CUMBERLAND skipper Marcus Sharp did his best to contrive a chance of victory against Norfolk in their Minor Counties Championship match this week, but a disappointing batting effort ended in a 72-run defeat. Rain plagued the three-day fixture at Norwich
KENDAL will contest the final of the Thwaites Cumbria Cup after a 52-run victory over Cockermouth at Shap Road on Sunday. Barrow were due to play Cleator this Thursday in the last quarter-final, with Appleby set to meet the winners in the other semi-final
KENDAL'S professional Kabir Khan returned his best bowling figures of the season with a magnificent 7-15 on Saturday despite a headache which forced him out of the attack after half a dozen overs. Hay-fever sufferer Khan had bowled despite a battling
GRAHAME Clarke saluted the warm applause with real feeling after marking the arrival of his 40th birthday this week with a boundary-blitzing 101 at Parkside Road on Saturday. Clarke's ton helped to sweep Netherfield to a comfortable nine-wicket win
KENDAL Rugby Club have a new president for the Centenary season. He is Raymond Lee, who was elected to office at the club's annual meeting and takes over from John King, who steps down after two years in office. Mr Lee is a past First XV captain, and
A LEOPARD-skin G-string cannot be comfortable wear for a seven-hour game of cricket in 20-degree heat, but more of that later, writes Kendal CC's Dave Fallows. A maximum 15 league points away to Barrow last Saturday, and a comprehensive Cumbria Cup semi-final
FOURTEEN 17-foot class yachts started in a gentle south basin breeze for the Royal Windermere Yacht Club's Scott Wordsworth and CB Hall Cups. Early leaders were Gay Crossley's Whisper, Les Gorton's Snark, Jim Schwerdt's Tissie, James Baron's Mistral
CARTMEL Valley Lions Baseball Club's Rookies team won at the 2005 Frank Caunce tournament (North West Championships), giving the club the title for the third time in four years. The CV Rookies or Tee-Ball team, who are coached by Russell Kay, play a
TITLE hopefuls Millom were crushed by seven-wickets as Cleator took over the lead in the Thwaites North Lancashire and Cumbria Cricket League Premier Division. Put in to bat, Millom were dismissed for 162 as Cumberland pace bowler, the Cleator captain
CUMBERLAND and Westmorland Wrestling is proving to be a young man's sport this season, with a new generation dominating the results, writes Roger Robson. Six years ago Richard Dixon was virtually unbeaten throughout a season in the Under-12 Years, despite
SEVEN UP scored its first win of the season at Longsleddale, the only local meeting held during the past week. Alec and Jackie Steele's Skelsmergh-based hound had been prominent throughout and moved through smoothly in the closing stages to take the
As the Kendal and District Tennis League season reaches its conclusion, very few of the titles have been decided yet, but Windermere are hoping to achieve the double. Mixed Division One remains a two-horse race between defending champions Heversham and
Arnside...157-9 Silverdale...157 TIES are few and far between in the Westmorland League, but Arnside and Silverdale contrived to serve one up on Saturday. Put in to bat, Arnside lost an early wicket before Ian Bullough became the second to depart
Kendal C. CAMPBELL (71-7=66) won the Atkinson Trophy after a card play-off with N. Bone (67-3=64). Other placings: 3 M. Marshall 71-6=65; 4 T. Hudson 75-10=65; B. Waller 69-4=65.Best gross: R. Garnett 72. Invitiation Day Stableford: 1 J. Marsden &
STAR man Lee Ashcroft should be back in action for next Tuesday's home match against Gretna, says Kendal Town boss Tony Hesketh, but leading scorer Kenny Mayers will miss the first few matches of the season. Despite being without those two key players
Kendal Town...0, Morecambe 1 A GIVE-AWAY goal eight minutes into the match took the gloss off an otherwise workmanlike performance by Town, who held their own against their Conference League visitors, writes Dennis Aris. In the seventh minute Town
KIRKBY Lonsdale Rugby Club mini, youth and colts section is planning further development, making it the leader in Cumbria in this area of the sport. The club has just achieved the second level in the Rugby Football Union's Seal of Approval Scheme
SEVENTEEN-year-old Jonathan Pryke, formally a member of Westmorland Triathletes, has been selected as a member of the TRI UK Gatorade Triathlon Team and will compete in a series of national and international races throughout the 2005 season. In 2004,
KENDAL Town Football Club continue their pre-season build-up with the Len Close Memorial match at home to Gretna on Tuesday evening. Mr Close was closely connected with Town and his twin sons Jamie and Richard appeared for both clubs during their playing
