The 1st team are this season playing in Division 1 of the Humber Premier League and will line up alongside AFC Northfield, Brandesburton, Bridlington Town reserves, Driffield Evening Institute, Hall Road Rangers Reserves, Hessle Sporting Union FC, Howden, Hull United, LIV Supplies AFC, Walkington and West Ella and Willerby.
This league started on Saturday 20th August with a home match versus Howden (see below) followed a week later with a trip to the Hall Road Rangers reserves who play at Haworth Court off Beverley Road, Hull.
Hornsea Town by winning the Tanton Cup this year qualified for the Holderness Cup Winners Cup Final and will meet Roos Rangers, winners of this year’s South Holderness Cup on Tuesday, 23rd August at Roos, kick-off 6.15 pm. Hornsea last won this cup in 2011 and will be looking for early season cup success. The Club’s 2nd X1 will be playing in Division one of the East Riding County League and start their fixtures in September.
The Club’s home fixtures will be played at either the Hollis Recreation Ground or the 3G pitch at Hornsea School. For the coming season Hornsea have the majority of players who played last season and are looking forward to being a force in what looks like being a competitive league. VP’s:
“A big thank you to those who have signed up to be club VPs. Your support goes a long way to helping the running of the club. Anyone interested in becoming a VP with Hornsea Town AFC please contact Ged Stead on 01964 533606 or any other committee member for more details”
Sponsors:
Many thanks also to our recent sponsors for supporting the club:
Tony Butler and Jamie Adgie of Coast to Coast financial services on providing the kit for the Hornsea Town Sunday League team in their inaugural year.
HPS (Hornsea Property Services) who are also supporting the club this season with their sponsorship of £250.
Robinson Contract Services Ltd for sponsoring the First team’s new away kit.
Pat Northgrave @ High Farm Estate for supporting the club by donating £100.
First game of the season – Hornsea Town 4 Howden 2
Town got their HPL1 campaign underway with a victory over AFC Howden, convincing in score line if not in performance as the lads took their time to really get going but take the 3 points nonetheless.
It wasn’t
the start the Seasiders envisaged as after only 6 minutes of the game Howden took the lead. A long ball landed at the feet of the Howden striker who was able to loft the ball over an onrushing James Greensides to make the score 1-0 in the early stages. From there though, it was only really Hornsea who looked like winning the game as Morgan McKenzie soon equalised and Jordan Holmes added a second to make the scores 2-1 going into the break.
Some strong words at half time based on the team’s performance made sure no such start was made to the second half as Town went on to notch a couple more through substitutes Mark Stathers who could have had more, and debutant Marc O’Hare. Howden did get a consolation goal through a penalty as the scores ended 4-2 at the final whistle.
3 points were the aim before the match and that’s just what the team take home. With much to build on in terms of performance ahead of two games in a week coming up, the lads will know they’ll need to continue to up their game if they’re to make a serious promotion push back to the Humber Premier League this term.
(J.Greensides, E.Griffiths (c), M.Lester, T. Giles, S.Taylor, J.Holmes, B.Leyland, C.Walker, M.McKenzie, L. Reeve, T.Brooks. Subs: J.East, A.Yorke, M.Stathers, M.O’Hare) by Sam Burton
