Sport

UPDATE: Tonight's game between Cowes Sports and Christchurch has been called off due to a waterlogged pitch. Newport and Cowes resume their respective Wessex League campaigns this evening (Tuesday) with both sides playing their 1st league games of 2023. In the...

2022 was a year to remember as a season of firsts at Smallbrook Stadium.  The Isle of Wight saw the very first NORA British Women’s Speedway Championship in association with Jason Waring and coordinated by Alan Critcher. This led to...

Nominations for the Isle of Wight Sports Achievement Awards close at midnight on Monday 16th January 2023. The Isle of Wight Sports Achievement Awards is an annual event that recognises outstanding achievement or service amongst sportsmen and women of all...

A revitalised East Cowes Vics side gave a good account of themselves in their Boxing Day defeat against 1 of the strongest sides in Wessex Division 1: near neighbours Newport. New manager Alex Smith had been hard at work behind...

New Vics manager Alex Smith faces a baptism of fire in his 1st game in charge at Beatrice Avenue against near-neighbours Newport on Boxing Day. 3rd-from-bottom Vics have been decimated by suspensions over recent weeks, with goalkeeper Alex Ram, captain...

Shanklin & Sandown golf club members enjoyed competing in the McClelland trophy event at the club last week. The McClelland Trophies were donated in 2018 by Margaret McClelland, Shanklin and Sandown’s longest-serving playing member. The fun 9-hole greensome stableford competition...

Henry McLuckie Isle of Wight star-in-the-making Henry McLuckie is determined to put his cross-country trials disappointment behind him and surge to success in 2023. The St Mary’s University student trained for 4 weeks at altitude in the Pyrénées before the...

League leaders Ryde A had an easy win over Shanklin Warriors, 9-1 in Division 1, with Ryde’s Scott Lawson being player of the match.  Shanklin’s 2nd team, the Skuas had a better week of it, with a close match against...

Victory for Northwood St Johns saw the Isle of Wight Division 1 side reach the last 16 of the Hampshire Trophy on Saturday (17th December). On a day when the Isle of Wight football programme was decimated by frozen pitches,...

UPDATE: All Wessex League games featuring Isle of Wight clubs on Saturday 17th December have been postponed due to frozen pitches. All Isle of Wight Division 1 games have also been called off for the same reason. New Vics manager...