Category: Sport

GUERNSEY’S top 20 male racketball players are set to compete in the Butterfield Guernsey Closed Tournament at the weekend. The tournament takes place at Beau Sejour on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 August. It follows the success of the racketball open day in May organised by the Guernsey Squash and Racketball Association that attracted more [...]

TWELVE children had a taste of rugby in the first pre-school session held at Beau Sejour this weekend. Initiated by Rugby Development Officer Geraint Cooper in conjunction with Skill Set CI, the four week programme has been designed to introduce children between the ages of two-and-a-half and five to the game of Rugby. Skill Set [...]

RUNNERS in the men’s Butterfield relay team will be attempting to retain their title in this year’s Sportingbet Guernsey Marathon. Last year the Butterfield Bolts men’s relay team finished in first place with a time of 2 hours 50 minutes and 20 seconds. This year three of the five members of the winning team, Darren [...]

GUERNSEY has returned from the 2010 European Touch Championship ranked sixth in Europe, ahead of Jersey for the first time. Four teams went to Bristol to represent the island at the four day tournament which attracted 51 teams from 15 different European nations. ‘Being ranked sixth in Europe has exceeded all our expectations. We are [...]

THE winner of last year’s L’Ancresse Open is coming back to the island to defend his title. Ken Furphy, who is from West Hill Golf Club in Surrey and plays off a 1.6 handicap, won both the scratch and handicap trophies at last year’s Open event, which is played on the Saturday and is the [...]

The Intertrust Guernsey co-ed Slowpitch Softball team is making its way to Prague this week to take part in the European Championships. The tournament takes places from 7-10 July, starting with a round robin before teams progress through to the knock out stages. The strong Guernsey contingent of eight men and eight women will be [...]

THE four teams representing Guernsey at the 2010 European Touch Championship later this month have been announced ahead of a visit by one of the touch governing body’s senior team. Dennis Coffey, Secretary General of the Federation of International Touch (FIT) and Director of Coaching from Touch Football Australia, is spending 10 days in Guernsey [...]

STATES Members from Guernsey and Jersey are swapping the States’ Chambers for the cricket field as they prepare for the annual inter-insular. The game, which is sponsored by Investec Specialist Private Bank and Investec Asset Management, will see politicians from both islands involved with the 30 over game at Rovers AC at Port Soif on [...]

VAZON Bay is gearing up for the island’s first ever beach touch rugby event. On Saturday 10 July teams will take part in the festival of touch rugby with all games being played on the sand. The tournament is for mixed teams of any level consisting of six players (with at least three female players [...]

Guernsey yacht White Rabbit, skippered by Laurie Watson, made the best of difficult conditions to win the 47th Inter Island Yacht Race, sponsored by Carey Olsen, finishing the race in a time of four hours and 29 minutes. The Melges 24 led the fleet from the start and took advantage of the inconsistent wind conditions [...]