Handball News, March 10 2010

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Handball Development Set for Major Boost in London

Ari Bekker, who began her three-year contract last week, is already a familiar face in the capital’s handball scene. She grew up in Hungary where she played and coached the game before moving to England eight years ago.

She has played handball in the National

League with four different clubs, and has extensive contacts within the sport. For the last three years

Ari has helped the Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme develop handball into one of the

most popular sports in several schools across the region. And she can now continue that work with

the backing of the EHA, Newham Borough Council as well as Leyton SCORE.

“The feedback and

interest from the

children and in the

sport has been

extremely positive and

I feel it can be great

success with hard

work and enthusiasm

in developing handball

further,” she said.

“I look forward to

work more closely with

Newham Sports Activity

Team and England

Handball.” Her role will focus on an

ambitious handball

development programme

aimed at increasing

participation and creating

opportunities for

competition at all ages and groups, paying particular

attention to building capacity and

strengthening links between schools, the

FE/HE sector and under-represented groups.

Developing leadership

and a volunteer workforce will also be a key

responsibility in sustaining handball beyond 2012.

THE growth of handball in Great Britain has taken another big step forward with the appointment of a full-time Handball Development Officer in London.

Play Your Part in the GB Olympic Dream

BRITISH Handball is looking to recruit people to three key positions within the GB men’s programme - Team Manager and two Under-21 Assistant Coach. The vacancies offer an exciting chance for the right candidate to travel with the respective teams to training camps and competitions across the world. Applications for the roles should reach andrea.snowdon

@britishhandball.com by March 22. For more details on the roles, please log on to BritishHandball.com and click on the ‘opportunities’ link on the left.

GB’s Larsson Moves to Norway

GREAT Britain ace Steven Larsson has moved to Norwegian club Oppsal for the rest of the season, and looks set to play a key role in helping them reach the top flight. Oppsal, a club based near Oslo, have big ambitions to reach the highest Norwegian League. Larsson (pictured) has moved for the rest of this season, but aims to impress his new employers in the final four months of this year and earn himself a contract for next season.

He has moved from Danish outfit Lemvig in search of stability, with economic problems in Denmark forcing many teams to cut their wage bill and roster.

Pic: Dan Rowley/Colorsport


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Results, March 6

Men’s English Lge (North) P W D L F A Diff Pts

Manchester 12 11 0 1 364 244 120 22

Salford 11 7 0 4 314 283 31 14

Nottingham Univ 12 6 2 4 303 300 3 14

Liverpool 12 6 1 5 304 290 14 13

Liverpool Speke Garston 12 4 0 8 300 304 -4 8

Manchester Univ 12 3 0 9 245 328 -83 6

Wirral 11 2 1 8 222 303 -81 5

Men’s English Lge (South) P W D L F A Diff Pts

Great Dane 8 7 1 0 230 166 64 15

Cambridge 8 5 1 2 201 169 32 11

Olympia 8 4 0 4 181 187 -6 8

Ruislip Eagles 8 3 0 5 156 185 -29 6

Thames 8 0 0 8 137 198 -61 0

Men’s Scottish League P W D L F A Diff Pts

Gracemount 9 9 0 0 363 207 196 18

Cumbernauld 9 8 0 1 260 188 72 16

Glasgow 9 7 0 2 319 240 79 14

Tryst 77 9 5 0 4 280 199 81 10

Liberton 10 3 0 7 246 288 -42 6

Ayr 10 1 0 9 186 318 -132 2

East Kilbride 10 0 0 10 218 432 -214 0

Results, March 3

Results, March 7

Fixtures, March 14

Men’s English League (North): Salford 24 University of Manchester 28.

Men’s Scottish League: Tryst 51 Ayr 23, Cumbernauld 30 Liberton 26, Glasgow 55 East Kilbride 20.

Men’s English League (North): Nottingham University 31 Liverpool Speke Garston 28.

Men’s English League play-offs (Moulton, Northampton): Great Dane v Nottingham, Olympia v Manchester, Cambridge v Salford.

Fixtures, March 11

Men’s English League (North): Salford v Wirral.

Battling Nottingham Surge Into Play-Offs

That victory meant they leap-frogged

Liverpool into third spot, securing their place in the end-of-season

competition where they will battle for the overall national title.

All regular season games have been completed with

the exception of Salford versus Wirral, which will take

place on Thursday evening, but barring a big upset the fixtures

for the play-offs are now confirmed and begin this Sunday.

Southern Section winners Great Dane will play Nottingham at Moulton, Northampton, in the opening clash on Sunday, and will

start as favourites to maintain their unbeaten record. Following that clash, Olympia will meet Manchester, while Cambridge are scheduled to play Salford in the final match of the day. However, with several players due to attend a training camp with GB Under-21s in Liverpool this weekend, Salford may not attend. Nottingham’s victory over Speke Garston was their first of 2010, but was just enough to put them through to the end-of-season competition. Speke scored first and it took Nottingham a while to get into gear, but they eventually opened up a 16-13 half time lead. Nottingham played with more confidence in the second half, defending more strongly and taking a

five goal lead early on. But Nottingham

took their foot off the gas and let

Speke Garstonback in.

However, Nottingham University did

just enough to win with Guillaume

Bodet (pictured) scoring eight goals,

while Jon Mardaras provided another

seven.

But the outstanding performer on

the day was Hennessey who scored an

impressive 12 goals for Liverpool Speke

Garston.

Nottingham University’s success this

season has largely been built on their

defence, and both keepers played

superbly. Rafael Manzano has clearly

settled into the team after joining the

team in the New Year, while captain

Dana Muhammed was as dependable

as ever.

THE line-up for the English Men’s National League play-offs was completed last weekend after Nottingham University secured a hard-fought 31-28 win over Liverpool Speke Garston.


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Cumbernauld Cling to Scottish Title Hopes

CUMBERNAULD kept alive their feint hopes of taking the Scottish League title with a win over Liberton on Saturday - but they had to battle hard before taking the points 30-26.

Second-placed

Cumbernauld are now

two points behind

unbeaten league

leaders Gracemount,

and must hope that

their rivals slip up in

one of their next two

games.

If that happens, the

fate of the title could

come down to the clash

between Cumbernauld and

Gracemount on the final day

of the season on April 17.

Against Liberton,

Cumbernauld opened up a

four-goal lead late in the half

with some fast breaks, and

although Liberton reduced

that deficit to two in the

second half, Cumbernauld

held out for victory.

Alan Govan led the way for

Cumbernauld scoring seven

goals, while Vincent

Martinez, Christophe

Kraemmer and Florent

Dumont netted five each for

Liberton.

In other Scottish League

action, Glasgow

overwhelmed East Kilbride

55-20 to maintain their slight

hopes of challenging for the

league title.

Having finished second in

the British university

Championships a fortnight

ago, they proved too strong

for a young and

inexperienced EK side.

All of Glasgow’s players

found the net with Danos

Sagias scoring 14 goals and

Christoph Boettger 10 goals.

Andy Wallace and Mick

Laverty scored seven goals

each for EK.

And in the day’s other

Scottish match, Tryst beat

an Ayr who had just the bare

seven players 51-23.

Bruce Hunter was the top

scorer for Tryst with 16,

while Gary McCafferty

added 15. Kriss Szulc scored

11 goals for Ayr.

Action from the Cumbernauld versus

Gracemount clash earlier in the season.

New Website Makes it Even Easier to Play Handball!

IHF Announce IHF Announce IHF Announce IHF Announce Rule ChangesRule ChangesRule ChangesRule Changes

A SET of amendments to the rules of handball have been announced by the International Handball Federation. The changes - which take effect from July 1 2010 - cover a range of topics, but contain alterations to rules regarding fouls, unsportsmanlike conduct and passive play which all National League players and officials should be aware of. The IHF documents detailing all the changes are available for download from EnglandHandball.com

A NEW website looks set

to make it even easier

for people to get into

handball - in fact just

about any sport you can

think of! GetIntoTheGame.co.uk

has just announced a link-

up with British Handball

which will enable

prospective handball

players to find their local

clubs with ease.

Handball clubs around

the country will be able to

enjoy the benefits of the

website by creating and

updating their very own

profile page, as well as

keeping existing and

prospective new members

updated with their very

latest club news and

information.

GB v Iceland - March 31Get your tickets NOW at

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