Dave Ewers believes the final three games of this season’s Aviva Premiership represent a “massive challenge” to the Exeter Chiefs as they look to seal a place amongst the division’s top six sides. With important clashes against London Irish (home), London Wasps (away) and Gloucester (home) remaining for the Devon club, Ewers knows the battle for Heineken Cup qualification next season is set to go to right to the wire. However, buoyed by Saturday’s late 24-18 victory over Worcester Warriors at Sixways, Rob Baxter’s side have certainly positioned themselves nicely for the top flight’s final...
Over a thousand young people from across Devon braved freezing conditions to shine at this week’s Devon Winter School Games, part of the national Sainsbury’s School Games, held at the University of Exeter at St Luke’s Science and Sports College.
Nine different sports were on offer, with the only casualty of the poor weather conditions being the cycling competition, cancelled due to a flooded course. The children bravely battled through the flurries of snow to compete in football, hockey and rugby. Those competing at netball were luckier, taking advantage of the new covered courts...
Rochdale recorded their first victory at St James Park in 13 years as they turned a 1-0 deficit on its head late on to win 2-1.
The game had been on a knife-edge throughout with both teams providing plenty of opportunities to produce, much to the gratification of Jamie Cureton who responded by putting Exeter ahead on the stroke of half-time.
The Dale, though, never gave up the ghost, continuing to press to the last and were duly rewarded with late goals from Ian Henderson and Bobby Grant to come away with an invaluable three points...
Exeter has a surprisingly strong link with the sport of Baseball due to a former resident named Henry Chadwick, and now the city has its own team.
The Exeter Spitfires will begin play this season when they join the established South West Baseball League to take on the Torbay Barons, Bristol Bats and reigning champions the Plymouth Mariners.
The Spitfires will play each of their opponents four times, twice each home and away, with a game being played every two weeks on a Sunday.
The season itself will run from 14 April, when the Spitfires start their season at the...
With the upcoming Lions Tour set for June 2013, we are lucky enough to bring you some of Rugby’s biggest legends who will tell tales of their past, their predictions for the tour and their own take on this year’s top flight.
It will be a completely unique rugby night out based on an Old Style International Rugby Court Session - and also raise funds for the Exeter Foundation.
The guests of honour will be the judge and jury of the court in the good ol’ fashion tradition of our very own rugby supporter’s court session.
Join former Lion Jason Leonard and friends for an...
Devon will make history as the first stage of The Tour of Britain to host a summit finish when Britain’s premier cycle race returns to the county in September to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
The organisers of The Tour and Devon County Council have this evening announced that Devon will host Stage Six from Sidmouth to Haytor in Dartmoor National Park on Friday 20 September. It will be the first time a stage has finished with a SKODA King of the Mountains climb in the modern era of the race.
It will be the seventh consecutive year that The Tour will have visited Devon. In...
Against the backdrop of last week’s announcement that school sport is set to be transformed thanks to a £150m-a-year boost that will improve coaching for the youngest pupils and inspire the Olympic and Paralympic stars of the future, over 1,000 Devon school children aged between 9 and 18 years and over 200 young volunteers are preparing to take part in the Devon Winter School Games at Exeter University on Wednesday 27 March.
The national Sainsbury’s School Games programme is coordinated by a Local Organising Committee in Devon which is chaired by Hugh Bellamy (Principal of South...
South West Athletics Academy is pleased to announce the launch of its new portable athletics track surface. To celebrate the launch, a sprint challenge is being held at Exeter’s Princesshay on Saturday 30 March from 10am – 5pm, with all welcome to come and try out the new surface.
Sonya Ellis, Head Coach of the Award Winning Academy said, “ This is an exciting new project and we’re the first in the South West to have this type of portable track. We’re really excited to be able to take the track out into the community and raise awareness of athletics. We’ll also be attending sports...
Departing England Under-20s Head Coach Rob Hunter paid tribute to his team after they were crowed Six Nations champions for an unprecedented third time in a row after an impressive 28-15 win away in Wales at Eirias Park.
Hunter, who is set to join the Exeter Chiefs coaching staff next month on a full-time basis, could not hide his delight as his young guns produced an impressive display in Colwyn Bay.
He said: “It’s a massive achievement and the guys deserve all the credit – they’re a hard working group and this trophy is their reward for the work that they have put in....
Exeter City completed a double for the season over Capital One Cup finalists Bradford City with a superb 4-1 victory at St James Park.
City’s first goal had a touch of fortune about it when Bantams goalkeeper Matt Duke bundled into his own net, and a debut goal from loanee Lawson D’Ath put the hosts two up at the break.
Kyel Reid cut City’s lead to a single goal late in the second half, but strikes by Scot Bennett and John O’Flynn put the sheen on a great victory and an important three points in the race for promotion.
Amongst the starting XI for the Grecians was D’...
