Latest Club News

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Training Sessions & Times
No Training

• Friday 3rd September
• Friday 10th September - Lynnsport are setting up for an event

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1st Training Session:

• Sun 5th September: 4pm - 7pm
• 1st session players 4pm - 5.30pm
• 2nd session players 5.30pm - 7pm

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1st Friday Training - Friday 17th September - **Please Note New Session Times**

• 1st session is now 6pm - 7.45pm
• 2nd session is now 7.45pm prompt - 10pm
• 2nd session goalkeepers will start at 7.30pm prompt as usual

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Josh in action against Spain
at the 2010 Schoolboys in Northampton

England Schoolboys News

Congratulations to Lynn player Josh, who has been selected to play for the England Schoolboys in the U17's European Championships which are to be held at Benham Sports Arena, Northampton.

This comes on the back of a very succesful season where he was part of the Schoolboys team that finished 3rd in the league and in the intermediates team where they finished as league champions with only 1 defeat.

Josh was chosen as the Club Player of the Year for the 2009/10 season.

England went down in their first game of the Championships, 7-1 against Spain

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End Of Season Awards
The season's awards have now been listed along with club honours for the 2009/10 season.
Congratulations to all Award, League & Cup Winners

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European U17 Championships - Tickets
Tickets are now on sale for these Championships
Prices Are As Follows:

• A Family Ticket for the week (2 Adults & 3 children under 17) - £50
• Single Ticket for the week - £20
• Day Ticket (1st Day) - £5
• Day Ticket (Finals Day) - £5
• Day Ticket (All Other Days) - £3

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These tickets will also be on sale at:

• Ladies Day
• Both Summer Camps
• National Training in August

Otherwise Please Contact Michaela Parfitt (01353 721946) For Tickets

The Tournament Schedule For The Championships Can Be Viewed Here

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National Cup Finals
King's Lynn player Sam Kay, who since his return from playing in Portugal, has started University in Middlesbrough & transferred to Middlesbrough roller hockey club. Middlesbrough who play in the top Premier League in England attended the National cup finals at the weekend held in Herne Bay.

Middlesbrough, who had made it through to 2 finals with Sam playing in both, started the day against Peterborough in the Junior (U20's) category. 2 quick goals from Sam imposed boro's authority as they went on for a 7 - 1 victory.

The top final of the day was the 'blue ribband' senior final. Boro faced up against home team Herne Bay Utd who had narrowly pipped Boro to the league title with a 6 - 5 thrilling end of season game. This time Middlesbrough had their revenge with a crushing 6 - 3 victory to take the prestigious cup.

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End Of Season BBQ

Saturday 18th September 12 noon for 1pm
37 Jermyn Road
King's Lynn

Price £5 each / U12's £3.50 / Family Ticket £16
R. S. V. P. By 12th September
Print your ticket & send with payment
Cash only.

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Dusseldorf 2010
The u17's team left early this morning to take part in the Dusseldorf Tournament (Friday 9th - Sunday 11th).

The team consists of:

• Head Coach - Chris Kay
• Team Manager - Jerry Barnes

• Andrew Barnes
• Ryan Barnes
• Olly Cox
• Jamie Griffin
• Megan Kay (GK)
• Will Martin (GK)
• Kasia Parfitt (GK)
• Josh Taylor
• Adam Tucker
• Jack Tucker

Travelling by minibus the team will play the hosts in the opening game of the tournament this evening.

The schedule of play for the tournament can be seen here

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EC Cup Finals 2010

Well done to all our teams who took part in the Cup Finals this year.
Entered in 4 Cup Final categories on the day - we came away with ALL 4 Cups.
Special mentions go to both teams playing in the Minors (U13's) & Seniors 2 finals for coming from behind in their matches to win in the last minute.

Special congratulations to the U9's team who played in a round robin tournament and came away with the Ivan Cook Runners Up trophy.

All results from the day can be seen on the ECRHA website

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Club Merchandise

We now have a page dedicated to club Merchandise
Look up at the navigation buttons and a Merchandise page is now available.

Download the order Form and fill in what you would like to purchase and pass the form on to Smokey.

Please remember that all purchases help support your Roller Hockey Club

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Club Socks Now Available

The New Club Socks Are Here
They are Black TVD Socks with King's Lynn wrtten in white

£8 a pair or two pairs for £15

To get a pair of your own club socks,
see Margaret on Friday between 7:45pm and 8:15pm.

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Unbeaten Champions 2009/10 Season
A fantastic performance from the Minors B team finishing as unbeaten League Champions.
Congratulations to the team for completing their season with an amazing 18 wins from 18 matches

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Minors Qualify For EC Knockout Cup Final
King's Lynn Under 13's Roller Hockey Team ran out 3 wins and a draw at the weekend to qualify for the Eastern Counties Knock Out Cup Finals in July.
Firstly Lynn were up against Cottenham who took a 2 goal lead. However a determined Lynn fought back to finish the game as 4-2 winners.

Another tough game against Bury saw some end to end play. Lynn were leading with just over a minute left of full time when Bury managed to snatch a 3-3 draw.

The third game against Norwich saw Lynn put in some excellent passing and team play to turn out a 3-0 win. Finally Ely were no match for the confident Lynn side who used all their players well to run out an 8-4 win which will see them through to play Bury again at Cup Finals day on 4th July at Peterborough's Bushfields Sports Centre.
Well done to the whole team who worked hard to help put their team through to the Final.

The Team were Kathryn Baker (Goal Keeper) Harry Greeves (Captain) Alex Hunn, Dec O'Connor, Jack Cabot, Matthew Baker, Zak Robinson and Owen Scott.

Thanks to Club sponsors Frankie & Benny's.

If you would like to try Roller Hockey for yourself and are aged between 6 and 11years old, come along to Lynnsport on 25th June or 2nd July 6pm till 8pm and Have A Go. All you need are skates and a drink.

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EC Minors Cup Qualifiers 2010
Following on from yesterday's success in the intermediates EC Qualifiers, the Minors also came through their qualifiers today where they will meet Bury in the final on Cup Finals Day.

In today's qualifiers they beat Cottenham, Norwich & Ely and drew 3-3 with their fellow finalists Bury.

The full results from the day can be viewed here on the Eastern Counties website.

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EC Inters Cup Qualifiers 2010
Both Intermediates teams were entered into this competition with the B team beating Cottenham B but then losing to Cotttenham A then Peterborough.
The A team fared better with wins against Ely & Bury to qualify for the semi-finals where they faced Cottenham A.
A fast paced game saw both teams attacking from the start but it took nearly 12 minutes to break the deadlock with Jack Tucker scoring the goal which was then quickly followed up with another from Josh Taylor to take a 2-0 lead into half-time.
Taking control of the second half King's Lynn A saw 2 more goals from Josh Taylor either side of a finish from Josh Gay. Cottenham secured a consolation goal with seconds remaining on the clock, but the A team are through to face Peterborough on Cup Finals Day.

The full results from the day can be viewed here on the Eastern Counties website.

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Club Calendar
Issue 11 of the club calendar is now available to download.
This has all club events up to the start of the new season

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Inters Division 2 - League Champions
King's Lynn are now officially champions of Inters League Division 2.

Due to the fact that the re-arranged match for Ely v King's Lynn has had to be cancelled again, both clubs that a 0-0 draw would be recorded for this match. As this was the only this match to be played to finalise the league & no league positions to be gained or lost by either team if the match was played it was determined that this would be for the best.

This is great news for the club topping both divisions at U15's this season.

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Inters League Division 1 Winners
Following on from the success of the Division 4 team, King's Lynn have also added the Intermediates Division 1 title to their haul this season.
The league table can be seen here

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League Division 4 Winners
With the results now in from the last tournament at Roller Village, King's Lynn are now confirmed as winners of Division 4.

Congratulations to the team on this great achievement as they only lost one game throughout the whole league campaign. The league table can be seen here

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Jubilee Cup 2010

Kings Lynn Minors A Roller Hockey team were one of seven teams that took part in the Jubilee Cup at Soham's Ross Pears Sports Centre on 25 April.

Lynn won all the games in their pool to go through to the play off's. Their opponents in this round were Cottenham who Lynn held to a draw taking the game into extra time for golden goal. Both teams played hard but it was Cottenham who scored to end the match which took them through to the final.
Kings Lynn finished in 4th place in this competitive tournament.

Lynn's Harry Greeves was named Player of the Tournament and Dan Howlett was joint top goal scorer.
Jack Cabot, Dec O'Connor and Alex Hunn all got their names on the score sheet during the course of the event and goal keeper Megan Norris made some valuable saves. Owen Scott and Zac Robinson a couple of the clubs younger members played well gaining valuable experience of this annual competition. The whole team did well throughout.

Thanks to Frankie and Bennys for their continued support.

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King's Lynn At The Inter Regionals
King's Lynn players picked for regional team
Owen Matthew and Zak were picked for the Under 11's Regional A team with the Finals being held at Bushfields on Saturday 2nd may.The team won all their games 15 - 0 over EC2 8 - 4 against Southern region and their last game 16 - 2 against the Northern team.

Others players from King's Lynn picked for Inter Regional Teams were:
Minors
Kathryn Baker, Harry Greeves & Daniel Howlett

Inters
Ryan Barnes, Josh Gay, Michael King, Josh Taylor & Jack Tucker

Schoolboys
Josh Taylor & Kasia Parfitt

Ladies
Pauline Cuthbert & Alex Grant

Juniors
Sam Kay & Jon Taylor

All Eastern Counties teams won their respective groups, apart from Juniors.
Well done to all players. Nice to see so many players from King's Lynn.

For more details go to the National Website.

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U11's 10th April 2010
Both U11 teams were in action at Lynnsport with mixed fortunes for both teams.

The A team won all 3 of their games, including a win over the league table toppers Ely.
The next tournament will be on 8th May at Cambridge Regional College.

The B team kept battling throughout their 4 games all day and although they finished with defeats in all of their 4 games they managed to put 2 goals past the A team.

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French Tournament Trip
A depleted Senior team & Lynn's U11's
attended a tournament in Roubaix, France over the Easter weekend.

Saturday's Results
Senior	U11's
King's Lynn 5 - 3 RHC Invicta King's Lynn 1 - 8 La Roche Sur Yon	Roubaix 4 - 3 King's Lynn Sundays 0 - 2 King's Lynn
Sunday's Results
Senior	U11's
HC Castiglione 11 - 4 King's Lynn CP Roubaix 16 - 8 King's Lynn	King's Lynn 6 - 0 HCF Tourcoing King's Lynn 2 - 2 CP Roubaix
Monday's Results
Senior	U11's
Kings Lynn 2 - 1 HC Ottoruote	Kings Lynn 4 - 2 Roubaix

Seniors
King's Lynn placed 4th of 6, with French team La Roche Sur Yon 1st.

U11's
Lynn placed 2nd, Roubaix 1st

Awards
Kings Lynn U11's won Fair Play trophy
Kings Lynn seniors won Fair Play trophy
Sam Kay won tournament top goal scorer.

A fantastic weekend for all involved especially the senior team who played all weekend with 1 outplayer substitute (Chris Kay) & all 4 outplayers played every minute of the Italian victory.

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Schoolboys - Sunday 28th March

On Sunday 28th March Kings Lynn Roller Hockey Club under 17's schoolboys team attended the City of Ely tournament at the Village College Sports Centre in Soham Cambs.

The day proved to be one of mixed fortunes from the start.
The first game never gained any real momentum for the Kings Lynn team and they struggled to find any opposition to the Bury Team, who are currently the top league team. That said, both goal keepers played exceptionally well and performed some fantastic saves against the relentless onslaught of high speed slap shots from Bury.

Read The Whole Report Here

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International Tournament Players Four players from Kings Lynn Roller Hockey Club will be representing England in an Easter tournament in Sesimbra Portugal. The players travel out Wednesday 31st March & return Sunday 4th April, for what is a very high standard prestigious tournament.

These players have attended many National training sessions that has culminated in their selection, a good performance will give them the opportunity to be selected for future England European & World championships

Everybody at the club wishes them great success.


Players from left to right - Ryan Barnes, Kasia Parfitt, Josh Taylor, Jack Tucker

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Easter Egg Raffle

The draw took place on Friday 26th March at training.

The fundraising team would like to say 'A Big Thankyou' to all the club members,
family & friends who bought tickets to help raise funds for our club

The club made £110 profit from the ticket sales.

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Minors A 14th March 2010
Mothers Day saw King's Lynn Minors A travel to Burwell Sports Centre for a Roller Hockey Tournament hosted by Herne Bay United. Lynn took on the hosts HBU in the first game who took an early lead. Lynn made a comeback by equalizing but were eventually defeated 7-4.
Read The Whole Report Here

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Referee's Meeting Minutes
Minutes from the meeting held last week are now available to view here

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14th March - U11's Knockout Cup
King's Lynn U11's join the Senior C Team on Cup Finals Day

They are through after winning both their games in a round robin tournament
that also involved Cambridge and Ely.

The results were:
King's Lynn 4 Ely 1
King's Lynn 10 Cambridge 1

Good luck to Minors Inters and Schoolboys.

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13th March Match Report
Top of the table Kings Lynn Roller Hockey U15's travelled to Cambridge Regional College for their penultimate tournament of the season hosted by Cottenham Roller Hockey club.

With an early start Lynn were first on against Cottenham, a young club with good coaching & some promising players who showed great spirit to equalize after Lynn had taken the lead on the 10 minute mark. Within a minute Lynn had restored their lead & although they controlled the game for long periods there was no further score into the break. Straight out of the blocks the score was increased to 3-1 with a well worked breakaway goal & that set the tone for the rest of the game, with slick passing & movement off the ball Lynn dictated the pace of the game & gave Cottenham few opportunities with Will Martin in goal playing a solid game.....
Read The Whole Report Here

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U11's Tournament 27th Feb 2010
Both King's Lynn A and B teams were in action at today's tournament.

The A team collected 4 wins from their 4 games.
The B team though they battled hard all day and didn't let their heads drop, finished with defeats in all of their 4 games.

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EC Division 1 - 14th February 2010

Bury A 5 - 3 King's Lynn
Lynn created plenty of chances but could just not convert them into the goals needed to take the game.

Cambridge 2 - 6 King's Lynn
Lynn took a while to break down the Cambridge defence but led into the break.
Cambridge then played a defensive formation so not many more goals were scored in the second half.

Peterborough 2 - 7 King's Lynn
Showing true grit and determination as well as some classy play, Lynn dominated most of the game ¢ frustrated Peterborough by man marking their best player ¢ limiting them to long shots.

A fantastic display of what Kings Lynn RHC are all about. Read The Full Report.

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Keeping Up The Pace

The Senior B & Senior C teams were in action at the weekend, with both teams winning 2 of their 3 games.

In Division 3, King's Lynn moved into second place after good wins against Colchester and Norwich.
Stumbling against Peterborough they slipped to a 9-3 defeat. Not too bad a result as they were already 6-2 down at half time.

In Division 4 there was a shock result as King's Lynn C, (the division league leaders), went down 6-5 to Roller Village A in their first defeat of the season. Recovering from this set back they went on to beat Norwich & Roller Village B by the same scoreline 7 - 3.

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50/50 Winners

September 2009 - Owen Norris
October 2009 - William Martin
November 2009 - Alex Bensley
December2009 - Megan Kay
January 2010 - Josh Taylor
February 2010 - Jonathan Barnes
March 2010 - Finley Griffin

We are looking for new members to sign up and help fund the club.
You help the club and at the same time put yourself in with a chance of winning a prize.

It's only a £1 a month and runs from September - August
As a special offer if anyone would like to join before September then it's only £7 up to the end of August.
Just talk to any member of the fund raising committee, Chris, Honk or Smokey.

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Blast From The Past

King's Lynn Roller Hockey club was founded in 1981 playing out of the Corn Hall in King's Lynn before moving to the College of West Anglia sports centre and now Lynnsport.

Back Row Left to Right:
Olly Bensley, Mark Smith, Andrew Gromoff,
Andrew (Smokey) Robinson, Richard Baterbee.

Front Row Left to Right:
Alex Bensley, Chris Kay, Des Theobald

More old team photos can be found in the gallery

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Senior 2 Knockout Cup Qualifiers

The Cup Qualifiers were held at Cambridge Regional College.
It was a round robin tournament between Norwich, Cottenham & King's Lynn.

The results were as follows:
King's Lynn 4 - 5 Cottenham
Cottenham 7 - 6 Norwich
Norwich 5 - 7 King's Lynn

We will meet Cottenham at the Eastern Counties Cup Finals Day in July