UP-AND-COMING divers from around the country will be in Plymouth this weekend for the annual Armada Cup. The long-standing event is one of the biggest on the diving calendar and will run from Saturday through to Tuesday. Teams from Southampton, Albratross DC, Dacorum, Dive London, Luton, Sheffield, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Crystal Palace and Harraogate will be … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Lagi Tuima could earn her third international cap on Saturday when England host Wales at the Stoop in the Women’s Six Nations. The former Devonport Services under-18s player has recovered from injury to be named on the bench for the second match of this year’s campaign. Tuima, who now plays for Bristol in the … Continue reading
COREY JAMIESON scored four tries as Plymstock Albion Oaks booked their place in the Lockie Cup semi-finals with a 69-0 win over the Peninsula Medical School at Horsham Fields on Wednesday night. Playing under their floodlights that they had installed last summer, Oaks ran in 11 tries in total to become the first team into … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Matthew Dixon will appear in his first international competition of 2018 this month. The 17-year-old Plymouth Studio School pupil has been selected as part of a 10-strong Great Britain diving team that will head off to Germany to take part in the Rostock FINA Diving Grand Prix. The competition will take place between February 23 … Continue reading
DARTMOOR Darts enjoyed a successful final weekend at the Devon County Swimming Championships. The club returned home from the Plymouth Life Centre with nine gold medals, four silvers, one senior record and two age group records. Darts’ performance director Matthew Henry set the senior record on his way to winning gold in the men’s 50m … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s David King will continue his preparations for the World Indoor Championship trials on Tuesday when he competes in Germany. Great Britain sprint hurdler King will take part in the IAAF World Indoor Tour event in Dusseldorf. He will head to the Sportpark Arena in confident mood after running the World Championship qualifying … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK athlete Oliver Smart is proving unstoppable this cross country season. At the weekend, the Mount Kelly College pupil added the South West Schools’ title to his list of honours. He triumphed in the intermediate boys’ race at Stover by an impressive 24 seconds, despite being in his first year at that age group. Smart’s … Continue reading
TOM DALEY and Matthew Dixon have both been included in the England diving team for April’s Commonwealth Games in Australia. They are joined in the 13-strong squad by former Plymouth divers Robyn Birch and Dan Goodfellow. World champion Daley will be making his third Commonwealth Games appearance. He won the men’s 10m event for the … Continue reading
SOUTH WEST PREMIER BILLY PINKUS scored a last-gasp try, which his younger brother, Mitch, brilliantly converted from the touchline, to earn Ivybridge a 27-27 draw at Devon rivals Brixham. The Bridgers had been staring another Devon derby defeat in the face when they found themselves 15-3 down at half-time and then 27-20 behind with time … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH pentathletes Kerenza Bryson and Myles Pillage have been named in Great Britain’s squad for the opening World Cup event of the season in Egypt. The duo form part of an eight-strong GB team that will compete in Cairo between February 28 and March 4. Bryson and Pillage both took part in the Cairo leg … Continue reading