Food and Drink Festival Results

Kingsteignton Athletic finished 3rd in the first ever Football food and drink festival,
The full results are as follows:

Group Stages
Torquay Utd 6 Bovey Tracey 0
Topsham 2 Plymouth Argyle 1
Dawlish 1 Topsham 1
Kingsteignton Athletic 1 Bovey Tracey 1
Plymouth argyle 2 Dawlish Town 0
Torquay Utd 1 Kingsteignton Athletic 0

5th/6th play off
Dawlish 1 Bovey Tracey 0

semis
Kingsteignton Athletic 1 Topsham 2
Plymouth 0 Torquay Utd 3

Kingsteignton then beat Plymouth in a penalty shoot out to finish 3rd

Final
Topsham 1 Torquay Utd 1 (topsham won on pens)

Even with awful weather conditons, the festival was a huge success

Food and Drink Festival

HE YOUTH teams of Torquay United and Plymouth Argyle will top the bill at the first three-day South Devon Football, Food & Drink Festival at Bovey Tracey this weekend.

The young Gulls, in only their second season since reforming last summer, will hope to put down a marker for the campaign ahead - especially if they should meet their Puma Alliance Youth League rivals.

United are still searching for a successor to joint youth manager Paul Compton, whose contract was not renewed at the end of last season.

But, in the interim, the club's College Coordinator Robbie Herrera, an experienced man in his own right, is running the department with Compton's colleague Matt Williams.

The original field of eight teams has come down to six, but that means that the whole tournament will be played on Bovey's No.1 Mill Marsh Park pitch.

United, Bovey Tracey and Kingsteignton Athletic are in League A, and Argyle, Dawlish Town and Topsham Town in League B.

The competition (matches run for 30mins each-way) will kick off with United against Bovey Tracey tomorrow at 5.30pm, followed by Argyle against Topsham Town at 7pm.

Saturday fixtures feature Bovey v Kingsteignton (12 noon), Topsham v Dawlish (2pm), Torquay v Kingsteignton (4pm) and Plymouth v Dawlish (6pm).

After a 5th & 6th Play-Off at 1pm, Sunday matches will see the Winner of League A play the Runner-up in League B at 3pm and the Winner of League B against the Runner-up in League A at 5pm.

The Final will start 7.30pm.

First ever Food & Drink Festival

In the first South Devon Football, Food & Drink Festival next month, Torquay United Under-18s have been drawn in Group A, with Bovey Tracey, Stoke Gabriel and Dartmouth.

Group B will consist of Plymouth Argyle, Dawlish Town, Kingsteignton Athletic and Topsham Town. The winners of the two groups will contest the final of the three-day tournament.

Masters Football is Back

NEWTON Abbot Spurs and Kingsteignton Athletic over-35s have an added incentive for wanting to attract as many as possible to their annual match at Newton Abbot Recreation Ground tomorrow week (10.30am).

Normally, it's a precursor to watching the FA Cup final on the clubhouse television screen and catching up on past glories over a drink or two.

However, match organiser and former Spurs player-chairman, Chris Passmore, reports that both teams are intent on a little something extra this year by way of raising money to help three-year old Newton Abbot boy Paddy Breslan combat Dravet Syndrone.

It's a severe form of epilisy that is life limiting, and can be triggered by overheating, over excitement, tiredness, stress, flashing lights - to name but a few.

Paddy is also showing signs of ADHD and autism (quite normal for Dravet's children) whereby his seizures are frequent, which is where the Spurs and Kingsteignton over-35s both want and believe they can help.

Explained Passmore: "Paddy likes nothing more than to play in the backyard at home, but it can cause all sorts of concerns for his mother, Fiona.

"He can't go outside without head protection, so we want to raise money to help cover the back yard with fitted flooring so that Paddy doesn't hurt himself, especially his head, if he has a seizure playing outside."

Also high on the agenda for Spurs on May 30 is revenge for 12 months ago when Kingsteignton over 35s won the match 3-2.

Unfortunately, they still have the same options to choose from in the form of Passmore, Russ Petersen, Tony Mawby, Kim Cotton, Chris Bassett, Steve Paton, Chris Breslan, Mike 'Leo' Stuart, Jeff Franke and Adrian Fisher, who is travelling from London to play in the game.

Kingsteignton are still checking bus passes before confirming their line-up!

Kingskerswell and Chelston 0 Kingsteignton Athletic 2

Possibly the result of the season. Kingsteignton visited the newly crowned SDL champions and picked up a good 2-0 win, goals from Nathan Williams and Daryl Kewley were enough to see off Kerswell, Liam Dore was welcomed back after a 5 week suspension and put in a superb performance. Kingsteignton now travel to Waldon for the last game of the season.