Other Sport

Many moons ago, in the sepia tinted past, I wrote a weekly column for this newspaper called Sports Thoughts.

JANUARY Former Newark Hockey Club player Adam Dixon returned from Australia with a silver medal after representing Great Britain in the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.

Natasha Marks from Winthorpe has reached one of her season’s goals by breaking into the top 1,000 of the women’s tennis rankings and she is now aiming for the very top.

The serious injury toll continued to mount this season when yet another Newark Alliance player suffered a broken leg.