ARCHERY: I Join The Bowmen
Storms Ciara and Dennis have been shrieking overhead on recent Saturday afternoons at Horntye, lashing the South Saxons hockey players on the astro turf outside with horizontal rain. Not quite the best conditions for field sports, you would think. But…
BOWLS: Rub Of The Greens?
Council Budget Cuts Threaten Club Wipe-Out Proposed cuts in the Hastings Borough Council (HBC) 2020/21 budget will affect many areas of town life from shortening of museum opening hours to rescheduling of street cleaning services. Amongst savings of nearly £,…
FOOTBALL: Pilot Blight
Record Crowd Sees Comprehensive Home Defeat Hastings United 0, Ashford United 3 The biggest crowd for a league game at Pilot Field for many a season, numbered at 1,189, watched last Saturday’s match between the top two teams in the…
KICKBOXING
Dancing With Attitude Dancing is a natural human instinct. So is fighting. Turn up any weekday evening at the Fighters Loft on Harrow Lane – a pair of gym rooms which used to be the Ashdown House Social Club -…
MOTOR RALLYING
Battle Twins Win Honours At Brands Hatch A pair of 31-year-old twins, Anthony and Christopher Newton, who live near Battle and have been competing in the sport of motor rallying since 2006, achieved sensational results at a national event earlier…
KICKBOXING
Marlon Gillett – Hastings Very Own After winning several titles on the amateur K1 Kickboxing circuit, local combat athlete Marlon Gillett has stepped up to the professional ranks with impressive results, storming up the rankings with two strong wins in…
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…