The first ladies hockey versus cricket game has ended all square at Comber Leisure Centre today with the final score at 4-4. The general consensus was for a penalty shoot out and with Ali and Keri both missing the fifth strokes it went to sudden death only for both culprits to fail again at the…
The cricket club came from 4-1 down at half time to defeat the hockey club by an impressive 7-5 in the annual Boxing Day charity game thus halting a series of defeats. As always, the fixture was the chance for members returning from foreign parts such as England and Scotland to meet up with their…
The annual charity game between the cricket and hockey clubs will be today at 1.00 pm. All proceeds to charity. There will be a minutes silence before the game in memory of Stanley Glover and Raymond McIlveen who both died in the past few days and who played for both clubs.
Happy Christmas to all. More photos added every day.
The pitch at Comber Leisure Centre has just been inspected and is frozen solid even in the majority of the pitch which is getting some sun now. The pitch at Regent House is also unplayable so home games off are ladies seconds and fourths and mens seconds and fourths. The pitches at Antrim Forum for…
North Down defeated Antrim 4-0 in the first round of the Irish Trophy last Saturday and can now look forward to a home tie against last year’s finalists Bandon on 24 January. North Down controlled the game for most of the 70 minutes but Antrim, as last week, were dangerous on the break with North…
North Down thirds are halfway through their season and were back to playing Pegasus thirds last Saturday at Comber Leisure Centre. Having beaten them 2-0 at the start of the season the ladies were confident of more success. North Down started off strongly playing their own game of one two passes and applying pressure to…
North Down thirds travelled to South Antrim on the newly installed Friends School synthetic pitch. With momentum on their side the Comber men were in positive form even though a few familiar faces had been called up to the seconds. Nonetheless those that filled the gaps, Clarke, Dorian, Brown and Vincent, did so and did…
North Down ladies fours travelled to The Dub last Saturday to play Queens 3rds who have taken control of Junior Five this season. In the first half the North Down defence of Karen Jackson, Maxine Taylor, Anna Rogers and Ann McBride started off strongly breaking down the Queens attacks with some excellent saves from returning…
The ladies firsts travelled to Cookstown on Saturday looking for 3 points to retain second position in Senior One. Regardless of form or current league standings, Cookstown is always a difficult place to go and somewhere that North Down have struggled to get points in the last number of seasons. North Down started nervously and…