HONITON find themselves just one game away from Twickenham after beating Buckinghamshire side Chesham 24-12 in the South West Divisional Senior Vase final on Saturday. They will now play Portsmouth in the national semi-finals with the winners securing at spot at Twickenham. Cornwall/Devon League high-flyers Honiton took a coach load […]

ILFRACOMBE picked up the first Devon silverware of the season by overcoming Salcombe 20-3 at a windy Brimlands in the Junior Plate final on Saturday. The hosts led 7-0 at the break thanks to a try from 22 metres by Pete Gammon, which Jamie Matthews converted. They had to wait […]

DEVON Schools’ Under-15s made an encouraging start to their season on Sunday when they hosted Somerset at Mount Kelly College. Devon’s A team narrowly lost 14-10 in a tight match where both teams scored two tries apiece. However, Devon’s B side were dominant in their game and ran out 40-19 […]

DEVON Under-15 girls impressed again in their second South West festival, which was staged Downside School in Somerset on Sunday. It was their second festival and repeated the format from the first at Tavistock RFC where they played round robin 15-a-side games in the morning before partaking in a small […]

TWO Devon players have been selected to tour Ireland in April with the England Counties’ Under-18 squad. Ivybridge’s Mat Burns and Kingsbridge’s Seb Tooke have both been named in England’s 23-man party for the two-match tour. The squad was selected following a national development weekend at Stourbridge where Burns and […]

NEARLY 200 girls took part in the Devon under-15 and under-18 trials and development day on Sunday at Bicton College. Each year the numbers of players hoping for county selection goes up. The under-15 trials took place in the morning and saw 115 players from 11 clubs and more than […]

FIVE Devon Under-18 players have been selected to represent the South West Divisional side. Topsham’s Jed Reid (Exeter College), Kingsbridge’s Seb Tooke (Plymouth College), Exeter Saracens’ Freddie Herring (Exeter School), Ivybridge’s Matt Burns (Ivybridge Community College) and Plymstock Albion Oaks’ Pete Keanie (Lipson Co-Op Academy) all successfully came through trials […]

EXETER Touch Rugby player Matt Mahoney will represent England at May’s World Cup in Malaysia. Mahoney has been named in his country’s men’s 35s squad for the top touch rugby competition. He will be joined in Kuala Lumpur by his Exeter team-mate Alan Hubbleday, who has taken up an assistant […]

DEVON Schools’ Under-16 A and B teams enjoyed victories over Gloucestershire at Hartpury College on Sunday in the second round of county matches. Both Devon sides won by 10-point margins, with the A team triumphing 24-14 and the B side running out 29-19 victors. They both had to show great […]

DEVON under-20 coach Lewis Paterson admitted the quality of players who attended two open training sessions has made it ‘very tough’ to select a County Championship squad. More than 50 players turned up at two open sessions this month on the RFU’s artificial floodlit pitch at Ivybridge. Devon will now […]