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WARWICKSHIRE'S indoor singles champion Martin Timms of Avon Valley will face strong opposition when in the first round of the national championships at Nottingham Indoor on April 9-18 he will line up against Barrie Forse of St Andrew's (Somerset) Indoor, the runner-up in this season's national over-60s singles championship. In the pairs Avon Valley's Mario Ross and Bill Ward will take on the Malvern Hills (Worcestershire) duo of Andrew Walters and Mark Stones and in the triples Valley's Mike Cooper, Geor  

The Tigers ended a four-match losing run with last weekend's 20-16 victory at Catalans Dragons and Matterson now hopes they can back it up by achieving their first home win in their first Sunday fixture this season. "We are playing Wigan who are the form team in the competition so the challenge doesn't come any bigger but we have no reason to be scared of them. We are excited about playing Wigan and we have no reason to fear them," said Matterson. "Wigan are very buoyant at the moment and understandab  

THE Seniors Section at Taunton and Pickeridge Golf Club ran their annual Hamp Trophy Competition on March 15. This was played prior to the annual meeting where outgoing seniors' captain John Martin handed over the captaincy to Roger Nation. David Edmundson was appointed seniors vice-captain for the forthcoming year.  

Tigers toughed out a 20-16 win over Catalans Dragons in Perpignan to end a four-game losing run. "It feels a lot better," Matterson said of the mood in the camp following Cas' second success of engage Super League XV. "We needed it. They (Catalans) probably did as well, but there can only be one winner.  

The Dragons players had joined over 100 fans in clearing 40 centimetres of snow from the pitch during the week and they made an excellent start to open up a 10-0 lead. * Click here for latest YEP news. But the visitors roared back to score four unanswered tries and assume a 20-10 lead, meaning a late try from Casey McGuire was not enough for the French side. *  

Westerman was a late withdrawal from the team which lost at Hull last week, due to an infected knee. He was among the Tigers party which flew to Girona today, before a coach transfer to the south of France. * Click here to watch the latest edition of the YEP's rugby league programme The Sin Bin. Tigers are without forward Paul Jackson, who suffered a groin injury at Hull, so on-loan Warrington pack man Mike Cooper is set to make his debut. *  

Catalans coach Kevin Walters will have to do without winger Dimitri Pelo and centre Adam Mogg. The pair join captain Thomas Bosc, William Barthau and Jean-Philippe Baile on the sidelines. Castleford will hand new loan signing Mike Cooper his debut as they bid to end a run of four straight defeats. Prop Paul Jackson picked up a groin injury in last week's defeat at Hull and is replaced by Joe Westerman, who missed the trip to the KC Stadium.

You have to look at the good things that happened during our pre-season tour of France, because we got a good win against Catalans then.   -Terry Matterson

 

Catalans Dragons have given Saturday's engage Super League clash against Castleford Tigers the green light following a successful snow-clearing operation. The fixture was under threat after 40cm of snow fell in Perpignan earlier this week, but a group of 100 volunteers helped the players and groundstaff to clear the pitch. "We had 40 more volunteers this morning and we have completely cleared the snow from the field," said Catalans spokesman Yannic Rey. "It is now sunny and the field is perfect. The  

Rugby Football League disciplinary chiefs meted out a lenient £1,000 fine after Senior accused Silverwood of being "arrogant" in the aftermath of the 2010 Gillette World Club Challenge defeat to Melbourne Storm. The RFL tribunal handed down the fine – £500 of which has been suspended for the remainder of the season – at a hearing at Red Hall where Senior pleaded guilty to being in breach of the RFL's Respect policy and Operational Rule D1.10(i) (Criticism of Match Official). It states that "no person

It has been a great experience to share the progress being made by the Giants on and off the field, highlighted by last season's appearance at Wembley and third place in the Super League.   -Luke Robinson

 

INJURY-hit Castleford Tigers have signed 21-year-old Warrington forward Mike Cooper on a one month loan deal. Cooper is poised to make his Tigers debut in Saturday's engage Super League match against Catalans Dragons in Perpignan. Tigers coach Terry Matterson said: "Mike is a big, strong young forward who I feel can do a good job for us.

Mike is a big, strong young forward who I feel can do a good job for us.   -Terry Matterson