Sport

Fancy running out on to the pitch at St James Park? Now's your chance.

We are offering all potential futsal scholars the chance to come along to a training session at Exeter City FC on Tuesday 30 April, which will be your final chance to work with our coaches and learn more about our BTEC Futsal and Education programme.

The programme is open to all current Year 11 and 12 students age 16-19 (male and female) who wish to find out more about the course, which is a full-time, two-year Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Sport - equivalent to three A Levels.

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The Exeter Spitfires started their first season in the South West Baseball League on Sunday with a crushing 33-0 loss at the reigning champions, the Plymouth Mariners.

It was clear from the start that the Mariners were obviously very confident, as they should have been given their position as the best local team playing against a very inexperienced Spitfires lineup, who had over half their team playing their first game.

Despite the loss, Exeter were able to draw some positives from the game. They were able to hold the Mariners scoreless in one inning thanks to good pitching...