Sheffield Stars held their annual Presentation at The Gardeners Rest, Neepsend Lane, with over 30 members in attendance. Top award, The Harry Pearson Rider of the Year went to Niall Morton. Niall had his best season ever in Stars colours in 2018, finishing top of the Sheffield Northern League One averages and picking up a […]
Sheffield Stars entered the Northern Fours League knowing they would be without the Morton family for any of the matches. Niall is now permanently residing in Edinburgh, at the start of a four-year University course. Luke, Ed and Niamh were all taking a well-deserved rest from the rigours of racing. With this in mind, the […]
The annual Sheffield Individual Club Championships were hosted at the Graves track on Saturday 6th October (the first time Graves has been the host track since 2011), as with 2016/17 the event was combined with the final round of the Go Ride Grand Prix. Fifteen riders lined up, with the squash ladder format used as […]
The curtain came down on the North and Scotland League 2, with Glasgow Cyclones the visitors at Sheffield’s Cookson Park raceway. Conditions were perfect, a day of heavy rain left the track surface very grippy (which the Sheffield riders would exploit), and the warm sunshine almost made it seem like a spring day. Glasgow arrived […]
As the 2018 season draws to a close the Sheffield Club find themselves at crisis point with the future of first team racing. The team have had by far their worst season for many a year finishing bottom of the Northern League Division 1 and barring a miracle will reluctantly withdraw from the league at […]
The finale of the 2018 HSBC UK Supertrax Womens League saw South Coast club Poole have the most success at Sheffield’s Cookson Park raceway. The racing split into Senior and Intermediate categories, with both pairs and individual competition taking place. Lots were drawn to find who would partner whom, with Poole duo of Macie Schmidt […]
Sheffield’s trips to Edinburgh are usually met with wet conditions and a defeat, except for 2017 when the Stars pulled off a shock win. This year was no different. A heavy downpour before and during the matches made conditions very difficult and led to a lot of mopping up in between races. Both teams were […]
A full strength Sheffield Stars put in a valiant effort as they went down to defeat by 87-93 against a depleted league leaders Astley (who were missing four of their top riders). Astley showed why they were champions in 2017 with an accomplished team performance. News later filtered through that Stockport had lost at Hull, […]
This Northern league one encounter between the Bury Comets and Sheffield Stars had both teams missing riders due to holidays. The Comets back up were that much stronger than Sheffield’s as Bury eased to an emphatic 112-67 victory, a win made all the more sweeter with Edinburgh’s loss at Hull. The result on Humberside had […]
Sheffield’s Ed Morton and Laura Watson enjoyed a double success, when racing at Great Blakenham in the Home International series, on the very day England beat Sweden 2-0 in the World Cup. Ed celebrated gaining his fourth Young England cap with a score of 14, as the three Lions gained a comprehensive win in the […]
