Ossie Rangers have become the first club to win the Dave Smith Memorial Trophy for outstanding achievement in the Accrington and District Boys League.

Rangers scooped a string of individual and team awards but it was the trophy to remember a man who had put so much in to junior football that was the most coveted.

Dave Smith, who helped set up Great Harwood Rovers, sadly passed away last year but the league has made sure everything he stood for will not be forgotten.

Rangers were crowned under 10s winners and under nines runners-up while Dom Knowles and Jack Cook were named players of the season.

The club also picked up sportsmen of the season awards at under nines, 10s and 11s.

Under nines manager Howard Cook said: "We have been lucky to win a lot of awards this season but personally the Dave Smith Memorial Trophy is the one I hold in the highest esteem.

"I knew Dave from my time at Great Harwood Rovers and I think what we have achieved this season is everything Dave looked for in football.

"We play the game the way it should be played, play to win but in the right spirit."

He added: "I think was the league has done is magnificent because it is only right that the work Dave has put in to football should be remembered."