Sport

In the only Wessex League fixture to be played on the Isle of Wight this Saturday (8th October), 3rd-from-bottom East Cowes Vics take on 17th-placed Ash United in Division 1 at Beatrice Avenue. Draw specialists Vics have yet to win...

Wight Tri Member, Kevin Read took on the Outlaw X Half Ironman event held at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire,  raising over £800 for Isle of Wight Defibrillators last weekend. Due to the cold lake temperatures, the 1900m swim was shortened...

Sandown & Shanklin secured a 3-point victory in a tough and physical game against Bognor in Counties 2 Hampshire on Saturday 1st October. The visitors started brightly and this caused Bognor issues, which resulted in 2 yellow cards in quick...

Wightlink-Wight Mountain Cycle Race Team team member, Ben Johnson, competed in the annual 3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross race in the Yorkshire Dales National Park last weekend - billed as the toughest and biggest Cyclo-Cross event in the UK. With over 1,000...

This season has seen 3 games, 3 wins and 3 try bonus points for Isle of Wight RFC, who continued with their impressive start to the season by beating Portsmouth 2nds, despite 6 enforced changes to last week’s derby-winning side....

Island resident and Wight Tri member, Rob Johnson, competed in the gruelling SwimRun World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, last month. This was a race he had to qualify for through the global SwimRun series with his SwimRun partner Chris Goodfellow,...

Man-of-the-match John McKie In what was dubbed “the greatest comeback since Lazarus” by 1 Cowes fan, the Yachtsmen took all 3 Wessex Premier points against Laverstock & Ford at Westwood Park on Tuesday evening (4th October). Laverstock are the strong,...

Isle of Wight senior hockey saw triumph on home turf, as well as overall success, with 3 out of 4 sides victorious on Saturday (1st October). The 1st game of the season for the ladies’ 2XI, was at home to...

Gary Marshall 105 runners set off from the Isle of Wight Community Club in Cowes for the 66th Isle of Wight Marathon on an overcast, showery Sunday morning (2nd October). Luckily, conditions soon improved with the rain lifting, to be...

Wight Eagles maintained their unbeaten start to the season when they travelled to Portsmouth to play Meon Milton in the League Cup. The Eagles started the game strongly against a hard-working Meon Milton, who play in the same league as...