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Looking back in Peterborough sport - 5th February 2012
10 YEARS AGO - SPORTS AWARDS: Posh manager Barry Fry scooped the big Sports Personality of the Year prize at the Evening Telegraph Sports Awards. Fry beat off competition from speedway rider Ryan Sullivan and triple-jumper Femi Akinsanya.
Full list of winners: Sportsman - Clifton Findley, Sportswoman - Pat Reynolds, Junior Sportsman - Jason Parrott, Junior Sportswoman - Becky Jolly, Team - Westwood Rugby Club, Footballer - Leon McKenzie, Junior Footballer - Ashley Stevens, Unsung Hero - Andy Moore, Service to Sport - Kevin Sanders.
POSH: Barry Fry’s awards joy turned to despair the following day when Posh slumped to a 3-2 home defeat at the hands of Wrexham in Division Two. Tom Cowan and Francis Green twice levelled before the visitors hit a last-minute winner.
ICE HOCKEY: Pirates coach Glenn Mulvenna blasted the referee after a host of poor decisions went against his side during a 4-2 defeat at Paisley. Nick Poole and Ryan Moynihan scored the Pirates goals.
RUGBY: Paul Booth’s early try was the only highlight as Borough crashed to a 28-5 home defeat at the hands of Northampton Men’s Own.
FOOTBALL: Goalkeeping legend David Seaman led the tributes following the death of former Posh caretaker manager, coach and physio Bill Harvey at the age of 81 following a long illness.
BOXING: Budding young talent Michael Maguire won an army of admirers when overcoming opponent Martin Rooney to win the English Schools ABA Midland Final Class A 36kg title.
FOOTBALL: Stamford battled back to earn a 1-1 draw against Hastings in the Dr Martens League thanks to a Malcolm Ndekwe goal.
20 YEARS AGO
CRICKET: Peterborough Town clinched their second successive Peterborough Indoor League title with a 72-run thrashing of APV Baker in the final. Ajaz Akhtar (46no) top-scored for Town who were also represented by Dominic Ralfs, Steve Jennings, Brian Howard, Nasir Mahmood and Nadeem Mohammed.
FOOTBALL: Brothers Matthew and Jason Leftley were both sent off in extra-time of a 9-6 Sunday League Harris Cup defeat for Walton Old Boys at the hands of Home Choose Carpets. Matthew had earlier scored a hat-trick.
ROWING: Tim Pye in the junior 15 sculls provided Peterborough City with their only win in their own Head of the River race.
FOOTBALL: Stanground schoolboy Gavin Dolby accepted a two-year YTS place at Second Division Ipswich Town.
SQUASH: The City & Counties team of Colin Fisher, Phil Godfrey, Steve Wilson, Jim Daintith and Bob Wilkinson picked up a maximum-points win over Oakham to stay top of Peterborough League Division One.
ATHLETICS: Stuart Bogg of Werrington Joggers won his fifth race out of five in the Frostbite League. Steph Gregory of Eye won the ladies race with Neil Pearson of Werrington taking the junior honours.
BOXING: Popular city fighter Dave Pierre won his top-of-the-bill light-welterwight bout at the Mallard Park Hotel with a seventh-round stoppage of Marvin P Gray. Joe Bugner’s son Joseph also fought and won.
30 YEARS AGO
BOXING: Schoolboy Steve Raby of Peterborough ABC won his sixth bout in succession as he outclassed Dereham’s Kevin Gall in King’s Lynn. Clubmate Pete Purcell and March scrapper Mark Goult were beaten on the same bill.
RUGBY UNION: Tim Magill slotted a penalty for Borough’s only points in a 16-3 friendly defeat at home at Wigston.
HOCKEY: Jimmy Wheeler struck twice, but Peterborough Town were still beaten 4-2 by Cambridge City at Bretton Gate in a friendly.
POSH: Robbie Cooke equalised 13 minutes from time in a Fourth Division draw at lowly Rochdale. Goalkeeper Neil Freeman kept Posh in the game with a string of fine saves.
BASKETBALL: Bob Beba was outstanding as Focus Jets beat Nene Cougars 66-61 in Division One of the Northants League. Beba claimed 16 points with Bob Bickle (8) offering most support.
ROWING: Deirdrie Cousins and Joanne Murray picked up Peterborough City’s only win in their Head of the Nene event. The pair won the ladies double sculls event.
ATHLETICS: Peterborough Athletic Club’s Stuart Naylor won the boy’s race in the O’Neill Trophy cross-country event in Hinchingbrooke. The club’s team of Martin Tackley, Ian Webster and David Thorpe won the youths race.
40 YEARS AGO
RUGBY UNION: John Everitt sprinted under the posts from the halfway line, but Borough were still beaten 15-6 by Kettering in a friendly.
POSH: Jim Hall rescued a point in the Division Four derby at Northampton with a second-half header. It was a seventh successive draw for Posh in front of a crowd of just over 5,000, the lowest ever Football League attendance for the fixture.
HOCKEY: GB International hurdler Sheila Garnett scored both goals as Hunts and Peterborough beat Bedfordshire 2-1 in a friendly.
FOOTBALL: Frank Ghigi of St Mark’s scored the goal as the Peterborough Primary Schools team drew 1-1 with Wellingborough. Captain Glen Beech (Gunthorpe) was outstanding in midfield.
Peterborough: Dean (Gunthorpe). Peck (Werrington). Strowger (St Thomas More), Lawrence (St Mark’s), Anthony (Whittlesey), Wilson (Thorpe), Genovese (St Mark’s), Beech, Ghigi, Hutchinson (Thorpe), Blades (Gunthorpe).
TABLE TENNIS: Peterborough had their first win in the South East Midlands League when seeing off St Neots 6-4. The winning team was Pete Berna, Jean Allinson and Greg Baker.
SWIMMING: The city’s teenage sensation Brian Brinkley claimed his bid for an Olympic medal in Munich could be scuppered by a lack of sponsorship.
FOOTBALL: Dave Gregory scored six times on his debut in the Whittlesey Indoor League to help Fenmen to an 8-1 win over Misfits.
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