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The blue and golds will entertain Oldham St Annes this Saturday aiming to make it three wins in a row.
Although pleased with last weekend’s 40-24 victory at Woolston Rovers, head coach Scott Taylor felt his side took their foot off the accelerator pedal in the second half having led 28-0 at the break.
The blue and golds finally got some action after a three-week lay-off and will be pleased to make it two wins from two.
This particular corner of Cheshire managed to survive the worst of the return of the ‘beast from the east’ although there were frequent snow showers throughout the game combined with a bitter wind. Their first-half performance was virtually without fault as they raced to a 28-0 lead.
Beverley Town Football Club’s Reserves have made through to the semi final of the League senior cup after a penalty shoot out win over North Cave.
Ed Grady’s side started the game brightly taking the lead after two minutes through top goal scorer Rob Northen after some route one stuff saw the striker finish with ease.
An East Yorkshire college football team has reached the last 16 in the country for the first time in its history.
Bishop Burton College’s further education football academy is officially one of the best in England after securing its place in the national play-offs for the first time.
Photos from Beaver Park featuring Beverley U8s U9s U10s who took part in the Mini Matrix held at Beaver Park.
Sides from across the area descended on the home of Beverley RUFC where they took on each other in a round of games in very muddy conditions.
Beverley Town have beaten the current Humber Premier League, Chalk Lane 2-1 with a goal in each half to move fourth in the table.
Town started well, passing the ball through ,midfield and causing problems down the flanks. Joe Norton wide left was a constant threat, and Leon Dawson linked well with the strikers on numerous occasions.
Beverley came out on top against Heath for the third time this season in a bruising encounter at North Dean, Halifax, to maintain their second position in the league and put a dent in Heath’s promotion ambitions.
The dreadful weather conditions prevailing did not suggest the prospect of much flowing rugby and so it turned out with the result that we saw a dour contest largely played out between the two forward packs.
Beverley ARLFC will return to action this Saturday as they welcome Blackbrook to the Beverley Leisure Centre for their NCL fixture.
Last weekend it was the Beast from the East which had the biggest say as Beverley, along with the other sides in the league, saw their match cancelled due to the adverse weather that swept across the country.
GALLERY : Photos from the match that saw the Beverley Braves and West Hull U13s take to the field at the Beverley Leisure Centre ahead of the first teams clash with Barrow Island.
This was a tough game for the braves who showed great heart not shying away from tackles against West Hull who for large parts of the contest dominated the game.
The blue and golds got off to the best of all possible starts to the season in this game, which marked their return to the National Conference League.
The youthful side with an average age around 22 demonstrated some near flawless defence and showed huge potential. for the future years.
Not much joy here for Beverley. Over the years they have seldom had much success at Acklam Park and today was no exception. A catalogue of errors, missed tackles, and conceded penalties, left them trailing 22-5 at halftime. It was not a great first half. They were left with a big hill to climb and in the end it proved just unattainable despite a splendid second half effort which got them to within striking distance of taking the lead.
The first quarter of an hour seemed to be little more than a relentless stream of penalties awarded against Beverley in their own 22. For some time it looked ominously likely that we were in for a second successive dismal week of incessant whistle blowing.
Beverley Athletic Club are delighted after the hugely popular event, the Pittaway Painting and Decorators Beverley 10K sold out in just a few hours.
Tickets for the event that sees runners tackle a course around Beverley sold out in record time with all 1,850 places being sold in less than six hours.
Blue & Golds Head Coach Scott Taylor says he is going to stick with what he believes ahead of his sides opening day fixture in National Conference League this Saturday. Beverley will welcome Barrow Island to the Beverley Leisure Centre this Saturday with Taylor issuing something of a statement of intent with regard to his players. Speaking ahead of the match, Taylor said; “We’ve finally reached the point where even…
Beverley RUFC moved back to second in the table aftert they ground out a result against Bradford Salem is what was a unmemorable dominated by the constant sound of the referee’s whistle.
The referee was pernickety in the extreme throughout the match and, as a result, try as they did, neither side could produce any sort of flowing rugby.
Beverley Town faced Hessle Rangers for the second week running, and this time were on the wrong end of the result.
Dan McHale returned to the side in place of Tom Davies and Aldo Hysenaj started upfront with Craig Muirhead, otherwise the side was the same as the one that finished the game last week.
Racegoers can expect new themed race meetings, more family-friendly days, new and improved party nights, plus, of course, exhilarating flat racing over one mile and three furlongs on the spectacular Westwood course.
The Beverley Races season gallops out of the stalls with the season opener on April 18 and is quickly into its stride with one of this year’s new highlights – Bygone Beverley – a themed raceday taking us back in time to one of the most defining decades of the 20th century.
This was a tough day at the office for the blue and golds. Due to a number of absences they went into this final pre-season friendly with a depleted line up.
Regular half-back pairing Lewis Straw and Lewis Poskitt were missing as were Jack Howdle, Chris Johnson, Peter Starling, Josh Poskitt, Billy Riby, Steve Connolly and Ben Bardle. Bradley Kirkby had to pull out shortly before kick off as a precautionary measure not wishing to aggravate a pulled hamstring.
Beverley Town Football Club return to Humber premier League action this weekend as they face Hessle Rangers for the second time in as many weeks.
The sides met last weekend in the East Riding County FA Senior Cup with Town defeating Rangers to book their place in the semi final.