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              of fixtures against Ilkeston Town, Stapleford   We are next scheduled to
    Town and Southwell City, who are all flying high in the   be playing at Cornwater on Tuesday, 8th March, against high
    division.                                            flying Woodthorpe Park Rangers (7.45) and then from the
    First up was Ilkeston and this game saw a 2-0 victory for us   19th March we commence a run of home fixtures on a
    at Cornwater with Ollie Higgins and skipper Luke Duerden   Saturday afternoon with Bilborough Town the first of the
    finding the net.  A week later Stapleford arrived and ran out   visitors, all 3pm kick offs.
    3-0 winners then a trip to Southwell and despite being 1-0 up   The vets have recorded a well earned 4-2 victory away
    a half-time through Ryan Faulconbridge we ended with a 3-1   against Southwell Outlaws with Graham Crow (2), Ben
    defeat.  Both games have shown us the required standards we   Gamble and Chris Bovey, grabbing the goals and we next play
    need to aspire to and reach to enable us become a top 5 club.    at home on the 27th February against Scredington whilst on
    After a series of tough fixtures, we then took on FC Cavaliers   the 6th March Bottesford visit Cornwater, both are 2pm kick
    at Cornwater, a side currently sat at the wrong end of the   offs.
    table and we came away with a comfortable 3-0 victory   The juniors recorded a fine 7-1 away victory at Quarrydale
    thanks to Kallum Greaves, Josh Prince and an own goal.  The   with Blake Daniels, Mason Kerry and Edjay Azonabor all
    game also saw debuts for Declan Muers who had joined us   grabbing 2 each after Max Adey had volleyed the opener and
    from Cavaliers a week earlier and Kieran Grant a striker   set us on our way.
                                                                             Ross Hardwick - First Team Manager


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   Ravenshead Petanque Club News

                                           The club held   towards the end.  Even the rain and
                                           it’s first ever   near freezing temperatures didn’t
                                           Open Triples   manage to stop play though.
                                           tournament   On the day, local knowledge of our notoriously tricky pistes
                                           this month.   proved invaluable, and Ravenshead players featured highly in the
                                           The rather   placings and prize money.   Our members Roy Clark and Val
                                           tongue in    Tully along with Nottingham’s Peter Newton won the Gold
                                           cheek and    Main Event, overcoming an all Ravenshead trio of Julie Bridges,
                                           optimistically   Andy Green and Shirley Towle in the semis, and going on to beat
                                           named Totally   a much more experienced Leicestershire team in the final.
                                           Tropical     Several others from the club, including some for whom this was
                                           Triples      their first real competitive event, had some good results during
                                           tournament
                                                        the day.
   attracted a strong field of 72 plus players from all over the East
   Midlands.                                            Other recent successes for Ravenshead players include Sally Elson
                                                        & Alison Baker winning the Rainworth Ladies Open, and Julie
   Several of the players entered into the spirit of things by
   sporting colourful Hawaiian  shirts - albeit it over several layers   Bridges winning the monthly melee, again at Rainworth.
   of winter clothing to combat the chilly weather.  In fact, despite   With so many of the club’s players now regularly entering and
   horrendous forecasts the weather was actually quite kind to us   performing well in competitions the future must surely look
   for most of the day before the rain came down with a vengeance   bright for Ravenshead Petanque.  Roy Clark
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