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Harleston Magpies had plenty to celebrate at the East Hockey In2Hockey Club Championships that they hosted at the weekend.

Jon Watt made a memorable start to life in the Dunlop Britcar Endurance Championship on April 14, winning both of his races at the Rockingham venue.

While none of their three under-10 teams were ultimately crowned champions, Harleston Magpies still had plenty to be positive about at Norfolk’s Mini Hockey event in Watton on Sunday.

EAST MEN’S LEAGUE

After more than a decade-long stint, Leigh Sitch has taken the decision to stand down as captain of Harleston Magpies Men’s first team.

Behind the glamour, excitement and celebrations of racedays, aside from the trainers and jockeys there is a legion of stable and stud staff which make it all happen.

When it comes to horses, thoroughbred racing is all about bloodlines but lineage can be just as important to the human athletes involved in the sport and Newmarket-based champion apprentice David Egan can boast a right royal racing pedigree.

Twenty-three winners and a strike rate of 20 per cent in 2017 - it is fair to say that George Scott was extremely satisfied with what was just his second season since going solo in the training ranks.

Both Harleston Magpies Under-18 teams fell at the semi-final stage of the England Hockey National Tier 1 Championships on Sunday.

Ed Chamberlin is the frontman of ITV’s racing coverage, having joined the broadcaster early in 2017 following a 16-year period presenting football for Sky Sports.

Diss Golf Club was celebrating last month after its Ladies team were crowned champions of the Waveney Winter League.

Rosie Munnings, Matthew Munnings and Matthew Tatum all represented the Diss Otters with distinction at the City of Norwich Easter Meet last weekend.

Bowls star Katherine Rednall has begun her first ever venture in the Commonwealth Games, as she continues her group stage battles in the Gold Coast tonight.

ENGLAND HOCKEY

It promises to be a blockbuster weekend for Harleston Magpies, who have semi-final representatives in both the Girls’ and Boys’ sections of the Under-18 England Hockey National Tier 1 Championships.

EAST MEN’S LEAGUE

Harleston Magpies’ youth section continued to thrive last weekend as both its Girls and Boys Under-14 sides qualified for the England Hockey National Finals.

EMPRESA NORFOLK

Attleborough Boxing Club are basking in the glory of two of their members being crowned England Boxing National Junior champions.

Rosie Munnings was among the top performers as the Diss Otters took part in the March Open against clubs from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex at Crown Pools in Ipswich at the weekend.