PLYMOUTH Albion will be without forwards Jarrad Hayler and Ed Holmes for this weekend’s trip to Fylde in National One. Royal Marine flanker Hayler is unavailable due to work, while second-row Holmes has university commitments. Holmes has only missed one previous game this season, while fellow 20-year-old Hayler has started nine games in between Royal … Continue reading
PHILLIP BENSON was first home in January’s Armada Network Winter 3k Series run at Central Park on Wednesday night. Harrow athlete Benson, who also runs for City of Plymouth AC, finished in 10 minutes and four seconds, which was exactly the same time as Nathan Brown clocked on his way to victory in December. Erme … Continue reading
THE Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile is back – and it’s coming to Saltash. The town is set to host its third Sport Relief Mile on Sunday, March 20, and the event is now open for entries at http://www.sportrelief.com. Local people from Saltash and the surrounding areas will be walking and running themselves proud to raise … Continue reading
DEVONPORT High School Old Boys insist morale is still high at the club, despite finding themselves rock bottom of Devon Two due to an administrative error. DHSOB have been docked 55 points (30 suspended) for including a player that was still registered with Devonport Services in their league defeat against Old Techs in October. The … Continue reading
HERBIE STUPPLE is hoping Saturday’s defeat to Hull Ionians in horrendous conditions at Brickfields was just a ‘small hiccup’ for Plymouth Albion. Albion went into the match on the back of five consecutive wins, but they came unstuck in the mud and torrential rain and lost 17-7. The defeat was Stupple’s first since taking over … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH modern pentathletes Myles Pillage and Kerenza Bryson made impressive starts to 2016 at the weekend. Competing at the opening national ranking event of the year on Sunday, Pillage won the under-19 boys’ category and Bryson took second in the girls’ competition. Pillage led throughout the competition, having set the pace with a storming swim … Continue reading
TAMAR Trotters’ Mike Wilsmore has started 2016 in impressive form. Wilsmore, who also runs for Bristol & West, clocked a speedy time of three minutes and 48.86 seconds to win the 1,500m at Cardiff Met’s New Year Open Indoor Meet, which incorporated the South West Championships, at the weekend. The time was Wilsmore’s fastest competitively over … Continue reading
SAM MATAVESI says Plymouth Albion have to try and put Saturday’s frustrating home defeat at the hands of Hull Ionians behind them. Albion’s five-match winning run was brought to an end in horrendous conditions at Brickfields, with Ionians winning 17-7. It was Matavesi’s first defeat since starting a game following his return to Albion in … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers athletes Nathan Brown and Cleo Perry enjoyed good performances in the fourth Frank Elford Sports Westward Cross Country League meet of the season at Westward Ho!. On an extremely wet course, which took competitors across the waterlogged Northam Burrows, Brown took second in the under-17 boys’ race in a time of 20.25 … Continue reading
HUNDREDS of runners braved tough conditions at the fourth Frank Elford Sports Westward Cross Country League meeting of the season at Westward Ho!. Racing at the north Devon venue takes runners around the Northam Burrows, which after recent heavy rain were extremely waterlogged. Just before the under-11s set off on Sunday there was a hail … Continue reading