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Peterborough sport: this week from the archives - 20/02/10
10 YEARS AGO RUGBY UNION: Borough lost 30-25 to Huntingdon in a thrilling Hunts County Cup Final at Fengate. Borough led 25-14 with 15 minutes to go, thanks to tries from Peter Brudnell, Oz Merrigold and Rich Martin.
10 YEARS AGO
RUGBY UNION: Borough lost 30-25 to Huntingdon in a thrilling Hunts County Cup Final at Fengate. Borough led 25-14 with 15 minutes to go, thanks to tries from Peter Brudnell, Oz Merrigold and Rich Martin.
ICE HOCKEY: Pirates finished the British National League campaign in fourth place after a 5-0 defeat at Guildford in their final match. Doug McEwen was Pirates man of the match.
FOOTBALL: Posh moved into sixth place in Division Four after winning 2-0 at fourth placed Barnet. Steve Castle and Jason Lee scored the goals.
FOOTBALL: Posh boss Barry Fry branded a hate call on the internet for a contract killer to get him as 'evil and twisted'. The message was the latest twist in an orchestrated fans campaign to force Fry out of London Road.
HOCKEY: Market Deeping ended a run of 16 straight defeats with a 2-0 East League win over Cambs Nomads. Steve Gaunt and Steve Waters scored the goals for a side that had conceded 101 League goals.
CRICKET: Charlotte Edwards passed 500 runs in one-day internationals when top scoring with 25 in England's one-day international fixture against New Zealand in Sydney.
ATHLETICS: Ricky Huskisson broke the Nene Valley club record for the 60m indoor sprint at the age of 40. He finished fifth on the Eastern Counties Championships against a field of 20 year-olds in 7.3 seconds.
20 YEARS AGO
RUGBY UNION: Oundle reached the semi-finals of The Evening Telegraph Cup for the first time with a 24-0 win over Stanford College in the last eight. Peter Stagg (2), Martin Wallis, Peter Short and Will Ramsey scored the Oundle tries.
CRICKET: Relegation-haunted Peterborough failed by one run to topple National Indoor League Premier Division leaders Rochdale at Woodston. Peterborough scores: Billy Young & Andy Malton (22), Mark Morris & Duncan Craig (12), Chris Malton & Adam Craig (16), Eric Tydeman and John McDougall (26).
ATHLETICS: Nene Valley Harrier Giovanni Rizzo won the Third of a Marathon race at Lincoln. Rizzo won by over a minute and team-mates Pete Bevilacqua and John Atkins ensured Nene Vally took the team prize.
FOOTBALL: Centre-back Dave Robinson was man-of-the-match, but Posh went down 2-1 at Torquay in a Division Four fixture. Robinson scored the goal, but a penalty nine minutes from time conceded clumsily by Keith Oakes handed the win to The Gulls,
ICE HOCKEY: Pirates snapped a 14-game losing streak by beating Ayr 6-5 at Bretton. Gary Stewart (2), Michael Dark (2), Kenny McDonald, and George Dipont scored the city side's goals.
HOCKEY: Adam Drake's dribble set up a goal for Mark Farmer before Steve Gregory's clinical strike clinched a 2-1 friendly win for Peterborough Town over Broxbourne.
FOOTBALL: Brian Hornsby, Gavin McNally and Martin Henderson scored the goals as Spalding beat Willenhall 3-1 to keep alive their promotopn hopes in the Beazer Homes Premier Division.
30 YEARS AGO
BASKETBALL: Neil Walker (16), Ray Thompson (14), Stuart Manning (12), Dave O'Hara (8), Mick Fullerton (2) and Dave Owen (2) scored the points for Focus in a 65-54 defeat at Lakenheath in the Cambs League.
FOOTBALL: Peterborough Schools Under 14 side beat Chester 4-0, but lost 5-3 to Runcorn on a northern tour. Jeremy Tatum (Walton), Andrew Franklin (Jack Hunt), Malcolm Faithful (Sir Harry Smith), Rob Guttridge (AMVC) and Neil Wilson shared the goals.
RUGBY UNION: Borough beat Bedford Athletic 12-3 in a low-key friendly at Fengate. Keith Jensen claimed his 10th try of the season, while Barry Parker crossed for two tries.
WINTER OLYMPICS: John French from Farcet finished 24th in the men's 10,000m speed skating final in Lake Placid.
FOOTBALL: Long-serving Posh defender Jack Carmichael achieved a lifelong ambition by signing for Noel Cantwell's New England Teamen in the American Soccer League.
HOCKEY: Ruth Sillett scored four goals as Peterborough Ladies seconds beat Spalding 6-0 in a friendly. Joan Marriman and Karen Foyle also scored.
FOOTBALL: Posh moved up to sixth place in the Division Four table following a 2-0 win over bottom club Rochdale at London Road. Billy Kellock and Ian Phillips scored the goals which both arrived in the final 16 minutes.
40 YEARS AGO
FOOTBALL: Posh slumped to a 1-0 Fourth Division defeat at Aldershot. Jimmy Melia scored the only goal of the game two minutes into the second-half.
Posh: Drewery, Kwiatowksi, Potts, Noble, Wile, Wright, Conmy, Price, Hall, Iley, Robson. Sub: Turner.
TABLE TENNIS: Understrength Peterborough pulled off a surprise 5-5 draw with St Neots in the South East Midlands League. Don Megginson, David Obee, Adrian Clapp and Eddie Berna were the Peterborough players involved.
FOOTBALL: Posh boss Jim Iley risked a club v country row when refusing to release striker Peter Price for a Welsh Under 23 international because of a clash of dates.
HOCKEY: Peterborough Town's Sunday side thumped Norwich Sattelites 4-1 in a friendly. Ron Ballantyne (2), David Hughes and Mick Darrington were the goalscorers for the city side.
FOOTBALL: The leading scorers in the popular Wirrina Five-a-Side League competition with six weeks of the season to go were: 57 John Jenkins (Drovers), 48 Tony Bissett (Spalding), 43 Dennis Wildman (Drovers), 37 John Fyffe (Perkins), 35 Steve Froude (Posh), Dave Gregory (Rovers).
BOXING: Terry Seaton joined fellow Walton Boxing Club member Garry Privett in reaching the semi-finals of the NABC Championships by knocking out a boxer from Durham in the eight stone seven pounds class.
FOOTBALL: Peter Price netted twice and Bobby Moss added another as Posh beat Crewe 3-0 in Division Four at London Road in front of a crowd of 5,300.
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