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 table. It’s early days, but the fifth successive victory -…
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 at the Beauport Park golf club (briefly re-branded as Hastings…
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 his thoughts on how Roger Hyder can get the club…
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 way past rough clumps of shoulder-high grass on either side.…
GOLF: Not Enough Memberes? Criticise those you’ve got
Hastings & St Leonards Golf Club, formerly Beauport Park GC, was wound up and its course closed earlier this month after its owners Kellie and Chris Hawes announced ‘an extreme decrease in trade’. Their bar and restaurant which served the…
FOOTBALL: Confident Agutter Plays It Southgate Style
On 24 October last year Hastings United slipped to 15th in the Bostik League South after conceding two late goals in a 2-1 home defeat by Thamesmead Town. Manager Chris Agutter, elevated from assistant less than a month before following…
CRICKET: Priory Down and (almost) out
Hastings & St Leonards Priory suffered two more Sussex Premier League defeats over the past two Saturdays, their tenth and eleventh of the season. Now more than 50 points adrift of Cuckfield, the next team above them, they must resign…
FOOTBALL: Knee Surgery for Rodari
‘U’s Italian striker will be sidelined for months Hastings United FC have released news that teenage striker Davide Rodari, the boy from Novara in Italy who made such an impact last season at Pilot Field as regular front player and…
CRICKET: Troubled Priory in line for drop
The three year tenure of Hastings & St Leonards Priory cricketers in the Sussex Premier League seems to be slipping away without reprieve or consolation. On the last two Saturdays, 14 and 21 July, the team suffered its eighth and…
TABLE TENNIS: Fraser’s Top Table
Claremont provides elite venue for local star by Ben Cornwell Upcoming talent Fraser Kent, 15, who lives in Heathfield but plays for Hollington Academy in the Hastings League, is among those benefitting from a recent move of Weald Table Tennis Club…