North Down fourths first match back after Christmas was at Ards Leisure Centre on Saturday against Ballymena thirds and they were determined to get revenge for the 1-0 defeat earlier in the season. North Down’s defence of Beverly Britain, Anna Rogers, Ann McBride and Lauren McCormack started off strongly breaking down Ballymena’s attacks helped by some…
North Down thirds first game back after the Christmas break was at home against one of the toughest teams in the league, Saintfield seconds. Having been previously beaten by them at the start of the season on Saintfield’s gravel pitch North Down then evened up the tally by putting them out of the Junior Cup….
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…