2019: The Year In Team Sport
Plans for re-siting the town’s foremost sports teams remain clouded in doubt at the end of this year. Pilot Field and Horntye Park are both still scheduled for housing development, and it’s still quite unclear where, or when, its teams…
FOOTBALL: Cup Defeats For Hastings But Credit Where It’s Due
Hastings United 2, Brighton Under-23s 3 (Sussex Senior Cup) Weymouth 1, Hastings United 0 (FA Trophy) Hastings United have suffered two cup exits in the past week. But on each occasion they gave a good account of themselves against supposedly…
TENNIS: Amherst Ladies On The Rise
Amherst 2, Crowborough 2 (Wilson Sandford Winter Doubles - Ladies League 2) There is a friendly but deep-seated rivalry in Hastings tennis between its two private clubs: The Green, whose courts are located in the street of that name in…
TENNIS: The Joy Of Tennis
Hugh Sullivan interviews the Amherst players How did you get started as a tennis player?Jane: I started playing at boarding school at the age of seven. I was an all-round sports enthusiast and very competitive, captaining school teams in netball…
FOOTBALL: Away Day In Weymouth?
The reward for the winner of Tuesday night’s FA Trophy replay between Hastings United and Whitehawk is an away tie at Weymouth in the third qualifying round of the competition, to be played on Saturday 23rd ; If that is…
RUGBY: H&B Win With Late Flourish
Cliffe Crusaders 3, Hastings & Bexhill 27 By Peter Knight As the teams lined up at Cliffe Crusaders’ Rochester ground last Saturday for the one minute’s silence to remember those killed in war, the home side, Kent League newcomers, looked…
FOOTBALL: Elphick Injured, Hastings Cornered
Hastings United 2, Whitehawk 2 Playing in drenching rain for the second successive Saturday at Pilot Field, Hastings United fought out an entertaining FA Trophy tie with visitors Whitehawk, which will have been replayed on Tuesday if weather has allowed.…
RUGBY: H&B Victorious In Wind And Rain
Hastings and Bexhill 26, Faversham 16 By Peter Knight Hastings & Bexhill overcame the wind and rain to beat tough opposition last Saturday afternoon in a Kent League fixture. Visitors Faversham, starting with wind advantage on the high slopes of the…
GYM: Twenty-One And Proud
By Dave Whatley When people talk about Bexhill-on-sea, often a sarcastic joke mentioning ‘God’s waiting room’ will be uttered. Or maybe a more positive reference to the iconic 1930s postmodern De La Warr Pavilion will be made, with its rolling…
FOOTBALL: Cup Progress For Confident Hastings
AFC Dunstable 0, Hastings United 4 Hastings United maintained their confident early season form with two cup wins over the past fortnight: 1-0 at home to Haywards Heath Town in the Allan Turvey Isthmian league cup competition followed by a 4-0…