HOCKEY
Saxons Competitive When Allowed For the first team players of South Saxons hockey club, both men and women, this month’s lockdown interrupted upturns in form. The men’s team, retaining their status in the Kent/Sussex 1 regional division of the South…
FOOTBALL
Going So Well It was all going so well for the players, management and supporters of Hastings United. Five successive league wins sending them to the top of the Isthmian League table; advancement in the FA Trophy and Sussex Senior…
FOOTBALL
United Host SheGoals Project Believing that the Beautiful Game transcends all social barriers, Hastings social enterprise Eggtooth is combining with the United club to promote a new project in women’s football. The title they have given it is SheGoals –…
FOOTBALL
Strikers Hit Form Hastings United 3,FC Romania 0 Hastings United scored only one goal and conceded none in their first four games of the season – three 0-0 draws after a solitary strike by midfielder Jack Dixon defeated Herne Bay…
FOOTBALL: Denied At The Death
Ebbsfleet United 2, Hastings United 2(Ebbsfleet win 4-1 on penalties) Hastings United came within a couple of minutes of a notable FA Cup scalp last Saturday, only to concede a 30-yard belter in added time and then lose in the…
FOOTBALL: Dixon – Hero and Villain
Hastings United have begun their 2020/21 campaign with two home matches at Pilot Field: a 1-0 FA Cup win over Herne Bay on 12th September followed by a 0-0 draw with Cray Valley Paper Mills in the opening Isthmian League…
SWIMMING: Seagulls Back in the Water
For the swimmers of the Hastings Seagull Swimming Club, and for their parents, coaches and administrators, Covid-19 conditions have changed everything. Distancing and hygiene rules at Summerfields, and at other pools they use at Battle Abbey and Rye, require protocols…
TENNIS: Sussex Doubles Leagues Start – Then Stop
This winter’s Tennis Sussex (TS) men’s and women’s doubles leagues resumed at the beginning of this month as the first form of competitive tennis in the county since March. But not for long. After a decision of the TS Leagues…
CRICKET: Batting Frailties Exposed As Short Season Ends
By Ian Gillespie Hastings Priory finished the truncated 2020 season with a resounding 135-run defeat by local rivals and group winners Eastbourne at Horntye Park in their final August Cup fixture on 29th August. The result sent Hastings to the…
FOOTBALL: Competitive Season Starts At Pilot Field
First competitive match of season 2020/21 for the Hastings United men’s team will take place at Pilot Field on Saturday (12th September) when they entertain Herne Bay in a preliminary round of the Emirates FA Cup. The crowd will be…