PLYMOUTH Albion will not play Taunton A at Brickfields on Tuesday night as their Somerset opponents are unable to raise a side to travel down to Devon at short notice. The match should have been played last Tuesday but had to be postponed due to the weather. It was pencilled in for this week but … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving added two more golds medals on the final day of the Luton Challenge event. Madeline Coquoz, who had triumphed in the one-metre women’s A final on Friday evening, also won the three-metre event on Sunday. Swiss international Coquoz, 16, finished with 170.40 points to edge out her Plymouth Diving team-mate Kayleigh Sinclair, who … Continue reading
YOUNG fly-half Billy Searle felt Plymouth Albion showed on Saturday against Ampthill that they had learned a lesson from their home defeat against Darlington Mowden Park. Albion had been beaten 25-15 by Mowden Park two weeks earlier in horrible weather at Brickfields. But in equally tough conditions on Saturday they overcame Ampthill 18-13 to move … Continue reading
IVYBRIDGE produced an impressive second half performance to end a four-match losing run in National Three South West. The Bridgers had been 14-0 down to Bournemouth at half-time at Cross-in-Hand on Saturday, but came back to win 15-14, with their young pack leading them to victory. A converted Mike Cox try in the 78th minute … Continue reading
GRAHAM DAWE says his Plymouth Albion team have received a ‘big boost’ from their home win over Ampthill. Dawe’s young side had been under pressure to claim a victory after losing to Blackheath and Darlington Mowden Park in their previous two games. But they responded to that pressure by digging deep in poor conditions at … Continue reading
POPPY TANK and Will Battershill both claimed top-25 finishes at the prestigious British Athletics Cross Country Challenge in Liverpool on Saturday. The event at Sefton Park was doubling up as Great Britain & Northern Ireland trials for the European Cross Country Championships next month and so attracted all the UK’s top distance runners. City of … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH ALBION 18 AMPTHILL 13 PLYMOUTH Albion claimed a vital win over Ampthill in difficult conditions at Brickfields on Saturday. The young Albion team appeared to have learned a lot from their defeat against Darlington Mowden Park in the wind and rain two weeks earlier. The home side kicked well and kept Ampthill pinned back … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving enjoyed a successful first day at the Luton Challenge event. Highlight of the opening night of finals was the women’s A platform event, where Plymouth claimed a clean sweep of the medals. Victoria Vincent, 14, who was out for nine months with a detached retina after competing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, won the … Continue reading
WILL BATTERSHILL and Poppy Tank will be hoping to continue their good early season form when they compete at the British Athletics Cross Country Challenge in Liverpool on Saturday. The event at Sefton Park is doubling up as trials for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the European Cross Country Championships, which will … Continue reading
GRAHAM DAWE says his Plymouth Albion side are ‘a bit grumpy’ after back-to-back defeats against Blackheath and Darlington Mowden Park. Prior to those two matches, Albion had claimed three consecutive bonus-point victories to rise up the National One table. But they have now fallen back down to 10th in the standings, with just over a … Continue reading