Team Bath Netball put up a fantastic fight in front of an 800-strong crowd for their latest home match against Loughborough Lightning, restricting the NXT Gen League leaders to their smallest winning margin of the season. The visitors held a narrow lead throughout the match but were never allowed to push the score out as
Loughborough Lightning v Harlequins This was the first of four desperately vital matches for players, coaches and fans. Both teams had been suffering; together they had lost the last seven games out of ten, despite the glittering array of talent on show. Lightning started well, benefiting from a high diagonal by Helena Rowland and a
Bristol Bears v Loughborough Lightning Bears can feel very sorry for themselves. They’re suffering an injury-list as long as your arm, and not even two World Cup winners and a former World Player of the Year could ensure a second win in six attempts. They remain anchored in eighth place. Things looked far more prosperous
Bulou Mataitoga is set to make her 50th Loughborough Lightning appearance under the floodlights at cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday evening (kick-off: 7.45pm). The USA international retains her place on the right wing and will lead out the team to take on Trailfinders Women in the 18th and final round of the 2024/25
Loughborough Lightning have added more international quality to their squad after signing Canadian forward Courtney Holtkamp until the end of the 2024/25 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 25-year-old second row joins the African Violets for a third spell having made 18 appearances across the 2020/21 and 2021/22 campaigns. Holtkamp enjoyed a meteoric rise in rugby
Catherine Wells will make her Loughborough Lightning debut in this weekend’s Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby clash with Gloucester-Hartpury. Head coach Nathan Smith has selected the England Under-20s prop to start at loosehead for Saturday’s showdown with the reigning Allianz PWR champions at the Alpas Arena (kick-off: 2pm). The 21-year-old joined Lightning in December as she
Wasps had a tough start to this year’s Allianz Cup. In a game that took some time to get going ultimately Loughborough fought their way to a win despite a resolute defence from Wasps while the attack never got going It was 15 minutes in that saw Wasps strike first with a penalty from Flo
Sunrisers vs Lightning at Chelmsford (Essex) on 11 September 2022 (10h30) Both teams have insufficient points to venture beyond the group stage, so the match was a ‘dead rubber.’ Before the match, a minute’s silence was held, followed by the national anthem; and an ECB statement was read out to mourn the passing of HM
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy on July 2 (11h30) This was reportedly an historic ‘ICC List A’ match. Never before had a cricket match been Umpired ‘on-field’ by a married couple: Jasmine Naeem and Naeem Ashraf former Pakistan International cricketers, now husband-and-wife. Umpires had plenty to do once play got underway in overcast conditions with the
Lightning v Thunder at Leicester (The Uptonsteel County Ground) on May 21 Openers Georgie Boyce (71 runs from 56 balls) and Emma Lamb (56 from 49) made 40 runs from Thunder’s power play, reaching 71 by mid-way. *At the 100 ball benchmark, Thunder were 130 without loss. *Thereafter, both openers were caught behind by Kathryn
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