DARWEN dominated the final East Lancashire Golf Association competition of the season on Sunday as they took the Evening Telegraph Mixed Foursomes team prize.

The host club won the PLM Stocks Trophy for the best gross team prize for the first time since Darwen last held the event in 1986.

Last year's net winners Burnley carried off the gross awards, both for team and individual scores, while Clitheroe provided the individual net champions.

Graham and Barbara Fielding led the way for Darwen with a gross 89, finishing up with 73.5 once the handicap had been deducted.

Barry Corden and Betty Hargreaves posted 92-18-74 while Barry and Marjorie Ashcroft carded 96-16.5-79.5 to complete the Darwen winning total of 227.

An aggregate gross of 272 gave Burnley the Tom Nuttall Memorial Trophy, helped mainly by Clifford and Karen Hopwood's 82, the best score of the day.

They won the best individual gross prize after a card play-off with Gerald Harwood and Val Rampling form Shaw Hill, who also posted 82.

David Lancaster and Dawn Elliot were another pair in Burnley's gross winning team with 94 and a 96 from Kim Stevens and Audray Hill also contributed to the success.

Clitheroe's net champions were Phil Leaver and Pat Murray, who hit a gross 84 which reduced to 68 after the 16 handicap was slashed from it.

A card play-off using the back nine was decisive in deciding the runners-up, who were Mark Rolfe and Ann Lomas for Blackburn, with 92-20-72.

Marsden Park pair Drew Melville and Julie Hargreaves had to settle for third place after scoring 85-13-72.

BURNLEY'S 5- victory over 2001 champions Longridge saw them celebrate the biggest ever points haul in winning the Standard Life North West Seniors Golf League.

Their players received the league trophy, their individual mementos and a voucher for £25 each on the President's Day at Wilpshire Golf Club on Wednesday, September 17.

The most improved team this season, Nelson, chased them all the way to the final few games but had to settle for runners-up spot.

Their final two matches resulted in a 4 to 1 victory over former champions Wilpshire but then were surprisingly held at home 3-3 by the improving Mytton Fold.

RICHARD Tyrrell won the Ken Holding Trophy when he became junior champion at Clitheroe Golf Club.

The best net prize went to James Taylor with a 66, two shots better than James Kenyon and Tim Swarbrick, who finished third.

Jack Rothwell took the under 12s prize with a nett 70 and Brogan Cook was nominated the most improved young golfer.

Outstanding scores continue to flow from the club's junior members, further illustrated by results in last week's medal won by William Child, net 60, followed by Jacob Foley 67, Zac Foley, 72, and Stefano Coppola.