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Are you from Hackney and busy scoring goals, winning rallies or notching up centuries? Do you think people might want to read about your knockout success or laugh at your comic failure?
Or do you just want to see your team in the paper?
Send your reports to the Hackney Gazette at: hackneygazette.sport@archant.co.uk
FOOTBALL
By Phil Ravitz LEA Valley FC, the Clapton based club playing in the Amateur Football Combination, have made an astonishing leap through the divisions of the league considered the biggest football league in the world. At their annual meeting last Friday ev... » MORE
THE honours went around in the Hackney Youth League that has recently completed its second season. The league s seven awards all went to different teams with the under 13s league championship being secured by Newington Rangers FC, while the under 10s acco... » MORE
WINGATE & Finchley's cup exploits last season were recognised with a prestigious award last week. New manager David Norman saw his side win the Team Performance of the Season award...... » MORE
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ATHLETICS
HACKNEY s Olympic silver medallist Phillips Idowu saw history repeat itself at the European Team Championships in Leiria, Portugal at the weekend. Idowu, beaten for the triple jump gold in Beijing by Portugese star Nelson Evora, saw the same result occur... » MORE
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BASKETBALL
Schools Basketball MOSSBOURNE Academy and Hackney Free and Parochial School represented the borough in a under 14 (year nine) schools basketball tournament, organised by Leyton Orient FC s community sports programmes for teams from the five Olympic boroug... » MORE
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BOXING
Phil Ravitz reporting WHAT former European middleweight champion James Cook regards as one of the biggest sporting developments in the borough of recent years, is likely to take place within the next month. It s an amateur boxing club in the east of the b... » MORE
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CRICKET
By Jonathan Clegg OLD RANWELLIANS finally recorded a first Victoria Park Community League victory at the seventh attempt with a deserved triumph over League of Ordinary Gentlemen in the opening round of the league s cup competition. The league newcomers h... » MORE
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ICE HOCKEY
Chelmsford Chieftains 12, Lee Valley Lions 0 LEE Valley Lions ended their season with a double defeat and won t want to remember their final game of the season – a 12-nil hammering by newly crowned champions of EHL Div 2 Chelmsford Chieftains. The Lea Bri... » MORE
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RUGBY
By Phil Ravitz TWO successive promotions and you would think that Hackney Rugby Club s rolling captaincy, where the Spring Hill club changed their leader every month, was an unqualified success. The idea to allow players who weren t likely to be skipper t... » MORE
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SWIMMING
Water Polo special THE Otters women s water polo team were winners of the first tournament in the sport hosted in Hackney, when the borough s Clissold Swimming Club staged the event. Their new, unique two metre deep pool at Clissold Leisure Centre, Stoke... » MORE
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TENNIS
A TEARFUL and very disappointed Anne Keovathong fled from her post-match press conference at Wimbledon, after exiting the ladies singles in the first round on Tuesday. Hopes were high for the English number one women s player, after she had become the fir... » MORE
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MISCELLANEOUS
By Phil Ravitz HACKNEY will have pull themselves up the standings, when the borough team contests the annual London Youth Games over two days at Crystal Palace national sports centre, south London, this weekend. To date, 13 of the sports have been comple... » MORE
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