Local sporting news featuring football, rugby union, rugby league new from Beverley’s key clubs
Blue and Golds coach Sam French described his team’s 60-4 loss at Clock Face Miners as very disappointing.
Always speaking in defence of his players, Sam French commented how it was a very disappointing day, adding that his side is busted at the moment and also missing over 15 players.
AFC Tickton’s Jimmy Traynor says he is over the moon after the club was approved to take part in the FA’s Wildcats scheme.
Launched by the FA the Wildcats Scheme hopes to inspire and boost the number of girls who participate in organised football at a grassroots level.
The Blue and Golds slipped to a disappointing defeat last Saturday on a very warm afternoon at the Leisure Center.
They led for most of the first half but four tries, two of which were on either side of the interval sealed the points for one of the automatic promotion favourites.
Eleven boundaries from talented youngster Adam Pashby helped Beverley Town Cricket Club secure maximum points against South Holderness CC. Beverley won the toss and opted to bat posting a score of 232, while Holderness in reply, was bowled out for just a 146. When Pashby came to the crease his side was in real trouble at 50-4. His job on walking out there in the heat was to rebuild and…
Beverley Town Cricket Club members will once again be putting in the hard yards as they look to raise funds for both club and the NHS.
Over 60 players, made up of girls, boys men and ladies will tackle a gruelling 40-mile hike. A challenge the club aims to complete in just 24 hours.
Beverley-based racers have enjoyed a successful time on the track following the return to the Isle of Man after a 2-year wait for the TT races.
Three Beverley-based sidecar racers would compete with Gary Gibson and Tom Christie riding the all-new Beverley-built CES F2 chassis and Daryl Gibson partnering 17 times TT winner Dave Molyneux onboard the DMR KTM.
The Blue and Golds breathed hope into their season and threw themselves a lifeline in the NCL Division 2 relegation battle with a 22-20 win over Wigan St Judes.
On a very warm afternoon, a somewhat patched-up lineup, as has been so often the case in an injury-ravaged campaign, looked to be going down tamely to defeat.
The relegation battle resumes this Saturday for the Blue and Golds when Wigan St Judes are the visitors to The Potting Shed for a 2.30pm kick-off.
For both sides, the stakes are high for these two close rivals, with Beverley occupying 11th place on 6 points as against the visitors 9th place on 9 points.
The Blue and Golds made this short West Yorkshire trip more in hope than expectation, with an injury list too long to mention.
Beverley had to dig deep into their playing staff and handed NCL debuts to Will Turnbull, Joe Dobson, Sam Beardshaw and Macca Cromack. It turned out to be a brave effort against a far bulkier and more experienced home outfit.
Calculus, who produced one of the most extraordinary Beverley performances in recent times, returns to action on the Westwood this Friday evening.
The gelded son of Frankel was sent off a 50-1 chance for a mile-and-a-half handicap at the track on June 21, having shown very little promise in five previous starts for trainer Sara Ender.
Beverley & East Riding Golf Club have donated over £3,000 to a local NHJS trust. Funds were raised by members of the club which is located on Beverley Westwood.
The club says the charity was chosen as many members at the club hold The Queens Oncology Unit at Castle Hill Hospital in high regard.
In-form syndicate Middleham Park Racing bid for more Beverley glory with three live chances on the Westwood this Tuesday.
Middleham savoured an evening to remember last week when their distinctive blue and orange silks returned to the Beverley winner’s enclosure three times.
The Blue and Golds will see this as another missed opportunity to pull away from the relegation zone. Having fallen 12-0 behind after only
10 minutes, they responded fantastically with 4 well-worked tries to lead 18-12 at the break. The second half proved to be a disappointment as they had to do far too much defending and struggled to create chances in attack.
The Blue and Golds will rue missing their chance to pull away from the relegation zone in this scrappy but entertaining clash in Wigan.
In a game which was not allowed to flow the visitors conceded too many penalties, committed too many handling errors and simply had to do too much defending.
Over the course of the next 18 months, England will have the opportunity to become world champions in both rugby league and rugby union with the respective World Cups drawing ever nearer.
First up, England’s finest rugby league players will be given the chance to set the tone with their World Cup kicking off on the 15 of October 2022 before the rugby union World Cup takes place in the autumn of 2023.
A grassroots football team from Beverley sealed a memorable season with a dramatic penalty shootout win to lift the Under-12 Jubilee Cup.
AFC Tickton Wolves showed nerves of steel to beat Hessle Sporting Meteorites 4-3 on penalties after an absorbing 2-2 draw at the Roy West Centre, in Inglemire Lane, Hull.
The Blue and Golds earned 2 points which will prove invaluable in a very tight relegation scrap in which the bottom 5 sides in division 2 now all sit on 6 points.
On a warm afternoon at the Potting Shed, the home side overcame a far bulkier Bradford outfit who clearly came with the intent of using that bulk to steamroller their opponents.
Photos from the Beverley 10K that made a welcome return to the town. Hundreds of runners took local roads as they tackled the gruelling course.