Newcastle Vikings women’s team came within just one goal of causing an unexpected upset in their top-of-the-table England Handball North Regional Development League match against a strong Peninsula side on Saturday. A busy day of handball at South Shields’ Temple Park Leisure Centre began with the morning’s Under 16 Tyne
Newcastle Vikings Handball Club’s women’s team scored a convincing 29-8 victory away to Leeds Carnegie on Saturday, but their men’s team went down to a 19-27 defeat to the table-topping Leeds Beckett University club the following day. The women’s match saw the Leeds students take an early lead, before Maren Liane’s
The first Tyne & Wear Handball Schools Festival on Friday 9 December proved a huge success and was thoroughly enjoyed by all the schoolchildren who took part. Hosted by Newcastle Vikings Handball Club in association with Marlen’s Handball Coaching, and funded through Tyne & Wear Sport’s satellite club grant award,
Newcastle Vikings’ men beat local rivals Sunderland 35-27 in a pulsating England Handball North Regional Development League match at Sunderland College on Sunday afternoon, to make it a derby double following their 16-13 home win at the start of the season. Centre Peter Schichtel set the ball rolling in the first minute,
Durham University won Sunday’s first round of the North East Handball League’s second season. Played at Sunderland College’s Bede Campus, this first round of matches featured just the men’s teams of Newcastle Vikings, Durham University and Sunderland, with the women’s teams and York Hunters set to join the fray for
After last weekend’s victories, Newcastle Vikings men’s and women’s teams suffered contrastingly tough defeats away to Leeds University in Sunday’s England Handball North Regional Development League fixtures in Bradford. The Vikings women battled all the way before cruelly losing by just one goal 23-22, but the men’s team fell to a heavy
