HANDBALL NEWSEnglish edition 22, March 4 2008 - page one

DOMINANT MANCHESTER SWEEP

PAST TRYST TO REMAIN UNBEATEN

TEAM P W L D F A Diff Pt

Manchester U 5 5 0 0 112 66 46 10

Haslingden 5 3 2 0 103 99 4 6

Tryst 4 2 2 0 95 102 -7 4

Liverpool 6 1 5 0 84 101 -17 2

Wirral 4 1 3 0 35 61 -26 2

TEAM P W L D F A Diff Pt

Ruislip Eagles 6 6 0 0 152 89 63 12

Great Dane 5 3 2 0 84 69 15 6

Squirrels 5 1 4 0 65 101 -36 2

Oxford Univ 4 0 4 0 55 97 -42 0

TEAM P W L D F A Diff Pts

Great Dane 5 5 0 0 150 86 64 10

Manchester U 5 3 0 2 151 121 30 8

Manchester 5 3 1 1 141 137 4 7

Cambridge 5 1 3 1 128 151 -23 3

Oxford 5 1 4 0 119 141 -22 2

Bolton 5 0 5 0 122 175 -53 0

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Women's National Lge Division One (North)

Handball set to benefit from new

TV game show BingoLottoHANDBALL in Britain

looks set to benefit from

BingoLotto, a new TV-

based game which aims

to raise money for sport

and the voluntary sector.

Great Dane HC player

Iris Manu attended the

official launch of the

scheme at Trafalgar

Square, along with the

National Division One Play-Off table

show’s hosts Joe

Pasquale and

Suzanne Shaw,

as well as the

show’s mascot,

Mr Bing.

A weekly show

on Virgin1 and

Challenge TV,

the game started last

Friday and each week will

feature 60 minutes of prize-

winning as well as live

entertainment.

Gamecards can be

bought from around

14,000 retail outlets across

the country. For more

information visit

www.bingolotto.tv. The

BingoLotto game has run

in Sweden since 1991

where it has raised just

under £1billion.

Women's National Lge Div One (South)

Who's that guy with Iris Manu?

BingoLotto presenter Joe Pasquale

poses with Great Dane handball star.

MANCHESTER University

notched up their fifth

straight league win when

they swept aside the

challenge of Tryst in the

latest Women’s National

Division One (North)

fixtures at the Greenbank

Academy on Sunday.

The Scottish side, who

had travelled across the

border with just nine

players, had to complete

two games in one

afternoon as they try to

catch up on their fixtures,

and after beating Wirral

29-17 in their first match,

they found the

Manchester side too

much to handle.

They had beaten Wirral

comfortably enough, with

Cheryl Thompson and

Amanda Lowe both netting

eight times, while Linda

McKay chipped in with

seven goals to help them to

victory.

But with little more than half

an hour to recover, Tryst

came up against a fitter and

more skilful Manchester

University side who hit the

ground running.

Five goals from five

different players helped give

Manchester a 5-1 lead after

just eight minutes, and

although Tryst initially

struggled to find any gaps in

the Manchester defence, they

managed to break through

towards the end of the half

and trailed 16-6 at half time.

The second half was a

more equal affair with Tryst

netting 11 goals, which

included some fine wing shots

from S Corrick.

But the Manchester

University side continued to

impress in all positions, and

the only criticism from coach

Becker was some late

defensive slackness.

* Ruislip Eagles completed

all their matches in the

southern division with a

resounding 46-19 victory over

a game Nottingham

University side in a friendly at

Leyton on Sunday.

The Eagles are undefeated

so far this season in their bid

to win back the league after

Great Dane ended their

dominance last season, and

they had too much for

Nottingham in the match.

Ruislip went all out from

the start with an offensive

defence and a fast break

strategy, and this paid off as

they raced into an 11-0 lead

after just 15 minutes.

Nottingham matched

Ruislip goal for goal up to the

break, but still trailed 21-7 to a

rampant Ruislip, with Sposi in

excellent form on the counter

attack in the first half. After

the break her form continued

and she racked up 16 goals in

the game. Men's National Division One, play-offs (Turf Moor,

Burnley): Manchester Univ v Oxford, Manchester v

Great Dane, Bolton v Cambridge.

FIXTURES, March 9

Women's National Div One (South): Squirrels 0

Great Dane 10. Friendly: Ruislip 46 Nottingham 19.

Women's National Div One (North): Wirral 17

Tryst 29, Tryst 17 Manchester Univ 32.

RESULTS, March 2

Ruislip Eagles: National Division One (South) winners.

HANDBALL NEWSEnglish edition 22, March 4 2008 - page two

MESSAGE FROM AARHUS

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THE first two months of

the year have flown by

and the schedule has

been packed, none

more so then the past

two weeks here in

Aarhus.

The women’s squad

continues to develop

further in the build up to

the challenge trophy in

Cyprus at the end of

March. Last weekend

saw another successful

camp building on

successes in France

late last year.Led by new coach

Jesper Holmris, the

women’s squad is full of

promise and ambition

ahead of their next big

competition in Cyprus.

This week has also

been of big interest for the

men’s setup. On Tuesday

evening, right back Merlin

Braithwaite and left wing

Thomas Barker got a taste

of the big time playing for

their club side Viby IF in a

David versus Goliath cup

tie versus Liga outfit

Kolding featuring Danish

International Bo

Spillerberg fresh from their

European Championships

triumph in Norway last

month.

The British pairing set

about their business

admirably and contributed

several goals, and

Braithwaite enjoyed some

success whilst directly

matched up against the

experienced Spillerberg.

The match was played

in a packed Viby arena

and on a great occasion

after a poor start, the hosts

valiantly rallied to a hard

earned, respectful 23-29

loss at the hands of the

Liga team.

Also experiencing the

big time this week was

Talent ID graduate Stuart

Campbell, who was invited

to represent handball as

one of its Sporting Giants

to highlight the success

stories of the program one

year on from the launch.

Campbell made an

insightful and composed

cameo appearance live on

BBC Breakfast News

alongside sporting great

and five times Olympic

Gold Medallist Sir Steve

Redgrave before making an

appearance on Radio 5 and

being unveiled during a live

press launch in London.

Media interest aside, on the

court the men’s squad are

building up to a training camp

in mid-March where aspirations

are high to build upon work put

in to the last camp in January.

As the new products of the

Talent ID program find their

feet in their new surroundings,

particular mention goes to

goalkeeper Bob White, who

was recruited to play for

Jutland Serie side JAI.

And Chris Mohr has

impressed his new suitors at

Brabrand IF Ynglinge and

helped his new club to beat

their top of the table

opposition.

Look out for another

update from the GB

Academy in Aarhus soon!

Text: Mark Hawkins.

* Editor’s note: As well as

good media coverage of

Stuart Campbell and the

Sporting Giants campaign,

Huw Goodwin was

interviewed on the Chris

Evans Show on BBC Radio

Two on Friday.

Sporting Giants scheme hailed a

massive success after first year

GB players report back on a

packed two months at Academy

The Great Britain men's team at Aarhus.

Women prepare for

Challenge TrophyPREPARATIONS for the Women’s European

Challenge Trophy later this month stepped up a gear

last week when the squad took part in it’s first training

camp under new head coach Jesper Holmris.

With the Trophy just three

weeks away, the squad went

through an intensive four-day

camp at Aarhus, which

included a match against local

side Grenna IF.

As well as the current GB

squad, also included in the

camp were 2016 Project

youngsters Ellie Carrick from

Haslingden and Jodie Guest

from Wirral, who gained a

valuable insight into life at the

Academy as well as the

training intensity required to be

an international player.

The squad is due to meet up

again this week for tactical

training at Aarhus, before

flying to Cyprus for the

tournament, which takes

place from March 25-30 and

includes Bosnia, Cyprus,

Malta, Estonia, the Faroe

Islands, Finland and Israel.

With two groups of four

teams for the preliminary

round followed by cross-over

games, semi-finals and

finally placement matches

and the final, the team will

be playing a game a day, but

the tough schedule will give

the young squad chance to

show how they are

developing.Sporting Giant: Stuart Campbell.

ONE year on from it’s

launch, the Sporting

Giants programme has

been hailed a huge

success with dozens of

athletes across several

different sports - including

handball - taking part in a

media day to showcase

the scheme last week.

The brainchild of the

Sporting Giants scheme, Sir

Steve Redgrave was joined by

representatives of volleyball

and rowing as well as

handball for a day of

interviews with television and

newspaper reporters, which

resulted in some of the best

publicity ever

secured for our

sport.

Great Britain

player Stuart

Campbell, who had

never played

handball until he

applied to the

scheme, was

interviewed on BBC

Breakfast News on

Thursday, and then

by several national

newspapers for their Friday

editions.

Campbell, from

Manchester, was one of 11

handball players to come from

the scheme.

Others include Donald

Seed, Theo Blossom, Liam

Back, Stuart Clark, Scott

Frew, Andrew Roberts and

Gareth Priddle, while on the

women’s team Laura Innes

and Sophie Keen were

discovered through Sporting

Giants.

“I always felt there was a lot

of sporting talent out there,

but I didn't realise there would

be so much enthusiasm from

people wanting to be involved

in the scheme,” said

Redgrave.