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First-round struggles for snooker internationals

Football

NewMilton Town show ambition with mid-season signings

NEW Milton Town have made the most of the recent spell of inactivity caused by the pan- demic with a successful foray into the transfer market, sign- ing four players. The Sydenhams Wessex Di- vision One side have brought in a mix of experience and youth with the singings of Luke Stone (30), Louis MacArthur (19), Callum Par - nell (22) and Curtis Harrison (25). The club has had a mixed start to the season after tak- ing five points from a possi - ble 27 while putting together their best FA Vase run in eight years. Striker Stone joins the club from Christchurch FC after spending the start of the sea- son on loan at Dorset Premier League side Hamworthy Rec- reation FC. His previous clubs include Hamworthy United and Wimborne Town. New Milton Town manager Paul Turner will be hoping the player’s experience and abil- ity to influence games in the right areas will help the side start climbing the table. Defender Louis MacArthur spent pre-season with New Milton before returning to Poole Town U23s where he captained the side to a decent start to the season. Manager Turner, who joined just over six months ago from Poole Town, worked closely with the young defender during his time at the Southern League Premier South side. Defender Parnell is a quick

MARCHWOOD’S Billy Joe Castle admits personal strug- gles meant his mind was else- where during his first-round Northern Ireland Open defeat against Stuart Carrington. The 28-year-old went down 4-1 in Milton Keynes just a few days after discovering a close friend had been involved in a serious car accident. Castle said he was close to withdraw- ing from the Home Nations event and believes concerns away from the table inhibited his performance at the Mar- shall Arena. The world number 94 said: “I’m having a tough time at the minute. At the weekend my best friend was in a serious car accident and is fighting for his life in hospital. “The head’s not really with it. It was on my mind when I was playing – I was quite close to pulling out over the week- end, but I chatted to family members and they said I’m not allowed in the hospital so there’s nothing I could do there. I’ve just come here – I’m sort of here, but mind and soul are elsewhere, I’m afraid. “It was a scrappy game, and neither of us settled in the match. It was just one of those games. It was tough.” World number 55 Carrington

able to play at his favourite venue Waterfront Hall but is hoping for an upturn in for- tunes against Hossein Vafaei in the first round of the UK Championship next week. Castle added: “It doesn’t feel like Northern Ireland – Belfast is my favourite place to play so I was a bit disap- pointed that I can’t go back there with what’s happening. “Hopefully next week I can kick on, get a good win against Hossein and that can kick- start me. “I’m feeling good in prac- tice, beating good players and doing everything that I can, but it hasn’t worked for me in matches. I’m hoping it will turn around in the UK Cham - pionship.” Havant’s teenage sensation Jamie Wilson was also in first- round action but slipped to a 4-1 defeat against the ever- green Nigel Bond. Wilson, 17, made a third- frame break of 68 but the 55-year-old, a 1995 world championship finalist, hit 76 and 61 to dash the prodigy’s hopes of progression. The rest of the Northern Ireland Open can be watched live on Eurosport, Eurosport app, or streamed on Discov- ery+.

Louis MacArthur

and robust defender who looks to combine with the attack whenever possible. He spent part of his playing career at Christchurch. Boss Turner is delighted to bring Callum into the set-up, be- lieving he will add another big piece to the puzzle. Full-back Harrison has joined New Milton on dual registration with Dorset League’s Poole Borough FC. Many at the club believe the player has the potential to play at a very high level, and he will link up with the side once restrictions have lifted. Speaking about the sign- ings, Turner said: “We have been working incredibly hard at New Milton over the past six months to create a squad which can compete at the highest level. “It is clear to everyone that we have assembled a techni- cally excellent squad for the 2020 season but, as shown by our results, we have lacked that clinical edge in key areas and at key times during the game. “During lockdownwe signed four players who we believe not only have the technical ability to continue to excite our fans and play in the style we want to promote, but also to bring a cutting edge and experience. I hope this will al - low us to finish games off, add a winning mentality and ac- celerate our league position.” New Milton’s season is scheduled to resume with a FA Vase tie against Longlev- ens FC on 5th December at home.

Marchwood’s Billy Joe Castle is in the top 100 snooker players in the world

ing the last 32 on the previous two occasions, he crashed out at the first hurdle this year. The tournament was held in Milton Keynes due to travel complications caused by the current pandemic. Castle lamented not being

ranking event matches having also gone down to a 5-2 defeat against 18-year-old Irish play- er Aaron Hill in German Mas- ters qualifying. The Northern Ireland Open is usually an event in which he thrives, however, after reach-

made a first-frame break of 75, but neither player was able to follow that up with another half-century in a hard-fought match. Castle has suffered a miser- able start to his 2020-21 sea - son, losing all of his first-round

Golf

Cricket

Bramshott seniors dodge the rain

Schreuder leaves Lymington SOUTH African youngster Ga - reth Schreuder has called time on his two-year stay with local ECB Southern Premier League club Lymington Cricket Club. The 20-year old, who joined Lymington at the start of the 2019 season, is set to join Warm - inster, who play in West of Eng- land Premier League’s third tier.

BRAMSHOTT Hill Golf Club Senior Section made the most of a break in the the poor pre- lockdown weather with 39 members taking to the course to contest a Stableford Qualifier. Division One: 1, Stuart Bulbrooke, 36 points; 2, Peter Paine, 35 points. Division Two: 1, Henry Porter, 42 points; 2, Ray Dunkason, 36 points. Division Three: 1, Gerard Murphy, 34 points; 2, Dave Kellaway, 32 points.

In a bid to preserve the course, ground staff introduced the use of winter tees, so the planned Stableford Qualifier was reorganised as a non- qualifier with 30 golfers taking part. Division One: 1, Ray Dunkason, 36 points; 2, Brian Lewis, 34 points. Division Two: 1, John Manning, 37 points; 2, Gerard Murphy, 36 points.

Lymington Bridge Club (18/11): 1, Phi l Lovegrove and David Heywood, 64.29; 2, Pam Phillips and Daphne Thorpe, 58.73; 3, Andrew Bingley and Paul Londesborough, 54.37. (19/11) N/S: 1, Rob Paton and Angela Clarke, 60; 2, Keith and Sara Charles, 59.17; 3, An- drew Bingley and Yvonne Moores, 58.89. SYDENHAMS Wessex Divison One side AFC Fawley have announced that planning permission has been granted for new sports facilities at their shared Holbury site. The site will be used by AFC Fawley, Fawley Cricket Club, Waterside Tennis Club and Waterside Bowls, which are all part of the Holbury Community Sports Association (HCSA). The application allows for multiple changing rooms and a bar and function room. The new changing rooms, which will be used by the football and cricket clubs, will replace the pitchside Portakabins which have been used for the last 12 years. AFC Fawley chairman, Kevin Mitchell, said: “Exxonmobil made a commitment to invest in the community and the sports facility, and they have Schreuder, a second-year sports coaching and develop- ment degree student at South- ampton Solent University, has been offered a player/coach role at the Wiltshire club. Explaining his reasons for leaving Lymington, Schreuder said: “I am disappointed the direction my cricket has gone in the past 12 months, and I’ve certainly not moved on as I had hoped. “I really need a fresh start in a new environment. They have an indoor centre at Warmin- ster, where I can really push on with the individual and techni- cal coaching side of my game, which is important for my uni- versity degree.” Schreuder joined Lymington in April 2019 following a suc - cessful winter in which he ex- celled at Hilton College, seeing him selected for South Africa U19 Colts. He also helped Kz Natal Dolphins become CSA U19 Cubs champions for the first time. Since then he feels he un- der-achieved at Lymington, de- spite being their leading 2019 batsman, with 471 runs in 17 SPL innings. Noticeably, two thirds of his total came in the Sports

Luke Stone

white-ball 50-over matches, including a late-season cen- tury against Basingstoke & North Hants and 60-plus scores against Bournemouth and Al- ton. White balls are used in the shorter 50-over and T20 match - es, which are often held later in the day, as the white colour offer greater visibility. Red balls are used in traditional game, which is the format for Southern Pre - mier League matches. Red balls are known to produce far great- er swing than their white coun- terparts. Schreuder added: “I struggled in the red ball games, the condi- tions being alien to what I had experienced at home in South Africa. I never really adapted to the slow swinging ball, annoy- ingly getting out almost every time I’d made a start.” Ironically, Schreuder pro- duced his best red-ball innings

for the Surrey second team, hitting unbeaten half-centuries against Kent and a powerful Middlesex side. Things got no better for the South African talent when he returned to the UK to play in the last four matches of Lym- ington’s unsuccessful Southern Premier League campaign, all of which they lost. Schreuder continued: “My wicket-keeping was fine, but I managed only 35 runs in those four games and I knew then it was time to go. Hopefully at Warminster I’ll rise to a new challenge, both on and off the field.” Schreuder flew back to his Johannesburg family home this week and will play his first match for two years on South African soil for his home town club Boksburg at Kempton Park in the Easterns Premier League.

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Holbury sports facility to be given much-needed facelift

and Brenda King, 60.42; 2, Mike Hardwick and Eryl Hardwick, 60.12; 3, Michael Price and Thelma Price, 57.74. Turner Bridge Club 1=, Sally Saunders and Glyn Hopkins / Dee Jones and Tim Macaire, 59.72; 2, Judy martin and Sarnia Jeffery, 48.61. “It’s going to make a huge difference to the club. It will give us modern and fairly maintenance-free facilities, and visually it will make the existing club area look so much nicer. “This will hopefully be a stepping stone for us to keep improving on and off the pitch.” temporary changing rooms for the cricket club.

E/W: 1, Graham Foster and Philippa Bateman, 60.56; 2, Pat Johnson and Frances Alexander, 59.72; 3, Lynda Grundy and Christine Bunday, 55.56. Highcliffe Duplicate Bridge Club (Greystones) (18/11) Stepbridge Pairs: 1, Myra Goodwin done that for many years. “Theyarethe largestemployer in the area, and we have all benefitted tremendously over the years. They’ve recently installed new gates and fences and paid for essential maintenance and running costs as well as contributing a large sum towards the new football floodlights and providing

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