ANGLING: Secretary of the Wisbech and District AA Ted Baker took the Three Tuns AA Whitfield Cup match after putting 20lb 5oz of bream to the scales.
POSH: Season ticket sales hit an all-time high after club secre
tary Arnold Blades revealed that more than £1,500 worth had been sold.
CRICKET: Coates skipper George Fletcher defended his side's poor start to their Peterborough League title defence saying it was more important to field a team made up of local players. Alan Elderkin was the only player who didn't live in Coates.
TENNIS: Billy Knight and Alistair Allan were the stars of the show as Northants County beat Loughborough College 7-2 in a friendly match in Peterborough.
SHOOTING: Holbeach hot-shot Jack Pennington walked away with the Dunhill Skeet Shooting Trophy after hitting 188 birds out of 200 - a performance which earned a call-up to the Great Britain side for the European Championships in Belgium.
30 YEARS AGO
CRICKET: Jim Weston, standing in for brother Alan, had a superb weekend with the bat as opener for Baker Perkins steering the side to victories over Saffron Walden and Eaton Socon.
MARTIAL ARTS: Whittlesey Judo Club member Tina German made a successful return to the mats to win the girls Under 45kg title at the Area Junior Championships while Castor's Alison Gunn won both the Under 50kg and open weight events.
FOOTBALL: Chairman of the Peterborough League John Owen announced the creation of a sixth division containing Wimblington Wanderers, Longthorpe Reserves and Brotherhoods Reserves among others.
POSH: Manager John Barnwell was negotiating a deal to bring Chris Turner back from America where he had been on loan to Noel Cantwell's New England Tea Men.
SPEEDWAY: Top-of-the-table Panthers faced a tough task as they headed up to title rivals Newcastle without star rider Andy Hines who was out of action for six weeks after fracturing his wrist.
ATHLETICS: Peterborough athletes Chris Pateman (boys 100m) and Jackie Eden (discus) were the stars of the show at the Cambridgeshire School Athletics Championships at the Embankment.
CRICKET: Former county skipper Derek Wing from Wisbech was named to return to the Cambridgeshire team for a Minor Counties match with Norfolk at Papworth.
20 YEARS AGO
TENNIS: Local tennis duo David Redding (7) and Ben Klein (8) were handed the chance to take part in a demonstration game during the Wimbledon Championships.
CRICKET: Peterborough Town opener Phil Dicks steered Cambridgeshire into the semi-finals of the Minor Counties Knockout Cup after smashing a magnificent unbeaten 104.
SPEEDWAY: Panthers star Ian Barney came third in the Grand Slam final at Oxford and promptly handed his £100 prize money over to injured former team-mate Andy Buck of Eastbourne.
FOOTBALL: Former Bourne player Ian Bliszczak agreed to take over as manager of the United Counties League Premier Division outfit following the departure of John Cozens.
POSH: Full back Alan Paris - a free signing from Watford - began the search for a new club after turning down a revised one-year deal at London Road.
ARCHERY: Two Nene Bowmen were in ultra-accurate form as they claimed Cambridgeshire county titles with record-breaking performances. Joyce Asher and Nigel Swepson were the locals to shine.
10 YEARS AGO
CRICKET: The legendary Ajaz Akhtar enjoyed a wonderful 10-wicket weekend. Akhtar took 5-50 in Peterborough Town's three-wicket win against Bedford in the Northants Championship and then followed up with 5-35 in a South Lincs League success at Woodhall Spa the following day.
Akhtar also clubbed an unbeaten 79 with the bat in the game against Woodhall Spa.
FOOTBALL: Top scorer Kieran Daplyn hit the only goal as Bushfield Park completed their total dominance of Under 13 football with successes in the Evening Telegraph Six-a-Side competition. His goal ensured a 1-0 final win over Yaxley which arrived on the back of a Junior Alliance league and cup double.
Bushfield: Wayne Hill, Paul Ratcliff, Kieran Daplyn, Ben Hepworth, Matt Parrott, Ryan Francis, Andrew Gilbert.
CRICKET: Ramsey all-rounder David Carlaw wouldn't forget his 30th birthday in a hurry. He hit the winning run in Ramsey's two-wicket Cambs League triumph over St Giles and his team-mates then treated him to a stripper!
BOXING: Schoolboy star Liam Maltby decided it was time to trade punches with the big boys by turning professional. The 19 year-old Yaxley fighter won three national schoolboy titles as an amateur.
FOOTBALL: Talented young Holbeach goalkeeper Matt George (19) was invited for a trial by Division Three club Barnet.
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