Archives for Sport - Page 11
FOOTBALL: Managing Disappointment
Who would be a football manager? Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino experienced the highest of highs last week as each guided their respective teams, Liverpool and Spurs, back from the…
SAILING: Boat People
On Saturday 25th May, as part of the Royal Yachting Association’s annual initiative Push The Boat Out, Hastings & St Leonards Sailing Club is holding an open day. Adults and…
FOOTBALL: Not Going Up
Hastings United drew a crowd of 1,123 - the biggest at Pilot Field for over six years – for their Bostik League play-off semifinal on Monday night. But for the…
ROWING: Ruling The Waves
Formed in 1868, Hastings Rowing Club may not be quite the oldest sporting institution in town - some form of cricket was being played by the Priory Club at the…
RUGBY: Cup Challenge for H&B
By Peter Knight Hastings & Bexhill RFC face their toughest challenge of the season, as they prepare to take on Horsham in the final of the Bob Rogers Sussex Cup.…
GOLF: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Roger Hyder, director of Beauport Park Golf Club, is back where he started his professional career. In his early 20s he was senior assistant pro here before being headhunted to…
FOOTBALL: Calculators at the Ready
After Hastings United’s 1-1 home draw with Hythe Town last Saturday they need just three points from their last three games in the Bostik League South-East to qualify for the…
RUGBY: Heroic H&B Fall Short
Beccehamian 31, Hastings & Bexhill 24 By Peter Knight They came, they fought and though they did not conquer, Hastings & Bexhill gave their all - as they have done all…
HOCKEY: Season Of Redemption For Saxon Ladies
This time last year the South Saxons Ladies team were relegated from the Sussex Premier League by the very last hit of the 2017/18 season. A year on, the tears…
FOOTBALL: Peaking For the Play-Offs?
Hastings United notched a fourth successive Bostik League victory at Pilot Field last Saturday, overcoming tidy but limited opposition from visitors Ramsgate to win 3-0. This followed a 3-1 away…
British invention, Asian take-over
Like so many sports that have come to be played worldwide, the game of badminton was invented, or at least developed and codified into a recognisable form, by Victorian gentlemen…
BADMINTON: Helenswood Hosts Elite Coach
Badminton is the most popular racket sport in Britain, with more numerous regular players than tennis among both sexes. Badminton England claims that there are over 1,800 clubs in the…
FOOTBALL: Rodari Returns, United Revive
Young Italian striker Davide Rodari, top scorer last year but out since pre-season after surgery on an anterior cruciate ligament and not expected to play at all in the current…
RUGBY: Blown Home!
Hastings and Bexhill 17, Bromley 6 By Peter Knight The upper slopes of Ark William Parker playing fields, often a different climate zone from the rest of Hastings, caught the…
FOOTBALL: Late Goals Depress United Hopes
Hastings United have slumped from second to fifth in the Bostik League South East over the past fortnight as they suffered successive defeats – 2-1 away at East Grinstead on…
FOOTBALL: Brilliant Ajakaiye Boosts United
After four games without a win that had resulted in Hastings United slipping to third place in the Bostik League South-East, last Saturday’s 2-1 home win over Faversham Town came…
HOCKEY: Saxons Heading For Double Promotion
South Saxons hockey teams, men and ladies, moved closer to a potential double promotion with excellent victories last Saturday. The men overcame Gillingham Anchorians 4-2 at Horntye to record their…
FOOTBALL: Two Red Cards, Two Home Points Dropped
Hastings United had to settle for a 1–1 draw at home to Guernsey last Saturday after conceding a first half penalty, then two dismissals – leaving them to play nearly…
CRICKET: Horntye – BOWLED OUT
Hugh Sullivan talks with Priory chair John Morgan It’s a Friday night at the beginning of February, and snowing outside, but John Morgan, chair of Hastings & St Leonards Priory…
HOCKEY: Rampant Saxons Stretch League Lead
South Saxons Ladies hockey team have hit new heights this month. Unbeaten since the start of the season they had won nine victories in ten matches in Division One of…
FOOTBALL: Mongoy Hat-Trick Keeps United Bubbling
Hastings United gave what many observers considered to be their best performance of the season in defeating promotion rivals Whyteleafe 3-0 at Pilot Field last Saturday. Particular plaudits went to…
FOOTBALL: Agutter – A Forthright Interviewee
Hugh Sullivan asked questions of United manager Chris Agutter shortly before the match with Sittingbourne last Saturday. He is never afraid to give straight answers HS: You’ve explained in the…
FOOTBALL: United In Cruise Mode
On a cold afternoon last Saturday Hastings United consolidated their second place in the Bostik League with a 5-0 home victory over Sittingbourne. All five goals came in the first…
Sports Review 2018
The most celebrated sporting moment for Hastings in 2018 came arguably on New Year’s Day when former local electrician, Rob Cross, who had turned professional less than 12 months before,…
HORNTYE: Cricket, Hockey Clubs Stay Put
A year ago it all looked so promising. The directors of Hastings United FC and trustees of the Horntye estate were proceeding with a joint venture to sell off their…
United Rue Missed Chances
Hastings United lost 2-1 to Cray Wanderers in their top-of-the-table clash at Bromley on Sunday. Cray thus march on with 34 points from 12 matches in the Bostik League South-East,…
COMMUNITY SPORT: Sport For Life’s Sake
Martin Eglington, Active Communities Officer for Freedom Leisure, has always looked for opportunities to involve himself in sporting activity. Born and bred in Hastings, he aimed at becoming a professional…
Freedom Leisure: The Sporting Brand
Not so long ago physical activity was the assumed fundamental of human experience. Homo sapiens may have come to dominate the world by applying co-operative brain power, but the vast…
FOOTBALL: Turn Off The Pilot Light
Hastings United want new stadium on the playing fields of Tilekiln The proposal to build a new sports complex for Hastings at Combe Haven, which was floated with such pride…
Showdown At Bromley On Remembrance Day
Hastings United had won six out of seven Bostik League games this season and lay fourth in the table with several games in hand on teams above them prior to…
The Continuity Of Sport
A century of sports reporting in Hastings Sport is generally a conservative cultural form. The aims of running faster, jumping higher, showing greater strength - citius, altius, fortius, as the…
FOOTBALL: Another Saturday, Another Cup Round
Heroics at Leiston, now it’s another 220-mile round trip to Hitchin It’s not often that a team has three players sent off in a match, yet receives universal plaudits across…
FOOTBALL: Pilot Field To Premier League?
A high percentage of Premier League players started their careers within a top level academy like Manchester United or Chelsea. More were bought in with a multi-million pound price tag…
RUGBY: H&B Leave It Late (Again)
In their opening game of the season on 8 September Hastings & Bexhill achieved an astonishing 26-26 draw with Park House by scoring two tries, the second of them converted,…
FOOTBALL: Up For The Cup
All football clubs, great and small, are bound to regard league matches as their bread-and-butter. Whether you’re English Premier League or Bostik League South East, it is the league schedule…
BMX: The Battle of Hastings – on Wheels
By Rod Webb Walking along the promenade past Source Park a couple of weekends ago, you’d have probably been unaware of a major international competition taking place right under your…
FOOTBALL: United Go Top
Hastings United continued their winning ways last Saturday with a comfortable 3-0 victory at Pilot Field over Phoenix Sports that puts them top of the Bostik League South East…
GOLF “A Club Close To My Heart”
Former Pro Returns to Manage Beauport It didn’t take too long after all. We reported in these columns two weeks ago that the disastrous tenure of Chris and Kellie Hawes…
GOLF: The Giddins Experience
Charles Giddins, former golf pro and director of the company which held the lease of the clubhouse and course at Beauport Park from 2005 until July last year gives HIP…
GOLF CLOSURE: Par for the Course
A public footpath between Whatlington and Netherfield runs between fairways of what used, until three or four years ago, to be Battle Golf Club. These days occasional walkers make their…