Newcastle Benfield 0-0 West Auckland Town: (West win 4-3 on penalties) West Auckland Town won the Mitre Brooks Mileson Memorial League Cup following a dramatic penalty shootout victory against Newcastle Benfield at Seaham’s Ferguson Motor Repairs Stadium. After an uneventful 90 minutes, Ross Colquhoun struck the decisive spot-kick as Gary […]
Double Olympian Alyson Dixon finished 16th in the women’s section of the 123rd Boston Marathon registering a time of 2.35.43 – her fifth fastest Marathon. Dixon’s performance saw her rise to fourth place on the British all-time Over-40 Marathon list. The top three are Priscilla Welch (Ranelagh) with 2.26.51 in […]
Spennymoor Town welcome an in-form Brackley Town to the Brewery Field on Saturday afternoon in a mouth-watering 4th vs 3rd play-off clash in the National League North. Jason Ainsley’s side fell to a calamitous defeat last week against Ashton United, conceding three goals in the space of five minutes, […]
Goals from Amar Purewal and Thomas Price stretched West Auckland Town’s unbeaten run in all competitions to seven matches with a routine victory over Ashington. Purewal opened the scoring on eight minutes before grabbing his 24th league goal of the season nine minutes after the restart via a deflection. Price […]
Goals from Denver Morris and Steven Snaith ensured West Auckland Town of a comfortable 2-0 win over Seaham Red Star. Morris opened the scoring on 35 minutes with a wonderful finish past Chris Bannon before Snaith doubled West’s lead just after the hour-mark with a vigorous strike as Gary Forrest’s […]
West Auckland Town ended a four-match winless run with a convincing victory over relegation-threatened Whickham at the Glebe Sports Ground. Amar Purewal’s second hat-trick of the season with two penalties either half and a cushioned header – along with Tom Portas’ audacious lob saw West comfortably secure their first win […]
Glen Taylor struck an 87th-minute penalty to earn Spennymoor Town a precious point in their National League North encounter against Southport at the Brewery Field. Jack Sampson gave the visitors the lead with nine minutes to go hitting a left-footed shot into the far corner before Taylor levelled proceedings from […]
Mark Fitzpatrick’s stunning second-half strike saw Dunston UTS complete a league double over West Auckland Town. Fitzpatrick scored his 22nd goal of the season on 64 minutes with a sensational volley from 25-yards out as Dunston stretched their unbeaten run in Division One to seven matches. The result leaves West […]
Oman v Ireland, T20 International, Al Almerat Cricket Ground, Muscat: Netherlands – 182-9 (20 overs; T Visee 78, M O’Dowd 38; S Thompson 4-18, B Rankin 2-27) Ireland – 183-9 (20 overs; A Balbirnie 83, K O’Brien 46; P van der Meekeran 4-38, F Klaassen 3-31) Ireland won by 1 […]
Third Test, Daren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia (day four of five) England – 277 (Stokes 79, Roach 4-48) & 361-5 dec (Root 122, Denly 69) West Indies – 154 (Wood 5-41, Moeen 4-36) & 252 (Chase 102*, Anderson 3-27) England won by 232 runs, West Indies win series 2-1 Durham […]
