Archives for Cricket
CRICKET: The Great Escape
Priory win by two runs to retain Premier status 29 August: Hastings & St Leonards Priory; Three Bridges rained off5 September: Priory 251 for 8; Preston Nomads 249 for 9…
CRICKET: Priory Thriller Ends in Tie
15 August: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 154 all out; Bognor Regis 155 for 4 22 August: Priory 237 for 9; Horsham 237 for 7 HUGH SULLIVAN After suffering a comprehensive home…
CRICKET: Team Priory Find a Higher Gear
1 August: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 231 for 8; Middleton 184 all out 8 August: Roffey 244 for 6; Priory 201 for 7 HUGH SULLIVAN Craig NowlanShawn Johnson bowling against Roffey…
CRICKET: Chastening Defeats for Priory
18 July: West Chiltington & Thakeham 231 for 9; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 181 all out25 July: Priory 237 all out; Haywards Heath 238 for 3 HUGH SULLIVAN After their encouraging win against…
CRICKET: First Win in Eight For Priory
4 July: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 267 all out; Preston Nomads 216 for 7 11 July: Cuckfield 152 all out; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 156 for 5 HUGH SULLIVAN The…
CRICKET: Priory Sink to League Bottom
20 June: Horsham 220 for 9; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 185 for 9 27 June: Priory 303 for 9; Three Bridges 304 for 2 Craig NowlanAlfie Hunter - top score against…
Cricket: Priory Fightback Falls Short
13 June: Hastings and St Leonards Priory: 204 for 8; Bognor Regis: 285 for 9 After last week’s fixture was washed out by dreadful weather, Hastings and St Leonards Priory travelled to The Regis…
CRICKET: Team Priory Back in the Groove
9 May: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 308 for 7, Cuckfield 311 for 3 16 May: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 220 all out, West Chiltington & Thakeham 169 all out HUGH SULLIVAN Craig NowlanJohn…
CRICKET: Premier League: ‘We Want to Compete’
HUGH SULLIVAN For the fourth time in the last six years, the cricketers of Hastings and St Leonards Priory are preparing for a summer season among the ten elite teams of the…
CRICKET: Team Priory Triumphant
30 August: Eastbourne 135, Hastings & St Leonards Priory 139 for 6 6 September: Priory 220 for 9, St James’s Montefiore 143 HUGH SULLIVAN The summer of 2025 should be…
CRICKET: Priory Ease Towards Promotion
16 August: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 306 for 8, Worthing 250 for 8;23 August: Priory 228 for 7, Roffey 2nd XI 97; HUGH SULLIVAN It’s been a comfortable fortnight…
CRICKET: Thrilling Win Puts Priory Back on Top
2 August: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 262 for 6, Mayfield 183;9 August: West Chiltington & Thakeham 189, Priory 190 for 7 HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings & St Leonards Priory returned…
CRICKET: Bad Day, Good Day for Priory Bowlers
19 July; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 154 for 9: Brighton & Hove 155 for 326 July; Priory 233 for 9: Buxted Park 151 HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings & St Leonards…
CRICKET: Priory Surmount Injury Knocks
5 July; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 202 for 5: St James’s Montefiore 205 for 5 12 July; Preston Nomads 2nd XI 148: Priory 149 for 3 HUGH SULLIVAN It’s…
CRICKET: Priory Frustrated by Last Pair
21 June; Roffey 2nd XI 272 for 6: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 278 for 828 June; Priory 194: Eastbourne 110 for 9 HUGH SULLIVAN In a topsy turvy game…
CRICKET: Scowen Hits Ton, Priory Go Top
7 June: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 167; West Chiltington & Thakeham 58 for 4 (rained off) 14 June: Worthing 195; Priory 197 for 2 HUGH SULLIVAN Only three points…
CRICKET: Priory Dominate With Bat And Ball
24 May: Buxted Park 61; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 64 for 2 31 May: Priory 245 for 5; Mayfield 190 HUGH SULLIVAN Two comfortable wins over the past fortnight…
CRICKET: Priory’s Spinners Regain Control
10 May: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 251-7; Preston Nomads 2nds 252-5 17 May: Brighton & Hove 181; Priory 182-4 HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory…
CRICKET: Priory Line Up Without Overseas Recruit
HUGH SULLIVAN An unusually dry and sunny spring has brought cricket weather early this year, and the Horntye Park pitch off Bohemia Road is looking a pretty picture. The Hastings…
CRICKET: Umpire Wanted
Hastings & St Leonards Priory Cricket Club are looking for an umpire to officiate in their 2nd XI matches for the 2025 season in Division 4 East of the Sussex…
TEAM SPORTS: Another Sporting Dawn at Horntye?
HUGH SULLIVAN The Horntye estate currently provides the town’s primary cricket ground and only current hockey pitch alongside a pavilion complex and large sports hall. Its trustees, the Hastings and…
The Year In Sport 2024
ATHLETICS At Hastings Athletics Club (HAC) it’s been a busy and successful year for the club in every discipline - from local events to international level – as it celebrated…
CRICKET: The Royals’ First Season
HUGH SULLIVAN The Sussex Cricket League, whose 2024 season ended earlier this month, spreads over 39 Divisions, accommodating over 370 teams between Bosham in the west and Rye in the…
CRICKET: Over and Out
Gallant Priory Relegated After Nail-Biting Finish 31 August: Bognor Regis 119 all out; Hastings Priory 120 for 4 7 September: Hastings Priory 165 for 7; Horsham 166 for 9 HUGH SULLIVAN It all came…
CRICKET: Priory On the Brink
17 August: Worthing 248 for 9; Hastings Priory 249 for 7 24 August: Hastings Priory v Preston Nomads match cancelled (rain) HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory kept alive…
CRICKET: Depleted Priory Beaten Twice More
3 August:Middleton 367 for 5; Hastings Priory 140 all out 10 August Hastings Priory 160; Three Bridges 166 for 5 HUGH SULLIVAN Naz MontagTom Gillespie, captain in 2021 Two heavy defeats for…
CRICKET: Priory Fighting Tight Relegation Battle
6 July: Horsham 85 for 2 v Hastings Priory (match rained off) 13 July: Roffey 225 for 7; Hastings Priory 216 for 8 20 July: East Grinstead 151 all out; …
CRICKET: Priory Dismantled Twice in Eight Days
22 June:Hastings Priory 214 for 8; Preston Nomads 217 for 0 29 June:Hastings Priory 139 all out; Bognor Regis 142 for 0 HUGH SULLIVAN Dave YoungCaleb Laloo: 228 runs for…
CRICKET: Priory Consolidate
8 June: Hastings Priory 247 for 9; Three Bridges 251 for 5 15 June:Worthing 113; Hastings Priory 114 for 4 After the first six matches of this season’s Sussex Premier League…
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Priory Batting Comes Up Short 25 May:Hastings Priory 175; Cuckfield 176 for 2 1 June: Middleton 214 for 4; Hastings Priory 155 all out HUGH SULLIVAN In winning their opening two matches, the…
CRICKET: Scowen Leads From The Front
11 May: Hastings Priory 316 for 5; Roffey 306 for 9 18 May: Hastings Priory 204 for 8; East Grinstead 104 all out HUGH SULLIVAN Hugh SullivanHarry Scowen after century at Horntye The…
CRICKET: Priory Set For Horntye Return
HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory will start a fresh Sussex Premier League campaign tomorrow (Saturday) when they travel to Horsham side Roffey. The next day…
CRICKET: Priory Set to Return to Horntye for 2024
Sussex Premier League cricket is set to return to Horntye Park for at least one more season following the withdrawal of plans for the Hastings & St Leonards Priory club…
CRICKET:Stuttering Priory Seal Division 2 Title
26 August:Worthing 132 for 9; Hastings Priory 135 for 32 September:Brighton & Hove 98; Hastings Priory 99 for 8HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory were celebrating…
CRICKET: Priory Pursue Promotion
12 August:Chichester Priory Park 123; Hastings Priory 127 for 619 AugustWest Chiltington & Thakeham 128; Hastings Priory 129 for 6HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory have…
CRICKET: Local Bragging Rights Maintained
29 July: Crowhurst Park 102; Hastings Priory 103 for 5 Hastings Priory completed their third successive victory over local rivals Crowhurst this summer, when winning by five wickets in their…
CRICKET: Scowen Ton Nullified by Rain
15 July:Haywards Heath 196 for 9; Hastings Priory 12822 July:Hastings Priory 205 for 7 v Burgess Hill(match abandoned) Hastings may boast the most sunshine hours of any town in England…
Cricket: Win, lose, win again
1 July:Brighton & Hove 132;Hastings Priory 134 for 22 July:Haywards Heath 260 for 7; Hastings Priory 1428 July:St James’s Montefiore 111; Hastings Priory 113 for 7 Dave YoungAlex Osborne -…
CRICKET: Run- Chases Fall Short
3 June:Buxted Park 288 for 8; Hastings Priory 27410 June:Hastings Priory 286 for 6; Chichester Priory Park 271HUGH SULLIVAN There was a marked symmetry in games contested by Hastings &…
CRICKET: Priory dominate Crowhurst in league showdown
20 May:Hastings Priory 238 for 9: Burgess Hill 234 for 8Haywards Heath 263 for 9: Crowhurst Park 16527 May:Crowhurst Park 162; Hastings Priory 163 for 3 The cricketers of Hastings…