ECRHA’s under 20’s team continued their strong run in the National League, with wins over N.west (10-3), South (11-4) and south again (12-3). “As South’s 2nd team have withdrawn from the league, this meant a drastic reshuffle of who plays who and when” said Julia Williams, NRHAL U20’s League Co-ordinator.
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Delayed: Losing to Argentina in England’s 1st match meant that we had to beat Uruguay for a chance to reach the semi-finals.
Uruguay had beaten New Zealand earlier in the day by 7 – 1, giving them 3 points to England’s nil.
The crowd of around 600 had come to see their Country win, with the [...]

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Delayed: Wednesday 20 August 2003. The same starting four as yesterday took the floor with Dan Palmer in goal. England had to win this game to be sure of qualifying for the semifinal phase.
After just 14 seconds and New Zealand not having touched the ball, Captain James Taylor opens the scoring with a fine slapshot [...]

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Delayed; FRIDAY 22 August, 2003. At 20.25pm in a very cold 3 – 4 degrees Cylindro, Montevideo the England selection took the floor for the 1st semi final of the evening and what a match it was to be.
Around 500 spectators stayed to watch a match that the England Juniors grow in both stature and [...]

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Saturday 23 August, 2003. This is the match that can take England into the bronze medal position and all the lads are up for the game.
The starting 5 are Ian Smith goalkeeper, James Taylor (captain), Sam Jackson, Andrew Sims & Matt Oaten.
England starts the match & has all the possession, but find it difficult to [...]

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At the NRHA AGM on 6th July, Adrian Smith announced his resignation from the position, and the NRHA are now actively seeking a replacement.
“It takes about an hour a week to do the work” said Adrian. “If we don’t get a replacement soon, we may have to employ accountants to do this for us, meaning [...]

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A message for all clubs
With the new league season only 2 weeks away we have not received entry fees from 5 of the clubs in the region. I have today sent E Mails to all of the clubs concerned, some of which also owe money for fines incurred last season.
Unless I receive all of the [...]

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Stewart Henderson of Spectrum, has accepted the appointment as the National Co-ordinator for the NRHA U17’s League for 2003/4.
Regions can expect to be contacted by Stewart shortly, who will be arranging and organising the running of the 4 tournaments for this Competition.

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Reporter: Tony Czifra

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England’s U20’s are departing at 22:00 on Thursday for Montevideo, Uruguay where they will be contesting the inaugural World Championship for U20’s that starts this Monday and continues for a week.
“I think that we have a quality team and have the potential to cause an upset” said key player Sam Jackson. “We have more depth [...]

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New sports information website www.TryMySport.co.uk has listed Roller Hockey amongst the 30 sports detailed on its site.
“It’s important to raise the profile of Roller Hockey whenever we can” said Kos Galtos, NRHA Marketing Director, “TryMySport gives us a chance to set out our stall along side other sports”

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Reporter: Kos Galtos

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