PROP Dan Pullinger will make his first league start for his hometown club on Saturday when already-relegated Plymouth Albion bring the curtain down on their troubled season against Doncaster Knights at Brickfields (3pm). The 20-year-old tight-head takes the place of Canadian international Andrew Tiedemann and will line-up alongside Tom Harrison and James Penman, who made … Continue reading
A JOINT athletics team from the region begin life in Division Two West of the Southern League on Saturday when they travel to Andover. The team made up of athletes from City of Plymouth AC, Erme Valley Harriers and Tavistock AC won Division Three South last year to earn promotion to the higher division. This … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Ben Proud has been named in Great Britain’s team for this summer’s World Championships in Kazan. Proud won the 50m butterfly and freestyle events and came second in the 100m freestyle final at the recent British Championships. However, he was outside the tough automatic individual GB qualifying times for Kazan. But as Britain’s … Continue reading
TONIA COUCH and Sarah Barrow won a synchro bronze medal for Great Britain on the opening day of the World Series event in Kazan. The Plymouth pair finished with a total of 312.54 points, which put them well ahead of fourth-placed Russians Yulia Timoshinina and Daria Govar, who scored 285.36. China’s Ruolin Chen and … Continue reading
IVYBRIDGE RFC face possibly the biggest game in their history on Saturday when they travel to Towcestrians in the South West One play-offs. The winner will be promoted into National Three South West – level five in the English club rugby pyramid. Plymstock Albion Oaks will also be aiming for promotion this weekend. The Devon … Continue reading
‘A LOT of players’ will be wearing the Plymouth Albion jersey for the final time on Saturday when they entertain Doncaster Knights in their last match of a troubled season (3pm). Albion only have pride to play for this weekend after their relegation from the Championship to National One was confirmed last Saturday with defeat … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH diver Shanice Lobb marked her official call-up to the Team GB squad for this summer’s inaugural European Games by winning platform gold at the Dresden Youth International Meet. Lobb had topped qualifying in the girls’ Group A category in Germany by more than 50 points and she continued her good form in the final … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH will be well represented at this summer’s inaugural European Games in Baku. City athletes from the sports of diving, swimming, water polo and fencing have been named in Team GB’s squad, along with the likes of Olympic champions Nicola Adams and Jade Jones. Cousins Matthew Dixon, 15, and Shanice Lobb, 17, will compete in … Continue reading
TAMAR SARACENS produced a dominant display to beat Saltash IIs 37-10 and claim the RNEC Cup at the Rectory on Wednesday night. The Devon Two runners-up had found themselves behind after just 66 seconds when Shaun Branwell crossed for Saltash and Nick Blake converted. But that was about as good as it got for the … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH divers Tonia Couch, Sarah Barrow and Tom Daley will get a taste of the World Championship pool this weekend when they compete in the latest leg of the FINA/NVC World Series in Kazan. The trio will be hoping to be back at the stunning Aquatics Palace in July for the major event of 2015. … Continue reading