• Hosler scores sitting down

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 11/01/12

  

  QUEDGELEY WANDERERS WHITES U-10s 1 PAINSWICK U10s 5 PAINSWICK Under-10s restarted their season after a five-week break with a comprehensive win. Painswick were slow off the mark, but Sam Porter scored the first goal with a powerful strike. This seemed to wake up both teams and Quedgeley soon had the equaliser. However, Painswick buckled down and were rewarded when Ned Greasley crossed a great ball to Joe Hosler who buried it in...

• Redding aims to find champions of future

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 07/01/12

  

  RISING motorcycling star Scott Redding is scouting for future riders, writes Tom Dowler. The 18-year-old from Quedgeley is opening a new racing academy devoted to discovering the champions of tomorrow. A successful open day was held on December 29 and was attended by more than 200 people – a quarter of them children. Now Redding is launching his Young Riders Academy tomorrow at the Hullavington Racetrack near Chippenham. It...

• It's the Redding Festival as Scott prepares to take star billing

  By Gloucestershire Echo at 07:00 on 05/01/12

  

  A MULTITUDE of top-class riders are set to ride at the second annual Prescott Bike Festival, including Quedgeley star Scott Redding – who claims top billing. Redding became the youngest ever rider to win a Grand Prix when he triumphed in the British 125GP at Donington Park in 2008 aged just 15. He has since stepped up to become one of the finest competitors in the Moto2 class and will officially open the event on Sunday, April...

• Winter is content with his opening indoor success

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 22/12/11

  

  GARETH Winter opened his indoor season with victory in the senior men's shot putt at the Avon Athletics Network Christmas Open meeting at Bath University. The 19-year-old Gloucester AC junior international, who is coached by Lorraine Shaw, threw 15.15m in a gentle opener ahead of the serious competitions that will kick-off in the new year. Winter is planning a busy indoor campaign and has pencilled in major competitions including...

• Like dad like son for the Bishops

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 22/12/11

  

  HARRY Bishop followed in his father's footsteps by winning the 2011 Five Mile Cross-Country Handicap at Plock Court – 18 years after Nathan Bishop took honours at the Severn AC hosted event. Bishop, a recent recruit to Rob Cytlau's elite distance group at Severn, was not daunted by finding himself the scratch man with distances to be made up ahead of him by the earlier starters. He revealed: "Dad was scratch man when he...

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