2021 The year in sport
By Hugh Sullivan, Ben Cornwell and Peter Knight The year began in lockdown and ends with renewed concern over social contact indoors and mass spectator gatherings. Covid-19 continues to cast its shadow. Nevertheless almost all forms of local sporting activity…
HOCKEY
Saxons Competitive When Allowed For the first team players of South Saxons hockey club, both men and women, this month’s lockdown interrupted upturns in form. The men’s team, retaining their status in the Kent/Sussex 1 regional division of the South…
HOCKEY: Season Of Redemption For Saxon Ladies
This time last year the South Saxons Ladies team were relegated from the Sussex Premier League by the very last hit of the 2017/18 season. A year on, the tears were only of joy as they stormed back to win…
HOCKEY: Saxons Heading For Double Promotion
South Saxons hockey teams, men and ladies, moved closer to a potential double promotion with excellent victories last Saturday. The men overcame Gillingham Anchorians 4-2 at Horntye to record their tenth successive league win in Kent/Sussex Division 2. The ladies,…
HORNTYE: Cricket, Hockey Clubs Stay Put
A year ago it all looked so promising. The directors of Hastings United FC and trustees of the Horntye estate were proceeding with a joint venture to sell off their respective existing sports grounds for housing development in exchange for…
HOCKEY – The Last Hit Cuts Deepest
Hugh Sullivan When it comes to cruelty, sport can be truly villainous. That’s how South Saxons Ladies’ team will view it anyway after a dramatic end to the Sussex Premier League season on the weekend of 24th/25th March. With two due…
Building for Next Season
TEAM SPORTS ROUND UP It’s been a good fortnight at Pilot Field despite last weekend’s returning sleet and icy winds. Hastings United’s ace groundsman Simon Rudkin did wonders again to get the pitch playable, the home game against promotion-chasing Walton…
HOCKEY: hockey Saxons make light of absentees in Horntye goalfest – But Ladies slide to disappointing defeat
South Saxons Men 7, Marden Russets 2; South Saxons Ladies 0, 2 On a wet afternoon at Horntye last Saturday, Hastings’ top hockey sides, the respective men and ladies of South Saxons, played with contrasting fortunes. The men’s team made…