IVYBRIDGE’S women’s team capped off a dream season by winning the RFU Intermediate Cup final at Twickenham on Sunday by beating Old Albanian Saints II 40-17. The Bridgers have finished the 2025-26 campaign unbeaten, having stormed to the Championship South West 2 title. Old Albanian did really push them hard in hot conditions at Twickenham … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Aidan Heslop made a fairytale return from career-threatening back surgery to claim victory at the opening 2026 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Nusa Penida, Bali, this weekend. The 2024 champion put 18 months of injury and rehabilitation behind him to score his ninth career win in style. Heslop, who also won the … Continue reading
DYLAN Harbour scored four tries, including a late match winner, as Devonport Services III won the David Butt Trophy at the Rectory on Saturday. Services III beat their Exmouth counterparts in the Devon RFU competition to cap a fine season for the club, whose first and second teams had both won their leagues. Devonport’s third … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers youngster Luke Hayes and Tavistock AC’s Nikki Bond claimed victories at the popular Ivybridge 10k race in hot conditions on Saturday evening. Bond set a new women’s course record, while Hayes became the first Erme Valley athlete to win the race since Great Britain international Will Battershill claimed victory in the 2016 … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH modern pentathlete Kerenza Bryson made a successful return to international competition at the weekend by finishing fourth in the women’s final at the UIPM 2026 Pentathlon World Cup event in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. Bryson had not competed since the 2024 Olympic Games final. And since then the sport’s governing body has swapped the horse jumping … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK’S teenage hammer thrower Tegan Brown has been selected to represent England at the Pickering Memorial International at Loughborough, which will be held at the end of the month. Brown is one of 23 young athletes selected for the England team, which will compete against athletes from Scotland, Wales, Switzerland and Loughborough. However, she is … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s Poppy Tank finished second at the British 10,000m championship which were held at Loughborough on Sunday. Tank clocked a track PB time of 32.15.30 minute to finish just behind Izzy Fry, who won in 32.12.90. For most of the race it was a three-way battle with Tank, Fry and Hannah Urwin. Urwin … Continue reading
DEVONPORT Services’ Charlie Groves and Nathan Todd scored two tries each as Devon made sure they topped their pool in Division Two of the County Championship by beating Somerset 43-33 at Brixham on Saturday. Devon had been handed a walkover in their opening match against Buckinghamshire so they knew victory over Somerset would move them … Continue reading
THE Plymouth Combination representative rugby team returns to action on Sunday when the men’s and the women’s team take on Torbay Sharks at Plymstock Oaks’ Horsham Fields ground. The women’s game will be first up at 12.30pm and they will be playing for the Dougal Cup, while the men’s match will kick-off at 2.30pm and … Continue reading
PLYMSTOCK Oaks RFC have launched a new non-contact rugby session for women. Their new T1 women’s rugby group will meet every Friday between 7.30pm and 8.30pm at Horsham Fields. T1 is backed by World Rugby and the RFU and is slightly different to normal touch rugby and has been designed to try and reflect the … Continue reading