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…
Council Sports Facilities
No Sport, Please, “Keep Hastings Safe” HIP reported in the article, Stink Over Toilet Closures on 2nd June 2020 that, with national lockdown restrictions gradually easing, the tennis courts and golf courses of local clubs had reopened from mid-May, subject…
Team Hastings 2016 Review
Hugh Sullivan It's been a frustrating year on the pitch for the town's leading football club Hastings United. They seemed well capable under the management of Garry Wilson of reaching the play-offs for promotion from the Ryman League South last…
Hastings Priory cricket: playing for the team
Jed O'Brien (Priory) bowled by Sam Roberts (Bexhill)credit: Reg Wood Event Photography Among many intriguing aspects of the game of cricket is the relationship between individual players and the team they are playing for. In sports like football, rugby or…
Priory celebrate fine finish
Some games, even tense ones, end essentially in frustration. In football the side that's leading (or settling for a draw) takes the ball down to the corner flag and depletes the remaining time in negative semi-obstruction. In rugby it's similar:…
Cricket: Priory enjoys home supremacy
credit Regwood Event Photography If Hastings prides itself on welcoming incomers, that friendly reception does not extend to the cricket pitch at Horntye. Last summer the Priory club won eight out of nine home fixtures there in the second division…