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Mewton casts eye over St Blazey

Rumours are doing the rounds that former St Blazey manager Trevor Mewton could be set for a sensational return to the club after being heavily involved in running the side's 1-0 loss to Buckland.
The club's legendary manager took charge alongside current assistant manager Phil Lafferty for the green and blacks’ game this weekend, with player-manager Glynn Hooper away with work.
Mewton has been linked with a number of jobs since leaving Penzance last summer, which included a role at local rivals St Austell, his home town club Newquay and Wadebridge Town.
Mewton had an illustrious career in charge at Blaise Park and won an incredible seven South western league championships in ten years, having won four consecutive titles between 2000 and 2005.
Since leaving the club in 2007, Mewton has held roles at Truro City and at Penlee Park, whilst also helping out Bodmin Town this pre-season.

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St Austell progress in Cup

A GOAL in either half has seen St Austell progress into the semi-final of the Westinsure Cornwall senior cup after defeating Liskeard Athletic 2-0 in an ill-tempered cup tie at Poltair Park.
Liskeard player-manager Darren Edwards was lucky not to have been sent off late on when he appeared to headbutt St Austell centre-half Martin Giles, but to the amazement of the large St Austell support he and Giles were both shown yellow cards.
This led to a barrage of protests from the home side and eventually led to lillywhites manager Andy Dingle being sent to the stand by young referee Liam Mankee.

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Saints zero in on promotion

ST AUSTELL’S director of rugby Steve Murley is not counting his chickens just yet, as the Saints continue to chase down their second promotion in three seasons.
Following their 2009 promotion to the Cornwall and Devon league the Saints have only lost a handful of games and if they can continue their current form then they will be in pole position to gain the second promotion spot to guide them back into western counties west.
Speaking after the club's 24-0 win over Honiton at the weekend, Murley said: “Saturday was a difficult game with a strong wind blowing straight down the field. Strangely both sides played better in my view against the wind and neither side used the elements as well as they could have.

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Emphatic win for St Austell

A hard hitting first half paved the way for the saints to demonstrate the cohesion forming within the team as they kept up their promotion push with an emphatic 61-17 win over Withycombe, writes Phill Raddenbury.
The saints came into this match from a resounding win in Falmouth and started as if they were on fire, in the second minute centre Sam Rhodes took it on himself to outpace the Withycombe back line and score out wide.
Withycombe restarted strongly but attacks were being thwarted by a solid home defence.
In the 11th minute scrum-half Matt Shepherd converted a very well struck penalty and the game seemed to stay at 8-0 for an age, all the play seemed to be in the midfield until Wing Craig Taylor danced his way through tackles to score in the 29th minute.

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Olympic gold medallist back in St Austell

It was a quiet return to town for arguably Cornwall's greatest ever sporting hero last week.
With his boyish good looks, easy charm and old school manners, it was a shoe-in for Olympic Gold medallist and double world champion Ed Coode MBE to forge a career as a TV pundit appearing alongside his former rowing team mates Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent and live the easy life in the public eye.
The unassuming Mr Coode is easily the greatest sportsman ever to come from the St Austell area, and that's a fact which sits slightly uneasily for this sporting hero who has shared the world stage with the very greatest rowers this country has ever seen, culminating in his epic battle in the coxless fours against world champions Canada in Athens.
However, it was the call of the family business that finally swung it for Ed to put the hysteria and press attention of the 2004 Olympic Games behind him. He decided to regroup and train as a solicitor to make him the eighth generation of the legal dynasty to work for the family firm in St Austell.

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First nine dart finish for league

THERE was a piece of darting history made on Friday night as Jason Cocks hit the first ever nine-dart leg in the Lostwithiel and district darts league.
The Kings Arms, Lostwithiel was the venue for a history making game of darts, when for the first time in the league’s 50+ years history the perfect leg of darts was completed.

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St Blazey devastation

In scenes of devastation a lone figure wades slowly out to his daily place of work.
Paul Henderson is groundsman at Blaise Park, home of the famous Green and Blacks, St Blazey Football Club.
Last week, flash floods wrecked shops, homes and businesses throughout Station Road.
Blaise Park suffered the full force of contaminated floodwater, which at one stage submerged the entire pitch in two feet of water.
Such was the extent of that damage, TV screens across the world had  images taking from a circling helicopter of the devastation, and in particular, the football pitch.

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Steve gets England call-up

IN A WEEK where the European team prepares for a clash with the United States in the Ryder cup, a young St Austell golfer is setting his professional hopes high for the future, writes Gareth Rowett.
14-year-old Steve Waddell, a student at Penrice Community college has been selected to receive coaching from the English Golf Union, the only school student from Cornwall.
The youngster who plays off a handicap of four at Carlyon Bay was recently named the 2010 British Junior Tour player of the year, is Cornwall under-14 Champion and represents Cornwall at under-14 and under-18 level. He also plays for the Carlyon Bay Men’s first team and Carlyon Bay Juniors.

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Jon is 'Golden Boy'

NEWQUAY Cormorants paralympic swimming sensation Jonathan Fox has become the first ever world swimming champion from Cornwall.

Fox, the 19-year-old from St Stephen, took the gold in a time of 1.11.94 to take the world title in the 100m back stroke (S7 classification), in Eindhoven, Holland.

The former Cornwall college St Austell student who suffers from cerebral palsy not only took the gold in the 100m back stroke but he also

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Jon is Golden Boy

NEWQUAY Cormorants paralympic swimming sensation Jonathan Fox has become the first ever world swimming champion from Cornwall.

Fox, the 19-year-old from St Stephen, took the gold in a time of 1.11.94 to take the world title in the 100m back stroke (S7 classification), in Eindhoven, Holland.

The former Cornwall college St Austell student who suffers from cerebral palsy not only took the gold in the 100m back stroke but he also managed to break

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