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Reds lose out on est coast

11:33am Thursday 18th March 2010

Scarborough 31 Skipton 0 After their defeat at Scarborough on Saturday Skipton entertain local rivals Keighley on Saturday in their last home league game this season.

North Ribblesdale 21 Huddersfield YMCA 9 Having gone walkabout at Old Leodiensians the previous week coach Elliot Sharp’s deserved roasting worked wonders as Ribb’s title aspirations got back on track big style.

Wharfedale have the beating of Blackheath

11:28am Thursday 18th March 2010

Wharfedale 50 Blackheath 17 As richly winners as they were ragged also-rans a week ago, Wharfedale’s eight-try rout of Blackheath owed almost as much to the visitors’ deficiencies as to the Greens’ own at times adventurous and intermittently fluent play.

Young Kiwi star set for summer in Settle

11:30am Thursday 18th March 2010

It was all done and dusted. A good season, a hit with the locals, players responding to new training methods, sound leadership of a young emerging side and a re-signing of professional forms ready for the 2010 April launch.

Dale boys in White Rose glory

6:52pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

Yorkshire U-20s match at Wharfedale RUFC on Sunday saw the white rose side include a number of local lads in Tom Davidson, Joe Gill and Mark Gemmell, all formerly of Wharfedale RUFC, and current Wharfedale players Jack Mackie and Richard Rhodes.

Tynedale's high tempo too much for Greens

6:54pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

Tynedale 55 Wharfedale 18 Fly-half Gavin Beasley scored Tynedale’s ninth try just before the final whistle to add some extra gloss to the home side’s total but there are no doubts about the splendid attacking credentials of this talented side or the exciting brand of high tempo rugby they revel in.

Ermysted's youngster in England squad

6:51pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

Ermysted’s Grammar School’s winger Oliver Cicognini is in the England U-16 squad that will take on their Italian counterparts at Rome’s Stadio Flaminio.

Brid succumb to Reds

6:59pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

Skipton 13 Bridlington 29 Bridlington came to Sandylands on Saturday as the current season entered its penultimate month.

Ribb succumb to Leos

6:57pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

Leos 13 North Ribblesdale 3 Ribb came down to earth with a crash against a Leodiensians’ side who simply were hungrier for the win.

Transplant boy Fred breaks a leg

6:49pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

There is no bigger fighter than young Fred Midgley who had battled courageously back after a kidney transplant to take up his favourite sports of football and cricket again.

Skipton see red after defeat by bottom club

7:11pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Skipton 22 Yarnbury 29 After the previous week’s game was called off due to a frozen pitch at Bradford Salem, Skipton entertained Yarnbury on Saturday in a game both needed to win.

Lisa feeling blue

7:04pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Could former Skipton Girls’ High School pupil Lisa Meegan, a 21-year-old undergraduate at Cambridge University, be the latest local sports person to hit the headlines in the sport of rowing?