When Steve Evans tried to sign Noel Luke, Olympic hockey hero starred at cricket, new coach for Peterborough United, new course record at Elton Furze and a triple England call-up for the Ferrara ice hockey family

August 1-7, 1976

SPEEDWAY: Brian Clark and Nigel Couzens registered double figure scores, but Panthers lost 42-36 at home to National League leaders Newcastle.

CRICKET: Peterborough Hockey Club lifted the Yarnold Cup with a five-wicket final win over Castor. Future GB Olympic hockey hero Paul Barber scored 27 and took two wickets for the winners.

POSH: Ernie Moss headed the only goal of the game as Cambridge United were beaten in front of 3,443 fans in the Shipp Cup at London Road.

FOOTBALL: Stamford Colts ‘76 won their first ever trophy by pipping Baker Perkins by one point in the Oundle Town sixes Final. The BP squad was: Mel, Landin, Mick Piggott, Tony Day, Bob Jackson, Tom Patterson, Dick Fordham and Dick Hunter.

CRICKET: Alan Tait and Dave Porter of Peterborough Town and Keith Barrett of Market Deeping all scored centuries to top the ET Merit Table batting charts. Paul Cross of Baston topped the bowling charts with 8-49 against Southwick.

SPEEDWAY: Panthers won 40-38 at Mildenhall in the National League to keep up their unbeaten record on the track. Brian Clark top scored for the city side with 10 points.

August 1-7, 1986

TENNIS: Peterborough City’s team of Eddie Rudd, Swee Lai, Brian Hawes and Alan Gray saw off Bretton 7-1 in the Hunts & Peterborough League.

ATHLETICS: Giovanni Rizzo (800m), Tony Green (5000m), Mike Parris (3000m steeplechase) and Bryce White (pole vault) were the winners for Nene Valley Harriers in a Southern League Divison Three meeting in Richmond.

POSH: Popular left-back MartinPike left London Road to join Sheffield United in a £20k deal.

CRICKET: Off-spinner David Smith claimed 8-39 asBarnack beat Baker Perkins by eight wickets in a top-of-the-table Rutland Division One clash.

POSH: Lil Fuccillo was appointed player-coach by first-team boss John Wile.

CRICKET: David Wortley of Whittlesey just pipped Ian Purser of Baker Perkins in the race to become the first local player to reach 1,000 runs for the season.

DARTS: White Horse, Market Deeping beat Fenman B 7-0 in the John Smith’s League. Their winners were Martin Adams. Bert Murray, Petet Locke, John Wesley, John Robinson, Steve Walker and Jim Ward.

August 1-7, 1996

GOLF: Eddie Conduit broke the Elton Furze course record by three shots with a round of 67 in a midweek medal.

POSH: Zeke Rowe scored twice and Martin O’Connor netted as higher-level Southend were beaten 3-1 at Roots Hall in a pre-season friendly.

CRICKET: Dominic Ralfs bagged 7-26 as Peterborough Town stretched their lead at the top of the Northants Premier Division with a five-wicket win over County Colts. The Young Northants stars were sktlled for 70 on a Bretton Gate greentop.

SPEEDWAY: Panthers finished second in the National Fours Final at Alwalton behind Oxford. They were without Ryan Sullivan who was busy finishing second in the World Under 21 Final.

CRICKET: Adam Milner’s response to losing his Market Deeping first team place to John McDougall was to crack an unbeaten 106 for the seconds in a South Lincs League win over Woodhall Spa.

BOWLS: Belvedere pair Stuart Popple and Andy Jessop won the Hunts EBA Pairs title while Martin Welsford of Railway claimed the singles crown.

FOOTBALL: Stamford boss Steve Evans admitted he was keen to sign former Posh full-back Noel Luke for ‘The Daniels’.

August 1-7, 2006

POSH: Local lad Stuart Wall, a centre-back from Orton Wistow, was offered a one-year pro contract by Posh boss Keith Alexander.

ICE HOCKEY: Peterborough’s Luke Ferrara followed in the footsteps of older brothers Rob and James by winning an England Under 14 call-up.

SQUASH: Stamford’s Tania Bailey guaranteed the biggest payday of her career by reaching the final of the £43,000 Malaysian Open with a semi-final win over World number one Vanessa Atkinson.

ATHLETICS: Wendy Dunn of PAC won three gold medals at the European Masters event in Poland.

POSH: Jamie Day, man-of-the-match Richard Butcher, Simon Yeo and Lloyd Opara scored the goals in a 4-1 home win over Bristol Rovers on the opening day of the League Two season.

CRICKET: Gary Yeeles smacked 129 for Market Deeping, but still finished on the losing side in a Rutland Division One match at Buckminster. Pete Morgan cracked 177 for the home side.

SPEEDWAY: Despite 20 points from Hans Andersen Panthers lost 51-43 at Ipswich in the Elite League.