County glory is landed by juniors
East Dean FC celebrated their season with an awards afternoon at The Star & Garter pub.
Awards to staff, volunteers, players and managers were presented as The Dean looked back at their West Sussex League season.
Awards were presented by Treasurer Tim Calloway, general manager Pete Kearvell and manager Tom Ferre and were awarded to;
Clubman - Lewis Rodwell Player of the year - Brad Silvester Mick Andrews Trophy - John Burnett Topgoalscorer-haidondavies Manager’s player - Ben Pett Players’ player - Nathan Freeman Miss of season - Ben Pett
Goal of season - Jason Houghton
East Dean said: “We’d like to thank all our sponsors for their continued support this season and a big thank you to The Star & Garter for their hospitality throughout the season and for hosting the awards.”
PRE-SEASON
Football clubs are starting to confirm their pre-season friendlies – and Bognor Regis Town are among those quick off the mark in putting matches in place.
The Rocks will welcome Pompey to Nyewood Lane on Tuesday, July 11, for what has become an annual game against the Blues.
Before that, the Rocks travel to recently promoted Horndean on Saturday July 8, and after the encounter with John Mousinho's men they then visit Woodside Road to face Worthing on July 15.
Bognor head to AFC Totton
on July 19 and then host Dorking Wanderers on July 22 before concluding their pre-season games with a home game against Chichester City on July 29.
In between those games, Blake will be putting his charges through their paces at pre-season training at East Dean FC up until the first league clash of the season on August 12.
Manager Robbie Blake said: “We're pleased Pompey are coming to Nyewood Lane again and we are looking forward to the game before what will be a decent crowd.
"The rest of our schedule is exciting and it gives us the chance to combine hard work at East Dean with games against decent sides.”
Several Chichester Runners & AC athletes competed at the Sussex track and field championships at Crawley.
Eve Langford (U17) ran extremely well in the 100m heats to get to the final, where she ran a personal best time of 13.30sec for fifth place.
Amelie Mcgurk (U20) looked strong in the final of the 200m, finishing fourth in a new PB 26.80sec.
She went on to produce probably the best performance of her career in the 400m final.
With her powerful kick she reeled in the leaders to finish just 0.03sec behind second to take bronze in a sparkling new PB time of 61.16sec.
In the final of the 100m, Fleur Hollyer (U20) led up to 80m but, but having lost some speed endurance through a winter injury, had to settle for fifth place in 13.35sec.
Josh Dunne retained his 800m U17 title to finish in just outside two minutes.
There was a good 5000m run from Ben Morton who set a new personal best of 15.53 in the senior race to finish just outside the medals.
Ben Ward took bronze in the U17 race with 17.34 in his first track race over the distance.
Anya Barrett ran good races over 800m and 1500m, with Harry Dunne just outside his personal best in the U15 800m.
In the same age group, there was a trio of Chichester athletes in the 1500m with all three setting best times.
Stanley Wilkes led them home in 5th in 4.41 with Harry Cruttenden at 5.13 and Arthue Reynolds at 5.44.
Grace Haworth took silver in the U15 javelein.