SCHOOL SPORT FOR GIRLS: My Hastings Experience
By Safiya Young Sport is never a neutral word. It either fills your mind with competitive flourishes of joy, or causes you to implode with dread. I’d be surprised if, in my Hastings school career, I was alone in my…
RUGBY: H & B Hold Sevens Tourney
Morale at Hastings & Bexhill RFC is on a high, despite the relegation of the first team from the London & South East League back in April and defeat in the Bob Rogers Cup Final later in the same month.…
CRICKET: Priory Ready For Top Table Clash
The top four teams in Division 2 of the Central Sussex Cricket League, each with six wins from their ten matches hitherto, go head to head tomorrow (Saturday). Hastings & St Leonards Priory travel to Billingshurst, while Hassocks side St…
CRICKET: Priory Ladies Make A Game Of It
Hastings & St Leonards Priory Ladies 136 for 1; St Peters, Brighton 137 for 1 Hastings & St Leonards Priory Ladies cricket team suffered their second defeat of the season on 16th June when they lost to St Peters, Brighton, in…
CRICKET: Junior Enthusiasm, School Abandonment
On a fine Friday evening at Horntye Park, the green turf bathed in midsummer sun, there’s a gathering of kids that would do credit to some waste ground in Karachi or Kolkata: more than 60 from age five upwards –…
CRICKET: Priory In Comfort Zone
Burgess Hill 171-9; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 173-4 After defeat at Billingshurst the previous weekend, Hastings Priory got back to winning ways last Saturday with a comfortable victory at Horntye over visitors Burgess ; Manager Ian Gillespie had described…
FOOTBALL: Exodus From Pilot Field
Hastings United have announced a full overhaul of their playing squad for the 2019/20 season. Ten of last year’s troops have departed, including many who arrived during manager Chris Agutter’s ongoing 20-month reign with fanfares of greeting but, for one…
MINI:GOLF: The Windmills Of Your Mind
International cricket teams no longer play in Priory Meadow, and the world tennis pro circuit calls in next month at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, not Hastings or St Leonards. Nevertheless the town retains its claim to a place on the international…
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 dead in Champions League semi-finals to win famous victories. Literally…
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 children (from age five upwards), whether complete novices or with…