Sport

Goulding’s Gold

The Fly Fishers made the short trip over the Hampshire border to Holbury Lakes near Romsey. These lakes are set in beautiful countryside which was set off by some lovely sunshine. The start was slow and anglers were wary of the strong sunlight in increasing temperatures. While this made for some difficult sighting, the lakes fished very well in spite of the conditions. Fish fell mainly to smaller flies with imitative patterns proving most successful. Dougie Goulding took first place with a 4 fish bag of 10lbs 15 ozs. John Belk took the biggest fish and the bottle of scotch. John’s fish tipping the scales at 3lbs 6ozs. Well Done both!

Pictured: Dougie Goulding with one of his winning rainbows.

Town end pre-season on a high

Ringwood Town rounded off their pre-season fixtures with a 62 win over Bournemouth Sports. They completed their pre-season preparations with the convincing victory on Saturday, with first team boss Richard Morse ‘confident’ his team will be okay come this Saturday’s league opener against Millbrook. With a total of eight pre-season friendlies under their belts, the Town have had a mixed set of results, losing five and winning three, but more importantly Morse has had the opportunity to bed in a host of new players ahead of the new campaign. It started well for Ringwood at Chapel Gate, with one of the club’s latest additions scoring a wonderful free kick from 20 yards out. Joss Holford put Morse’s side 1-0 up but disappointingly the team went into half-time 2-1 down. A few choice words were said during the break and the Town came out firing, scoring minutes into the second half as Bournemouth Sports turned the ball into their own net to level the tie at 2-2. Another new signing found his way onto the scoresheet soon after. Harry Smith finished from close range after Harrison Fay’s cross found the striker in the box, putting Ringwood ahead. The goals then kept coming in a dominant second half performance with another own goal before club stalwart Ben Harris rifled in a superb effort from 20 yards. Finally, Smith claimed his second goal of the match to round off the goal-fest the striker’s second brace in three games – with Morse declaring it “was a good result in the end” even though they had “started poorly”. Saturday’s result rounds off preseason on a positive note after a disappointing result earlier in the week to Bournemouth FC with the club losing 5-1. The only positive was Joss Holford’s goal – the midfielder’s free-kick against Bournemouth Sports makes it two-in-two for another one of the club’s new signings. After losing prolific striker Ryan Hamm to Bashley and Shaun Prentice to Downton it is great news that the new blood have started to contribute goals. Victory over Bisterne last weekend saw James Matthews grab a goal. Smith claimed his first brace as Ringwood ran out 4-1 winners in a game they controlled throughout. Current under 23’s player with a bright futureJoe Sparks added to the goals at The Warren. A home tie against Stoneham ended in a 3-0 defeat on July 20 largely down to the small squad. There have been some other notable departures – goalkeepers Liam Harris and Nick Harvey –but Ed Kitcher and Sam “The Cocktail King” Reilly have been brought in. Captain Ryan Osman has also left the club, along with winger Adam Riley but defender Brad Smith – just 17 – has impressed at the back so far with midfielder Liam Roberts and leftback Jack Knight having also been brought in. Some key players have been retained –Harrison Fay, Ben Harris, Joe Manley and Tommy Hughes. There are high hopes around the Lane this season and with so many new additions, along with the new redevelopment of the ground and training facilities it is an exciting time for the club with promotion to the Wessex Premier League the target for this campaign. Up the Town!

Youngsters triumph

Possibly the busiest weekend of the year so far saw Wimborne athletes compete at the South West Championships at Exeter, join other local clubs in Team Dorset in a league fixture at Kings Park and compete against some of the biggest Wessex Young Athletics League teams in a club match in Swindon. Harry Woods was back on song after a disappointing English Schools, roaring back to win the South West Championships under 15 long jump title with 5m47 – only 1cm short of his personal best. Ben Butcher won the under 20s triple jump with 13m14 and there were silver medals for Lauren Hill 11m20 in the under 17s triple jump and Toby Hiller 6m49 in the Under 20s long jump. Wimborne athletes contributed to a second place for Team Dorset in the UK Young Athletes League at Kings Park. Star turn was Lola Sainsbury, who like Harry Woods had a challenging time at the English Schools. Her under 15 shot putt of 10.15 was a grade 1 standard. Harry was there as well and won his long jump with 5m37. Freya Blundell is going great guns at the moment contributing a winning 12.9 in the 100 metres and 26.8 in the 200. Finlay Carvell won the under 13 75 metres in 10.1 a new club record. Newcomer Ruby Walsh jumped 4m 74 for second in the under 15 girls long jump and there were second places for Tom Williams 2.12.7 in the 800 metres and brother Jack 1m65 in the high jump. The club match saw Quadkids second only to home side Swindon Harriers. Ava Elliott Smith cracked another club record with her winning 3m88 in the long jump. She was fourth overall with newcomer Isabelle Roberts in fifth. Elliott Trickey was joint winner overall of both the 75m and the 600m and he tied for second place overall. Swindon 1704 2) Wimborne 1649 3) Southampton 1368) Basingstoke 1339 5) Newbury 1232 6) Salisbury 269