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Cup progress for St Austell

sT AUSTELL are through to the last eight of the Westinsure Cornwall Senior Cup after a single-goal success against local rivals St Dennis this weekend.
Jake Hartigan’s 52nd minute free-kick was enough to separate the two sides and allow for the lillywhites to book their place in the quarter-finals ahead of tomorrow evening’s cup draw.
Joint-manager Gary Penhaligon was delighted to see his team progress into the last eight of the competition and he told the Voice: “It was a good case of job done. We are a lot more solid nowadays and a 1-0 win was pleasing.
“It was only 1-0 but it could have been a lot more.
“It’s good to be in the next round of the competition and it’s going to be tough whoever we play in the next round. It’ll be nice to get a home draw and perhaps we can move it forward to a Friday night.”
This Friday night, St Austell will stage their first ever home game under lights as reigning champions Buckland Athletic visit Poltair for the first games since the club’s new floodlights were installed earlier this month.

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Sticker progress to last four

STICKER have booked their place in the last four of the Rowett Insurance league cup after a 5-0 victory at home to last season’s beaten finalists St Teath.
After defeat at home to Saltash United and a draw with local rivals Probus, Sticker boss Phil Dingle would be happy to see his side make a welcome return to winning ways, progressing into the semi-finals of the league cup competition a bonus.
After the game Dingle spoke to the Voice and said: “I’m pleased to get back to winnings ways.
“I felt that without setting the world alight, we controlled the game from start to finish. The three quick goals at the start of the game were a good platform for us to build on.”
The first goal came for the unlikeliest of sources. Full-back Daniel Meens, who previously had only scored one goal in six seasons with the club played a quick one-two with flank partner Andrew Butler and his attempted cross took a big deflection off the visiting defender before looping over the goalkeeper and into the back of the net.

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Fowey poised to draw stumps

The town of Fowey stands to lose its Cricket Club this winter after the club decided to withdraw from Division Two East of the Cornwall Cricket League.
“This is really an appeal to local people to demonstrate their support for a sports club that provided local opportunities to adults and youngsters alike,” said former player and secretary, Ed Leverton. “This is not an appeal for money but an appeal to locals to get behind us,” he added.
Reformed 38 years ago Fowey Cricket Club was the first club in the country to build a cricket pavilion on land owned by the Local Education Authority.
The club was one of the first in Cornwall to achieve the ECB Clubmark Accreditation.

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Bobby vows to battle on

BOBBY Oaten has vowed to continue as manager of St Blazey football club despite the club going through one of their worst ever run of results in the history of the club.
Speaking to the Voice Oaten who has seen his side lose their last seven games said: “I have no desire to relinquish the position that I am in as the manager. The club are backing me and if we can get the correct help in then I will be happy to add them to my backroom team.”
Oaten in recent weeks has seen his coach Jamie Parr have to leave the club because of work commitments and saw goalkeeper Simon May join Elburton Villa while defenders Leighton Carhart (Camelford) and Andy Van Evelingen (Truro reserves) also left the club before their game at home to Plymouth Parkway on Saturday.
The green and blacks put in a credible performance against Parkway and if they had a little more luck they may have come out of the game with at least a point to show for their efforts.

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Karate Kid laughs off broken arm

AGAINST all the odds a brave Brannel school pupil has returned with a gold medal from the martial arts World cup, despite breaking her arm just a week before the event.
Karate kid India Roberts, 11, from Lanjeth, shocked all onlookers as she triumphed in the Kata class for the under-12 age category despite the injury.
Roberts who only took up the sport in February thought that her hopes of appearing in the championships had been dashed just a week before the World cup in Kelkhein, Germany, but after defying the odds through the pain she decided to carry on to represent the country at the annual games.
The injury which was sustained just a week before the championships, ironically whilst doing karate failed to prevent her from flying to Germany and after excelling in the age-old martial art she delighted her supporting mother, by claiming the gold medal despite having her right arm out of action because of the injury.

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Judo star Jade wins Gold

ST AUSTELL’S promising judo star Jade Skews celebrated her 16th birthday in style this weekend, winning the gold medal at the highly-rated Plymouth open.
Skews, who turned 16 on Monday, beat off all competitors, who had travelled far and wide to compete on Sunday afternoon.
“It was a bit easier than I thought it would be, but I was just pleased to have won the competition,” Skews told the Voice.
The youngster dominated her three bouts, winning her second fight in style as she saw off the challenge of her competitor in just four seconds.
Now that she has turned 16, she has been promoted into the senior class and will now relish the prospect of taking on older and more experienced competitors.
She will still fight in the D-Band this weekend, before moving up to the senior standard and will be hoping to perform well at the Welsh open ranking event, which is being held in Cardiff, as she attempts to move towards the top of the rankings.

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Saints battle for top of the table

St Austell secured their fifth bonus point victory in seven matches in a thrilling top of the table clash with previously unbeaten Torquay Athletic.
An exciting game, played out in front of a large crowd at sun kissed Tregorrick Park, was in the balance until the last ten minutes of the game when the Saints’ finally saw off the Tics with two superb late tries.
Early pressure from the Saints saw a catch drive from a line out driven a full 10 metres before prop Hugh Noott appeared to have scored. Referee Richard Pryor adjudged that Noott had been held up but from the resulting 5m scrum it was clear that Saints had the edge in the tight.
Torquay just survived but their line was under severe pressure and it was dogged defence that was keeping Saints at bay until the 17th minute when, after excellent work by the Saints’ pack, centre James Earp fed Ben Chenoweth coming in off his wing. Chenoweth ripped through the Tics back line to finish under the posts leaving scrum-half Matthew Shepherd the simple task of converting the try.

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Pete breaks marathon record

Pete Roper smashed his own course record by a full three minutes to record the win at the Eden marathon to win his second Eden marathon in the last three years.
Roper, 46, of Poole athletics club came home in two hours, 43 minutes and 12 seconds to beat the previous course record which set in the race’s first year back in 2009.
Roper edged out Ollie Gibson of Newquay Road Runners, who stepped up from last year’s half marathon race win to claim a superb second place finish in his first ever Eden marathon.
Speaking to the Voice moments after he completed the hilly 26-mile course Roper said: “I came first in 2009, I've come back and I tried to beat the course record and I'm pleased that I've managed to break the course record again by three minutes.
“The conditions weren't very good, it was very windy and with driving fine rain and very loose under foot, there were a few technical bits and you had to look at were you are going.”

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Teams aim to strengthen squads

ST AUSTELL and St Blazey could both be set to strengthen their attack with the potential signing of a couple of new forwards in the next few weeks.
The lillywhites who have lost striker and club captain Daniel Nancarrow to a hamstring injury are said to be considering making a move for Liskeard Athletic striker Sam Cooper.
Target-man Cooper, who played for St Blazey up until last January could be an ideal replacement for Nancarrow as well as bolstering the attack line ahead of his return.
Another Liskeard Athletic striker who could be on his way out of Lux Park is youngster James Donnellon who looks set to put pen to paper ahead of a move to St Blazey and could make his debut in this weekend’s clash away at defending league champions Buckland Athletic.

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Mixed week for Lillywhites

IT’S BEEN a mixed week for St Austell as they suffered a heavy home defeat and finally recorded their first win of the season this weekend.
Last Tuesday the Lillywhites hosted title hopefuls Bodmin Town in front of a large crowd at Poltair Park.
Despite producing a spirited performance as they fought with Bodmin for every inch they were on the wrong end of a 4-1 defeat against Darren Gilbert’s side.
Gilbert’s summer signing Adam Carter, who appeared for St Austell as a youngster used the game to get off the mark for his new club. The former Torpoint man who scored 52 goals for Athletic last season grabbed a hat-trick as last year’s title runners-up proved too clinical for the St Austell.
They did however follow that up with an impressive 6-1 win over the Royal Marines on Saturday.

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