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he struck the crossbar from 20-yards. But largely this was one of those galling affairs where every second ball squirms to the opposition and every firm shoulder solicits attention from the referee. When Swansea cashed in on Paul Smith's daydreaming meander and took the lead there did not seem to be an obvious escape route. However, Davies' resurgent Forest side is made of metal and not perspex. Forest kept asking questions, and eventually Joel Lynch's scything ball proved the perfect compliment to a beautifully-timed McGugan run. It did not cross Davies' mind to press for three points. Osbourne was urged to slow down his passage to the bench, and Perch was thrown in as sub at the expense of a baited Joe Garner. In the end it did not matter. Few Forest fans will have any complaints about taking seven points from three very tough games.

Ratings Smith – 5 – not a bad performance, but from my end he looked to be at fault for the goal. Chambers – 5 – struggled defensively this afternoon and allowed too many crosses into the box. Wilson – 7 – did a fairly good job of keeping Scotland's influence to a minimum.

A player capable of 20 Championship goals will always slip through the net once or twice. Breckin – 6 – stretched to breaking point at times, but he just about coped. Lynch – 7 – another strong performance, following up two steady displays. Anderson – 7 – his decision-making let him down, as it often does, but he is an incessant threat. Osbourne – 7 – another solid performance. Moussi – 7 – he looked rather like a surplus volunteer in the opening 20 minutes, but his range, ambition and accuracy proved useful as the game wore on. Cohen – 7 – his box-to-box approach could prove vital if Moussi and Osbourne are to be combined again in future. McSheffrey – 7 – strokes of excellence, marred by one or two patches of rust.

Earnshaw – 7 – always a threat.

Subs: McCleary – 6.5 – did a little bit too much backing out of challenges for my liking, but his pace and strength are excellent qualities. McGugan – 7 – did what he was asked to do. Perch – 7 – one thumping tackle of note.

Report by Alex Campbell shuffled his tactics. Veteran defender Michael Johnson returned to the starting line-up after being rested in midweek, midfielder Richard Butcher was handed a recall and Stephen Hunt made just his fourth League start of the season at left-back. Out dropped Captain Mike Edwards and Jamie Forrester to the bench and Adam Nowland failed to recover from a back niggle to make the trip. That meant a re-jig tactically by the Scot.

Jamie Clapham moved to left side midfield and Myles Weston to the right, with Butcher and Thompson - who was named as Captain - operating in the middle of the park. There was also a surprise on the bench with winger Matt Hamshaw amongst the substitutes despite being ruled out of the game 48 hours ago by Ian McParland with a hamstring problem. In their black and white stripes Notts won the toss and opted to shoot towards their own fans in the first half, with the home side getting the game underway. County began brightly and within two minutes Richard Butcher blasted a longrange effort over the crossbar. A minute later Jonathan Forte latched onto a Facey flick-on inside the box and blasted a low effort at goal which was well saved by Daniels in his six-yard box. Forte had shown excellent strength to get the shot away by easing Coughlan out of the way, but Daniels thwarted the on-loan striker.

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Local Football To advertise call 0115 9656366 Games played Saturday 7th March NSL Senior Awsworth Villa 1-3 Bilborough Pelican Caribbean Cavs 2-2 Ruddington Village Hucknall Rolls L 3-2 Gedling Southbank Magdala Amateurs 1-2 Kimberley MW Wollaton 0-0 Cotgrave Welfare NSL Division 1 Basford United Res 3-1 Bilborough Town Bilborough P Res 4-1 Underwood Villa Bulwell 6-0 Boots Athletic Res Gedling S'bank Res 1-1 Kimberley MW Res Matrixgrade 3-0 Keyworth Utd Res NSL Division 2 Hucknall Rolls L Res 2-1 Keyworth Utd Ac'dmy Linby CW Res 3-4 Caribbean Cavs Res Notts FA Intermediate Cup Semi Final Clifton 1-2 Carlton Town Res Selston 1-2 Linby CW NSL Senior Section Cup Quarter Finals Boots Athletic 1-0 Basford United Sandhurst 0-1 Keyworth United MAA Premier Wollaton III 5-1 Brunts Old Boys Woodborough Utd 3-3 FC 05 Monty Hind O B 0-1 Old Elizabethans Nottinghamshire 2-0 Pinxton North End Beeston OBA 4-1 Steelers Southwell Ams 4-0 TV FC MAA Dvision 1 Lady Bay 2-6 Crown Inn Selston Derbyshire Ams II 1-4 Eaton Hall College West Bridgford Utd 1-4 Acorn Athletic EMTEC 3-1 Nottinghamshire II O Elizabethans II 2-3 Radcliffe Oly III Calverton MW'A' 1-3 Wollaton IV MAA Division 2 Sherwood Colliery 1-1 Coronation Broadmeadows 5-2 Hickling Chilwell Vipers 2-6 Nuthall Athletic Southwell Ams II 1-1 Nottinghamshire III Tibshelf Community 4-1 Old Bemrosians Cambridge Knights 6-2 Ravenshead R'gers Kirk Hallam S C 3-1 Town Mill Notts FA Minor Cup Semi-Final* Bassingfield 3-1 Beeston AFC II NAA Premier Beacon 4-0 Ashland Rovers Gedling Southbank 1-4 F C Samba Grey Mare United 0-4 Headstocks Santos 5-0 Vernon Villa Trident 1-6 Netherfield Albion NAA Division 1 East Valley United 4-0 Kirton Brickworks Greygoose 1-1 Vernon Villa Res Kimberley M.W.O.B. 0-4 Nuthall NAA Division 2 Basford 1-3 Kashmir Burton Joyce 2-0 Basford United A Clifton United 2-1 Nottm Sikh Lions Coopers Arms 4-1 Netherfield Alb' Res Three Crowns 1-2 Notts Metropolis NAA Division 3 Durham Ox Wellow 4-2 Bingham Town Nottinghamshire Iv 1-3 Gedling Town Notts Metro' Res 4-2 Harvey Hadden Pegasus 0-9 Real United Premium A 1-2 Netherfield Boys

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NSL - PELICAN SEE OFF BRAVE AWSWORTH! Bilborough Pelican cemented their place as leaders of the NSL Senior Division with a 3-1 away win at bottom side Awsworth Villa. Pelican had moved to the top of the table on Wednesday after a midweek win over struggling Gedling Southbank, knocking Wollaton off top spot for the first time all season. Their win today stretched their lead to four points, Matt Eastwood (2) and Danny Henshaw the scorers whilst Andy Start replied for Awsworth, whose valiant effort went unrewarded. Pelican are now unbeaten in 12 games. Wollaton however haven't won in their last three outings, and were held to a goalless draw by Cotgrave CW. Kimberley picked up an excellent three points in their battle against relegation, a suprising 2-1 away win at 4th place Magdala. Karl Beecham scored twice for Kimberley, to take his tally to seven for the season, and gave them the victory which sees them climb to 11th. Ruddington also picked up a useful point in their fight against the drop, a 2-2 away draw at Caribbean Cavaliers, Waddeley and Grinley the scorers for Rudd whilst Burke and Evans replied for the home side. Hucknall Rolls Leisure piled the misery on Gedling Southbank with a 3-2 home victory over the bottom club, Hodgson amongst the scorers for Hucknall.

In Division One, Bulwell were emphatic 6-0 winners over Boots res, top scorer Duane Haywood netting a hat-trick to add further to his impressive record this campaign. Bets, Warden and Spencer were also on the scoresheet for the home side who stretch their lead to five points. Gedling Southbank res lost ground after being held to a home draw against struggling Kimberley res, Sam Thomson cancelling out Ryan Dowenty's effort for the away side. Basford res were 3-1 victors over Bilborough Town, Clerkly and a Bennett double enough to clinch a fourth consecutive win. Pelican res and Matrixgrade were also winners, Pelican triumphant 41 over Underwood Villa whilst Matrixgrade beat Keyworth res 3-0.

In Division Two, Cavaliers res were victorious in a thrilling match against Linby res, who scored three times courtesy of Price, Man and Hannigan.

But Cavaliers went one better, netting four times through Ingles (2), Hussain and Tucker. Hucknall Rolls res also picked up a win, beating Keyworth Academy 2-1.

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MAA - FC05 SLOW THE PACE OF WOODBROUGH! Premier Division leaders Woodborough United lead second placed Southwell Amateurs by a one goal difference after being held 3-3 by fourth placed FC05 whilst Southwell were netting four goals without reply from TVFC. Ryan King, Martin Small and Sam Lamb, enabled Woodborough to take the lead from a hotly disputed penalty. Stevie Walker's hat-trick levelled the scores and the same player almost won the match when he struck the crossbar with two minutes remaining. Meanwhile Will Wheat's hat-trick for Southwell paved the way for their victory with Charlie Nichols completing the tally. Jim Greenacre's double coupled with goals from Gareth Lewis and Gavin Carr enabled Beeston OBA to record a 4-1 victory over Steelers. Monty Hind Old Boys for the second successive match fell to a solitary goal with third placed Old Elizabethans the beneficiaries on this occasion. Wollaton III doubled their tally of victories for the season when they trounced Brunts Old Boys 5-1, whilst goals from Marcus Denton and Mark Greensmith enabled Nottinghamshire to end a four match losing sequence by defeating Pinxton North End 2-0.

Nottinghamshire II were defeated 3-1 by lowly EMTEC with Paul Revill, Stefan Hauss and Sean Brannigan's goals providing the upset and as a result lost the top spot in Division 1. This enabled Crown Inn, Selston, 6-2 victors over Lady Bay, to take over on goal difference. Two goals from Bay's Rob Munroe provided a 2-2 half-time scoreline but a Steven Froggett hat-trick, a double from Sam Brewster and the best goal of the lot from Carl Goodley crowned victory for Selston. Acorn Athletic now trail the top two by just two points following their 4-1 defeat of West Bridgford United who conceded a double to Scott Allen as well as goals to Marek Smith and James Robinson.

Radcliffe Olympic III pipped Old Elizabethans II 3-2 after leading 2-0 at half-time. Mick Godwin's double for Olympic and Andy McCann's goal were answered by Mark Jewsbury and a 50 yard wind assisted strike from Danny Whiting. Calverton Miners Welfare 'A' were restricted to a solitary Jimmy Stevenson goal with Wollaton IV replying with three to leave their opponents seven goals adrift at the bottom of the table whilst a goal from Ben Perry was all that Derbyshire Amateurs II found as a reply to four from Eaton hall College.Away from league action Bassingfield booked their place in the Notts FA Minor Cup Final when Kyle Young's hat-trick put paid to Beeston AFC II's chances after they found just a solitary James Owen reply in a 3-1 scoreline.

Broadmeadow now head Division 2 following their 5-2 defeat of Hickling with Jay Miles netting twice. Previous leaders Southwell Amateurs II were held to a 1-1 draw by Nottinghamshire III with Oliver Berman's goal enabling Southwell to salvage a point and leave the teams still separated by just two points. Nuthall Athletic trail Notts in fourth place only on goal difference after netting six times against Chilwell Vipers who scored twice through Stephen Winsbury and Chris Johnson. Sherwood Colliery's Jordan Bailey enabled his side to share the points with Coronation in a fine game which leaves them in fifth spot with Coronation sixth, still three points adrift. Kirk Hallam Social Club defeated Town Mill 3-1 whilst Ravenshead Rangers were beaten 6-2 by Cambridge Knights. Meanwhile Old Bemrosians and Tibshelf Community swapped places after Danny Binch's two goals were added to by James Kimberley and Ryan Smith to earn Tibshelf a 4-1 victory.

Report by Norman Frith

Jason Coupe, Ashland however will not be facing fellow Amateur Alliance team A.F.C. Bridgford who gallantly fell at the final hurdle to White Lion 2-0 setting up a Ashland Rovers Reserves against White Lion final.

Netherfield Albion hit the top of the premier division as Grey Mare United are soundly beaten at home 4-0 by Headstocks whilst Netherfield thrashed Trident 6-1. Netherfield Albion proved to be too strong for Trident with Darren Williamson hitting a hat trick along with strikes from Tobias Richardson Darren Williamson and Carlton Cousins, Tom Davis hitting the consolation for Trident. Grey Mare fell to a shock defeat at Headstocks thanks to goals from Richard Wallace (2), Steven Papp and Scott Brown.

F.C Samba recorded their first win of the year as they saw off basement team Gedling Southbank with goals from Gareth Taylor (3) and Tom Brunt, Chris Baker-Beal pulling one back for the home side. Santos earned three much needed points at home to Vernon Villa thanks to goals from Carl Reagan (3), Richard Ashwell and Toby King. Beacon ran out comfortable 4-0 winners at home to Ashland Rover Reserves with Francis, McPherson, Wilmot and Russell all scoring.

With Ashland Rovers Reserves playing in the junior cup Nuthall managed to close the gap at the top with a 4-0 win at Kimberley Miners Welfare Old Boys Gavin Boyer, Dan Bramley, Kevin Connor and Ben Ponting seeing them home. East Valley United Kept in touch with the leaders after they saw off Kirton Brickworks 4-0 Evans, Lucas, Bosworth and Matthews all scoring. It was honours evens at Grey Goose as they were held 1-1 by Vernon Villa Reserves Jordan Whitehead scoring for the home team.

Coopers Arms maintained their lead at the top of the second division after seeing off Netherfield Albion Reserves 4-1 Liam Evans (2), Kamari Lewin and Michael Jones all scoring with Danny Sessions pulling one back for the visitors. Burton Joyce A made it four wins in a row as they saw off Basford United A with goals from Troy Smith and Sam Buckle. Kashmir kept their hopes of honours alive with a 3-1 win at Basford F.C. Asad Ahmed, Razza Khan and Adam Neilson all scoring Ashley Brown hitting the consolation. Notts Metropolis managed to take all the points in a tight encounter with improving Three Crowns who had Paul Brown on the score sheet but goals from Wayne Green and Chris Ward saw Metropolis home.

Jason Fryer scored boh the Clifton United goals as the narrowly saw off Nottm Sikh Lions 2-1.

Real United maintained their seven point lead at the top of the table as they smashed nine past former league leaders Pegasus with Adam Coulman, Gary Spriggs Liam Young and William Holzman all scoring twice, Sean Rhodes adding the other. Durham Ox Wellow were back to winning ways as they ended Bingham Towns recent run of fine results The Ox running out 4-2 winners thanks to goals from James Vernon, Liam Black Tom Dixon and Nick Staff, Brent Wilkinson scoring both the Bingham Goals.

Dwaine Miller scored twice for Gedling Town as they kept their hopes of the title alive Dean McLean adding a third to see off Nottinghamshire fourths who had Andrew Pear hitting their reply. In the battle of the basement teams Notts Metropolis Reserves came out on top thanks to a hat Trick from David Platt and a Mark Smith effort, Pete Hastings and Sam Owen scoring for the visitors. Netherfield Boys took all the points at Premium A thanks to strikes from Kieran McLarty and Luke Brown with Zico Benjamin replying. .

Report by Lance Hawkridge

COMBINATION - NEWCASTLE ARMS THROUGH TO FINAL!

Newcastle Arms are the first side through to the League Junior cup final after the got the better of an 8 goal exchange with fellow division two side Munich 79. Although Matt Hibbort scored twice for Munich and Darryl Clayton once it wasn't enough as Lee Priestley 2, James Street, Nathan Todd and Brad Schofield all notched for Newcastle as they won through 53 and must now wait until the 18th March to see if they will face New Inn or Basford United in the final on wed 8th April at Carlton Town FC. Although Greyfriars Celtic could only manage a 2 all home draw with mid table Man in Space it was still enough to send them to the top of the premier division on goal difference over Calverton MW who did not play this weekend. Lee Carter and James Needham bagged a goal apiece for the new leaders who were denied all three points courtesy of a Daniel Holmes double.

Gedling United remain only a point behind the top two after Kev Walker, Lauren Young, Mark Nixon and a 25 yard screamer from Justin Jukes his first for 2 seasons enabled them to a 4-0 win over Wellington Inn. A Robert Kent strike set Sporting Wheelbarrow on their way to a 4-2 home win over Gremio as the bottom two sides battled it out to avoid finishing the season in last place. But despite taking the lead they were pegged back before the interval by Saul Sanders and soon after the turnaround they found themselves trailing when Terry Coates put the visitors ahead direct from a corner. Rob Kent bagged his second to draw Wheelbarrow level before Martin Smith regained their lead for them inside the last 10 minutes.

Gremio's misery was then complete when they conceded a fourth in the 86th minute. The only other Premier game saw Kimberley MW beat Bestwood MW by the same score line thanks to a Jake Fisher hat trick and a single by Luke Stevenson. L Roberts and L Willows replied. Despite going down to a 28th minute right foot strike by Dave Hallam following a twice failed corner clearance, Oakdale bounced back to eventually win their division one game at DTD by three goals to one. Devon Graham's cross 5 minutes after conceding beautifully picked out Matt Smith who thumped home for 1-1 and that's the way it remained until the hour mark when Dean McLean latched on to a neat through ball to make it 2-1. 15 minutes later they scored their third to complete the win when Dwain Miller played a 1-2 with Paul Machin to drive home. C.N.C got back to winning ways after two consecutive defeats to run out 6-2 winners over Volo. S Cassidy 2, D Murphy 2, A Robinson and M Walker did the damage for the NAA - ASHLAND ROVERS POWER THROUGH! home side with Jack Craig replying. Leaders AFC Bridgford won 2-1 at Ashland Rovers Reserves made it through to the final of the Notts F.A Beeston united thanks to S Kirk and M Astill. Beechdale remain hot on their Junior cup with resounding 4-1 win over Greyhounders Steven heels in second spot after thrashing AFC Hucknall 8-1 with both red Hutchinson scoring twice along with efforts from Scott McPharland and wilmott and Dwaine Haywood notching hat tricks. Sean Kelly was another

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Local Football Games played Sun 8th March Combination Premier Kimberley M.W 4-2 Bestwood M.W Gedling United 4-0 Wellington O.B Sporting W'barrow 4-2 Gremio Greyfriars Celtic 2-2 Man in Space Combination Div 1 Springfield United 1-7 A1 Glazing Beeston United 1-2 AFC Bridgford Beechdale Villa 8-1 AFC Hucknall C.N.C 6-1 Volo D.T.D 1-3 Oakdale Bestwood M.W Res 2-4 F.C Bedstead Combination Div 2 Hamburg 80 1-2 Newcastle Arms Pure 3-2 New Inn N.C.H 0-12 Blacks Head Medz Reds 2-1 F.C St George Munich 79 4-1 Rise Park Notts United 6-0 Pride of Erin Combination Div 3 La Toque 2-3 Arnold Victory F.C Samba 3-3 P.M.R Bestwood Re-Utd 13-0 Taverners M.I.S United 6-2 Sporting Inkfish Southbank 2-2 The Mill Combination Junior Cup Semi Final Munich 79 3-5 Newcastle Arms EMPAL Division 1 Fanzines United 7-0 Freeman & Mitchell Linford Nelson 1-0 Nottinghan Medics A West Bridgford Albion 2-0 West End West Bridgford Albion 0-2 West End EMPAL Division 2 Butler Benfica 0-4 Clifton Bridge Inn Burton Joyce B 0-0 Ardley Athletic Fc Grey Mare Olympico1-3 Wheelhouse Highfield Park Arngers 0-8 Arnold Cross Keys Inn The Bank 1-3 Riverside Moores EMPAL Division 3 Kinoulton Villa 2-5 Radcliffe Olympic Res Nottingham Medics B 2-0 Clifton Dynamo Plumtree 2-1 Brooks Violla Punjab Cvolts 7-3 Boots Wednesday Trent Vale 2-2 Chequers United EMPAL Division 4 Caythorpe 3-2 Wollaton Pirates Res Clifton Dynamo Res 2-1 Attsu Real Bulwell 6-2 Toton Athletic EMPAL Cup Qtr Finals GMB 2-4 Nottm Law School Notts Athletic 0-3 Burton Joyce A Total Reclaims Demolition* 1-1 Radcliffe Olympic Wollaton Pirates 1-1 Fox & Crown** *Total Reclaims win 5-3 on pens **Fox & Crown win 5-3 on pens NSFL Premier Premier Clifton Villa 5-1 Nottm WI Cavaliers Clumber 3-2 Scots Grey Nottingham Alumni 5-0 Plough Barflys Nuthall 1-3 Arnold FC Radford Park Rangers0-3 Redhill NSFL Premier Division 1 BTSC 0-6 Trowsers Chesterfield Arms 1-0 Rolls Royce L Sun FC Clobber 4-1 Clifton Centrals Old Colonial 1-6 George Street NSFL Premier Division 2 Bulwell Rangers 4-2 New Fairham Cotgrave P FC 1-1 R.R.L.Villa Crusader 4-2 Vernon Villa Sunday Nottm Rangers 1-1 Portland Arms HH Rempstone 3-3 Lenton Villa NSFL Senior Division 1 Dovecrest 5-1 Back-up United Hudson Roofing 2-3 Bayliss Pheasant Inn Sunday 0-6 FC Digica Tricolore 4-5 Calverton C Tree Westdale Tavern 5-3 Robin Hood NSFL Senior Division 2 A.B.P. FC 7-0 West Barnstone Utd Arndale 4-2 Edwalton Nags Head Carlton 0-5 Sherwin Arms Park Tavern Basford 3-1 Empire NSFL Intermediate Division 1 Beercalona 4-1 Longbow Sunday Doree Bonner 5-2 Carlton Catholics Res Hucknall Chequers 0-2 Real Nottingham L.A. FC 5-2 Grosvenor Premium Res 5-0 Westdale Wanderers The Empire Hucknall 4-0 J.M.S. Electrcal NSFL Intermediate Division 2 Aldercar 2-0 Beeston Biz FC Crawford 3-6 Eagle Lion Revived 1-1 FC of Nottingham Notts Cobras 2-7 The Masons Stratford Haven Res 2-3 Bridgford Taverners West B'ford Badgers 3-1 Teesdale FC

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hat hero as A! Glazing came back from AFC Hucknall 7-1 victors.

There's no change at the top of division two as the top three Medz Reds, Blacks Head and Newcastle Arms all won 2-1, 12-0 and 2-1 respectively.

Notts United broke into the top four after Luke Wilkinson notched a hat trick and Aaron Large, Sam Whitton and Glen Romford scored singles in their 6 goal whitewash of Pride of Erin. Pure FC came from 2-1 down to win their game at home to New Inn 3-2 courtesy of Adam Partlett, Steve Chambers and Warren Lovegrove. Sam Bowmer scored both the visitors goals. Whilst Jason Robinson set up 3 and scored one himself as Munich 79 notched a 4-1 victory at home to Rise Park for whom D Underwood replied to two D Cropley goals and one from A Crouch to add to Robinsons goal. The Mill held on to second spot in division three after coming from 2 nil down at lowly Southbank to eventually gain a point when Devell Barnard scored late on direct from a corner to add to Carl Nesbitts second half strike in a 2 all draw. Aaron Ported had given the home side a 2 nil half time lead but the shock result was thwarted when they let it slip whilst playing against the wind. Scott Gibbons, Matt Butler, Pete Jackson, Robert Nicholson, Dwaine Brown and Kierum Moorledge all scored for their respective sides as FC Samba and P.M.R shared a point apiece in a 3 all draw. Aiden Talmey top scored with a hat trick as M.I.S United won 6-2 at home to Sporting Inkfish for whom Anthony Morton and John Madden replied. Ratcliffe, Parsons and Fownes got the other three united goals.

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Scots Grey have trodden a very tight line of late in League encounters, winning late into the game by the odd goal and this weekend the line broke as Clumber turned the tables with a late Jared Westcarr effort wrested the visitor's 100% record. It appeared to be business as usual as Wes Burke fired Scots into a second minute lead from a free-kick.

Clumber applied the pressure and Westcarr scored his first thirteen minutes later. Heath restored the lead, which Wes Burke clawed level again before the break. It was a tightly contested second half before Westcarr rounded the keeper to net the winner.

Elsewhere, Clifton Villa took full advantage of the leader's lapse to hammer Nottm WI Cavaliers 5-1, with two goals apiece frpm Antwon Bonnick and Carl Horder and one from Romaine Lyken. Strikes from Nathan Ryan, Anthony Gregory and Ben Middleton raised Redhill to third with a 3-0 defeat of Radford Park Rangers and Arnold came away from Nuthall with a 3-1 success thanks to efforts from Lee Allen(2) and Vladamir Farrell, as Scott Danby responded.

After last week's first win of the season, Nottm Alumni added to this with a bonus, as Matt Richardson and Andy Dodd hit two supported by one from Jamie Hopps in the 5-0 hammering of Plough Barfly's.

It was no change at the top of Division One as Trowsers hit BTSC for six and second placed Chesterfield Arms stopped Rolls Royce Leisure's surge with a 1-0 win. Trowsers shared their goals between Wayne Loseby, Aaron and Neil Baguley, Craig McMoran, Grant Redwood and Paul Williams, whilst Carl Wilson struck the deciding effort for Chesterfield.

George Street maintained a comfortable mid table position as they came away from Old Colonial with a 6-1 win, as James Lewis, Mark Spencer, Ashley Evans, Matt Lucas and Daniel Blake registered and Lee Harper responded.

Alan Kitchen, Matt Rick, Calum Bates and Mark Withers were on target for FC Clobber as they lifted themselves clear of the basement with a 4-1 result over Clifton Centrals.

It was also 'as you were' at the head of Division Two as the top two could not be parted. Goals by Chris Galloway for Cotgrave PFC and Matt Pebury for Rolls Royce Leisure Villa ensued honours were even.

Surprise result was Vernon Villa Sunday's 4-2 defeat at Crusader, ending the visitor's seven match winning run. Neil Thompson hit two and Chris Kemp and Danny Small one each for the hosts with Matt Sims and section top scorer; Liam Evans replying.

Lenton Villa consolidated a mid-table position on the back of a 3-3 draw at Rempstone, with Ridha Mighki, Pat Neal and Benedict Wilks netting for Villa and Tim Wainwright(two) and Carl Able for the homeside.

David Warden, with two and Scott Litchfield and Mark Greensmith struck as Bulwell Rangers returned to winning ways with a 4-2 success over New Fairham, for whom Mark Radmall scored the goals.

Nottm Rangers, with George McKechnie on target drew 1-1 with Portland Arms HH.

Division One Fanzines United keep their outside title hopes alive with a comprehensive 7-0 thumping of bottom side Freeman & Mitchell. In mid table Linford Nelson drew 1-1 with Nottingham Medics A – Dean Linford and Kennedy for Medics. First double header of the run in saw West Bridgford Albion and West End both claim a 2-0 win in the sixty minute matches.

Divison Two It's Arnold Cross Keys by eight points over Wheelhouse after an 8-0 destruction of Highfield Park Rangers. With regular strikers King and Payne injured on Saturday duties Keys gave a full debut to recent acquisition Paul Stephenson who duly knocked in five goals!

Farrow,Townsend and Smith completed the rout increasing the Keys positive goal difference to a mere 59 goals! Wheelhouse keep in contention with first class 3-1 win over Fc Grey Mare Olympico.

Breakaway goals from Dolby and two by Andrew sealed the win for Wheelhouse to keep them second. No goals at a windy Poplars as Burton Joyce B drew 0-0 with Ardley Athletic. Riverside Moores are finally playing to their potential beating Inn the Bank 3-1.Another two goals for Daniel Thomas and Freddie John.

Division Three It's all ifs, buts and maybe's at the top of Division Three - Punjab Colts currently lead the way by three points from Chequers United in second spot. Colts beat Boots Wednesday 7-3 with Faaye and Johol getting a Report by John Wheat brace apiece. Chequers United failed to narrow the gap by dropping two .

Newark Alliance Senior points against Trent Vale in a 2-2 draw at Siemans. A bumpy pitch and an increasing wind made the first half a travesty for total football devotees Wheatsheaf Utd 2 2 Kings Arms but the second half exceeded all expectations with end to end action.

Newark Town 2 0 Castle Barge '95 Vale took the lead with their customary breakaway with Dorricott Barkestone Le Vale 4 1 Fiskerton bundling home. United replied quickly as Vale conceded a bizarre far post own goal as the defender lost the flight of the ball in the swirling wind Coddington 5 0 Holy Trinity and deflected home. United thought the game was theirs for taking but Newark Alliance Division 1 Rippon capitalised on shoddy defending and made it 2-1 for Vale.

EBS Shelford 0 2 Gunthorpe Constant Chequers pressure was rewarded as Carter converted a penalty with eight minutes remaining to snatch a point. Third placed Kings Arms Res 0 10 Lowdham Utd Wollaton Pirates with games in hand were on Empal Cup duty so Chesters 4 2 The Villa Radcliffe Olympic took advantage in beating Kinoulton Villa 5-2 to go Newark Alliance Division 2 equal on points with Pirates. Sinnot with his regular brace of goals for Olympic. No cold hands for the referee in the Clifton Dynamo versus BG Hawtonville Res 1 6 Coddington Res Nottingham Medics B match as his notebook saw more action than the AC Grove 0 1 RHP Social A pitch! Five bookings and a dismissal was Clifton's contribution to the 2-0 victory by the Medics. Goodall and Conway the scorers. Plumtree beat Crown 2 3 Sutton On Trent Brooks Villa 2-1 with Hinks and Thomas the goals.

Collingham Res 3 5 Aslockton Cranmers Division Four Castle Barge Res 2 1 Wheatsheaf Utd Res Caythorpe narrowed the gap on the leaders St Anns to four points after beating Wollaton Pirates Reserves 3-2. Real Bulwell kept their recent Newark Alliance Division 3 good form running beating Toton Athletic 6-2. Clifton Dynamo Reserves Flintham 0 3 Laxton Athletic stretch their lead over the reelection candidates with a 2-1 win over Holy Trinity Res 1 2 AFC Flowserve Attsu.

Empal Quarter Finals Hobgoblin 0 5 Watermill There were shocks and drama galore in the four quarter final matches of Fernwood 2 2 Newark Town Res the Empal Cup. Fox & Crown upset the form book knocking out Sawmill 1 0 Vodafone unbeaten Wollaton Pirates 5-3 on penalties after drawing 1-1 after 120 minutes. The celebrated Labatte and Piliero partnership gave Pirates a Newark Cup first half lead as Piliero smashed home from eighteen yards. Not firing on Farndon United 8 0 Farnsfield Villa all cylinders Pirates could not extend their lead and Crown forced extra time with a controversial late equaliser.Darren Ewell climbed highest and powered his header home as Pirates waited for a whistle. Another thirty minutes produced few chances and Crown went on to win the Lottery of the penalty shot out by 5 strikes to 3. The second penalty exercise saw Total Reclaims Demolition get the better of one of the pregame favourites Radcliffe Olympic again 5-3.Brecky Cross gave Reclaim a first half lead before Nick Richard equalised for Olympic. Man of the Match in goal for Reclaims was Curtis McDonald who single handly at times kept the high scoring Radcliffe side at bay. Another thirty DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL minutes in the driving wind and rain produced no goals and the dreaded KITCHENS & BATHROOMS penalty shoot out. Villains for Radcliffe were the scorer Richards and the FLOORS You Tube contender for bizarre penalty taker of the year Ben Duff who fluffed their efforts putting Reclaims into another semi.

CONSERVATORIES No problems for cup favourites Burton Joyce who comfortably overcame SPECIALISTS IN one of their bogey sides Notts Athletic 3-0. Graham Epps, Josh Croft and an o/g sealed the win. There was no extra time litigation needed by MOSAIC TILES Nottingham Law School as they won their case 4-2 against GMB from COMPETITIVE the fourth Division. A proverbial game of two halves as the strong winds and rain made skilful football difficult. School scored twice as many goals PRICES as GMB with the favourable conditions and therefore won the decision.

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to second. Forest Town are third, they won 3-1 at home, against bottom club, Rolls Royce Leisure. Forest who led 1-0 at half time, scored through Craig Jackson (2) and Lewis Croucher. Matthew Clowes scored for Rolls.

Ollerton Town kept up their challenge for the Championship, by also winning 3-1 against Kimberley Town. Nathan Brown (2) and Liam Mason the Ollerton goal scorers. Dane Harby replied for Kimberley. Nathan Brown is only 16 years old and this was his debut for the Ollerton first team. Fifth placed Sutton Town AFC donned their shooting boots, at home, against mid table Kinsley Boys, goals by Gareth Davey, Kyle Ludlow, Ben Greenhaigh and a brace from Carl Longmore gave 'The Snipes' a 5-0 victory. Newark Town led 2-0 at half time at Southwell City and went on to win 3-0, with goals by Chris Self, Steve Carty and Simon Ellison. A remarkable day in this division saw seven out of the leading eight clubs, gaining maximum points, Pinxton who are in eighth place, secured a 2-0 win at Harrowby United. Ben Bacon and Joe Riley the Pinxton marksmen. A shock defeat for Clipstone Welfare, they led 2-1 at half time at home against struggling Nettleham, but the visitors hit back after the break to record a fine 3-2 victory, an own goal clinching three vital points for the Lincolnshire club.

Adie Carter and Craig Buchanan for Clipstone. Tom Dorr and Lee Beesley the other Nettleham sharp shooters. What a match in the Black Dragon Premier Division, leaders Westella and Willerby where seemingly on the way to defeat, at home, against near challengers Parramore Sports. The visitors, who suffered their first league defeat of the season last Saturday, looked to be bouncing back in style, leading 20 with only ten minutes remaining, but then the home team pulled a goal back from the penalty spot and in a dramatic final few minutes Westella scored twice, to take the points and inflict a second successive defeat for the visitors, a result that could end Parramore championship hopes. Alan Laud, (Penalty), Dan Boneham and Matt Fyvie scored for Westella. Paul Billard with a penalty and Paul Clements the Parramore scorers. Louth Town, took the opportunity to move above Parramore into second place, they visited Kiveton Park and with a clinical display, convincingly won 5-0. Paul Watts lead the way with a hat trick, Sam Smith and Michael Armstrong adding the other goals.

Fourth placed Parkhouse won at home against bottom club, Bulwell Town 3-0. Chris Sharman, John Parsons and David Chambers the Parkhouse goal scorers.

Bulwell Town contributed to a match, that was, described has a credit to the CMFL. Two second half goals by Rhys Lewis and an own goal, gave Newark Flowserve a 2-0 win at Bentley Colliery. Thoresby Colliery Welfare got the better of visitors Hutton Cranswick United, the Edwinstowe club, won 2-1 with Ross Whitehead scoring the winner, his second of the game, in the second half. Jimmy Syme scored United's goal. Phoenix Sports and Social and Church Warsop Miners Welfare shared two goals, Sam Turner putting the visitors in front after 10 minutes, Phoenix's leading scorer Ebrima Mendy equalizing in the 26th minute. In the Abacus Lighting Reserves Supreme Division, goals

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In a match that was a credit not only to the league but the standard of football in the Reserves Divisions, Holbrook Miners Welfare Reserves came back from a half time 2-0 deficit to win 3-2, in an exciting Phoenix Trophies Reserves League Cup Semi-Final.After surviving two near misses, Dunkirk took the lead and then doubled the score in the opening fifteen minutes, chances came and went at both ends but Holbrook could count themselves unfortunate to be two down at half time. They soon put that right after the interval, scoring two goals in the first five minutes of the • All aspects of barbering second half, in a pulsating contest the home team went on to score the winner with only three minutes remaining, Gavin • No appointments needed Christie scoring the all important goal. Paul Campbell hit the • Sky Sports TV other two for Holbrook. Shaun Phillips scored both the • Experts in male grooming Dunkirk goals. Harworth Colliery Institute are back on top of the Buckingham Insurance Supreme Division, goals by Ryan Paczkowski and Billy Humphrey, gave the North Nottinghamshire club a 2-0 win at Blidworth Welfare.

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Send your match reports to info@ballsmania.net and we’ll publish them for all to read. All reports need to be received by 9pm Sunday Mansfield Town 1 Lewes 0 The Stags ran out deserved winners against bottom club Lewes thanks to Nathan Arnold's well executed lob 20 minutes from time. The tricky winger clipped the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper and into an empty net to maintain Mansfield's unbeaten home record this year and consign Lewes to their 13th consecutive defeat. David Holdsworth made one change from the side that started last Saturday's 1-0 victory over Rushden and Diamonds with Neil Mackenzie replacing Matt Somner in midfield.

Curtis Woodhouse and Louis Briscoe returned to the substitute's bench with no place in the 16 for top-scorer Mark Stallard. On three minutes Paul Mayo tested Rikki Banks in the visitors goal with a 25-yard left footed drive but the Lewes goalkeeper was equal too it and comfortably made the save. Two minutes later and Michael Blackwood's deep in-swinging corner from the right hand side found Robert Duffy who nodded the ball back into the danger zone but the goalkeeper managed to seize the ball at the second attempt. On 15 minutes Nathan Arnold right wing cross found Aaron O'Connor seven yards out but his acrobatic overhead kick narrowly missed the target. The visitors came within the whisker of taking a surprise lead on 20 minutes. The manager's son Joe Keehan found space 25-yards from goal and curled a right footed effort just wide of Marriott's left hand post. On the half-hour mark a flowing Stags move starting with O'Connor dispossessing a Lewes player in the centre circle and ending with MacKenzie curling a right footed effort at goal nearly lead to the deadlock being broken.

Arnold found fans-favourite MacKenzie on the edge of the penalty and after beating his man unleashed an effort which looked destined for the bottom corner but Banks got down well to palm away from danger. Three minutes later and Banks was called into action again. Arnold's corner from the left hand side found its way back to him on the left corner of the penalty area and the tricky winger cut inside and drove a right footed shot which the Lewes goalkeeper clawed over the crossbar. Four minutes after the re-start and Mayo's chipped ball forward was knocked down by

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Duffy into the path of O'Connor who smashed a 25-yard out left footed half volley against the post with Banks beaten.

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Gary Silk began to probe down the right side and his low cross from the touchline was attacked by Duffy but Banks COMMERICAL • INDUSTRIAL • DOMESTIC managed to get there ahead of last weekend's match winner. Stags began to exert some sustained pressure with a series of corners and on 58 minutes Arnold's corner was • CITB Construction Skills Registered met by Scott Garner whose header from six yards out was • Awkward Access a Speciality tipped over the bar by Banks. On the hour mark the Stags made their second change of the match with Louis Briscoe • Safe Working Practices coming on for O'Connor. The deadlock was finally broken • Over 20 Years Experience on 70 minutes as Mansfield took a well deserved lead.

MacKenzie chipped the ball over the Lewes defence into • Fully Insured the path of Nathan Arnold and with the visitor's goalkeeper • Professional Service in no-mans land Arnold lobbed the ball over him and into an • Competitive Rates empty net much to the relief of the Field Mill faithful. On 75 minutes Marriott was called into action as Lewes caught • FREE estimates Stags on the counter-attack. David Wheeler found space in the Mansfield penalty area but Marriott got down well to beat out the winger's right footed drive. With six minutes remaining the visitors made their first change of the match with David Wheeler being replaced by Tim Rivers. Lewes rarely threatened to snatch an equaliser and were restricted Common Lane, Hucknall to long range strikes. In added time substitute Stefan Cox turned neatly before unleashing a left footed effort from 30 yards but Marriott was equal to it. The result means

by Weston looked destined for the back of the net but Daniels Mansfield stay in 12th place in the Blue Square Premier but produced a fine finger-tip save to turn the ball over. Assistant are now level on points with Rushden and Diamonds.

Manager Dave Kevan and Captain John Thompson greeted Referee Mr Whitestone to question his decisions at the break, who swiftly Notts County Report continued from Page 4 made his way to the Referee's Room. Manager Ian McParland didn't Straight away Shrewsbury launched their first attack inside re-appear on the touchline for the second half, instead he was sat in a frantic first five minutes but the lime-green booted the Director's Box for seemingly being sent off for words towards the Ashikodi drove his shot wide from twenty yards. On fifteen official at the break. Kevan and Coach Tommy Johnson were in minutes Butcher had a golden chance to open the scoring constant contact with McParland via mobile phone throughout the when the midfielder made one of his trademark runs into the half. Shrewsbury were out of the traps swiftly at the start of the box - totally unmarked - and after latching onto Facey's neat second half and looked intent on adding to their lead, but they were chest-down he drove the ball over when by his standards he unable to create any clear opening with the Notts defence performing should have at least hit the target. Clearly wanting to make well. Cansdell-Sheriff and Dunfield blazed way over with effort from amends, Butcher crashed Notts ahead less than sixty outside the box with County holding firm. Notts made a change with seconds later. Again he found a pocket of space, this time twenty-five minutes left by introducing Matt Hamshaw into the game twenty yards out, and he let fly with a superb low effort after injury in place of Jamie Clapham. It allowed Weston to move out which fizzed past Daniels and into the far corner. The goal to the left and Hamshaw to slot into his natural position of right was nothing more than County deserved for a bright start, midfield. On seventy-one minutes Graham Coughlan made it 3-1 to and for Butcher it was his eighth goal of the season. But the Shrews by raising highest to head home from Ben Davies' corner. within four minutes the home side were back on level terms.

It was the first real chance of the second half which was surprising A harsh free-kick was awarded against Notts and the fizzed considering how many chances were created in the first half. Michael ball into the box wasn't dealt with sufficiently and Ashikodi Johnson sliced wide when the ball fell kindly to him in the box eight prodded the ball home inside the six-yard box. The set-back minutes from time as Notts enjoyed their best spell of the game late didn't knock County out of their stride. In fact, Notts could on. With five minutes remaining that pressure resulted in a second have regained the lead just after the half-hour from a goal when Jonathan Forte used his pace to excellent effect to breeze Clapham corner but Stephen Hunt's prodded effort inside past the two Shrewsbury centre-backs and slot home to give County the six-yard box was cleared off the line by Dunfield at the a glimmer of hope. Facey blasted a long-range effort at goal which far post. Eight minutes before the break the home side were was saved with two minutes to go, but Daniels saved easily. awarded a penalty for an apparent tug by Facey on Grant Shrewsbury were pinned back with three minutes of extra time Holt's shirt in the box, for which the County striker was allowed and Forte's cross-shot agonisingly drifted just wide. The side cautioned and Grant Holt made no mistake by slamming held on, but Notts didn't half give them a fright. Notts return to action the ball into the net. It looked a soft penalty, but all honesty at home on Tuesday - where they have won four of their last five Mr Whitestone wasn't enjoying the best of afternoons and games - with Luton Town the visitors to Meadow Lane. again a contentious decision resulted in Notts conceding a goal. A few minutes before the interval a thunderous strike

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Non-League Football North Ferriby 2 Eastwood Town 2 North Ferriby and Eastwood shared the spoils in an evenly contested game full of incidents.With Paul Robinson suspended, Paul Cox opted to move Russell Cooke into his preferred position of centre back and start with the new boys Chris Flynn and Ben Chapman as fullbacks.

Midweek hero Marc Smith started, with the Badgers record signing Danny Holland again on the bench. The Badgers were out the blocks quicker than a rabbit during mating season. Meikle was fouled on the edge of the box and Dunning's free kick was headed over by Hume. An uncharacteristic mistake by Redmond almost gifted North Ferriby the opening goal, only catching the ball at the second attempt from a dangerous corner. Smith header on a long free kick which Holmes put over the bar but the flag was up as the Badgers looked to build up a head of steam.

They didn't have too long to wait for the opening goal, on the 4th minute Chapman took a short through to Dunning before slipping it through to Todd. His precise cross was headed firmly into the goal by the towering Marc Smith to give him two in the last two games. Redmond was still enduring a shaky start, as his poor punch fell to Russell Fry who switched it to Danny Moore to fire it behind for a goal kick. The Badgers doubled their advantage in the 15th minute, Hume's long ball out to Meikle on the wing was Headed by Kevin Larvin straight to Richard Dunning. His shot fell nicely for Ian Holmes however Paul Foot bundled him over as he was about to shoot and the referee pointed to the spot. Holmes stepped up confidently to tuck away his 23rd goal of the season and 5th against Ferriby this season. Holmes fired over after Smith had chested the ball down, and Foot was lucky after Holmes crossed from the by line when his attempted clearance fell to Russell Fry and not one of the numerous attacking Badgers. At the other end, Ferriby were causing the Eastwood defence untold grief with their set piece play. After Hume conceded a free kick just outside the Eastwood box Russell Fry gleefully stepped up to hammer the ball past Redmond, who was unsighted by the wall. Things were to go from bad to worse as Larvin was bundled over by Meikle at the side of the Eastwood box. This time a poor free kick should have been easily cleared by Dunning but he presented the ball to ex Ilkeston midfielder Colin Hunter who blasted the ball home from 25 yards. Steve Wilson in the Ferriby goal saved Dunning's free kick which he bent around the wall, as half time approached and Colin Hunter blazed a free kick over the bar after Hume was adjudged to have impeded Fry. On 55 minutes the Badgers had a good shout for a penalty when the ball struck Ricky Fosters arm.

With the referee waving play on, Dunning switched the ball out to Meikle whose cross was met firmly by Smith but his header lacked direction. The game was mainly being played out in midfield with chances being few and far between. Danny Moore however fired over after good period of possession and Ben Chapman did well to get his body in front of a fierce Russell Fry free kick. Cooke had to be alert to stop Fry and Callum Russell from putting Ferriby in front and Redmond caught a good strike from Colin Hunter. Paul Cox shuffled his pack on 75 minutes replacing the strikers Smith and Holmes for Matt Rhead and Danny Holland and the change had the desired effect as the Badgers finished the stronger of the two teams.

Todd delivered a good cross which Ricky Foster cleared but as the ball was returned into the box Holland was close to shooting on the turn as the Badgers upped the urgency.

Todd's next inviting delivery saw Holland get in Rhead's way in a dangerous position, with the ball going out for a goal kick. Hume headed Dunning's corner over the bar and Foster diverted Todd's goal bound shot for a corner. From the resultant corner Hume's header was cleared off the line by David Cooke on the post. Hume again had another header from a corner cleared off the line by Kevin Larvin with Holland only inches away from netting the loose ball.

From a dangerous Dunning free kick Steve Wilson did well to scoop Matt Rhead's header which was dropping under the crossbar. Hume headed over as the Badgers were desperately searching for the winner. Paul Foot the Ferriby captain did well under pressure to deflect Holland's shot for a corner.

with Dave Issott replacing the unavailable Craig Roche in midfield. The Blues had the brighter start, and had a chance to score after 3 minutes, when a good one-two between Chris Self and Matt Roche, ended with the latter having his shot fumbled, but eventually held by the keeper. Newark's pressure forced the home side into a series of errors and although chances were few and far between initially, Newark looked the more comfortable on the ball. Despite Town's dominance, Southwell had an opportunity themselves on 11 minutes, with Porter's shot across the area going narrowly wide of the post. Town kept battling though, and had two chances to score within a minute, with Steve Carty and Dave Issott both hitting shots wide from just outside the area. Mark Blant's tussle with Southwell player manager Mark Nangle was a feature of the opening quarter, with honours about even.

Newark's first goal on 27 minutes was of the highest quality, Issott's superb 30 yard cross field ball found Self on the right and his inch perfect cross was volleyed sweetly past Parker. Southwell searched for an equaliser, and almost got it on 34 minutes, but Chris Riley did just enough to deny Atkins. The Blues broke, and Matt Roche had a one on one chance with Parker, but the ball ran just too far, and he suffered what appeared to be a shoulder injury, as he attempted to get a touch on the loose ball.

Simon Ellison replaced him, and the striker bagged himself a goal on the stroke of half time, when his brother Mark cut the ball back to him from the edge of the area, and he duly fired the ball into the roof of the net. The second half started slowly, with neither side able to retain the ball for long periods. The few chances at the beginning of the half were Southwell's, with Nangle's shot just clearing the angle of post and bar, while Severn had a free kick comfortably held by Riley. Town began to put the pressure on again around the hour mark, Carty having a shot blocked on the line by Crofts. On 69 minutes, the Blues should have increased their lead when Simon Ellison muscled himself into a good position in the penalty area. His shot was saved by Parker, but his parry went straight into the path of Issott, who ballooned his shot over the bar from 5 yards out. Town finally made it three on 72 minutes when Issott's cross from the left was headed low into the corner of the net by Self. Southwell were restricted mainly to long range efforts in the second half, with most of them going high over the bar. This pays tribute to another good defensive display by the Blues back four, with Gareth Dobb and Mark Blant looking more comfortable as a pair with every match they play. Nangle could have grabbed a consolation for the home side on 88 minutes, but Riley dived bravely at his feet to keep his clean sheet.

Blidworth Welfare 0 Harworth CI 2 In a match with very few clear cut chances, it was Harworth who managed to take their opportunities and come away from the match with all 3 points. Goals early on, either side of half time resulted in Harworth winning 20 and moved them to the top of the division. Harworth almost took a first minute lead when star striker and top goal scorer, Ryan Paczkowski ran down the left wing, cut back inside, and hit a low drive, however, the Blidworth goalkeeper, Jamie Davies managed to get down well and save. Blidworth then applied some pressure of their own, with a long goal kick, the ball bounced awkwardly over the Harworth centre back, Michael Nugent and the Blidworth striker Danny Gee pounced and put the ball on his favoured right foot, however, his low shot was well saved

by Steve Wibberley. From the resulting corner, a good ball into the box was flicked across goal by Captain James Tagg but no-one was able to get on the end of it.

Against the run of play, Harworth then took the lead after 8 minutes. Billy Humphries collected the ball 25 yards out, looked up and saw the run of Paczkowski and floated the ball for him to run onto. He then cut his run across the path of Tagg and hit the ball on the half volley over the helpless Davies. Blidworth almost got an immediate reply when a long throw was put into the box and was knocked down to Gee, but his volley was dragged wide of the post. With half an hour played, and very few chances for either side so far, Harworth almost doubled their lead. A great run Southwell City 0 from Paczkowski, which took him past three players on Newark Town 3 the right wing, with some lovely trickery, he then played a Newark cruised to a comfortable victory against local rivals short ball across the edge of the box for Humphries to run Southwell City at a windy War Memorial ground. Town onto, but his shot went high and wide. From the resulting made one change from the 3-0 victory over Sutton Town goal kick, a poor kick from Davies was collected by Dean

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Harrowby Utd 0 Pinxton 2 Pinxton fc traveled to “The Arrows” expecting to travel home with all three points and weren't disappointed, Pinxton dominated the game for very long periods and never looked like leaving Dickens rd empty handed, and in fact the score line flattered the home side with chance after chance being saved by Harrowby's heroic Keeper Chris Bennett.

Pinxton's defense didn't have much to do for most of the game but stand in keeper Wayne Cook saved Pinxton's blushes after a opportunist 40 yard lob come shot was tipped over the cross bar at the start of the game.

Jamie Renshaw the Pinxton skipper lead from the back with Steven Darcy by his side in the centre, Josh Parker and Adam Robinson right and left backs respectively made up the back four and just looked far too strong for any Harrowby attack. Arron Gordon and Frazer Thomas in the middle of the park worked hard to dominate the midfield battle, Joe Riley and Kieran Debrouwer on the wings just caused havoc to the Harrowby rear guard creating chance after chance for Jay Cooper and Ben Bacon.

Pinxton's opening goal came just before the half hour when a 30 yard through ball from Jamie Reshaw found Jay Cooper in the Harrowby 18 yard box; Cooper collected the ball with his chest and with his second touch laid the ball to Ben Bacon to slide the ball into the bottom left hand corner from 10 yard leaving the keeper with no chance. Pinxton's second was a beauty from Pinxton man of the match Joe Riley on 55, Riley collected the ball on the right just in the oppositions half, ran at the defender; cut inside, composed himself for the shot, then unleashed an unstoppable shot worthy of Manchester utd's Paul Scholes, the ball flew into the top left hand corner from all of 27 yard. The poor Harrowby keeper who worked his socks off, and did nothing wrong through out the game did well to keep the score down to two goals, but you just don't stop shots like Pinxton two goals on the day.

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D 2 0 2 0 1 2 3 1 2 1 0 0 0

L 2 2 3 3 4 3 8 7 12 11 13 10 17

F 63 70 69 58 57 63 59 36 35 31 39 20 12

A 29 18 35 28 30 31 54 33 85 57 60 57 95

Empal Div 1 1 Brinsthorpe Rangers 2 Radcliffe Olympic Sun 3 Nottingham Law School 4 Burton Joyce 5 Fanzines United 6 Total Reclaims Dem. (3) 7 Linford Nelson 8 West End (3) 9 West Bridgford Albion 10 Notts Athletic 11 Nottingham Medics A 12 Freeman & Mitchell

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W 8 8 7 6 6 6 5 6 5 4 2 1

D 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 3 2

L 3 1 3 2 3 2 8 4 6 12 7 13

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P 15 15 15 8 14 15 14 16

W 14 11 8 7 6 5 2 2

D 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0

L 1 4 7 1 6 9 12 11

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1 Trowsers 2 Chesterfield Arms 3 RR Leisure Sunday 4 Stratford Haven 5 George Street 6 Clifton Centrals 7 Old Colonial 8 FC Clobber 9 BTSC 10 Carlton Catholic

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NSFL Senior Div 2 1 R.R.L. Villa Res 2 Sherwin Arms 3 A.B.P. FC 4 Boat And Horses 5 Park Tavern Basford 6 Empire 7 Forum 90 8 Arndale 9 Edwalton 10 Nags Head Carlton 11 West Barnstone United

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NSFL Premier Div 2

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Pts 38 36 35 33 31 29 24 19 17 13 12 12 0

Combination Div 2 1 Medz Reds 2 Blacks Head 3 Newcastle Arms 4 Notts United 5 Basford Rangers 6 FC St George 7 Wagon & Horses 8 Pure 9 Hamburg 80 10 Munich 79 11 New Inn 12 Rise Park 13 Pride of Erin 14 N.C.H

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W 15 15 13 9 8 8 6 6 4 5 4 4 4 0

D 1 1 0 1 2 1 5 2 3 0 2 2 1 1

L 1 0 2 4 8 7 4 9 6 10 7 13 13 17

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A 16 12 37 34 58 40 57 82 50 60 38 81 103 125

GD 97 90 47 30 9 24 -23 -36 -11 -25 -2 -41 -63 -96

Pts 27 25 24 21 21 18 18 17 17 13 9 5

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W 13 10 9 8 7 6 6 4 4 3 2 2

D 1 2 1 1 3 2 0 3 1 1 4 1

L 0 5 7 3 4 5 4 7 9 10 8 11

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Pts 40 32 28 25 24 20 18 15 13 10 7 7

Pts 37 33 24 21 20 14 6 6

NSFL Premier Prem 1 Scots Grey 2 Clifton Villa 3 Redhill 4 Trentside 5 Clumber 6 Plough Barflys 7 Arnold FC 8 Radford Park Rangers 9 Nuthall 10 Nottingham Alumni 11 Nottm WI Cavaliers

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NSFL Senior Div 1

1 Cotgrave P FC 2 R.R.L.Villa 3 Vernon Villa Sunday 4 Sims Metal 5 Lenton Villa 6 Crusader 7 Bulwell Rangers 8 Portland Arms HH 9 Rempstone 10 Nottm Rangers 11 New Fairham 12 Fat Cat

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1 Westdale Tavern 2 Station Hotel 3 Calverton Cherry Tree 4 Tricolore 5 FC Digica 6 Pheasant Inn Sunday 7 Robin Hood 8 Dovecrest 9 Bayliss 10 Hudson Roofing 11 Premium 12 Back-up United

P W D L F A Pts 16 12 3 1 66 27 39 16 11 1 4 64 34 34 13 10 2 1 58 13 32 16 8 2 6 50 46 26 13 8 1 4 38 21 25 14 6 3 5 48 48 21 16 6 2 8 36 40 20 17 5 2 10 36 48 17 12 5 0 7 32 47 15 14 4 0 10 25 45 12 13 3 1 9 24 45 10 18 1 3 14 25 88 6

NSFL Intermediate Div 1 1 Doree Bonner 2 The Empire Hucknall 3 Premium Res 4 Hucknall Chequers 5 Beercalona 6 Longbow Sunday 7 Real Nottingham 8 Carlton Catholics Res 9 J.M.S. Electrcal 10 L.A. FC 11 Westdale Wanderers 12 Grosvenor

P W D L F A Pts 14 13 0 1 58 20 39 13 11 1 1 50 13 34 13 9 1 3 48 20 28 15 9 0 6 53 35 27 13 8 0 5 47 28 21 16 6 2 8 42 34 20 19 5 4 10 35 58 19 15 5 1 9 29 61 16 17 4 2 11 30 63 14 13 4 1 8 26 39 13 16 3 3 10 17 42 12 12 2 3 7 17 39 9

NSFL Intermediate Div 2 1 Bridgford Taverners 2 Eagle 3 The Masons 4 West Bridgford Badgers 5 Aldercar 6 Beeston.Biz 7 Lion Revived 8 Stratford Haven Res 9 FC of Nottingham 10 FC Crawford 11 Notts Cobras 12 Teesdale FC

P W D L F A Pts 16 14 1 1 72 23 43 17 14 0 3 84 27 42 14 12 1 1 77 31 37 17 10 1 6 64 39 31 15 10 0 5 68 23 30 17 9 1 7 52 35 28 19 8 2 9 58 68 26 16 7 3 6 53 29 24 17 3 4 10 31 77 13 14 2 1 11 34 72 7 16 1 2 13 18 106 5 18 0 0 18 29 110 0

W 9 8 5 4 3 3 3 0

D 0 1 1 4 3 1 0 2

Pts 46 46 39 28 26 25 23 20 15 15 14 14 13 1

Vets Section A Div 1 1 Clifton FC 2 Ashby Ivanhoe 3 Nottingham Alumni 4 Caribbean Cavaliers 5 Gedling Southbank 6 Shirebrook 7 Bottesford 8 Bilborough Pelican

P 12 7 9 5 7 8 9 9

W 6 6 6 5 3 2 2 2

D 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

L 5 1 3 0 4 5 7 7

F 27 22 20 20 14 23 10 16

A 23 11 12 5 16 23 24 38

GD Pts 4 19 11 18 8 18 15 15 -2 9 0 7 -14 6 -22 6

Vets Section A Div 2 1 Poets Corner 2 Calverton MW 3 Forest Town Welfare 4 Nottinghamshire 5 Lowdham 6 Argosy 7 Nevabeen Athletic 8 Castle Donington

P 10 11 10 12 10 9 12 8

L 1 2 4 4 4 5 9 6

F 40 34 26 22 23 22 18 6

A GD Pts 13 27 27 18 16 25 15 11 16 23 -1 16 25 -2 12 19 3 10 56 -38 9 22 -16 2

Vets Section B Div 1 1 Gedling MW 2 Notts Police 3 Holwell 4 Cromford Meadows 5 Matlock Town 6 Radford

P W D L 6 5 1 0 6 4 2 0 6 2 1 3 5 1 2 2 6 1 1 4 7 1 1 5

F 18 12 7 6 4 8

A GD Pts 4 14 16 4 8 14 7 0 7 7 -1 5 14 -10 4 19 -11 4

Vets Section B Div 2 1 Hucknall Rolls 2 Old Elizabethans 3 Barrowby 4 Lord Harrowby 5 Chaffoteaux 6 Keyworth United

P 9 7 8 7 5 6

W 5 5 3 2 1 1

D 2 0 3 0 2 1

L 2 2 2 5 2 4

F 24 19 20 16 6 7

A 11 15 9 31 9 17

GD Pts 13 17 4 15 11 12 -15 6 -3 5 -10 4

Vets Section B Div 3 1 Wollaton Wanderers 2 Sherwood Colliery 3 Awsworth Villa 4 Duffield Old Boys 5 Trentside 6 Park Tavern

P W D L 7 5 0 2 8 5 0 3 8 4 2 2 8 3 2 3 7 3 1 3 8 0 1 7

F 15 17 25 32 22 3

A GD Pts 10 5 15 15 2 15 11 14 14 23 9 11 9 13 10 46 -43 1

Vets Section B Div 4 1 Siemens 2 Hucknall Sports 3 Pelican 4 Hardly Athletic 5 East Leake Athletic OB 6 BGS

P W D L 7 5 1 1 8 4 2 2 6 3 1 2 7 2 2 3 6 2 1 3 8 1 1 6

F 20 24 13 11 20 9

A GD Pts 5 15 16 14 10 14 11 2 10 18 -7 8 13 7 7 36 -27 4

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W 18 16 17 16 16 16 16 15 15 13 11 12 11 11 9 11 10 14 7 7 6 5 10 9

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GD Pts 2 3 66 1 9 62 1 4 59 1 8 58 1 7 58 1 2 58 4 57 1 6 56 1 7 54 1 5 49 -1 47 6 45 2 44 -16 40 -11 39 -24 39 -17 35 9 34 -19 33 -18 30 -31 27 -23 26 -6 25 -6 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

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W D L F 20 6 7 66 18 9 4 55 16 7 6 48 15 9 4 44 14 8 7 54 14 7 9 50 12 12 5 53 12 9 6 42 12 7 1 0 44 11 9 1 3 46 11 6 1 2 43 10 8 1 2 40 7 16 9 42 9 8 1 3 25 8 10 1 1 37 8 9 1 5 34 9 4 1 4 38 7 9 1 3 34 8 6 1 8 33 7 7 1 6 43 7 3 1 7 30 4 9 1 8 25

A 37 32 22 21 35 38 39 28 38 50 51 53 45 38 37 57 36 48 54 62 44 61

GD P ts 29 66 23 63 26 55 23 54 19 50 12 49 14 48 14 45 6 43 -4 42 -8 39 -13 38 -3 37 -13 35 0 34 -23 33 2 31 -14 30 -21 30 -19 28 -14 24 -36 21

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

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P 30 30 28 32 31 31 30 30 32 32 29 31 32 31 32 33 32 32 32 31 31 30

W D L F A 18 9 3 56 2 5 17 6 7 58 3 2 15 9 4 40 2 6 16 5 11 58 4 0 16 4 11 61 4 4 15 7 9 57 4 0 14 7 9 57 4 8 13 9 8 66 4 8 14 6 12 60 5 1 13 9 10 54 5 1 13 6 10 45 4 2 12 5 14 58 5 7 9 1 3 10 37 4 1 9 9 13 48 5 5 9 9 14 42 5 3 9 9 15 39 7 2 9 7 16 36 5 0 10 3 19 43 5 7 7 1 1 14 50 6 3 7 9 15 25 4 1 5 1 1 15 45 7 1 7 5 18 30 5 8

GD Pts 3 1 63 2 6 57 1 4 54 1 8 53 1 7 52 1 7 52 9 49 1 8 48 9 48 3 48 3 45 1 41 -4 40 -7 36 -11 36 -33 36 -14 34 -14 33 -13 32 -16 30 -26 26 -28 26

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P 28 26 25 26 27 27 29 29 28 24 29 26 28 29 24 27 29 28 28 27

W D L F A 22 2 4 81 3 6 18 3 5 70 3 4 17 5 3 53 2 6 16 4 6 80 3 9 15 6 6 64 4 0 13 11 3 47 3 1 16 1 1 2 63 4 7 14 3 1 2 55 4 6 13 4 1 1 62 4 6 12 5 7 48 3 5 12 6 1 1 54 5 7 12 1 1 3 49 3 8 11 6 1 1 50 4 0 10 4 1 5 52 6 6 8 7 9 31 3 1 8 4 1 5 38 6 9 4 4 2 1 30 6 8 3 5 2 0 31 7 3 3 2 2 3 27 8 2 3 1 2 3 33 11 4

GD P ts 45 68 36 57 27 56 41 52 24 51 16 50 16 49 9 45 16 43 13 41 -3 39 11 37 10 36 -14 34 0 31 -31 28 -38 16 -42 14 -55 11 -81 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

NECL Div is ion 1 S carbo ro ug h A thle tic A skern Villa Rain wo rt h MW P on tef ra ct Collieries A FC Emley B arton To wn Old Boys Hemsworth MW B ott esfo rd To wn L ee ds Ca rn eg ie S tave ley MW Te versal Grimsby Borou gh B rig hou se Town W o rsb ro ug h B rid ge At hletic A pp le by Frod ing ham Ta dca ster A lb ion Ros sin gt on Ma in Y orkshire A mate ur Gla ssho ug hto n We lfare

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W 23 17 14 15 15 13 12 14 12 11 10 9 7 8 7 8 7 6 0

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L 1 4 4 9 8 7 10 12 8 7 15 12 12 14 11 19 15 15 25

F 48 40 50 57 60 51 49 51 48 58 42 50 43 48 42 39 35 37 42 32 34 37 38 46

F 99 55 60 54 46 51 50 55 64 45 46 36 44 37 38 38 25 29 25

A 19 27 33 42 35 41 42 51 35 34 60 45 51 52 57 74 54 48 97

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

CML Supreme Harworth C I Calverton M W Forest Town Ollert on Town Sut ton Town AFC Radcliffe Olympic Newark Town Pinxton Clipst one Welf are Kinsley Boys Yorkshire Main Blidworth Welfare Southwell City Hatfield Main Nettleham Harrowby Ut d Kimberley Town Rolls Royce Leisure

P 26 23 22 23 22 19 22 27 23 24 21 23 22 19 25 28 21 26

W D 16 4 16 3 15 3 14 5 14 3 14 2 13 4 12 3 12 2 8 6 8 5 8 3 7 6 5 4 3 7 4 2 2 5 2 3

L 6 4 4 4 5 3 5 12 9 10 8 12 9 10 15 22 14 21

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CML Premi er Res Southwell City Res Radcliffe Olympic Res Ollert on Town Res Yorkshire Main Res Clipst one Welf are Res Kiveton Park Res Calverton M W Res Newark Town Res Nettleham Res Pinxton Res Bulwell Town Res Church Warsop MW Res

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GD Pts 19 32 19 31 3 26 44 24 7 23 11 22 9 17 -49 12 -28 11 0 10 -18 10 -17 9

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W 15 15 15 14 13 13 10 11 10 9 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 2

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

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W 16 14 11 11 9 9 7 8 8 6 5 6 2 2 1

D 2 0 6 3 4 3 7 3 2 5 6 1 3 0 1

L 2 1 2 9 8 4 5 6 9 9 10 11 9 17 13

F 56 44 47 57 33 45 45 39 28 35 26 28 22 21 8

A 19 11 19 47 36 19 24 28 39 40 36 48 46 76 46

GD Pts 37 50 33 42 28 39 10 36 -3 31 26 30 21 28 11 27 -11 26 -5 23 -10 21 -20 19 -24 9 -55 6 -38 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

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F 68 59 42 54 39 33 45 24 31 35 32 31 28 17 18

A 19 28 35 24 40 30 23 36 26 41 37 45 61 42 69

GD Pts 49 42 31 36 7 29 30 28 -1 28 3 26 22 25 -12 25 5 24 -6 20 -5 19 -14 14 -33 12 -25 11 -51 6

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L 3 4 5 5 6 10 4 10 12 13 11 13 9 10 10 15 15 19

F 62 49 58 59 54 59 55 55 37 44 49 41 46 34 43 36 39 49 29 36 31 35 34 20

F 61 55 43 65 51 49 36 40 49 40 37 38 32 40 28 34 28 14

A 35 31 35 45 36 39 44 36 25 34 35 38 56 49 56 50 42 59 41 42 44 51 60 71

A 24 27 25 38 31 41 20 41 52 41 50 46 47 48 42 52 47 68

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NOTTS OPEN PREMIER POOL LEAGUE - NOTTINGHAM HAVE A SHOCKER AGAINST LEICESTER! KO Cup Semi-Finals Spot On One 4-5 Park Tavern A Greyhound 3-5 Maters KO Plate Semi-Finals Sheriff SC 1-5 Sherwood SC Sun Valley A 5-2 Friar Tuck Premier 1 Spot On One 7-5 Masters Ponda Rileys 6-6 Cherry Tree

Cup For the first time NOPPL changed venue for semi finals night and all 4 matches were contested at the Spot On club in Sneinton.

First out of the hat were new Premier 1 champions Spot On One and they were paired against Steve Hill's Park Tavern A. The Tav got off to a dream start with James Hill beating Steve Hobster and Dave Atherley edging out Wayne Parsonage, though both games could have gone the other way. Liam Stanley fresh from the European championships with England and buoyed by his being retained in the international squad, was paired against the in-form Andy Hind. Before the knife had time to settle into his game the cleaver skewered the Tav into a 3-0 lead. After Chris Rigby took out fellow pro tour player Steve Hotchkiss for 4-0 it looked all over.

Then in true Rocky style but without the theme tune, the comeback was on. Jed Eaton 8-balled John Harvey and a brilliant clearance by Dean Howitt's brother pulled it back to 4-2 by seeing off averages leader John McMahon. Lee Pickard then picked off Leon Hill and an out of form Neil Jones fell to the quick fire pool of Ant McMahon, 4-4.

All other matches had by now finished despite a 15 minute interruption from a floodlight failure on all the other tables so most players turned their attention to the County battle with Notts Manager John Brinkworth paired against Notts 'A' captain Pat Kelley. With so much on it this the game turned into a tactical battle and when Kelley left a window open and a relieved Steve Hill saw his regular first leg player mop up and sink the black to inflict the first defeat of the season on the champions. PTA 5 Spot On One 4.

In the other cup semi, Masters drew Premier 2 side The Greyhound. The match turned out to be a lot tighter than predicted as S. Colledge, S. Blower and Simon Wilson picked up the even legs for the Greyhound after Jay Ward, Bill Rigby and Danny Butler had put Masters ahead each time on the odd legs, 3-3. A shock could have been on the cards, but England youth player Ashley Radford and County B's Neil Kelley took the last 2 and booked a final place on April 10th.

Plate In the battle of the social clubs, Sheriff were drawn against Sherwood in the plate semi and it was Sherwood SC who stormed into a 4-0 lead with wins by three members of the Scarborough family and an 8 ball clearance by Russ Slater. S Gordon pulled on back for Sheriff but it was too little too late as A Renshaw took the sixth leg. 5-1 to Sherwood.

Sun Valley A met Friar Tuck in the other all Prem 2 battle and P Iremonger saw off B Walker to give the Tuck the lead. I.Woodford, Gordon Carnell and Mark Peel took the next three for SVA, then N.Gray pulled it back to 3-2. M Featherstone and P Sims then went on to wrap up the match for Sun Valley A and book their place in the final 5-2.

Premier 1 League matches Two postponed matches were completed during Cup week with the significant match being top of the table clash Spot On One versus Masters. Champions elect stormed into a 5-0 lead before

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In the only Premier One fixture on cup semi final night, 4th placed Ponda-Rileys entertained relegation-haunted Cherry Tree Models. County player Greg Crowson gave a fore-taste of what was to come during this re-arranged fixture dragging out the first frame for his tardy team mates, unfortunately for Greg, Malc Marriot has been grinding games out since before he was born; in fact before most people were born. The match swung pendulumlike with almost every frame early doors; Rileys eventually took a 3-2 lead when Matt Tugby cleared superbly after Glen Yates's inoff the break, only for Tree to take the next 3 legs. Part-time nail and hair models Wyatt and Yates beat Kurdish and the returning Chris Taylor in the pairs. Then the Blackshaw sisters Corey and Gaz disposed of Curtis Bradley and Andy Leese for Tree to lead 3-5. Mark 'Tandoori' Taylor and Dale Mayes took the next pairs with a world class finish from Tandoori. Dale returned to level the scores at 5-5 against Brian 'Mighty' Robinson. Tandoori missed an easy shot for an 8-baller to let Tree Captain Ian 'Body' Owen in, but Gaz Sherwood won the captain's leg for Rileys against Tony Wyatt in the final frame to level the match once again and share the spoils at 6-6.

CITY LEISURE POOL LEAGUE - NO GAMES - TITLE DECIDER CALVERTON & ARNOLD DISTRICT POOL LEAGUE - MAC NEXT WEEK! WIELDS HIS KNIFE! Look out next week with full Report by Anthony Blagg Divison 1 NOTTINGHAM & DISTRICT POOL LEAGUE - TEST MATCH 6-6 Cherry Tree A Balfour Club ROCK MARQUIS OF LORNE! 4-8 Spot On B Ex Service Club 1-11 Victory Club The Eagle Divison 2 Cherry Tree B 3-6 Royal Oak Carlton Liberal Club 5-4 The Longbow Calverton M. W. 4-5 Arnold Liberal Club Spot On B, although fielding a depleted team, continued their 2009 title winning campaign with a straightforward win at Ex Service Club. Just how short they were was highlighted by Supersub Harper getting a second successive game for the first time since 2005 and he took full advantage of his selection by getting his team off to a winning start, thus cementing his place for next week's game against the Vol. Also in the team for next week walked Des Dymock, who's win already gives him nearly as many victories this season as the whole of last and it could now prove to be a close run thing between himself and Lee Shaw for their team averages wooden spoon battle this year. Sadly for Spot On, no shows by Danny Butler and Donut Radford and defeats for Simon Thompson, Nidge Orton and Malc Grocock in the doubles means they're all inevitably axed from Mac's line-up for their forthcoming game. Next week's opposition captain, Trev Chambers offered a quote on the subject, “Tony's tough but he's fair when it comes to captaincy and his selection policy obviously backs this up. You've got to admire the stand he's taking and the strong leadership message it sends to the rest of the team.”

Meanwhile at the Eagle, the Guinness Book Of World Records official representative, who has decided to attend their every game until the losing run comes to an end, added consecutive loss number thirteen to his ever burgeoning notepad. “Three more defeats to beat the Benidorm '83 boys and claim the all time world pool record,” he excitedly commented after their drubbing by new league leaders and now fourth favourites for the title, Victory Club. 8-ballers by still looks 17, Matt Fell and never looked 17, Lee Grant went a long way to securing the easy and expected win.

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Balfour Club and Cherry Tree A fought out a scrappy draw to virtually hand the title on a plate to Spot On B, although ex Balfour captain, Alan Gregory, was more than happy to see former teammate Chris Whittaker move to bottom of the league averages after yet another embarrassing defeat, this time to his long time protégé, Johnny Bradbury. Hotdog was heard to say on the night, “If he'd stayed with us I'd have made him a superstar. I was even thinking of putting him forward for the Interleague team, but now look at him, we're better off with Kevin Bacon!”

In Division Two, veteran, Keith Simm actually won a game to keep his Arnold Liberal Club team in with a chance of relegation from the first division next season after they came out on top of a close battle at Calverton Miners Welfare. The game saw Top Club's Ken Widdowson lose yet again, although this time at least it was not to a girl and it was in the doubles so he could always blame his partner Elsewhere in the Blue Square, Royal Oak moved top with a thrashing of now bottom, Cherry Tree B, where Andy “Behind The Bar” Hayes continued his quest for back to back bottom of the averages titles with yet another defeat and The Longbow opened their campaign with a shock defeat to big Sam's Carlton Liberal Club, where County Junior, Ben Sansom's loss, will give the aforementioned bar manager sleepless nights over his attempts at infamy.

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MONDAY PREMIERSHIP DIVISION – Premiership leaders Marquis of Lorne went down to a shock 6-3 at the Test Match in the Nottingham & District Pool League, Stef Kendal (Test) won two out of two but it was Duncan Hooton (Test) who sealed the points. Second place Ponda went level on points with Marquis at the top of the table after overcoming the Basford Hall Miners Welfare 5-4 at home through Greg Mason (Ponda) in the last leg decider. Third place Masters beat bottom-makers Carlton & District Constitutional Club 5-4 away from home, Paul Wallis (Masters) took the match-winning frame. Fourth place Colonel Burnaby had a tight 5-4 away win at fifth place March Hare, the duo of Dave Watts & Dave Humphreys (Burnaby) did the damage. The Beechdale mathematically guaranteed their topflight survival this season by beating relegation-rivals Commics 6-3 at home, the pairing of Eddie Robinson & Jamie Cole (Beechdale) clinched the match.

MONDAY DIVISION 1 – First division leaders Bank cruised to a fine 8-1 home win over the Phoenix Reds, captain Freddy Mulheron (Bank) confirmed the points. Third place White Lion overcome fourth place Bruno 6-3 at home, the duo of Anthony Raynor & Keith Swain (Lion) sealed the victory. Fifth place Queen Adelaide had a superb 6-3 away win at bottom-makers Hooters through John Robinson (Adelaide) in the sixth leg, the result means that Hooters are now relegated this season. Aram Ashtari's Hubble Bar went from 4-2 down to win 5-4 at home at the Old Volunteer and move out of the relegation zone, thanks to John Banks (Hubble) securing the match in the vital last leg.

MONDAY DIVISION 2 – Second division leaders New Station Road Social Club kept up their 15-match unbeaten run with a cracking 6-3 away win at the Rileys Rockets, county player Matt Coates (Station) winning two out of two. Second place Spot On had a close 5-4 win at relegated bottom-makers Nags Head, Richard Eaton (Spot) made sure of the points. The match between third-placed Gregory at the Top Spot Club was stopped on the night with the score 2-1 to the home team, the reminded of

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MONDAY DIVISION 3 – Bal Patara's Vernon Pitbulls went above the Building Trades Social Club at the top of division three on leg difference without playing due to the Builders losing 5-4 at home to local-rivals Castle Calverton & Arnold District Pool League through Mick Calpin (Castle) in the last leg decider. Third place Coopers Division 1 P W D L F A Pts Arms went down to a 5-4 home defeat by fourth place Nottingham Indoor Bowls Centre, thanks to Jimmy Hill (Bowls) sealing the points in the final 1 Victory Club 2 2 0 0 20 4 4 frame. Fifth place Porchester Arms had a tight 5-4 away win at the Market 2 Spot On B 2 2 0 0 17 7 4 Side, reps shield finalist Rich Buckenham (Arms) taking the match in the 3 Cherry Tree A 2 1 1 0 13 11 2 final leg decider.

4 Balfour Club 2 0 1 1 9 15 1 MONDAY DIVISION 4 – Fourth division leaders Robin Hood sealed promotion with a cracking 6-3 victory at bottom-makers Cavendish United 5 Railway Volunteers 1 0 0 1 5 7 0 with Darren Golding (Hood) getting an eight-baller in the match-winning 6 Ex Service Club 1 0 0 1 4 8 0 frame. Second place Grey Goose had a brilliant 5-4 away win at promotion7 The Eagle 2 0 0 2 4 20 0 rivals Spot On Misfits through Brian Ward (Goose) in the vital last leg. Fifth place Park Tavern won 5-4 at home to the Carlton Charile's, Alan Martin Division 2 P W D L F A Pts (Tavern) confirmed the points.

1 Royal Oak 2 2 0 0 11 7 4 MONDAY DIVISION 5 – Fifth division leaders Mad Rabbit overcome fifth 2 Arnold Liberal Club 2 2 0 0 10 8 4 place Headstocks Headers 5-4 away from home through Shaun Farrar 3 Major Oak 1 1 0 0 7 2 2 (Rabbit) in the final frame. Second place Lord Nelson beat bottom-makers Riverway 6-3 at home, Peter Godber (Nelson) winning two out of two. The 4 Carlton Liberal Club 2 1 0 1 9 9 2 Lamp won for the second week running to move off the bottom of the table 5 The Longbow 1 0 0 1 4 5 0 with a tight 5-4 home win over third place Pride of Erin, thanks to landlady 6 Calverton M. W. 2 0 0 2 8 10 0 Viv Murden (Lamp) taking the match in the deciding frame.

THURSDAY DIVISION 1 – Super 7's first division leaders Hubble Bar 7 Cherry Tree B 2 0 0 2 5 13 0 stayed on course for a league & cup double after beating fifth place Fairway 6-3 away from home. Second place Colonel Burnaby had a close 5-4 away Notts Open Premier Pool League win at third place Rileys Rockets through Criag Hudson (Burnaby) in the Prem 1 P W D L F A Pts last leg decider. Fourth place Mad Rabbit beat the Pheasant Inn 5-4 at 1 Spot On One 10 9 1 0 82 38 19 home, captain Stefan Lewis (Rabbit) secured the points. The Vernon 2 Masters 11 7 1 3 78 54 15 Bullets cruised to an 8-1 home win over relegated bottom-makers Nottm 3 Park Tavern A 10 6 1 3 72 48 13 Irish Centre, Jerry Barnett (Vernon) doing the damage.

4 Ponda at Rileys 11 5 1 5 61 71 11 THURSDAY DIVISION 2 – Super 7's second division leaders March Hare secured promotion after coming from 3-0 down to win 6-3 at third place 5 Royal Oak 10 3 0 7 51 69 6 Queen Adelaide, county player Jason Ward (Hare) made sure of the points.

6 Cherry Tree 12 2 2 8 58 86 6 Second place Marquis of Lorne also sealed promotion next season despite 7 Spot On Sneinton 10 1 2 7 42 78 4 losing 5-4 at local-rivals Cricket Players. Fourth place Greyfriars Club Prem 2 P W D L F A Pts produced the performance of the week by winning 8-1 at the Tally Ho with 1 Greyhound 10 7 1 2 70 50 15 Sam Masterton (Greyfriars) getting an eight-baller. Martyn Keeton's 2 Friar Tuck 10 7 0 3 73 47 14 Westdale Tavern had a cracking 6-3 win at the New Wolds, Martin Burrows 3 Park Tav Langham 10 3 4 3 61 59 10 (Westdale) clinched the match.

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Games played Monday 2nd March MONDAY - WR PREMIERSHIP DIVISION Ponda 5-4 Basford Hall M.W March Hare 4-5 Colonel Burnaby Test Match 6-3 Marquis of Lorne Beechdale 6-3 Commics Carlton & Dist.C.C 4-5 The Masters MONDAY - EPA DIVISION 1 Hooters 3-6 Queen Adelaide Bank 8-1 Phoenix Reds Hubble Bar 5-4 Old Volunteer White Lion 6-3 Bruno MONDAY - EPA DIVISION 2 Rileys Rockets 3-6 New Station Rd S.C L.M.R.C.A Rockets 3-6 Oakdale Jolly Farmers 6-3 Sycamore Inn Nags Head 4-5 Spot On Top Spt Club A-A Gregory MONDAY - EPA DIVISION 3 Market Side 4-5 Porchester Arms Building Trades S.C 4-5 Castle Coopers Arms 4-5 Nottm Indoor Bowls MONDAY - EPA DIVISION 4 Spot On Misfits 4-5 Grey Goose Park Tavern 5-4 Carlton Charlie's Cavendish United 3-6 Robin Hood MONDAY - EPA DIVISION 5 Headstocks Headers 4-5 Mad Rabbit Lord Nelson 6-3 Riverway Lamp 5-4 Pride of Erin Games played Thursday 4th March THURSDAY - EPA DIVISION 1 Mad Rabbit 5-4 Pheasant Inn Vernon Bullets 8-1 Nottm Irish Centre Fairway 3-6 Hubble Bar Rileys Rockets 4-5 Colonel Burnaby THURSDAY - EPA DIVISION 2 Queen Adelaide 3-6 March Hare Tally Ho 1-8 Greyfriars Club New Wolds 3-6 Westdale Tavern Cricket Players 5-4 Marquis of Lorne Division A

Chequers Allstars Jolly Anglers Queens B Victory Club B Division B Birchover SC A Cricketers B Hillside Jaguar Division C Prince of Wales Riverside Boat & Horses Pelican A

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With 3 of the top 5 league leaders on 4 games left and the others on 3 its still anybody's title as the season finale approaches. Commercial hold the league on legs and a game in hand as they all table up to each other over the next four weeks, should prove a gripping climax. Jaguar are in strong contention of the div B title of division B with just having to win against Sherwin this week to clinch it, but, knowing Sherwin, that wont be an easy task. A battle for either winners, if Jag lose, or runners up slot is between Cricks A and Hillside with the Hillside being a game in hand. Division C has Nook and Pelican battling it out in the promotion zone with just one match left this week and a 2 leg difference separating them. Riverside could well upset the applecart with a good win that could push both Nook and Pelican A's noses right out of the occasion.

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Beeston Chilwell & West Notts Pool Leagues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Division A Commercial Victory Club A Victory Club B Jolly Anglers Queens B Chequers Allstars Star Chequers Robin Hoods

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Division B Jaguar Cricketers A Hillside Queens A Birchover SC A Sherwin Arms Cricketers B Pelican B

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BCI 'A' Masters SC Top Spot Sherwood SC 'D'

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Nottingham Forest SSC Sherwood SC 'B' BCI 'C' Ruddington CC

DIVISION 1 BCI 'A' stay top of the division after a 3-2 win at Sherwood SC 'A'. A 31 clearance helped Jason Bettridge take the first frame against Lee Crombie 62-45. Wayne Martin took the second frame with an 85-36 win against Jason Turner. Ant Scarborough took the third frame, beating Hanson Stowe 7730. A close fourth frame saw Brendon Murtagh take the frame on the black ball from Steve Coleman 56-50. Only 13 points separated the teams to give BCI 'A' the win. City Hospital LC remain in second place despite not having a match this week.

Sherwood SC 'A' are joined in third spot by BCI 'E' who had a close 3-2 win at home to Top Spot. Top Spot drop to fifth place after this defeat. Carlton LC remain in sixth place, but are closing the gap on the teams above them after a 4-1 win against Sherwood SC 'D. Danny Di Folco got Carlton off to a winning start against Gareth Evans despite a good 28 break from Evans. Di Folco winning 62-46. Bob Walker then moved Carlton further ahead with a 119-33 win over Andy Fitton. This win included breaks of 32 and 24, and also a lot of snookers and foul shots from Fitton. Andy Ball made it 3-0 to Carlton when he demolished Les Smith 84-20. Smith conceding the frame with 25 points left on the table. Bob Wright had a lesson in playing doubles by his opponent Kev Smith. Smith potting an excellent pink to take the frame 63-32. Spot On (Hucknall) move to seventh place after a 4-1 win against bottom club Masters SC. Graham Turnbull getting Spot On off to a flyer by beating Nigel Bradford 88-51, which included a 42 break from Turnbull. John took the second frame 57-50 against James Robinson. Tim Hudson made it 3-0 by beating Eric Towle 60-

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N.N.I.A Division 1 BCI Snooker Centre 'A' City Hospital Leisure Centre BCI Snooker Centre 'E' Sherwood Social Club 'A' Top Spot Carlton Liberal Club Spot On Hucknall Sherwood Social Club 'D' Masters Snooker Club N.N.I.A Division 2 BCI Snooker Centre 'B' Spot On Sneinton Oakleigh Lodge Social Club BCI Snooker Centre 'C' Mapperley Community Centre Ruddington Conservative Club Sherwood Social Club 'B' Nottingham Forest SSC

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37, Towle having a 19 break in this frame. Paul Bell won a superb frame in which he had a 26 break. His opponent Adam Goodall potted the final black only to go in-off handing the frame to Bell.

DIVISION 2 BCI 'B' forge ahead in the division with a double header against Nottingham Forest SSC. BCI 'B' winning both matches 5-0. In the scheduled match Neil Elliott beat Jason 68-20, Toby Irons had a close win against Harvey Pabla 51-49, Mick Salmon beat William 75-32 and Ian Dawson completed the rout with an 86-12 win over Keiron. In the re-arranged match Neil Elliott beat Harvey Pabla 71-31, Toby Irons beat Jason 52-38, Mick Salmon beat William 72-14 and Ian Dawson won 82-21 over Keiron.

Report by Robert Wright

NAZARETH HOUSE SNOOKER LEAGUE - BEESTON SNOOKER HALL MAKE IT TO THE FINAL! KNOCKOUT CUP Sherwood Social Club Beeston Snooker Hall KNOCKOUT PLATE The Peoples Hall Arnold Civil Defence “B”

bt Mapperley Com Centre bt Cotgrave Welfare

KNOCKOUT CUP SEMI-FINALS Beeston Snooker Hall have reached the final of the Knockout Cup in their debut season after they defeated BCI Snooker Centre “A” by 238 points. At BCI Jason Bettridge put the home team 30 points ahead with a win over Shane Kidd. Tony Collins and Tom Walters drew 41-41. Beeston's Chris Hodgkinson had previously won only twice all season but he had a fantastic 68-28 win against Neil Elliot to give Beeston a 10 point lead. In the pairs, Bettridge and Collins beat Kidd and Walters 53-39 to give BCI a narrow 4 point lead to take into the Beeston leg. At Beeston, Andy Spicer beat Kwok Yip 104-35 to give Beeston a healthy 65 point lead. Wayne Martin reduced the deficit to 47 points with a good win over Neil Jones but Clint I'Anson effectively ended BCI's hopes with a 93-36 win against Jon Mason which put Beeston 114 points in front including their +10 point handicap. The pairing of Martin and Sam Haugh took on Jones and I'Anson hoping for a miracle.

Sadly it failed to materialise and the frame was conceded with 5 reds gone and the Beeston pair 17 points in front.

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Nazareth House Division 1 Arnold Civil Defence "A" The Peoples Hall BCI Snooker Centre "A" Pegasus Snooker Club Beeston Snooker Hall Stadium Leisure Cotgrave Welfare Arnold Civil Defence "B"

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Nazareth House Division 2 Sherwood Social Club Mapperley Community Centre BCI Snooker Centre "B" Phoenix Cue Sports Lenton Liberal Club Oakleigh Lodge Social Club Wollaton Royal British Legion City Hospital Leisure Centre

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Darts Beeston Chilwell & District Men's Division A Wollaton SC 4 5 Boat (Lenton) Birchover SSC 2 6 Queens Jaguar 8 1 Pelican Boat & Horses A 6 3 Charlton Arms Division B Nags Head 3 6 Festival Chequers 7 2 Nottingham Uni Victory Club 5 4 Boat & Horses B Beeston Chilwell & Dist. Ladies Ind' Boat & Horses 3 4 Hop Pole Birchover SC 3 4 Chequers Jaguar 2 5 Boat (Lenton) Pelican 4 3 Queens Nottm Central Mens Division A Arnold Lab. Club 5 4 Pear Tree Clifton Com Cen 2 7 Duke Of Camb Oakleigh Lodge 4 5 Clifton Welfare Bestwood Rd SC 2 7 Beechdale Park Tavern 6 3 Queens Hotel Division B Clifton Bridge 7 2 Nags Head White Lion 6 3 Poets Corner Grey Goose 4 5 Madhouse Horse & Jockey 4 5 Boat & Horses

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L 1 3 3 2 6 9 12 17

Arnold Civil Defence “A” struggled to find the form they are capable of as they crashed out to second division leaders Sherwood Social Club. At Arnold, Chris Winter beat Gareth Evans, Gary Spencer beat Paul Bell and James Notman beat Mick Salton. Winter and Spencer then went on to beat Evans and Les Smith in the pairs however all the frames were very close which was no good for Arnold as they were conceding 80 points start to Sherwood. At Sherwood, Malc Belshaw beat Lee Crombie but Brian Kinton and John Fountain both lost heavily. In the pairs Belshaw and Fountain beat Crombie and Scarborough but it wasn't enough to avoid defeat.

KNOCKOUT PLATE SEMI-FINALS Mapperley Community Centre received 120 points start against The Peoples Hall but it wasn't enough to prevent the Heathcoat Street club winning the match by 108 points. At Mapperley, Chris Wright lost to Nav Hussain 37-62 and Chris Starr lost to Yas Abbas 47-58, however Geoff Merry beat Zed Zubair 64-61. In the pairs, Wright and Merry suffered a heavy 99 point defeat against Hussain and Zubair. The damage was done by Hussain who had breaks of 22 and 67. At Peoples Hall, Zeb Ahmed lost 35-66 to Don Merry but Naser Hussain beat Doug Bough 80-25 and John Marshall beat Andy Carnell 66-32. Hussain and Marshall sealed victory for The Peoples Hall with a 60-22 win against Bough and Carnell.

There was a nailbiting finish at Arnold Civil Defence as the club's “B” team defeated Cotgrave Welfare by just 7 points. At Cotgrave, Anthony McMahon beat Alan Cunningham by 15 points and Harry Briody beat Stan Candler by 17 points but Andy Nichols reduced Arnold's deficit to just 4 points with a good win against Billy Johnson. The pairing of Briody and John Cyrek then beat Cunningham and Candler by 33 points to give Cotgrave a 37 point lead going into the Arnold leg. At Arnold, Sean Kelly had a great win against Phil Foster 72-29 and Kirk Wesselby defeated Chris King 53-36, giving Arnold an overall 23 point lead. Colin Armstrong restored Cotgrave's lead as he beat Pete Ellins 85-27. Cotgrave now led by 35 points going into the final pairs frame which saw Kelly and Wesselby take on Foster and Armstrong. The Cotgrave pair maintained the lead until Wesselby potted the yellow, green and brown. The blue was sunk and Wesselby played a tremendous cut on the pink to level the scores. He then faced a pressure cut on the black into the corner bag which he nailed to secure Arnold's place in the final.

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BEESTON CHILWELL & DISTRICT DARTS CHEQUERS DEFEAT BIRCHOVER! LADIES INDEPENDENT: Just when I thought it impossible for the pace to get even hotter at the top of the league it boils over as Birchover squared up to close rivals the Chequers on home soil and double trouble forced them into an immediate 3-0 deficit, but these gals knew all was at stake and fought back brilliantly to level the match to 3-3 All three of the Birchover 'pull back' gals played blinders of a game, all under pressure, with the lowest being a 100+ in front as she finished. Lady of the match had to be Rachel Webster who hit her double leaving her opponent still wanting 200+. Yet again the pressure was faced as both sides threw for doubles before the Chequers finally took the match 4-3 with a double one. League leaders, Boat & Horses faced a similar dilemma against the Hop Pole as they went 2-0 down at the start but made their comeback levelling the match 2-2. But the Hop Pole proved the stronger side on the night with their finishes as double trouble caused the Boat & Horses to lose the next two legs despite being on a finish first. B & H did manage to pull a leg back in the last but double trouble cost them dearly as Hop Pole took the game 4-3. The top slot is still wide open as the

last legs are played over the next two weeks with Birchover having a game in hand. Pelican are also a game in hand and can still cause a lot of trouble as they attempt a final dash at the top.

MEN'S: Into the final of the Men's league Cup are Queens and Boat & Horses. The same two teams got through into the Jubilee Cup Final also with the Queens mainly thanks to the only Maximum checkout across the league this season with a staggering 170 from Landlord Wayne Hayes. With just 2 matches left in Div A its cut and dry for Boat &Horses A, who take the league championship. Birchover's dismal turnout of players' last match against Queens totally forced them out of the running. Div B has a two horse race between the Chequers and the Nook with just 2 points separating them as they square up to a face off in the last match in three weeks time.

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LADIES: With just 4 matches left the Pride are looking to hang on to their advantage with no fewer than 3 teams snapping at heel all of them a level 6 points behind with 8 points for the taking and a possible 10 for Strelley who have a game in hand. Pride face a tough battle as they have to square up to at least two of their close rivals over the next four weeks. Although Tavern and Nuthall seem

Darts Tables to be dominating div B there is still scope for Sun Valley and Chase to make those arrows count.

MIXED: No matches this week as the Pairs quarters 1 took place with P & J Boyd (Camb), A. Woodward & P. 2 Glancy (Camb), R. Flintoff & D. Alls (Camb) and J. 3 4 Wheeldon & R. Bloomfield (Madhouse) all through to 5 the semis.

6 MEN'S: Again almost a 2 horse race in the 7 championships between Queens and Beechdale but 8 the Park Tavern are determined to give the duo a run as they take down the Queens in a brilliant 6-3 victory showing grit as they face the last 4 matches. Div B still has the top three battling as Madhouse take the 1 advantage of Birchover's Bye to slide into second, but 2 3 Birchover still have that game in hand advantage.

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GMB Panthers 4 Sheffield Steelers 2 A crowd of over seven thousand witnessed a fabulous game on Saturday night. After the tribute to Dave Page the action started at a blistering pace which was maintained from start to finish. Johan Molin's goal seperated the sides at the first break. Steelers were at full strength, Nottingham were still missing Matthew Myers, Dan Tessier and David Clarke. Jimmy Ferrara's tip in from Ed Hill doubled the lead but Steve Munn squeezed one back. On the powerplay Johan Molin restored the two goal cusion at 32.45 and Brendan Cook squeezed one home on his own rebound for a 4-1 scoreline at 46.39.

With six and half minutes to go Steelers captain Phillips tried to get something going but came up short in a scrap with Corey Neilson. At the next face-off Sharp was sent on for his only shift of the game but Ityorumun Ndur was in no mood to let things slip and they too picked up five minute fighting penalties. Cruickshank's tip in, in the 57th minute, proved no more than a consolation and the 4-2 final scoreline meant Sheffield may be 'Number One' over the season but they were 'Number Two' on an emotional night in Nottingham. Elsewhere Edinburgh opened up a three point gap on Hull in the last play-off spot. Capitals beat Newcastle (9-2) while Stingrays went down to a late goal flurry at home to Manchester (1-6). Meanwhile Coventry's win at Basingstoke (2-4) means Sheffield are still two wins away (mathematically) from the title.

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Basingstoke Bison 2 GMB Panthers 7 GMB Panthers followed up Saturday's home win with a 27 success at Basingstoke on Sunday. Bison's 23rd loss in a row. Two goals each for Marc Levers, Bruce Richardson and Mark Richardson plus a further strike from coach Corey Neilson wrapped up a comfortable victory, backstopped by Geoff Woolhouse in nets. Coach said afterwards : "Geoff had a good game for us and his opposite number Reiter was outstanding again for the Bison. There weren't many people in the building and we had a low spell in the second, I think the lack of atmosphere got to the guys but I reminded them of their responsibilities in the second break and the third period was back to normal service."

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Corky looks in amazement at Dan’s ball handling Pilgrim made the final break, and would have scored but for an ankle tap, but Corcoran was up Nottingham 95 in support and took the ball on to crash over the line, with Taylor again adding the conversion for a Otley 5 14-nil lead inside eight minutes. Perhaps it was a lapse in concentration but Otley's first attack brought them what proved to be their only score, although at the time the worry was that that may not be the case such was the ease with which which they cut through to create a two on one overlap down the right, full back Ian Shuttleworth Thirteen tries tell their own story of this one sided game crossing the line. But Nottingham were straight as records tumbled all over the place. Otley were back on the attack to force a penalty for Taylor to simply no match for the rampant Green and Whites, make it 17-5. And they followed that up with a try who rattled up their biggest win in any competition. for skipper Craig Hammond. Again it was Pilgrim Ashley Elphinston almost scored from the opening who made the break, with Andy Savage switching attack as the forwards drove from the first lineout. He the direction of the attack to send Hammo in, was held up, but Tim Taylor followed up and also went Taylor making it 24-5 with an easy conversion. close before sending the ball out left, where quick Another penalty from Taylor opened up a 22 point hands from Adam Corcoran put Elphinston in to open lead before Savage took a perfectly timed pass the scoring. Taylor added the conversion for a 7-nil from Tim Molenaar to secure the bonus point on lead. The next attack brought a second try. Chris the stroke of half time. Taylor's conversion made it 34-5 at the break. Two tries in quick succession from Rohaan Nirmalendran at the start of the second half came in almost identical circumstances. First it was prop Robbie

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Harris who broke out of defence before drawing the last defender and sending Rohaan clear.

Minutes later Molenaar was the provider and with Taylor on target with both conversions the Green and Whites were heading for the fifty point mark.

They passed that landmark as Dan Montagu crossed twice in the space of four minutes, Taylor having a field day with the boot to make it 62-5 with two more conversions. As if he hadn't done enough Taylor then broke through for a touch down to cap his Man-of-the-Match performance and, you guessed it, finished it off with the conversion. David Jackson then broke through, and took over the kicking duties to make it 76-5, followed a minutes later by a clever piece of wrong-footing from replacement Jack Cobden, with Jacko again converting to make it 81-5. As the record books were brushed down Ian Nimmo capped another very impressive performance with a try, again converted by Jacko, before the skipper rounded off the scoring, Jacko slotting over the final conversion of the day to make it 95-5. The crowd bayed for the ton, and many a memory went back to a certain game at Coundon Road involving a nail and the scoreboard, but it wasn't to be. And all things considered, that was probably a good thing.

Name: Neil Fowkes Team: Nottingham Rugby Nickname: Fowkesy or Dr Fox Age: 28 Job: Lecturer and Rugby Coach at South Nottingham College Position: Loose Head Prop Previous clubs: None Supports: Nottingham Forest Rugby hero: Sean Fitzpatrick. I know he's a kiwi but he was awesome for the All Blacks and a real inspiration.

Biggest influence: None Best sporting moment: Watching England win the Rugby World Cup Final in 20003 with a house full of Kiwi's is probably my best sporting moment. The bitterness was unreal!

Funniest rugby memory: Watching Joe Duffey run half the length of the pitch at Esher to score a try, making his point to the Esher crowd as he did it!

Worst rugby memory: Standing on the pitch at Stourbridge waiting half an hour for the result from another game to see if we were safe from relegation from division 2. It turned out well though. We stayed up by points difference!

Best trainer: Craig Hammond the skipper always trains hard and sets the standard for the boys.

Worst trainer: Andrea "silky" Savage is proably one of the worst trainers. The less he does the better he seems to play!

Worst haircut: Hammo (Craig Hammond) has had some pretty bad styles in his time, including a David Hasselhoff perm! Jacko (David Jackson) had a great mullet for a time. But I think I will go with Monty (Daniel Montagu) and Morlo (Lee Morley) for their

peroxide blonde efforts earlier this year!

Worst dressed: Definitely Monty. He has some strange ideas about fashion.

Team jokers: Tim Ussaz is probably the biggest joker in the team. He is always the first one on the mic with a story on the way back from away games. They're usually about Monty!

Pre-match ritual: I have to fold my socks over so they match perfectlyand all the logos match up!

Toughest opponent: Probably the whole Viadna pack from 2001. We played them on a pre-season tour to Italy and the game was probably the toughest physicaly I had ever played at 20 years old.

Best team played against: Bristol in our first year of Divison 1. They seemed to be playing a different game from us! We got our first point of the season against them though! Albeit a losing bonus point.

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