Sport at Horntye: Past and Future
PETER FINCH, chairman of Horntye Park Management Company which acts as sole trustee of Hastings and Rother Sports Trust, explains the history of the former Central Cricket Ground at Priory Meadow, its replacement at Horntye Park, and why a further…
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Priory Win Big Haywards Heath 94;Hastings & St Leonards Priory 97-2 Last Saturday Hastings & St Leonards Priory celebrated their first win in the Sussex Premier League since early May when they routed Haywards Heath by an eight wicket margin.…
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Dilshan De Soysa: A Sporting Journey De Soysa, a 26-year-old recruit from Sri Lanka, has played all 12 games for Hastings & St Leonards Priory in the Sussex Premier League this season, making valiant contributions with both bat and ball…
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The Finch Factor 12th June:Hastings & St Leonards Priory 250-8; Haywards Heath 224-9 19th June:Brighton & Hove 181; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 104 The Hastings side remains with only one Premier League victory this summer after contrasting games over the…
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Priory Batsmen Find It Tough At The Top Hastings & St Leonards Priory 150; Roffey 151 for 2 The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory, back in the Sussex Premier League for the first season since 2018, have been…
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…
CRICKET: Priory Come Up Short
East Grinstead 201 for 8; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 192 After victory over Mayfield by one wicket in an opening friendly last month, then a 9-run win over Hayward’s Heath on 1st August in the first August Cup match…
CRICKET: Over And In But No Match Teas
Although the England team’s Test match series with the West Indies was already set to go ahead, Boris Johnson told the House of Commons on 23rd June that it was too risky to raise the curtain on club cricket. “The…
CRICKET: Back To The Middle
Amateur sport of any kind is still only allowed nationally under the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic if it involves a gathering of no more than six players and there is no close contact between any of them. But those…
CRICKET: Precarious Champions
Hastings & St Leonards Priory completed their eleventh and twelfth victories of the summer over the past two Saturdays to win the Sussex League Division 2 title and secure promotion back to the ECB Premier League. Precariously placed after early…