We are very proud that our former President, Sir Bill Beaumont has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle today.
Congratulations Sir Bill Beaumont from everyone at Croston Sports Club.
Thank you to the young vandals that paid us a visit yesterday. We have clear CCTV video of your actions and we will be contacting you and your parents directly to pay for the damage caused.
Croston Sports Club, in partnership with Croston Community Centre & Croston Together, is pleased to present this promotional video
The project will deliver first-class community and sporting facilities that will benefit residents of all ages and abilities for generations to come
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Congratulations to Croston Sports Club’s Miller Childs who has been selected for the Lancashire CCC U12’s Main Performance Squad
Great news Miller. Well done from everyone at Croston Sports Club
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Croston Sports Club can confirm that Chorley Ladies FC will play their remaining 8 home games here at Westhead Road from the end of January.
Their games take place on Sunday’s and kick off at 2pm
Today history was made in The Meyler Cup Final as Croston’s Millie Hodge became the first ever woman to play in The Meyler Cup Final
Millie bowled 7 overs and took 3 wickets for 16
Great job Millie.
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Croston Sports Club are promoted to Division One after beating Dalton Utd 3-2 at Westhead Road this afternoon.
Congratulations to Carlsen, Damon and all the players. Great job.
Fantastic news that Croston Sports Club’s Miller Childs has been selected again for Lancashire U11’s Main Squad. Well done Miller from everyone at the Club.
A well respected character from the cricketing world.
Thoughts and prayers are with everyone at Torrisholme Cricket Club and Graham’s family and friends.
Sending our condolences from everyone here at Croston Sports Club
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This Saturday Croston Sports Club host Stoneclough at Westhead Road.
Stoneclough have just signed former Wolves, Blackburn and now free agent Ben Marshall from Norwich City.
Sky Sports are covering the story and will be filming at Westhead Road on Sat.
Cricket 🏏
Croston Sports Club cleaned up at the Palace Shield league Awards Dinner last night
Premier league, batting, bowling and wicket keeping awards
Club of the year
Player of the year
Ground of the year
Meyler Cup winners
T20 Trophy winners
Long service award Keith Marsh
Congratulations to Morecambe CC on gaining promotion today. We pushed you hard but well done on getting over the line from all at Croston Sports Club
@MorecambeCC
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Football is back.
This Saturday Croston Sports Club host Wyre Villa at Westhead Road, kick off 2pm
Croston Sports Club Reserves travel to Lostock St Gerards A, also 2pm.
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Croston Sports Club have won Team of The Month for January.
Croston won all three games played defeating Kendal County away and both Ulverston and Stoneclough at Westhead Road leaving Croston 3rd in the table
Well done to all the management and players. Great job
Huge thank you to Chorley Borough Council for processing our Small Business Grant so quickly.
This will help to keep us afloat during these unprecedented times and will help us to ensure that we can keep on supporting our community.
Team Croston Sports Club
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Despite the goal areas being frozen the grounds team is still hard at it even in wintry conditions.
Where would we be without volunteers. Great job Les Goulding
Well done to our opponents, Thornton Cleveleys today. Great opponents and battled well.
Great support also by Thornton today. You were all a credit to your club.
Good luck on the rest of your season and hope you get promoted and back into the Premier Division.
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We would like to welcome new signing Harvey Collins to the club. Harvey joins us from Charnock Richard and makes his debut today against Garstang Reserves
Cricket 🏏
Team of the Decade....
Ian Dickinson
Stephen Langton
Steve Caunce
Sam Marsh
Lee Childs
Simon Marsh
Jack Marsh
Jake Parsons
Adam Sexton
Keith Marsh
Jonathan Driver
Reserve
David Tomlinson
Overseas Player
Callum McIlveen
A hat trick from Mark Forshaw and a goal from Tom Craven helps Croston Sports Club to a fine 4-0 win at Westhead Road this afternoon against Haslingden St Mary’s Reserves to stay top of the league.
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It was great to see Dominic Mederos make his First team debut on Saturday aged just 17.
Only a handful of players have played for the first team aged 16 or 17 in recent times...
STEVEN IDDON 16
GREGG ASHCROFT 16
PHIL CAUNCE 16
NATHAN NICKEAS 16
Well done Dom
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Our grounds team have been busy at Westhead Road today.
After lots of rain this week the playing surface is looking in good order ahead of tomorrow’s home game against Holker Old Boys Res. Kick off 3pm.
Great work by the grounds team.
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This years awards winners were as follows:
Player of the Year - Stephen Mercer
Player’s Player of the Year - Jordan Freeman
Sponsor’s Player of the Year - Daniel Jeffrey
Leading Goalscorer - Jordan Freeman
Scenes at Westhead Road. You would have thought we had won.
What a great club we have here and amazing members.
So proud of our cricket team today. After a difficult start they showed great resilience but came up short against Kendal.
Proud to be from Croston
@LancsCricketWMN
Good shout for performance of the week
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Croston Sports Club’s Millie Hodge aged only 17 makes her Lancashire Women’s First XI debut in today’s T20 Match against Middlesex with bowling figures of 4-12.
Well done Millie
Well done to Longridge Town Reserves today. A young side with a lot of good players who never gave up. They were on the wrong end of the result today but battled well to the end. Great set of lads and great ambassadors for Longridge Town.
@LongridgeTownFC
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Congratulations to Croston Juniors U12s team on winning the league with 4 games to go. Well done everyone a really top effort. On to the cup now ⚽️💪🏼
#champions
#teamspirit
Cricket
An unbeaten 64 from Croston’s Jake Parsons 🤴 guided Croston Sports Club to victory by 2 wickets against Great Eccleston in the Premier Division of The Palace Shield
Nomination for performance of the week
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Works continue this week with Scarifying & Verti-Draining being undertaken with 80tonnes of sand being carefully integrated into the playing surface at Croston Sports Club following receipt of our Pitch Preparation grant
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Congratulations to our Reserve Team who have won Team of the Month for September.
Congratulations to the management team David, Colin, Ian and Steven and all the players.
Great work.
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Team of the Decade
Mike Stephenson
James Brown
Brook Astle
Alex Abbot
Sam Marsh
Stephen Alty
Jordan Freeman
Matthew Davison
Nathan Nickeas
Daniel Cooper
Phil Caunce
Subs
Matthew Masterson
Matthew Golder
Austin Waddecar
Daniel Jeffrey
Daniel Brown
Cricket
Joe Barker took 7 wickets and scored 68 with the bat in Cumbria to help Croston Sports Club to an 84 run victory against Penrith in The Premier Division of The Palace Shield.
Croston Sports Club were presented with the Team of The Month Award for January by League Secretary John Brown this afternoon at Westhead Road ahead of their game against Furness Rovers
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Croston Sports Club are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the Lancashire Thunder Development Squad in their T20 games against Yorkshire on Tuesday 28th August at Westhead Road, Croston
Croston’s Millie Hodge is part of the Lancashire Squad
Great work over the last few weeks by our grounds team and army of volunteers getting everything ready and carrying out essential maintenance works here at Croston Sports Club.
Here is great birds eye view of our facilities here at Croston Sports Club.
WIN WIN WIN
Like and Retweet our Beer Festival Weekend post for the chance to win a £30 bar voucher to use at the Beer Festival.
Lucky Winner will be announced on Thursday 18th April 2019
Easter Weekend
Croston Sports Club Beer, Gin,
Prosecco and Cider Festival
Cricket 🏏
Ian Dickinson has been confirmed as Croston Sports Clubs new Captain for the forthcoming 2021 season at this years Cricket AGM. Ian will also Captain the T20 side.
David Tomlinson is the Second Team Captain and Miles Parker Captains the Sunday team.
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A massive welcome to our Overseas Amateur, Akashdeep Cheema who is from Melbourne, Australia.
Akash goes straight into Saturday’s first team squad and will make his Croston Sports Club debut at Westhead Road on Saturday against Lancaster CC.
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Congratulations to Charnock Richard tonight on making it through to the First Qualifying Round of The FA Cup.
Great achievement. Well done from everyone at Croston Sports Club
@CharnockFC
Great game of football played this afternoon by both Croston and Garstang in difficult weather conditions. The pitch held up really well and credit to the ground staff and to the club for the investment over the summer on a day when many other games were postponed.
Cricket 🏏
So the little village of Croston finish 4th in the Palace Shield Premier Division
No disgrace to finish behind the City of Lancaster, Kendal and league winners Longridge.
Well done to everyone involved
Cricket 🏏
Once again our ground was voted the best overall in The Palace Shield by the panel of Umpires.
We were also best in class for the square and out field.
Well done to Keith Marsh and all the grounds team. Great work.
Fantastic news that Croston Sports Club’s Miller Childs has been selected again for Lancashire U11’s Main Squad. Well done Miller from everyone at the Club.
Congratulations to Kendal CC on winning the Palace Shield Meyler Cup Final from all at Croston Sports Club
A huge thank-you to Torrisholme for their excellent hospitality today
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Latest from Parkside Road
West Lancashire League Division One
Kendal County 0-2 Croston Sports Club
Jordan Freeman 53 mins (Penalty)
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Croston Sports Club have been named team of the month for Division Two for the month of January.
In January Croston won the following games
Mill Hill St Peters (Home) Won 6-0
Longridge Town Res (Home) Won 7-0
Charnock Richard Res (Away) Won 1-0
Good luck to these Croston Dads who are attempting to complete the Coast To Coast ride for Charity this weekend.
Leaving Croston Sports Club and then cycling 🚴♀️ from Morecambe to Bridlington.
After taking 4 wickets for Lancashire Women last week on debut, Croston’s Millie Hodge made her Croston Sports Club First Team debut today and took 2 wickets as Croston best Penwortham by 51 wickets in the Premier Division of The Palace Shield
Well done Millie
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Great performance tonight by our U23s despite going down 4-3 in the last minute against last seasons league winners and a very strong Fulwood Amateurs U23s side.
Five 16 year olds in the Croston squad tonight.
Well done lads
Not sure how many times this has happened before
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but every wicket taken on Saturday (all 10) was by the same family. Keith, Sam and Jack Marsh.👍
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