Local sporting news featuring football, rugby union, rugby league new from Beverley’s key clubs
Beverley Town Beavers were well beaten by Bridlington Sports Academy in the East Riding County League. Town lost the game 5 – 1 at Lecconfield Sports Ground leaving them with just one point from their four matches. Next weekend Beverley Town Beavers are away Hedon Rangers Reserves, Rangers are also struggling and though this weekend earned their first point of the season with a 1 – 1 with The Barrel…
Birkenhead Park are a most friendly club and their hospitality before and after the game is second to none. But out on their own pitch they are always a tough proposition and Beverley RUFC will not have relished travelling there today with another heavily patched up side. The result was more or less inevitable and it was largely a question of how well Beverley RUFC would acquit themselves. Once again…
The Barrel Walkington rescued a point at home against Hedon Rangers thanks to a Brad Palin header. Falling behind the Barrel Walkington got on level terms at Longcroft School after Oli Burns broke down the right wing firing in a cross that Palin leaped like a salmon to meet and head home. Next weekend the Barrel Walkington face Bridlington Town Academy who beat Beverley Town Beavers 5 – 1. Elsewhere…
St Georges FC maintained their 100% start to the East Riding County League campaign as they smashed six past Hodgsons FC Reserves at the Beverley Leisure Centre. The win means St Georges FC have maximum 15 points return from their five matches. Next weekend Hodgsons FC face a trip to Haltemprice while league leaders St Georges third placed Gilberdyke Phoenix. Final Score Hodgsons FC Reserves 1 St Georges FC 6…
Beverley Town suffered their third consecutive defeat as they went down 4 – 0 to Pocklington Town at the Norwood Recreation Ground. The defeat means Beverley Town are six points behind Humber Premier League leaders Chalk Lane beat Sculcoates Amateurs 2 – 0. Next weekend Beverley Town will travel to the Hull & East Riding Sports Club as they face tough test against Sculcoates Amateurs who are second in the…
1st 4 Football training sessions have now restarted at Longcroft School in Beverley for youngsters aged between 5-12yrs. Sessions run from 10-11am on Saturday mornings throughout the school term. Head Coach, Mike Trotter, UEFA B Licensed Coach and his team of qualified coaches have established an esteemed reputation for helping youngsters develop their footballing skills and confidence in a safe and enjoyable environment. Through practising skills such as dribbling and…
Whilst their club mates were tackling the hilly cross-country course at Bishop Wilton three Beverley athletes were running the Chester Marathon. Rob Snaith was the first of the trio to finish. He completed the 26 mile course in 2:50:07 in 23rd position overall and in 12th place in his age category. Andy Johnson was next to cross the finishing line. The event was tougher than he expected but he finished…
Beverley Athletic Club Chairman, Rob Reid, travelled back to his home city of Liverpool last weekend to take part in the first Liverpool Marathon. Entering the marathon in his home town had seemed like a rather nostalgic and romantic thing to do and he was not disappointed. He ran past many pubs from his youthful days, saw his sister’s school and ran along part of his old school bus route….
Beverley RUFC face the long trip across the Pennines on Saturday, to take on Birkenhead Park in the National League Div 3(North) Fixture. During last Saturday’s heavy defeat at the hands of Bradford & Bingley, the Beavers suffered another blow with hard working prop forward Mike Bradshaw joining the queue in the Physio’s room with a shoulder injury. However, there is a little light at the end of the tunnel…
The first race of the 2011/2012 season of the East Yorkshire Cross-Country League took place last Sunday at Bishop Wilton and more than 150 athletes from eight local running clubs lined up at the start. Beverley Athletic Club fielded a large squad of 33, among them several new members competing in the league for the first time. Mark Walsh, Mariana Barbera, Richard Clark, Jane Goodchild, Sarah Crabtree and Chris Woolner…
The elite of the Country’s junior judo players came together to compete in the Under 12 British Championships held in Nottingham on the 9th October 2011. Beverley’s Holly Bentham who has been a member of the East Riding of Yorkshire Judo Academy based at the Beverley Leisure Centre, since the age of five was the regions only representative. The event overall attracted 146 entrants and whilst disappointed not to gain…
AFC Tickton came out 5-0 winners against Hedon Rangers. The first half was a tight affair with AFC Tickton and Hedon Ranges unable to find an opening going in to the break. In the second half AFC Tickton’s Liam Jones ran the Hedon defence into submission netting five goals to give AFC Tickton the comfortable win – Final score: 5-0 In the second match AFC Tickton took an early lead,…
Beverley Braves really let Cottingham know what they were up against within the first minute as Dylan Clifford tackled strong, low and powerful on an unsuspecting Tiger followed by a crunching, hard tackle by Kurt Pelham. These non stop tackles forced a scrum with head and feed to Beverley Braves and from this a lovely passing exhibition through many hands saw Owen Harrison receive and burst through the Cottingham defence…
It is every athletes dream to compete in a World Championships in their chosen sport. This recently came true for 3 athletes from Kingston swimming club who made their way to Sofia in Bulgaria for the 13th annual World Biathle Championships. Biathle sees competitors run, swim and then run again consecutively with a transition between each discipline as you are not allowed to swim with your shoes on .They arrived…
Good in patches but much of this game was rather messy and unmemorable. Given Beverley RUFC’s parlous injury crisis the result was probably what could have been expected. That they restricted Bradford to only two tries and a conversion in the second half was a credit to Beverley RUFC who had turned round 41-0 down after being heavily outplayed in the first half. In fact the second half was a…
A Sam Overton strike early in the second half was enough to give Hodgsons FC a well earned victory over local rivals Beverley Town. Overton who left Town in the summer to play for Tanners headed the only goal of the game from close range after Town had failed to clear a corner. Town had two good chances to level the match; Jonny Ricardo saw his glancing header shave the…
HU17.net has caught up with Richard Durham on the eve of the massive cup encounter that will take place this weekend featuring Hodgsons FC and Beverley Town. Durham has played for both sides in though his fitness levels have hampered his football career earning him the name ‘The Durham Hamstring’. On Saturday like many others in Beverley Durham will be pitch side to watch the two football giants of Beverley…
After a successful day at the recent road relay competition in Warrington athletes from Beverley Athletic Club travelled to Sheffield last weekend to take part in the Northern Athletics Cross-Country Relay Championships. Thirty-two teams of four lined up at the start for the senior men’s event on the hottest October day since records began. With the temperature around 30oC conditions were very unusual for a cross-country event in October. Instead…