Saracens, RECKless and Deltmavine all had comfortable wins in the final round of indoor hockey matches, while Lobbyless received the points against Crusaders.

Saracens 5, Deltmavine 1

In a very evenly-matched game Saracens and Deltmavine fought for control during the first half, testing both defences to the limit.

But Saracens’ hard work paid off with…

Cyclist Christine McLean got her season off to a great start by winning the women’s prize in the first Scottish time trial event of the year.

The week’s indoor cricket matches saw wins for The Mighty Six, Bonxies and the Stingrays. The change of players in each team for the second half of the indoor season was meant to make for very close games but Lerwick have struggled to get their team to fire and the Bonxies have managed to win all their games to date with comparative ease.

Loungers retained their 100 per cent record in division one of the badminton leagues with a win over Wastside, while in the second division there were victories for Burra and Ness.

Shetland Women’s FC took advantage of the break in the weather to travel south for two friendlies in Glasgow on 13th-14th February as previous arrangements for games against Kemnay and Inverness had fallen foul of the weather.

Callendar Park, Falkirk, played host once again to the 2010 Scottish Athletics Cross Country Champion­ships with large competitor numbers proving an obvious increase in the popularity of the sport.

Bonxies stretched their lead in the indoor cricket league to eight points with a narrow win over Warriors while Stingrays beat Mighty Six.

Orkney continue to dominate inter-county squash. Shetland tried hard to deny Orkney their 17th senior inter-county in the last 21 years. However a full strength Orkney team were just too strong as they won seven matches to two.

New Revolution were crowned indoor hockey league champions after defeating Saracens in their final game of the season. One point behind were Judane who thumped RECKless.

The Shetland senior badminton singles competition was held on Monday night. With this being scheduled after the open doubles event many of the senior players were feeling the pace and unfor­tunately three withdrew, leaving top seed Kevin Smith, coach Maurice Haining and five able juniors.

Already Shetland’s Young Fiddler of the Year, Anderson High School pupil Chapman Cheng added the Young Musician of the Year title to an impressive list of achievements on the penultimate night of the 2010 Schools Music Festival on Wednesday.

It’s been four years in the planning and expects to attract more than 500 people. This summer’s Shetland Hamefarin is set to become the event of the decade for the hundreds of visitors who are eagerly awaiting a chance to visit the land they or their forebears left.

The new Anderson High School could be built closer to the Clickimin Centre on flatter land rather than being dug into the hillside, design experts have advised Shetland Islands Council.