TOM DALEY and Dan Goodfellow won Great Britain’s first medal of the FINA/NVC World Series event in Kazan on Friday morning. The pair took bronze – just like they did at last summer’s Olympic Games – in the men’s 10m synchro competition. Daley and Goodfellow scored 406.38 points to finish behind China’s Aisen Chen and … Continue reading
WEEKENDS do not come much bigger than this one for Ivybridge Rugby Football Club. On Saturday their first team will continue their push for a promotion play-off spot in National Three South West when they travel to Cleve. Ivybridge currently sit fourth in the table with three games to go, but they are only three … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth Athletic Club’s Noah Jones has moved clear as the UK’s leading under-13 pole vaulter with a new personal best this week. Jones smashed his old PB by 15cm on Tuesday night at the first Exeter Evening Open meeting of the season. The 12-year-old cleared a height of 2.55m at the Devon competition. … Continue reading
THREE Ivybridge players have been invited to attend South West Under-20 trials next month. Backs Connor Banks, Mitch Pinkus and Damon Akerman are among a 59 players from a combination of Devon, Cornwall, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Oxon, Dorset & Wiltshire and Somerset picked to battle it out of a place in the final squad. Also invited … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Buccaneers Flag American Football Club kick-off their new season on Saturday at All Saints School. The city side will host two-time champions Cardiff Hurricanes, Merthyr Tydfil Thunder and new boys Exeter Falcons in the opening South West Conference tournament of the 2017 British American Football Association season. The Bucs made the national play-offs last … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth athlete Poppy Tank continued her good form in America by claiming victory in the 3,000m at the UC Riverside Spring Track Classic in California. Tank, who is in her first year of studying at the University of Utah, clocked 9:51.52 to beat the meet record and 14 other athletes. Second was her … Continue reading
TONIA Couch and Tom Daley will be part of the Great Britain diving squad which competes at the third leg of the FINA/NVC World Series in Kazan, Russia, this weekend. The duo competed at the opening two events in China, where Daley won an individual bronze in Beijing and a silver medal in Guangzhou. Daley … Continue reading
PILGRIM Flyers youth mountain bike club enjoyed a successful end to the Soggy Bottom Race Series at Newnham Park on Sunday. The city outfit picked up a number of prizes at the final event of the three-race series. Rosie Andrews took victory in the juvenile female category in fast conditions. She clocked 50.19 to finish … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s Poppy Northcott and Kate Sotheran both claimed top three placings in the under-11 girls’ race at the final Westward Cross Country League meeting of the season at Redruth. Exeter’s Isabella Peyton-Jones won the race in 5:26 minutes, with Northcott second in 5:31 and her club team-mate Sotheran third in 5:36. However, Sotheran’s … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Albion centre Megan Higgins scored four tries as Devon Ladies beat England Deaf Rugby women’s team 48-5 at Newton Abbot on Sunday. Higgins, one of seven Albion players involved in the friendly fixture, crossed the whitewash twice in each half. Her Plymouth team-mate Lilly Goddard added two tries, while Plymstock Albion Oaks winger Motunrayo … Continue reading