Archives for Sport - Page 13
Battlers of Hastings
Hastings United ended a winless sequence of seven league and cup games last Tuesday (3 October) by upsetting Carshalton Athletic, previously unbeaten in the Bostik League. The 2-0 scoreline at…
Uncertain Start For New ‘U’s Boss Agutter
Hastings United's uncertain start to the new football season lurched into apparent crisis last week with the exit of further key players, resignation of manager Adam Hinshelwood after a tenure…
Plan B: Kids United?
It was on Match of the Day in August 1995 that Alan Hansen made his famous assessment - “You can't win anything with kids”. He was commenting on an early…
Rowe Sees Red, United Battle In Vain
Forget the goal-fests of last season, the 4-4 draws, the seat-of-pants defending. Hastings United would settle for half the excitement in the current league campaign provided that it ends successfully…
Mind Over Matter: Hastings Tennis Coach Pete Farthing Goes Mental
Peter Farthing is a professional hypnotherapist, trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and advanced coaching skills. He offers solutions to problems such as anxiety, addiction, stammering, fear of flying and other…
Jada Prepares For Wimbledon Finals
Hastings tennis junior Jada Ani, 13, was attending the Costa Del Tennis camp sessions in Barcelona last week after qualifying to play in the finals of the HSBC Road to…
Hastings Open – 100 Not Out
It was in September 1911 that the first formal Hastings Bowls Tournament was contested. It was then known as the Hastings and St Leonards Bowls and Quoits Tournament and took…
Sporting Summer: Holiday Fare
We report elsewhere on the town's present sporting harvest at adult level. But with schools out until September, summer is also the time for junior sporting seeds to be sown…
Sporting Summer: The Season So Far
It's been a mixed summer so far for the town's leading sports teams - some victories, some disappointments, and some wait-and-see. Hastings and Bexhill RFC's rugby players should take pride…
Indoor Courts For Rye? Play Continues
Most tennis clubs, not just locally but up and down the country, have long abandoned grass for a variety of all-weather artificial surfaces. Exceptionally Rother Meads Tennis and Games Club…
Sporting Twins: Orwell Got It Wrong
In November 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, the Dynamo Moscow football team were invited to make a supposedly goodwill tour of Britain. The Russians,…
Swimming More Like Fish
At the Moscow Olympics in 1980 Duncan Goodhew won the 100 metres breast stroke in a time of 1 minute seconds. Twenty-two years later his feat was included in Channel…
Hastings Seagull Club: Talent and Dedication
At am on a Thursday morning - every Thursday morning - over 30 local swimmers, mostly teenagers but many considerably younger, will start their competition training session at the Battle…
No Promotion – But ‘U’s Board Backs Players
Simon Johnson - contract renewed for 2017-18 ; pic Scott White So the bravura season of goals and more goals ended short of its promotion target. Agonising…
Going To The Dogs
We go to the dog track on Saturday nights We put all our money on a dog that we like A kiss an' a cuddle, an 'ot meat pie Two…
Ton-Up United Keep Heaping The Goals
Jack Evans in action against Carshalton; credit Scott White Hastings United have become the first club in the top eight tiers of English football to score a hundred league goals…
The Winning Habit
So much of success in sport is confidence - winning breeds more victories, losing saps belief. So Hastings United's two home wins last week, 3-0 against Horsham, 4-0 over Whyteleafe,…
Wisdens – 120 years of Sport in the Community
What is the sporting centrepiece of Hastings? Footballers might choose Pilot Field, tennis players the courts of Amherst or The Green, athletes the track at William Parker, hockey players the…
Hastings Runners – Biggest (And Cheapest) Club In Town
The sports clubs and societies of Hastings and St Leonards are legion. From American footballers and archers through to yachting sailors and yoga groups the experience of gathering together for…
Hold the Back Page – And Look at the Listings!
by Sports Editor, Hugh Sullivan Here is our new sports page - same as the old one but now closest it can squeeze to the back of the newspaper without…
January Jitters
Injuries and defensive frailties continue to jinx the fortunes of Hastings United by Hugh Sullivan I’ve been learning an American swing dance popularised in the early 1930s called The Balboa.…
Team Hastings 2016 Review
Hugh Sullivan It's been a frustrating year on the pitch for the town's leading football club Hastings United. They seemed well capable under the management of Garry Wilson of reaching…
Junior Club Tackleway: A Hundred Years of Sport
A hundred years ago this month, in November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was reaching its murderous close, every town in the land suffering unprecedented losses of young men…
United: Here We Go?
Like a tsunami it has rolled in from the deep with hardly an anticipatory breath: the announcement earlier this month of serious proposals to build a brand new multi-sports complex…
Junior club tackleway – a hundred years of sport
A hundred years ago this month, in November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was reaching its murderous close, every town in the land suffering unprecedented losses of young men…
Freshwater Fishing: Is Biggest Best?
by Mark Cunnington Several weeks ago a carp weighing over 70 pounds was taken from The Avenue Fishery in Shropshire: a British record for rod-and-line fishing. Once details of the…
Mini or crazy – it’s serious stuff
credit Marion Homer, KMGA credit Marion Homer KMGA When you and I play crazy golf on the sea-front we're there for a laugh. Competitive we may be, and secretly believing…
Hastings Priory cricket: playing for the team
Jed O'Brien (Priory) bowled by Sam Roberts (Bexhill)credit: Reg Wood Event Photography Among many intriguing aspects of the game of cricket is the relationship between individual players and the team…
Hastings honours boxing greats
Three hundred fight enthusiasts from all over Britain, including several legendary ex-boxers, will converge at the Azur on St Leonards sea-front this Sunday afternoon. There's no live boxing to view.…
14 year-old from Hastings is third best unicyclist in the world
by Pete Donohue Dekki Sudiarta, born and raised in Hastings, first discovered his natural talent as a unicyclist at age eleven. The Rye Community College student was initially inspired…
DARREN DEALS, SHUFFLES…AND FINDS AN ACE
As previously reported the new football season brings a fresh management team to Hastings United: Darren Hare, long-time back-room coach at Gillingham has arrived as manager, and former Chelsea defender…
Priory celebrate fine finish
Some games, even tense ones, end essentially in frustration. In football the side that's leading (or settling for a draw) takes the ball down to the corner flag and depletes…
Bowls: mixing the Open
The Hastings Annual Mixed Open Bowls Tournament runs five days next week, Monday to Saturday. There are men's singles, ladies' singles, men's pairs, ladies' pairs and open triples - open…
Canoe Club: the freedom of the sea
Hastings and District Canoe Club don't enjoy the most charismatic of club-houses, a concrete shell among the beach huts beyond Cinque Ports Way. Their canoes and kayaks are stored in…
The Beached Commodore
Don Bowles is sitting in the open veranda of the Hastings & St Leonards Sailing clubhouse, walkie-talkie in hand, looking out onto the beach where an array of dinghies is…
Cricket: Priory enjoys home supremacy
credit Regwood Event Photography If Hastings prides itself on welcoming incomers, that friendly reception does not extend to the cricket pitch at Horntye. Last summer the Priory club won eight…
The Sea at Hastings: A Sails Pitch
The sea created Hastings as a fishing port and base for defending against invasion - the famous Ann Bonaventure ship, manned by a Hastings crew, fought against the Spanish Armada.…
Grassroots football in mudslide
You look from a distance. The green sward stretches invitingly between sets of goalposts across the level playing field. Could be a perfect surface for skilful flowing football. Look closer…
Winning at tennis: 10,000 hours to spare?
In his best-selling book Outliers American author Malcolm Gladwell promoted an arresting thesis. Prodigious performances, he declared, whether in the arts or in sciences in any other spheres of human…