Home Ground - South West Sports News

South West Sports News promoting regional sport

Passionate about sport? So are we! That is why sports journalist Ross Reid started South West Sports News in Spring 2008.

Our word-of-mouth, eco-friendly green game plan is to support sportspeople from the tip of South West England to the top of South Wales, young and old, male and female, grassroots participants to Olympians and Paralympians.

We are a pro-active team with one goal: winning promotion for regional sport.

contact [email protected]

SW GOLF Hall, Plumb and Sloman in Walker Cup team

Details: Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:46; Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:03; Published on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:46; Written by ROSS REID

Five English players - including three amateur aces from the South West - have been included in the Great Britain & Ireland team to face America in this year's Walker Cup at Royal Liverpool on September 7-8.

Harry Hall (West Cornwall, Cornwall), Thomas Plumb (Yeovil, Somerset) Tom Sloman (Taunton & Pickeridge, Somerset) Alex Fitzpatrick (Hallamshire, Yorkshire) and Conor Gough (Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire) have been listed in the team while Ben Schmidt (Rotherham, Yorkshire) and Ben Jones (Northamptonshire County, Northamptonshire) have been named as first and second reserves.

MINOR COUNTIES Herefordshire beat Wiltshire

Details: Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 08:16; Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:33; Published on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 08:16; Written by PAUL BOLTON Minor Counties cricket correspondent

Herefordshire held their nerve to snatch a dramatic one wicket victory over Wiltshire in a tense Minor Counties Championship Western Division match at Brockhampton.

A match of fluctuating fortunes was decided when Dan Conway scampered a single off off-spinner Joe King to take Herefordshire to a target of 207.

WOMENS GOLF Cornwall's Toy in Amateur Open field

Details: Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:17; Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:45; Published on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:17; Written by ROSS REID

Austria’s Isabella Holpfer will defend her title at the English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, which teed off today at Ipswich Golf Club in Suffolk.

The 18-year-old completed a remarkable 11-shot wire-to-wire victory 12 months ago in Coventry and now returns attempting to become the first back-to-back winner since Jodi Ewart (now Jodi Ewart Shadoff) in 2007-08.

CRICKET regional first class fixtures & updates

Details: Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:15; Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 09:24; Published on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:15

support #SWcricket

Matchday! Tuesday August 20*

County Championship Division One day 3 of 4
Birmingham Warwickshire CCC 419 Somerset CCC 167-5 Edgbaston 1100
County Championship Division Two day 3 of 4
Derby Derbyshire CCC 200 Gloucestershire CCC 396-7 County Ground 1100
Colwyn Bay CC Glamorgan CCC 257 Lancashire CCC 544-9 Penrhyn Avenue 1100

FREE TO SEE MINOR COUNTIES MATCHES TODAY

SW County Cricket first class results

*all start times weather permitting

SW RUGBY Club training nights

Details: Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:00; Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:16; Published on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:59; Written by Ross Reid in training mode

Every club rugby player knows a rewarding matchday is the end result of hard midweek on the training field.

South West Sports News offers a free service to rugby clubs in South West England and South Wales wishing to promote training days (and effectively their community rugby club) as well as enticing people to #tryrugby for the first time or again and again!