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Have a ball at croquet club

Darley Dale Croquet Club is holding a social day this Sunday between 2pm and 5pm in Whitworth Park.

Matlock Town manager Mark Atkins.

Tough tests for the Gladiators

At least three Football League clubs will be visiting the Reynolds Stadium to provide Matlock Town with testing and attractive opposition in the lead-up to the 2012-2013 Evo-Stik NPL Premier Division season, which starts on Saturday, August 18.

Ashford fight hard in losing cause

Sheffield Civil Service 1st XI 125–8 (25pts) beat Ashford in the Water 1st XI 124 all out (7pts) by 2 wickets

Good day for club’s lady riders

MATLOCK Cycling Club members Emma Martin and Marianne Heffron entered the Stilettos on Wheels women-only MTB event at Birchall in Dronfield on Saturday.

New squad for swimmers

A LARGE number of swimmers from Matlock & District Swimming Club raced on Saturday in an A-grade home meet that was also attended by visiting teams from Derby Phoenix and Ilkeston.

Football rss

Wirksworth Colts ladies team 2011-2012 season.

Colts out in force to celebrate season

Over 700 people recently attended the Wirksworth Colts presentation evening, held jointly in the Wirksworth Leisure Centre and Anthony Gell School, and watched players from 22 squads receive their trophies.

Wirksworth Colts Girls u11s

Girls are up for the cup

Wirksworth Colts Girls 11s 5

Team Effort: The newly formed Hurst Farm United, pictured before their match against AFC Lea and Holloway.

United lift the shield to end first season on high

HURST Farm United rounded off their first-ever season in fine style by beating Wirksworth Albion 5-1 to lift the Matlock and District Football League’s Invitation Shield.

Winster Wasp, in the Roden Cup final

Wasps to hold a fundraising night

BASLOW may have beaten them 3-1 in the final of last week’s Roden Cup, but for Winster Wasps this has been a season of real progress on the pitch.

Cromford hit top form

Sherwood Vets 2

Rugby rss

Jonny Bunting

Good season ends with cup final loss

SUNDAY’S 30-14 Derbyshire Cup final defeat in the mud at Ilkeston provided a rather downbeat end to Matlock’s season but first team coach Alan Johnson was still able to reflect positively on the campaign.

Minis take it to the max

THE tenth annual Matlock Rugby Club Mini Festival continues to draw competitors from far and wide and will be held this year at the club’s Cromford Meadows home on Sunday, April 29.

Clean Sweep: The six Lady Manners School rugby teams, pictured with their trophies after a clean sweep of victories in the finals of the Derbyshire County Championships.

A clean sweep for school rugby teams

History has been made at Lady Manners School in Bakewell with all six rugby teams – under 12s, under 13s, under 14s, under 15s, under 16s and 1st XV – winning their respective Derbyshire County Championship titles.

Bakewell bow out with win

West Bridgford 17

Cricket rss

First defeat for Ashford

Ashford-in-the-water suffered their first defeat of the season after electing to bat first on a drying wicket at home to Grindleford.

Darley bounce back in emphatic style

Darley Dale 1sts entertained top-of-the-table Riddings 1sts at Station Road on Saturday in a Derbyshire County League Division 4N game sponsored by Longcliffe Quarries.

Losper wickets in vain as Cromford miss out

CROMFORD Meadows 1sts lost by 123 runs on Saturday at Nutbrook in Division 6N of the Derbyshire County League.

Skipper Pell hails side’s ‘perfect performance’

MATLOCK CC 1sts recorded their first Derbyshire County League Division One victory of the season on Saturday with a display described by captain Steve Pell as ‘just about the perfect performance’.

Expect the unexpected

the weather might not have been conducive to cricket recently but the competition in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Cricket League is expected to be as hot as ever this season.

National Sport rss

Doha and Baku out of running for 2020

The cities of Doha and Baku have been cut from the list of candidates to stage the 2020 Olympic Games.

Westfield appeals spot-fix conviction

The first county cricketer in England to be prosecuted for spot-fixing launches a challenge against his conviction.

Pietersen fined over Knight comments

England batsman Kevin Pietersen has been fined for comments made on Twitter about Sky television commentator Nick Knight.

Parker trains despite injury

England midfielder Scott Parker took part in the opening training session of the Roy Hodgson era in Manchester on Wednesday.

Shanghai confident over Drogba move

Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua are confident of securing a move for Didier Drogba, who on Tuesday confirmed he was leaving Chelsea.

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