzee) of Castleford with
11-9-0.
On the Sunday, pegs 10 and 11 again
provided the winners in Nelson AC’s
club match on Hawk pond.
Gordon Shields winning all-Carp
catch weighed in at 84-2-0 on peg 11,
while in second place with 19-8-0 was
Simon Cudmore. Ken Butler was third
with 8-14-0.
This Saturday’s Open match will be
on Deer Pond, and to book a place, ring
01405 860764.
Experience
beats youth Bears mugged late in game
Selby Ladies 4,
Sheffield Hallam 3
Selby Ladies returned to the artificial
surface after the festive break,
welcoming a young energetic looking
Sheffield side to Escrick on Saturday.
The time off may just have been the
recipe they required, although it was a
close run thing in an entertaining game.
The game was evenly matched in the
opening half with both sides having
chances to take the lead, but it was
Selby side that did.
Charlie Lidstone-Scott finished a
well-worked move, with a spectacular
reverse flick over the Hallam keeper.
However, it wasn’t long before
Hallam equalised with a text book goal
stretching the Selby keeper Jenny Kirton
across her posts.
Selby regrouped, but Hallam were on
a roll and soon went from one goal
down to one goal in front, leaving the
half time score 2-1 to Hallam.
Selby used the half time break well,
positive about the 35 minutes ahead,
and with several changes, forced
Hallam into their own half.
Vanessa Crane was on form to cause
havoc in the Hallam ‘D’ and they won a
penalty corner, Franii Brooks found
Jenni Davey on the top of the ‘D’, who in
turn slipped to Crane on the right and
she lashed home past the keeper.
New girl Chloe Brown was
introduced against the opposing
defence, and scored on debut, Lidstone-
Scott and Sara Coverdale worked it
well, the latter finding an unmarked
Brown, who kept her cool.
Jenni Davey made it 4-2 with a neat
flick over the keeper, but they couldn’t
relax especially as the visitors forced a
penalty corner, in which they scored,
however they didn’t have time to
celebrate as the final whistle went, so it
was a cheerful afternoon for the Selby
Ladies.
The player of the match vote was
shared between Angie O’Mahoney and
Alice Wood. A big well done to all of the
team for a fantastic team performance.
Selby have two games this weekend,
when On Saturday they travel to top of
the league Sheffield Bankers and on
Sunday they entertain second place
Northallerton at home.
Sherburn Bears 24
West Bowling ‘A’ 28
Sherburn’s indifferent form of the last
six matches or so continued at Eversley
Park on Saturday, knocked out of the
Pennine Supplementary Cup by a
fancied West Dowling ‘A’, writes MATT
ORFORD.
They lost the game in the closing
minutes, despite leading the match from
the start, and more disappointing was that
they could not replicate last season’s semi
final appearance.
The Bears played up the slope at
against one of the title contenders for
Division Six, lying just behind the hosts
with games in hand.
They were a youthful looking side, and
matched Sherburn in the opening 10
minutes, but the hosts truck first with
back rower Adam Withington scoring a
great try following an excellent midfield
break, captain and scrum half Martin
Leahy added the extras to give them a 6-0
lead.
Bowling struck back within five
minutes with a good score from the side
of the ruck a metre from the try line,
following a couple of penalties from the
home team.
The game became feisty now and
tempers flared when a Sherburn player
copped a cheap shot whilst trying to
regain his feet from a tackle, as usual the
Bears came of worse from the situation,
with one player red carded and one
seeing yellow for an innocuous incident,
the visitors somehow escaping with just a
yellow.
This didn’t seem to dampen the Bears’
spirits though as they scored straight from
the penalty, strong drives from forwards
Martin Jackson, Steve Gudgeon, Joel
Booth and Rhys Hughes paving the way
for Louis Stead to put a delicate grubber
kick into the in goal which was pounced
on by alert fullback Danny Wood, Leahy
with the extras to put the Bears back in
front, 12-6
Bowling responded from the restart,
pushing the ball wide and the wingman
raced through to score with a conversion
to level up.
Sherburn were ahead a third time,
when after a period of relative calm, a
block busting run by centre Johnboy
Fenwick saw him crash over, after an
excellent midfield break freed him 20
yards out. The conversion was missed but
with the slope in their favour after the
break, a 16-12 lead was useful.
However on the return, sloppy
handling and cheap penalties saw the
visitors level up with a try inside five
minutes.
Sherburn, through good work from
Kevin Dalton, Ben Pugh, Ben Appleby,
Kev Jordan and Rhys Hughes rallied, but
a try in the bottom corner was ruled out as
Joel Booth carried four over the line with
him, and still the Bears pressured Bowling
looking for a score.
The visitors were penned in their own
half with Stead, Leahy and Jordan pulling
the strings, a second try was ruled out
with Jackson adjudged to have been held
up at the side of the sticks the Bears
coming agonisingly close with hooker
Shaun Crossland stopped just inches
short of the line on two occasions.
They did score eventually with strong
running back rower Craig Baker scoring
after diving on another excellent grubber
from Stead, Leahy again unsuccessful
with the conversion to give the Bears the
lead once more at 20-16.
Sherburn were in complete control of
the game now, and again soon found
themselves in Bowling half, the Bradford
outfit were clinging onto the home teams
shirt tails now and were conceding a
number of penalties to try and slow the
Bears down, twice in front of the sticks the
Bears elected to kick with Leahy adding
both to take the score to 24-16.
However from seemingly having the
match won the Bears self destructed,
sloppy handling saw the ball go to ground
when Sherburn should have been
concentrating on keeping Bowling in their
own half with deep kicks, quick hands
Mixed cup
success for
the Warriors
Selby Warriors’ two teams had mixed success as
they started the year of 2013 in cup action at the
weekend.
The firsts were in the Andrew Bennett Memorial
trophy, which they won in 2011 and made it
through to the next round with a 26-12 win over
Troydale Trojans.
The side are in transition this term, but are still
handily placed in Division Three of the Pennine
League and a cup run would help boost the
remainder of the current campaign.
In the Supplementary Cup, the ‘A’ team went
down 52-12 to Crofton Cougars as they look to
blood more youngsters in the remainder of the
season and try to maintain the progress made in
recent years.
Weather permitting, the firsts travel to Silsden
this Saturday and the ‘a’ team entertain Illingworth
‘A’.
from Bowling saw them score out wide, a
good conversion saw the scores brought
back to 24-22 with five minutes left.
Again Sherburn coughed up easy
metres with some soft penalties in
Bowlings half, and again Bowling
punished the Bears when once more the
tiring home defence ran out of number
out wide, where Bowling made their extra
body count, adding the conversion
Bowling hit the front for the first time in
the match with just two minutes left to
play.
Despite throwing the kitchen sink at
the visitors in the last minute the Bradford
outfit held firm to take the win and go
through to the next round of the cup,
leaving a bitterly disappointed Bears to
rue what could have been in a game of
missed opportunities for the second week
running.
Best for the Bears on the day was
Willets Kitchens man of the match Matt
Orford, the hard working prop putting in
a good stint for a player of his vintage.
Sherburn face a tough task to get back
to winning ways when the travel away to
title contenders Kinsley Raiders on
Saturday with a 2pm kick off.
Above, and left, Sherburn Bears in
action against West Bowling ʻAʼ in
Saturdayʼs Supplementary Cup
defeat. (17-01-01&03 SU) Kailewjay
Photography.