Celtic edge into topfour after tight win

BATTYEFORD Airedale Celtic moved up to fourth place in Wakefield League Division One following a 3-2 victory over Inns of Court last Saturday.

They are now just two points behind third placed Prince of Wales with two games in hand, while they are three behind Black Swan Normanton after Tim Hudson, Tim Bruce and Lee Halstead scored to secure their win.

Battyeford will be aiming to cause a shock this week when they host Overthorpe Sports in the Wheatley Cup.

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Gawthorpe remain five points clear at the top of Division One after they recorded a seventh straight league win, returning from Woodhouse Hill WMC with a convincing 6-0 win and they entertain Howden Clough in the Wheatley Cup this week.

Thornhill may be struggling near the foot of the Premier Division but they progressed to the third round of the Jim Callaghan Cup thanks to a hard-fought 4-3 win over Wagon.

They will be aiming to climb out of the bottom two when they entertain Rose and Crown Darton this week.

Michael Thompson and Robert Smith were on target as Dewsbury Rangers defeated Morley Town 2-0 in the first round of the Callaghan Cup.

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Rangers will be aiming to progress in another competition on Saturday as they host Ravensthorpe Bulls in the Wheatley Cup.

Old Bank WMC will be aiming to bounce back from last week’s 1-0 defeat at Nostell MW in Division One of the Wakefield League when they meet Soothill in the Wheatley Cup on Saturday.

Tim Crabtree hit a consolation goal for Dewsbury Rangers Reserves as they went down 4-1 at home to Railway in Division Three and they are in league action again this week against Waterloo,

In the Spen Valley and District Football League, Ravensthorpe Rangers opened the scoring against Bradford but lost 3-2 to the visitors.

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TVR beat Girlington 2-1 while Savile Youth lost 4-1 at home to BD3.

In Division 1, ALC had an 8-3 victory over Ravensthorpe Bulls after leading 4-1 at half-time.

Des Dixon, Aaron Irvin and Karl Hall scored two goals each with the others coming from Ashley Dutton and an own goal.

Brian Ryland, Dean Madden and Dominic Simpson scored for Bulls.

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Norfolk beat Bulls Head Dewsbury 4-0. Bham netted a hat-trick and Kyle Audsley also scored.

Howden Clough drew 3-3 with Fairbank Res after leading by three goals at half-time.

Naveed Khan scored two and Mazhar Iqbal one for Fairbank.

Inter Batley drew 2-2 with Cleckheaton Sporting. Alan Wilks and Tim Wilkinson scored the fightback goals for Cleck.

BD3 beat Soothill 4-2 thanks to goals from Sultan Khan, Ismail Malik, Bilaal Hussain and Sajia Khan.

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