OLD Techs will host city rivals OPMs in their first competitive match of the 2017/18 season. Techs beat OPMs to promotion to Devon One and also overcome them in the semi-finals of the Lockie Cup last season. But OPMs will get an early chance of revenge, despite being in a different division, after the two … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth athlete Doaa Shayea claimed a win and two second places at the BWAA Grand Prix at Stoke Mandeville at the weekend. Shayea, still an under-20 competitor, took victory in the senior women’s 200m wheelchair event with a time of 36.73 seconds. She beat Eden Rainbow-Cooper in that race, but her rival from … Continue reading
FOUR hits from Keith Day helped Plymouth Mariners beat Bristol Badgers 21-6 in the South West Baseball League. Day singled in the first, walked in the second, tripled in the third, doubled in the fourth, doubled in the fifth and walked in the sixth. An early lead helped set the Mariners on the road to … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Matthew Dixon has officially been confirmed in Great Britain’s team for this month’s European Championships in the Ukraine. The event will take place in Kiev between June 12 and June 18 and GB will be sending a 12-strong team to the championship. However, the squad does not include Olympic medallists Tom Daley, Dan … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Studio School will be boosting their teaching staff in September with the arrival of Albion and Devon scrum-half Cameron Setter. The 24-year-old will join the specialist sports academy as a maths teacher for the new academic year. Setter, who has played for Albion for the past four seasons and who has agreed a new … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Buccaneers Flag American Football Club still have hopes of reaching the end of season play-offs after winning one of three excellent games at Exeter on Saturday. The Buccs narrowly lost 27-20 to hosts Exeter Demons, before hammering Hereford 52-9 and ending with a close 26-19 defeat to Cardiff. They city side are now 5-7 … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Matthew Dixon had to settle for second place in the men’s platform final at the British Diving Championships in Edinburgh on Sunday. European junior champion Dixon was leading with one round to go, but was overtaken by his Great Britain team-mate Matty Lee, who produced a stunning last effort to score 90.60 points and … Continue reading
FORMER Tavistock athlete Adam Holland marked his 300th marathon/ultra run in style by winning the Dartmoor Discovery race on Saturday. Holland, who now lives in Nottinghamshire, stormed away from the rest of the field in the first mile and was never caught. He finished the incredibly tough 32-mile run around Dartmoor in a time of … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Tonia Couch and her Yorkshire diving partner Lois Toulson comfortably retained their British 10m women’s synchro title at Edinburgh on Saturday. The Olympians scored 307.26 points with some great consistent diving. The highlight was their third round forward three-and-a-half somersault, which scored them 74.70 points. They finished more than 50 points ahead of Southampton’s … Continue reading
RUNNERS from all around the country took part in the Dartmoor Discovery ultra marathon on Saturday. The tough 32-mile race sees athletes set off from Princetown and head to Dartmeet, Poundsgate, Newbridge, Ashburton, Buckland-in-the-Moor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, and Postbridge before returning to the start. It is the UK’s longest single lap road ultra marathon and the race … Continue reading