18/01/2012

It has been a topsy turvy start to the year for the various college teams. As always the men's football and rugby team are straight into the thick of the action with league and cup fixtures.

The footballers have shown plenty of potential over the first part of the season with victories against St.Pauls (Burgess Hill) and Varndean (Brighton) sandwiched between battling losses to BHASVIC and Beacon. The match of the season so far has to be the away draw (3 – 3) to Bexhill who have been the strongest league opposition for numerous years.

Jake Caldecourt, Richard Stanley, Matt Gibson and Pete Whitton, to name a few, have formed a solid spine of the team, but there is certainly more to come from this well developing team.

The netball and mixed hockey teams have fallen foul to numerous cancellations and fixture swaps during the first term, but the netball team's first outing, away to Sussex Downs - Lewes showed there is plenty of talent within the side despite the loss. Laura Groves and Kelly Dunne were stand-out performers in an encouraging display that had periods of quick hands and fast footwork and a solid foundation on which to build.

The rugby team have once again found themselves in an extremely tough league but have shown plenty of character in away defeats to Central Sussex (Haywards Heath) and Varndean. The home matches versus Buckswood and Sussex Downs – Lewes also saw the Plumpton team on the wrong end of the result but having shown vast improvement and an ability to develop and improve both as individuals and as a team.