Sports in Axminster

Axminster Reserves maintained their position at the top of the reset Devon and Exeter League Division Two East with a comfortable 3-0 win at Feniton 2nds on Easter Monday.

They now lead the table with 29 points from nine games, with Ottery St Mary in second place and Millwey Rise third.

Axminster Town's buoyant youth section is looking for more coaches and is hoping to encourage more parents to step forward and help.

Mark Burrough currently coaches the youth section's under 6s, under 7s and under 8s with the under 8s entered in the Exeter and District Youth League.

Report by Dick Sturch

In their first game back after lockdown, Millwey Rise and near neighbours Axminster Reserves played out a very entertaining, typical local derby match at Cloakham Lawns today (Saturday), finishing in a 1-1, the first points the Tigers second string have dropped all season.

Axminster Reserves resume their 2020-21 season following the easing of lockdown on Saturday, April 3rd with an away match against Devon and Exeter League Division Two East local rivals Millwey Rise (kick-off 3 pm).

When the league was suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Tigers' second string topped the division, having played seven games.

Devon and Exeter League football is set to start again on Saturday, April 3rd.

The league gave clubs the opportunity to continue fixtures or drop out of their respective decisions with no penalty.

Perry Street League clubs are being consulted over whether they want to call a close to the 2020-2021 season.

Local football has been given the go-ahead to re-start the current season from March 19th.

Axminster Town's newly-appointed commercial manager Ray Self has wasted no time in getting his message across that, despite the lockdown, due to be lifted on March 29, Tiger Way is very much open for business.

A former player, manager and chairman who spearheaded the move from Sector Lane to Chard Road, providing some of the best facilities in football in the West Country, has rejoined the Tigers with a dual role.

Axminster Town Football Club has this afternoon (Saturday) named a new management structure.

Club chairman Andy Hurford has announced that Reserve team manager Dan Prettejohn has stepped up as first team boss and will be naming his own assistant.

Ray Self, the former player, manager and chairman, is back in Tiger Way, the home of Axminster Town Football.

Self oversaw the move from Sector Lane, the Tiger's iconic ground for more than a hundred years, to a £1million plus complex off Chard Road, providing some of the best footballing facilities in the West Country.

The Devon and Exeter League, in which two Lyme Regis FC team compete, have agreed to relaunch the 2020-21 season - but teams do not have to participate if they don't want to.

That was the surprise news received by teams this evening when it was expected the D & E would follow the decision by the South West Peninsular League to void the current season because of the back log of fixtures.