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00:26Hello and welcome along to Invicta Sport,
00:29the only show on your TV dedicated to wrapping up all of Kent's sporting action.
00:33I'm Finn McDermid and here is what to expect on this Monday, 27th April.
00:39Season stopping, we take a look across the National League South, specifically having
00:44a look at Maidstone's comeback win against Bath, swimming success, six medal-winning
00:49Olympian teaches Medway's future stars, and racing money, London marathon runner
00:58fundraisers more than £10,000 towards a brain cancer charity.
01:03But first, a run-up of your sports headlines.
01:05Teenager Sullivan Booth's debut was the lone bright spot as Gillingham suffered a heavy
01:10defeat against Barnett at the weekend.
01:12The Gills suffered a 6-2 loss on the road, but 17-year-old Academy product Sullivan Booth
01:18provided a goal to level the score in the first half.
01:21The game wouldn't be level for long, with defensive errors leading to four more goals
01:24from Barnett's Callumstead inside the first half.
01:28And after the sixth B's goal, Booth managed to assist Andrews for a consolation.
01:34Manager Gareth Ainsworth said it was the worst game he'd coached for the Gills, but that Booth's
01:39performance had stuck out to him.
01:41Let's hear from him now.
01:42The irony is if we defend set pieces better, which I've gone on about and on about and on
01:46about and on about, it's the 3-2, which we go away going, you know what, Barnett have
01:50had a hell of a season, they're in good form, they've got all their players fit, great.
01:55But we just concede too easy.
01:57I said it, I'm going to change it, there's no fight I haven't stepped into that I haven't
02:01won and I'm going to step into this one and win this one because, again, just, you
02:07know, not good enough players kicking the ball off the pitch, with no pressure of players,
02:12just don't it look stronger, fitter, and yeah, I just can't, I can't fathom why we're so
02:20easy to score against.
02:22And now to cricket, head coach Adam Hollyoak calls Kent's batting a big worry after a defeat
02:27to Worcestershire.
02:29The team suffered in innings and two-run defeat in the Championship Division 2 match on
02:34Sunday.
02:34Worcestershire's first innings were at .447 in the first over of Day 3.
02:39Kent bowled out second time round for .249 and were beaten inside three days.
02:44Seventh wicket pair Chris Benjamin and Keith Dudgeon added 71, but none of the top six passed
02:4831.
02:49Hollyoak said they haven't batted well and on paper we have a very good starting batting
02:54line-up.
02:54So at times like this we have to get back to fundamentals.
02:58Now to rugby.
02:59The Tunbridge Juddians beat the Leicester Lions 83-14 in the National League One fixture.
03:05The Judds finished their first season back in the league with the biggest win of the
03:09campaign.
03:09Ending the year in eighth, wingers four fronting the tri-charts, Curtis Barnes scoring six.
03:15Kicking duties were given to Connor Lloyd and Tom Mannix who gained four and five conversions
03:19respectively.
03:20After playing in over 200 games, the match signs off Tommy Nickel and Duncan Tout for the
03:25club.
03:25Similarly for Luke Boone with 100 caps.
03:27After a season recovering from injury, Nathan Earle comes back to the Judds with supporters
03:31hopeful he competes into next year.
03:34Sticking to rugby now and the National League Two East saw Canterbury face Barnes with a
03:39final score of 31-29.
03:42A solid try played at the end of the game snatched victory from the Kent team meaning they will
03:46place fifth this season, one spot behind their visitors.
03:49The first half looked promising with Canterbury scoring three tries, a penalty try including
03:53leading a 14-point advantage at the break.
03:56Two scores won from wing Aidan Moss, his last game before ending his outstanding career with
04:02the club.
04:02Barnes came back with fly-half Will Nicholson scoring a try and after more conversions they
04:07led 26-5 but they ended up turning the game around.
04:12The GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup returns to Kent with Valentino Rossi due to race at Brands
04:18Hatch.
04:18The nine-time MotoGP champion will return to West Kingsdown circuit to compete in the annual
04:23race held this weekend.
04:25Rossi placed second with team-mate Maxime Martin in the 2023 tournament.
04:29This year's 34-car grid will be made up of eight manufacturers including luxury car
04:33brands like Aston Martin, Ferrari and Lamborghini.
04:36Aurelien Panis and Arthur Leclerc will drive the same circuit signifying a major date on Brand
04:42Hatch's centenary calendar with MSV planning to celebrate the milestone of a full year of
04:46century of power.
04:48Now let's take a look back at this weekend's football results.
04:52Well today is the last day of the season.
04:55Could Maidstone make it to the National League South play-offs?
04:58The Stones have to win today against Bath City if they want a chance.
05:03Joe Raines takes the throw and goes up.
05:06Scott Wilson hits it first time on the edge of the box to open the scoring for Bath in
05:09only just more than two minutes.
05:11What a terrible start for Maidstone.
05:13Nearing the end of the half now, they're making their way towards the Stone box.
05:16He plays it off to the left, keeper comes out, Scott Wilson strikes twice, another outside
05:20of the box shot hit first time, no saving that.
05:24The Stones will need to kick on in this next half if they want a chance at the playoff spots.
05:28They take a throw and it's headed down, passed over to Jamie Yela.
05:31He turns and he shoots, well placed at the far post.
05:35Corner comes in, a bit of a scuffle there and it goes in, what a strike from George Fowler
05:38to level it up at the 84th minute.
05:40What a game this is turning out to be but it's not over yet.
05:43The Stones need a win here for any chance of potential promotion through the playoffs.
05:47Another corner whipped in, there's some confusion at the near post and it's gone in.
05:51The confusion stays.
05:52I actually don't know who got the ball there but we are being told it was Mark Baruch in
05:56the 96th minute.
05:59Could this mean playoffs?
06:00Unfortunately it was not meant to be.
06:03The Stones might have done their best collecting three points but the other teams around the
06:06top half did too, like Maidenhead who beat Dover in a tight 1-0 contest to put themselves
06:11at 7th.
06:12Torquay travelled to Tunbridge and continued a strong campaign, winning 2-1 and cementing
06:17themselves at 3rd.
06:18While Lebsfleet lost 2-0 to Worthing, who were crowned league champions they could have pushed
06:21into the playoff spot but fell at the last hurdle.
06:24Well with the National League South season wrapped up, let's take a look up at League
06:282 where the Jills had a poor showing for their penultimate game of the season, a 6-2 loss
06:33against 9th place Barnet.
06:34Five of those Barnet goals coming in from Callum Stead and four of them in the first half.
06:39The Jills goals came from Sullivan Booth who scored on his debut and Josh Andrews picking
06:43up the consolation in extra time.
06:45The Jills will host Shrewsbury, Gareth Ainsworth's former team in the last game of the season where
06:49nothing is at stake except pride.
06:52And lastly down to the Isthmian League Premier where the last matchday saw some goal fests.
06:56Ramsgate came out of their shell and slotted four past Canvey Island on the road, taking
07:00two on the chin.
07:01Dartford suffered a loss against Cray Valley that meant they wouldn't get to the playoffs,
07:05unlike Chatham, whose home match against Lewis put them up against Billericaytown this
07:08Wednesday for the playoff final spot.
07:10But it was Folkestone and Victor who scored five against Chesham.
07:13They have the most to celebrate.
07:15They'll be getting automatic promotion as the winners of the league to the National League
07:18South.
07:19And that's all for this week's Football Roundup.
07:21Just the one game left now for Medway fans apiece.
07:24Can the Jills prove to the fans they have some fight left in them and can the Chats leap up
07:28a league?
07:28It's all still to play for.
07:29See you soon.
07:31Well, as you heard there, it was a tough trip to London for Jills fans at the weekend.
07:35They were treated to an eight-goal match, but six of them ended up in the back of their
07:39own net.
07:40But there were some bright spots.
07:42Teenage Academy product Sullivan Booth debuted with a goal and an assist.
07:46Gareth Iinsworth called him the best out of the eleven.
07:49So, to talk more about the match, student journalist and Jills fan Tom Fullergard joins me now.
07:53So Tom, first of all, I mean, what was your sort of reaction when you saw that scoreline come
07:58through?
07:59I'm not surprised.
08:00I'm just really not.
08:02I mean, it's another early goal.
08:04We just can't defend when the game starts.
08:08I don't know what it is.
08:08And it sets the tone for the rest of the game.
08:11Camden Stead, I mean, you know, that's a surprise.
08:13The guy that we were after in January, Ryan Glover getting the assist, I said on here that
08:18I thought both of them were really good players.
08:20I mean, maybe not Camden Stead as much, didn't think he had the stats, but Ryan Glover I thought
08:23was an exception.
08:24We got two assists on the day, but yeah, not surprised.
08:27Absolutely.
08:27And let's talk a bit about Sullivan Booth.
08:29It was his debut game and for the Jills, you know, I think silver lining, if we can call
08:35it that, the slimmest of silver linings that, you know, he got his goal.
08:38He got an assist.
08:39What do you think of his performance?
08:40Yeah, I think he done well.
08:41You know, he's there for the tap in, you know, it was a good move as well, Hale and Dak
08:45playing the ball in.
08:47And he also assisted our second and didn't mean a lot, but, you know, he played a good ball
08:53in to Andrews.
08:54So yeah, I'm always happy to see an academy player break through into the first team.
08:58Absolutely.
08:58And obviously we have to go back to some of those goals.
09:01I believe three of them were corners.
09:03So to concede three goals in the same sort of way, it doesn't look too good, does it?
09:07No.
09:08And it's, two of them were like, they were identical.
09:11The first was, you know, Dak was marking Callumstead and I don't really know why you would have
09:16Dak on the, you know, the main man really.
09:19I know he's not a big, you know, Callumstead's not big, but first and I believe the fifth or
09:25sixth was, yeah, literally the same.
09:28They're just not getting, not getting up.
09:29I mean, oh no, it was the fifth actually.
09:31That was just an open man.
09:32No one's marking him the whole time.
09:34I just think it's ridiculous.
09:35I think Ainsworth's come out and said that they're working on set pieces and training.
09:39It doesn't look like it.
09:41Yeah, absolutely.
09:42I mean, Ainsworth, after the match, he said, you know, without corners it would be 3-2.
09:48Do you think that's a fair assessment or is he just sort of washing his hands?
09:51It's not a great attitude to have, is it really?
09:52I mean, what, is that a good thing that we're still going to lose 3-2 without corners?
09:57I mean, you should be working on them.
10:00They're what, we're always conceding and it's always us losing a jaw in the air or
10:05just not even marking it.
10:06It's really simple stuff.
10:07I mean, they're two short corners as well.
10:09Short corners are like the bane of football at the moment.
10:12To concede two of them is ridiculous.
10:14Absolutely.
10:15And, worth mentioning, it's the, I believe, either, no, sorry, not the last game of Sam
10:21Volkes, but the next fixture to Shrewsby will be the last game of Sam Volkes.
10:25How do you think he's fair during his time as a Jules player?
10:27I think it was predictable that he wouldn't be at his best.
10:31I think there's, you can definitely see that he's been a good player.
10:35Key word, been.
10:36I think he's been a bit slow.
10:39He hasn't, I don't think he's been really in fitness, to be honest, but he's definitely
10:44experienced and I hope that experience has been shared in the dressing room.
10:49But I think it's the right decision for him, really.
10:51I don't know if he could do another season and that's another player of the books for
10:55us not to worry about.
10:57Absolutely.
10:57Well, I mean, I feel like we have this sort of chat every time we have one of these talks.
11:01What needs to change for the next game?
11:03And as we get further and further into the season, that list becomes broader and broader.
11:07What are you hoping for at Shrewsbury, being realistic?
11:11I'm not hoping for a lot.
11:12I mean, just a little bit of excitement.
11:15I mean, I know it's Ainsworth's against his old club in Shrewsbury, so I guess it might
11:19be a bit bad-blooded.
11:21I think Shrewsbury have got the last laugh, really, with Ainsworth, because at the end
11:24of the day, we're, you know, we're actually not that much different.
11:27I think they're a place in front of us, actually, so who knows what happens on Saturday, but thank
11:32God it's over.
11:34Well, I see.
11:34Well, thank you for that, Tom.
11:36Much appreciated.
11:38Well, we have reached halftime, meaning we have a break now.
11:42So coming up, we'll be hearing a little bit more news in swimming.
11:46One Olympian, who won six medals, is actually coming back, sorry, coming to Medway to teach
11:53young professional, young, hopefully, professional swimmers exactly how it's done.
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12:49I think that's a great feature.
12:49I hope you'll be able to do this.
12:49I think it's a great feature.
12:49All that, and I think, it's a great feature.
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15:21Hello and
15:22welcome back to
15:23Invicta Sport!
15:24Here on KMTV.
15:26It takes a lot of support,
15:29training, and preparation
15:30behind the scenes to be able to get to
15:32the level of an Olympic athlete.
15:34Medway's young swimmers got the chance
15:36to learn from the best over the weekend.
15:38Duncan Scott is the most decorated
15:40British Olympic swimmer in History.
15:42with two gold and six silver medals, four of which he won at Tokyo, the most for a Brit
15:47at a single Games. So I went down to Medway Sports Park to find out more.
15:52Oftentimes competitive sports can feel like being thrown in at the deep end, especially
15:56if you're young. So to help Medway's youth swimmers not feel too out of their depth,
16:01Duncan Scott, the most decorated British Olympic swimmer, has come to give advice, tips and
16:06sign a few swim camps as well. He's a part of AP races clinics that aim to improve the
16:11standard of swimming all across age groups around the country. And with his visit to
16:15the Kent Leisure Centre, he's hoping to not just instruct, but inspire a new generation
16:19of swimmers as well.
16:20Yeah, look, it's really cool to come here. You know, I've done a lot in Scotland, you
16:24know, being the Learn to Swim ambassador and, you know, going the length and breadth of Scotland
16:27and opening places and, you know, learn to swim is something that I think is so vital.
16:34But doing it in a slightly different location and more of kind of evolved around in racing
16:40and learning different techniques and things like that. It's, yeah, it's been great fun
16:44and the kids have been so responsive to either technical changes or just in general just having
16:50so much fun. So it's been good to see them learning, but then also doing it with a smile
16:55on their face as well.
16:56But there's plenty that goes on outside of the pool as well. They have their strength
17:00and conditioning and even a psychological prep session, making sure that they're well
17:03equipped to be able to handle the intensity of such a competitive sport. And it's not just
17:08the young people learning, but the parents as well. They have a private session with
17:11instructors where they can learn how best to support their child going through the sport.
17:16The AP Swim Clinic, we have also got other instructors. They brought the whole team and they are doing
17:21other sorts of like psychological sessions as well as how the team around the child can
17:26really support the child to motivate and, you know, propel them towards higher goals. I think
17:33that's such fantastic message as well. And we do look forward to meeting Duncan later on
17:39to see his gold medal as well, because I've heard that he's brought it along with himself
17:43as well.
17:43Rather than think of a competition as sink or swim, the idea of having an experienced Olympic
17:48level swimmer like Duncan at Medway Park is to help these young athletes improve their
17:52speed while also taking care of themselves.
17:54Finn McDermott for KMTV in Medway.
18:00Now it's time to remind you that you can keep up to date with all the latest sports news,
18:04interviews and features from here on Invictus Sport by heading to our website, kmtv.co.uk
18:09and clicking on the sports tab. There you'll see videos like this one about a 50-year-old
18:14Kent baseball fan who's living his childhood dream of playing with a team.
18:18At 50 years old, I like to imagine the most exercise I'll be getting is lifting up the TV
18:23remote. But for one Kent baseball fan, he's stepped up to bat at the Kent baseball club
18:28in Hadlow near Tunbridge, despite his age, to play the sport he always dreamed of trying
18:32out.
18:33If you speak to my wife, you say I've got the mental age of a 16-year-old anyway, but
18:36the body, it doesn't keep up. I'm on my third pacemaker, which I had when I was 26,
18:41but it didn't stop me. You know, you've only got one life and I wanted to give it a go.
18:48And baseball is one of those things that I've always found passionate. I'm not one for
18:52going to the gym all the time. I do go to the gym, but who really enjoys that? I want
18:56to get fit on doing something I really love and I felt I would love baseball. I thought
19:00I'd give it a try and yeah, I fell in love with it.
19:03He's calling himself the 50-year-old rookie and he's been documenting his experience so
19:07far. He originally fell in love with the sport after visiting family in Canada in the 80s
19:12and watching the Toronto Blue Jays. The Kent baseball club play in Division 3 and Division
19:175 of the British Baseball Federation, fielding two teams, the Kent Buccaneers and the Kent Mariners
19:21respectively, who used to be separate clubs, the latter being from Medway and the former
19:25from Tunbridge until they merged to help player numbers.
19:28Now unlike Simon, I've never seen a game of baseball, so I felt a bit out of my league.
19:33So I took some time to make sure I've covered all my bases.
19:38Now baseball is a pretty simple sport when you're watching it, but it's a little different
19:42when you're playing. Now the aim of the game is to get more runs than the other team and
19:46the way you get those runs, well that's mainly by batting. Once you bat you can then start
19:53to make your way around the diamond and you get one point once you reach the home plate.
19:57And reaching the home plate gets you that one run, trying to get more than the other team
20:01and you take turns between batting and pitching.
20:06Once my catching practice was over, I learnt a bit more about the curve balls that trip
20:10up beginners the most.
20:12First hurdle is having a ball coming towards you that's not the lightest thing in the world
20:16that you've got to try and stop from hitting your face I think. That's probably the hardest
20:20thing for a rookie to kind of teach them to not be scared of the ball, to put your glove
20:24in front of your face and you will be fine. That is probably the hardest thing to get
20:28through to people, especially when they haven't played a kind of batting ball sport before
20:31the ball or one that involves hand-eye coordination. That's probably the biggest hurdle. In terms
20:36of hitting the ball people find that relatively easy when they first come to practice so I
20:40think it's more about getting over that kind of nervousness of that ball coming towards
20:44you by someone who's been playing a lot longer than you.
20:46With that in mind I thought it was time to try out hitting. Well, it wasn't a home run
20:52but I was happy with my hits. But next time I think I'll bring gloves.
21:02A Kent man has run the London Marathon in support of brain tumor research after his father, who's
21:08from Sevenoaks, was diagnosed with the incurable type of cancer. Harry Edwards took on the challenge
21:13to help raise awareness of the disease and beat his fundraising goal of £10,000. I'm pleased
21:25that you're going to be able to do this challenge. So I've decided to do this challenge in, well,
21:39a year ago, like straight after the 2025 London Marathon, I decided to take it on. This is actually
21:46the second event I've done to raise funds for brain tumor research. So back in 2023, I also raised
21:55£24,000 doing the bath half. So this was like a step up. And yeah, I just wanted to do
22:03one more go
22:04and try and raise some more funds and do an even bigger challenge. So yeah.
22:10Amazing. And so you've done this sort of thing before, would you say you're a natural runner?
22:14Where did this sort of start? Have you been doing marathons for a long time? Did you maybe do
22:17athletics when you were younger?
22:20This is my first marathon or yesterday was my first marathon. So I'm feeling it today.
22:25I'd only ever ran one half and that was the fundraising. So I enjoy running, but my background's
22:32in football. And so that's just where it sort of transfers over. It gives me a decent base,
22:37but it was hard yesterday. And I wouldn't say it comes that naturally. So.
22:43Fair enough. I suppose running 26 miles is a bit unnatural for anyone. I'd certainly be the same.
22:49Tell us a bit about your training regimen. How have you been training?
22:55So I picked it up around Christmas time after I came back from traveling. So I've had a four
23:00month training block as with any training block for a marathon. The mileage is, it gets so big
23:07at a point where you start having little injuries coming in. So coming over those little setbacks
23:14has been another challenge that I've had to face, but all in all, when you're fundraising and you're
23:21doing it for a reason, and for me, it's such a reason so close to home, then you just get
23:27through
23:27these little things. And I've enjoyed the routine, but I'm, I think, I think I'm now ready to have a
23:33break
23:34from running the way I'm feeling today and how hard the last 10 kilometers were yesterday. But the
23:40training's, the training has been good and yeah, I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed having something to work
23:46towards and a big goal. That's great. Now you say you want to sort of maybe forget about it a
23:52little
23:52bit, especially that last 10k, but let's, let's relive it for a second. We've got some, we've got
23:56some pictures of some of the, some of the moments of you running and some of the people who were
24:01there
24:01to support you. What did it mean to cross that finish line and to have so many people there to
24:06see it?
24:08Well, so I mainly want to focus on going round like the first, the first 25, 30 kilometers. I was
24:17on cloud nine. I was flying every, every few kilometers. I'd see a different group of people
24:23that were there to support me and they give the biggest cheer. And you'll see here where I'm really
24:28living up to the crowd and it gives you such a boost. So in these moments I felt amazing. And
24:37absolutely loved that. And I was running around thinking, oh, this is, this is brilliant. I'll do
24:41it again. And then you get to like sort of 34, 35 kilometers and I got hit quite bad with
24:48cramp.
24:49So the last, the last bit was a real grind, but I really loved the start. And then when I
24:55finished,
24:56when I finally made it to the finish line, that was a huge sense of relief just because how much
25:01of a
25:01battle, the end of the race was. And then when I got over to the brain tumor research stand and
25:07all
25:07the people who were there supporting me sort of cheering as I came over quite an overwhelming sense
25:13of pride accomplishment. And I was so grateful for everyone to make such like such an effort to come
25:23and support and everyone who had donated to the cause. It was, and now that was when I first got
25:29hit
25:29with sort of the emotions, I, during the run, I was just really enjoying it. Um, but going over and,
25:35you know, seeing my dad and seeing how everyone had come out to support me, it was quite an emotional
25:42moment really for me. So absolutely. And did you expect the kind of, uh, that, that support both,
25:50uh, on this sort of financial side, I mean, you beat, you went, I think 800 pounds past your goal
25:55of,
25:55of 10,000 pounds and to have all those people there. So tell me a little bit, did you expect
26:00that coming
26:00into it? I didn't. Uh, and especially, especially how I'd done the previous fundraising.
26:10I, I felt as if going again, there was like a two year gap or maybe, maybe more. Uh, but
26:17I still felt
26:17like, you know, I've asked for people to support before, will they do it again? And so I wasn't too
26:23confident about hitting 10 K, but I wanted to set a big goal cause I want to make as big
26:28of a difference
26:28as possible to as many people's lives who are affected by this. And yeah, we managed, we managed to
26:35sneak over and I think with gift aid, we've raised over 13,000 for this event. And yeah, it's, uh,
26:44uh, it was, it was a very nice feeling and we hit it literally maybe the morning of race day.
26:50Really sorry, Harry, that's about all the time we have, uh, an incredible achievement. And thank you
26:54so much for joining us to talk about it. Oh, thank you very much, Finn.
27:00That's all the time we have. Thank you so much for watching.
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