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Beverley firsts entertain strong Clifton

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May 202010

It’s a busy weekend for Beverley Town CC’s cricket teams.

All four senior teams are in action on Saturday, with the main game being the first XI’s home clash with Clifton Alliance, currently sitting second in the York and District Senior League Premier Division.

Beverley managed a draw at Dunnington last Saturday in the league and followed that up with a great performance at York in the ECB National Club Championships, where they went down to a 27-run defeat to one of the Yorkshire Premier League’s top side.

Last weekend, Clifton successfully chased down Thirsk’s 190 for the loss of just four wickets and will be a formidable challenge.

The second XI are at Malton and Old Malton 1st XI following their draw at home to Harrogate seconds. Faisal Abid will be looking to build on his magnificent, unbeaten 130 in that draw.

The 3rds travel to Hill Top, while the fourth XI entertain Pelican at the Norwood Recreation Ground.

On Sunday, the women’s XI entertain Bradford CC seconds.

Clayton on International Leadership Programme

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May 192010

Maria Clayton, Head of Communications for British Showjumping has been selected and invited to represent Great Britain alongside five other sports in an International Leadership programme.

The Women and International Leadership Programme (WILD) which is an EU funded programme offers intense training and continuous support where each participant will be assigned a personal mentor. This, in addition to the networking opportunities that come from mentoring six individuals from eight different nations within a common environment will create a unique platform allowing sports to work alongside each other whilst also giving them access to sports leaders from across Europe.

Amanda Bennett, UK Sport’s Head of Policy, Chair of European Women and Sport was invited to speak at the WILD launch at the European Parliament in Brussels sponsored by Emma McClarkin MEP and attended by sports leaders from across Europe. Commenting on the new programme, Bennett said:

“This is an historic moment for women in European sport. National and European federations as well as the European Commission are taking joint action to improve sport leadership and governance in Europe by ensuring women can make a full contribution”.

Iain Graham, British Showjumping Chief Executive commented. “We are thrilled that Maria Clayton was selected and invited to be a representative for women in sport within Great Britain. Having British Showjumping included in such a prestigious programme is not only good news for the sport in terms of raising it’s profile but also an opportunity to widen our network in terms of those heading up International Sports across Europe”

The UK representatives are:
Louise Roberts – British Gymnastics
Maria Clayton – British Showjumping
Diane Modahl – Street Games
Priya Samuel – British University and College Sport
Lara Lill – Amateur Swimming Association
Jenny Fromer – Baseball Softball UK

CCPR is the co-ordinating body for WILD and the British group will join with leaders from France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Italy and the Czech Republic for training events and international networking.

Showjumping board agree to step down

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May 192010

With a focus on how to best service the sport as it moves forward to 2012 and beyond, the Executive Board members of British Showjumping (BSJA) are pleased to announce that they have agreed to stand down in favour of forming a Sporting Council.

A smaller skills based board will be appointed which will be responsible for long term strategy and management of the Association.

Further information will be made available for members in the near future, and an EGM will take place as soon as possible after that where members will be asked to ratify this decision. The implementation of these plans will coincide with the appointment of full time Regional Development Officers. Recruitment for these positions will commence shortly.

We are confident that these positive changes will be met enthusiastically by everyone who has an interest in our sport.

Para showjumpers dominant in France

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May 192010

The squad of British Para Showjumping riders who made the journey to La Baule in France last week, dominated the top placings in all levels of competition.

In the competitions for Grade 1 and visually impaired competitors, Susi Rogers-Hartley from Kings Lynn in Norfolk finished in fourth place. The Grade 2 competitions were a British 1-2-3 with Heather Bennett from Goole in North Humberside taking the top spot, Alex McNamara from Louth in Lincolnshire in second and Karen Bostock from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire finishing third.

In the Grade 3/4 (1.10m) competitions, Toby Bevins from Chippenham in Wiltshire took fourth place with Heather Bennett on her second horse in fifth, whilst Louise Hacker from Clevedon in North Somerset finished in third place in the Grade 3 competitions (1.20m).

Chef d’Equipe Anne Newbery commented: “All of the riders have ridden extremely well and their haul of top placings over the weekend reflects this. They really are a credit to their country and I am extremely proud of what they have achieved over the last two days”.

Para showjumping competitions in La Baule ranged from 70 cms to 1.20m and were graded according to the riders’ disability, including a competition for the guided blind.

Gemma finishes runner-up

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May 172010

Twenty-five year-old Gemma Paternoster from Elstead in Surrey finished runner-up in the 35,000€ Grand Prix, held in Linz, Austria yesterday.

Riding her own fourteen year-old bay gelding Osiris and drawn second to go, the former Young Rider European Champion jumped one of just six first round clears of the entire competition. An unlucky pole down in the jump off, but with the fastest time saw her take the runner-up spot behind Norway’s Stein Endresen who produced the sole double clear. Third place went to South African Cara Frew.

CSIO4* Linz AUT

Grand Prix

1^st Stein Endresen NOR Hoyo de Monterrey – 0/0 52.09 secs

2^ndGemma Paternoster GBR Osiris – 0/4 48.05 secs

3^rd Cara Frew RSA Monark – 0/4 48.51 secs

Full results can be viewed at www.linzerpferdefestival.at.

Gemma is a member of the World Class Development Squad which is lottery funded through UK Sport and provides support across a wide range of support services as well as direct funding support.

Team Champion in Austria Win

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May 172010

Team Champion finished in Podium position today with a win at the CSIO4* Nations Cup in Linz, Austria.

Drawn first to go of the fourteen teams, it was Gemma Paternoster with the impressive Osiris who had the unfortunate position of being the pathfinder – a difficult task for anyone in a team but made worse by being the first team to jump plus the task of being forced to jump in rain which hadn’t ceased for 24hours. Returning home with an extremely unlucky four faults she was able to give much valued feedback to the rest of the team as to how the course was riding.

With Philip Spivey and the established Romanov, Anna Edwards with the scopey Unique IX making their Nations Cup debut and Tina Fletcher with the consistent Hello Sailor all going on to jump clear rounds, Great Britain took an early lead.

The second round really took it’s toll on all the teams with there only being two double clears of the entire competition. Having finished the first round with a score of zero and a jump in hand, it was this gap of four faults that remained through to the finish with Australia completing on sixteen faults whilst we finished on a total of twelve having accrued four faults with each of our three riders put forward.

Chef d’equipe Di Lampard commented “We had a super team and they were absolutely brilliant. They were totally focused, did everything we asked of them and we should all be incredibly proud of everyone here as they represented us so well in every shape and form. We’re now hoping for equal success on Sunday in the Grand Prix!”.

Champion’s sponsorship of the British Nations Cup Team is the result of the brand’s deep-seated belief in the importance of continual development, dedication and professionalism, together with a desire to offer British equestrian talent every possible opportunity to reach the very top of competitive show jumping.

The Grand Prix will take place on Sunday 16th May and results can be followed at www.linzerpferdefestival.at.

The British Show Jumping Teams continue to be strongly supported by the UK Sport lottery funded BEF World Class programme.

Results
Rank    Country                                      Points
1          Great Britain                                12

           Gemma Paternoster / Osiris (4/-)
               Philip Spivey / Romanov         (0/4)
               Anna Edwards/Unique IX       (0/4)
               Tina Fletcher/Hello Sailor      (0/4)
2          Australia                                     16
3          Belgium                                      19
4          France                                        20
5          Hungary                                      32
5          Italy                                            32

Britain share third place in France

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May 142010

It was a home win for France in the first round of the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup in the seaside resort of La Baule this afternoon, Friday 14th May.

With grandstands absolutely packed to the gunnels the stadium erupted when current European Champion, Kevin Staut with the twelve year old bay stallion Kraque Boom jumped the crucial clear to secure their win.

The entire competition proved to be one that kept the thousands of spectators present glued to their seats with everything left to play for until the last with Great Britain alongside France and the United States in joint first place after the first round.

With the United States taking second place with a team total of eight faults, it was Great Britain with Germany who shared third place on twelve faults.

For Britain, it was anchorman Peter Charles with Olga White’s consistent eleven year old bay gelding Murka’s Pom d’Ami who produced a foot perfect double clear in both rounds ensuring Britain’s third place.

Clear rounds were also produced by Michael Whitaker and Beatrice Mertens bay gelding GIG Amai in addition to Scott Brash making his debut at this level of competition with the black gelding Intertoy Z. Mark Armstrong with his own bay mare Thesaura also produced an impressive first round, but an unfortunate error in the second round really showed what an extremely honest and scopey mare she is when she jumped herself out of trouble in a particularly short striding treble.

Speaking from La Baule, World Class Showjumping Performance Manager and Chef d’equipe Rob Hoekstra commented “I am highly delighted with the Team today, not only in their performance but also in the way they have pulled together as a team of five out here in La Baule. The four riders competing were a true mixture of experience and youth, I consider it a great start to the season and we now look forward to Rome.

The next leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup takes place in Rome at the Piazza Di Sienna during the CSIO 5* show, 27-30th May 2010. Further information on the series can be found by visiting www.meydanfeinationscup.org

The British Showjumping Teams are strongly supported by the UK Sport Lottery funded BEF World Class Programme.

Results
Rank    Country            Penalties
1          France               4
2          USA                  8
3          Great Britain      12
3          Germany           12
5          Spain                14
6          Ireland              16
7          Switzerland       17
8          Sweden            25

Poor start to season continues for 1st XI

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May 102010

Beverley 1^st XI lost to Easingwold by 10 wickets - 1^st XI 49 all out Easingwold 53 for 0: The 1^st XI’s poor start to the season continued with a 10-wicket hammering at home to Easingwold.

Alan Acklam was undefeated on 18 and Faisal Abid made 10 but the team folded without any other resistance and made only 49 runs.

Easingwold made light work of their modest target to ensure an early finish

Fourths hammer Wawne

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May 102010

Beverley Town CC 4^th XI beat Wawne by 40 runs – 4^th XI 178 for 7 Wawne 138 all out: Opener James Broekhuizen (40) played some nice shots before being well caught at slip and junior player Rob Wicks continued his excellent start to the season with 24.

Gareth Richardson and Aidan Thorburn began the onslaught with Richardson hitting four sixes and three fours in his 56. Thorburn made an invaluable unbeaten 16.

Jamie Nowell ripped through the Wawne batting claiming 5 for 43 in his twelve overs.

Sam Welburn took 1 for 33. Tris Featherby then produced a very tight spell at one end as, at the other end, slow bowlers Richardson and Neil Goforth were briefly hit to all parts of the ground.

Goforth (1-21) did however make the breakthrough claiming Wawne’s ninth wicket before Featherby (2 for 14) deservedly claimed the last man.

Hodgsons claim title in real style

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May 072010

Hodgsons final league game of the season, and a win was required to clinch the East Riding County Premier League Title.

The ‘tanners’ did it in fantastic style. A convincing 7-1 away win against North Cave ensured the Beverley side pipped Bridlington based Artfuldodger by 2 points.

It took only 5 minutes before Hodgsons scored the opening goal. Leading scorer Adam Foster lobbed the keeper in superb fashion. Minutes later Hodgsons were awarded a penalty after Danny Cartwright was taken down inside the box. Captain Paul Silvester stepped up and struck the ball high and wide.

With a slender 1 nil lead, Hodgsons continued to push forward knowing that a 2nd goal would be crucial in this match.

That goal came from Cartwright who tapped in from close range after some great work by Adam Foster.

At the other end, keeper Matt Dexter only had the one save to make, coming from a North Cave free-kick.

The second half once again saw Hodgsons pour forward in numbers. This pressure paid off as Foster scored his 2nd of the match and Hodgsons 3rd to effectively kill the game off.

In the remaining 25 minutes Hodgsons scored a further 5 goals. Paul Silvester made atone for his earlier Penalty miss, tapping home from close range. Scott-Jon Tyler bagged number 5 heading home Chris Heaths corner from close range.

Goals 6 and 7 came courtesy of substitutes Jordan Dexter and Danny Atkinson who both took their goals superbly well.

Man of the match was Chris Heath who worked tirelessly all game. This was the final league game that goalkeeper Matt Dexter and midfielder Chris Heath will be playing for the club. They will both be moving abroad due to work commitments.

Hodgsons chairman Lee Hastings said.

“Both players and in particular Deco will be sadly missed. Deco has been with the club since we formed and has not only been a fantastic player to have worked with, but has also managed the clubs finances superbly. Heathy is one my most consistent players, when he’s fit! He has been unlucky with injuries throughout previous seasons.

“As always when players depart, it gives me an opportunity to look at new additions. I have approached Andy Lane, former Beverley United keeper as a possible replacement for Deco, and the club is looking at the possibility of signing Wawne Ferrys leading goal scorer Matty Crane, with personal circumstances still to be discussed.”

“It is vital the club continues to add quality to the ranks as we now look to compete in the Humber League Division 1. Every step up is a new challenge, but it’s a challenge I will make sure the club is ready for.”

Beverley continue good start to season

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May 052010

Beverley 2^nd XI 170 all out Tadcaster Magnet 117 all out: Beverley Town 2nd Xl continued their good start to the season with a 53 run victory at Norwood on Saturday against Tadcaster Magnet.

Having lost the toss, Beverley were asked to bat first in cold, overcast conditions. They lost an early wicket, before Ian Goforth (26) and Paul Best (33) put together a decent partnership.

Once they both departed, wickets fell at regular intervals as the Tadcaster attack got into the middle order. Only James Emery (22) showed any real form with the bat.

Fortunately, the Beverley tail rallied, as Iain Sugdon (19, including a famous six) and Nick Robinson, with a couple of great drives in his 18, enabled Town to set a competitive 170 all out.

Good opening spells from the Town bowlers restricted Tadcaster’s scoring opportunities and the visitors never really looked like knocking the total off once Robinson took three early wickets.

New signing Nick has made a very favourable impression in his first two league outings and finished with excellent figures of 3 for 21.

This was a very good all-round bowling effort as Sugdon (3-24), Emery (2-29), and promising youngster Bradley Dobson (2-8) bowled Tadcaster out for 117.

Airmyn too strong for Beverley 3rds

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May 052010

Beverley 3^rd XI 114 for 9 Airmyn 116 for 5: Beverley lost the toss and were asked to bat first on a bowler friendly wicket in their EYCA Premier Division clash.

In a match reduced to forty overs a side Town struggled to 114 for 9 with Pete Hynes top scoring with 23. Neil Goforth (15) was the next highest scorer.

Airmyn reached their target for the loss of five wickets with thirteen overs still remaining. Sam Horton, Paul Guy and Kieran O’Brian shared the wickets and Alex Nightingale produced a run out.

Four British riders announced

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Apr 272010

Showjumping Performance Manager Rob Hoekstra today announced the four riders who will represent Great Britain at CSIO4* Lummen, taking place later this week.

Ben Maher, Ellen Whitaker, Phillip Spivey and Mark Armstrong, accompanied by Chef d’Equipe and Performance Manager Rob Hoekstra, will all travel to Lummen in Belgium this week to contest the Belgian Nations Cup.

Ben Maher, 27, from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire will ride the eleven year-old grey gelding Wonderboy III, a horse Ben co-owns with Mike and Emma Phillips of the Quainton Stud. Ben and Wonderboy have recently returned from a tour on the European continent, winning classes in s’Hertogenbosch and Zurich.

Newly crowned British Open Champion, Ellen Whitaker, 24, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire will partner the fourteen year-old chestnut gelding Ocolado, owned by Dawn Makin and Ellen’s father, Steven. Ellen and Ocolado will be hoping to emulate their last appearance on a British Team, when they produced a faultless double clear round in Abu Dhabi, helping secure a British victory, at the beginning of February.

Phillip Spivey from Ipswich in Suffolk will make his sixth British Team appearance with Tracey Forrest’s twelve year-old chestnut stallion, Romanov II. Phillip and Romanov have spent the last few weeks competing on the Villeneuve Loubet and Toscana Tour’s where they secured several Grand Prix placings.

Mark Armstrong from Bordon in Hampshire will ride Thesaura, a fourteen year old bay mare which Mark jointly owns with his wife Emma. Mark and Thesaura enjoyed tremendous success on the recent Spanish Sunshine Tour, taking victory in one of the Grand Prix’s.

The Belgian Nations Cup will take place on Friday 30th April and results can be followed at www.lummen-horses.be.

The British Show Jumping Teams continue to be strongly supported by the UK Sport lottery funded BEF World Class programme.

Beverley edge victory over Boro

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Jan 302010

BEVERLEY 14 MIDDLESBOROUGH 13: Not a match that will linger long in anybody’s memory but in the end a satisfactory day for Beverley who ground out a narrow victory to move up to fifth in the table.

Beverley were far from their best, struggling all afternoon to retain possession and seldom producing any of the fine rugby they have been playing in recent games. Alex Nightingale made a promising debut on the wing with limited ball, but without the injured Phil Duboulay their makeshift pairing at halfback never quite got it together, and Beverley’s other debutant Chris Harding at full back will have better days than this. None the less it was in the forwards that Beverley particularly looked out of sorts.

They started well enough and it was against the run of play that Middlesborough took the lead with a penalty from Simon O’Farrell after eight minutes when Beverley were penalised for not releasing the man after the tackle. Beverley continued to have the better of the play without being able to find any decisive cutting edge. David Worrall, Richard Bussey, and James McKay all made impressive breaks but nothing came of them through lack of support or careless passing.

Eventually after twenty five minutes they did get the breakthrough. From loose play in the visitors’ 22 the ball went to Craig Hancock who raced through the entire defence and touched down under the posts without a hand being laid on him. Jamie Gill’s conversion put Beverley 7-3 ahead but the lead was shortlived. In a Beverley attack down the right poor handling midway inside the visitors’ half allowed Middlesborough to hoof the ball clear. With Beverley’s full back nowhere in sight a kick and chase to the Beverley line was easily won by winger Callum Campbell who touched down for O’Farrell to add a simple conversion.

Thereafter Beverley’s game started to fall apart alarmingly. There were ever-increasing errors and a worrying loss of effectiveness up front even though they still managed to get a good share of possession. It was the frequency with which they kept giving it away that was the trouble. A crooked put-in at a Beverley scrum shortly before halftime allowed O’Farrell to stretch the Middlesborough lead with a second penalty so that for all their domination in the half Beverley found themselves turning round 13-7 down.

In the second period when they ought to have been trying to play the game in their opponents half they consistently failed to make any use of the following wind. They continued to get bogged down in their own territory until at last a penalty got them up to the Middlesborough 22. From the resulting lineout victory was clinched in a moment of magic from Bussey who cut back to the forwards and threaded his way through the defence for a fine try under the posts. Gill’s conversion put Beverley a point in front and somehow they managed to stay there.

But the last quarter was a nail biting affair for Beverley. The big Middlesborough pack increasingly took command and Beverley struggled to contain their powerful drives, once being trundled back to their own line from thirty metres out. After a frantic battle on the line Beverley eventually managed to escape but Middlesborough would not let them off the hook. The referee’s inadvertent blowing for full time some five minutes early probably came as much of a relief to Beverley as it was an irritation to Middlesborough. The visitors no doubt felt hard done by but Beverley could justifiably point to the fact that all the Middlesborough scoring had been handed to them on a plate by Beverley errors. Beverley may also feel that justice had been done following the earlier encounter at Acklam Park when they had suffered an agonising defeat in a match they had totally dominated throughout.

Beavers too strong for Sheffield

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SHEFFIELD TIGERS 0 BEVERLEY 16: Looking anything but a side that had not played for six weeks Beverley cruised to a comfortable victory over a disappointing Sheffield Tigers to maintain their position in the upper half of League Three North.

Sheffield were a pale shadow of the side that had played so impressively earlier in the season at Beaver Park and for much of the game Beverley needed merely to sit back and wait for the Tigers’ attacks to founder through basic errors.

In the early play the Sheffield game plan was centred on sustained rumbling forward by their hefty pack. They certainly had a huge weight advantage and in the opening minutes it looked likely that they would make the most of it. But they lacked the mobility of the lighter Beverley eight who kept them at bay and it was Beverley who steadily got on top. After ten minutes Goran Jelencic with a nice interception raced clear to the line but somehow the defence got back and prevented him grounding the ball. In the event nothing was lost for Beverley because a penalty followed and David Worrall with a quick tap kick forced his way over for a try which Phil Duboulay converted.

Both sides had a fair share of the ball but Beverley made better use of their possession by keeping it simple and moving the ball about quickly. Sheffield in contrast seemed to lack direction and were constantly running up blind alleys. Junior Tupai throughout the first half was the game’s outstanding player regularly creating openings with his probing in midfield.

A thrilling fifty metre run out of defence by Richard Bussey led to a penalty which Duboulay converted and two further Duboulay penalties took Beverley sixteen point clear. Sheffield had plenty of possession but all the constructive rugby in this half was coming from Beverley. Worrall nearly got over again after a chip over the defence by Duboulay and Jade Gardiner was unluckily brought down after Tupai had cleverly set up an opening down the right.

It was not until nearly halftime that Sheffield eventually got into the Beverley 22 for the first time. With their best move of the match they looked certain to score in the corner only to be denied by a tremendous covering tackle by Bussey. They might still have got onto the scoreboard but David Scully, who had already demolished a satellite dish on the clubhouse wall with an earlier penalty, then saw a simple kick from in front of the posts go wide.

The second half was mostly pretty tepid. Sheffield with their continuing waywardness never really looked like scoring and Beverley needed only to sit back and contain them. There was certainly very little memorable rugby going on. Young hooker Alexander Forth made a promising debut for Beverley and there were some nice touches here and there from Duboulay but the game eventually deteriorated in a chapter of errors by both sides. None the less it was a good team performance by Beverley especially by their pack. Even when a man short with Craig Hancock in the sin bin they still more than held their own. In the later stages despite having a long series of scrums on the Beverley line the big home pack could still make nothing of it.

Duboulay hit the post with a penalty and Jamie Gill was unlucky with a long range attempt which dropped just short. Apart from that neither side had really looked like adding to the halftime score. In the end it was a satisfying day for Beverley who had shown little ill effect from their long lay-off. Their only disappointment was the loss of Gardiner and Francis Pickering with injuries although Dale Hodgson and Mark Hatfield both proved able replacements.