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
TAMAR Saracens, Devonport High School Old Boys and Old Techs have all benefitted from this year’s Paul Lethbridge Memorial Match. The annual event was held at the end of August at Tamar Saracens’ ground and involved the three city sides playing each other in memory of former player Paul Lethbridge, who sadly died in 2013 … Continue reading
SAM MATAVESI will start for Plymouth Albion on Saturday when they welcome Ampthill to Brickfields in National One (3pm). The 23-year-old Cornish-born Fijian international returned to Albion last week from South West One side Camborne, where he had been playing since leaving Brickfields at the end of last season. Matavesi came on as a replacement … Continue reading
IVYBRIDGE will be looking for a much-needed win when they entertain Bournemouth at Cross-in-Hand on Saturday in National Three South West (2.30pm). The Bridgers have lost their last four matches to drop down from second in the table to ninth. Their opponents this weekend may only sit two places and five points above them but … Continue reading
DAN COLLIER is hoping to be back in Plymouth Albion’s team for the visit of Ampthill to Brickfields on Saturday. The experienced lock is back training after missing last weekend’s match at Blackheath due to illness. “I am a lot better than what I was,” said Collier. “I had flu. I was just at home … Continue reading
