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March
AFC Kempston set a new record for the longest unbeaten run in the top flight, before losing at Eynesbury on
Easter Saturday in their 33
rd
game of the season….The first champions of the season are Peterborough Sports
who beat Thrapston on Easter Monday to win the Division One title with five games remaining….Peterborough
Sports claim a third Premier scalp in Cogenhoe to reach their first League Knockout Cup final….Holbeach beat
Wisbech in a Fenland derby to reach their third Knockout Cup final….Newport Pagnell reach a record fifth
Berks & Bucks Senior Trophy final….Leicester Nirvana book a place in the Leicestershire Challenge Cup
final….Cogenhoe and Rothwell Corinthians reach the Reserve Knockout Cup final…Desborough coach Dave
Williams completes a 1,000
th
game involvement as a manager or coach….Northampton Spencer chairman
Graham Wrighting is to step down after 34 years in the chair at Kingsthorpe Mill….Bugbrooke part company
with manager Chris Brown and appoint youth team boss Jon Inwood to the post for the rest of the
season….Raff Mazzarella takes charge at Peterborough Northern Star, succeeding Seb Hayes….Lee Harriman
resigns as Oadby manager, Owen Wright and Phil Wadsworth taking charge for the rest of the
campaign….Brett Whaley resigns as Wisbech boss with Dick Creasey returning for the remainder of the
season….Ian Benjamin quits as Yaxley manager….The latest milestone in Conor Washington’s career sees him
appear for Northern Ireland and he scores the winner in his second game against Slovenia….Sleaford’s
Harrison Allen makes the headlines after apologising for the break in tweets having gone on as a substitute for
the Greens in their Easter Monday match with Boston Town…..Northern Premier League Daventry apply to
drop to step 6 for the 2016-17 season….Manager of the Month awards are won by Nick Pollard of Harborough
and John Cairns of Stewarts & Lloyds….Dan Cotton of Yaxley is the Goalscorer of the Month….The league’s
transfer window closes with 235 moves recorded for the season….Irchester’s Ashlee Adebayo scores for a
tenth successive Reserve Division match.
April
A thrilling finish to the Premier Division season sees AFC Kempston take the title as a 7-0 win over Boston
Town edges them past Leicester Nirvana with a superior goal difference of two….ON Chenecks win 5-0 at
Burton Park to take second place in Division One….Rushden & Higham are crowned Reserve Division
champions with Raunds runners up….Rothwell Corinthians beat Cogenhoe 2-1 at Thrapston to win the Reserve
Knockout Cup for the first time….Newport Pagnell lose 2-0 to Flackwell Heath in the Berks & Bucks Senior
Trophy final….Eynesbury go down 2-0 to St Ives in the Huntingdonshire Senior Cup final….Olney lose 2-1 to
Risborough in the final of the Berks & Bucks Intermediate Cup…Peterborough Northern Star beat Netherton 5-
0 in the Northants Junior Cup final….The Rushden & Higham second string beat Wellingborough Rising Sun 3-1
to win the Northants Lower Junior Cup….Kettering Elite equal a league record victory as they beat Yaxley 20-0
in the Under 21 Division….Brett Whaley rejoins Yaxley as manager….Steve Wilson is to leave Bourne at the end
of the campaign…Chris Robson will vacate the Buckingham hot seat at season’s end….Anton Sambrook is to
leave his managerial role at Cogenhoe at the end of the season….Tommy Jaszczun resigns as Whitworth
boss….Dale Brunton leaves the Rushden & Higham hot seat….Northampton Spencer’s last first team home
game in the league sees them beaten 1-0 by local rivals Sileby….Post match an overnight break in sees the
clubhouse wrecked by vandalism.
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