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Several members of the Shepton Judo Club recently travelled to the British Judo Centre of Excellence in Walsall to compete in the Samurai Senior and Masters Judo competition.

It was a long and demanding day which revealed some fantastic and inspirational judo. Many hard earned points were gained towards black belts and higher dan grades by several of Shepton's players.

Osbert Weston, one of Shepton Judo Club's younger warriors, recently travelled to Coventry to compete in the Midlands Area Regional Schools Championships.

Osbert fought fantastically well in some tough battles to be awarded a silver medal. Dianne White, the club's head coach, said she was very proud of Osbert's achievement.

Shepton Mallet Gymnastics Club has ended the year with great success for their tumblers.

The club's Tumblers travelled to Bristol to compete in the South West Tumbling Championships and came home with lots of very happy gymnasts.

Shepton Judo Club were triumphant again last weekend, at the British Masters Championships, held in London.

This saw the end of the competitive judo season, with the club bringing home another incredible haul of medals.

Three members of Shepton Judo club traveled to the Marrakech in Morocco to compete in the Veterans World Championships.

The competition saw competitors from around the globe competing against the world's best in their weight categories.

On Sunday (October 13) Shepton Mallet Gymnastics Club travelled to Bath to compete in the Rising Stars girls competition.

More than 200 gymnasts competed throughout the day from the South West area. The club took home 23 medals which included three overall champions, two silver and two bronze overall champions.

This year's Masters Judo Commonwealth Championships were held recently at Walsall University campus.

Six members of Shepton Judo Club were part of a squad of 12, which competed in the prestigious event. All 12 squad members regularly train together at the Shepton Mallet-based club.

Shepton Mallet returned from Tavistock in Devon on Saturday with mixed feelings - frustration at being pegged back after building a two-goal cushion countered no doubt by relief at having a second bite of the cherry after resisting a rampant home side in the second period of an always high tempo and entertaining game.

Keiran Bailey's goalward header for Shepton brought the first save of the game from Tavistock keeper Jack Ord after four minutes, before Asa White took up where he had left off at Melksham five days earlier, converting a cross after Aaron Seviour and Jack Fillingham had combined well to earn Shepton a sixth minute corner.

Shepton Mallet deservedly won their FA Cup replay 3-2 at Melksham after dominating the first half and then resisting the hosts' strong second half comeback, to earn a trip to Tavistock in the next round on 7th September.

Craig Loxton had two early attempts, a free kick that went well over and then a shot that was deflected for a corner, before Liam Watson headed Loxton's free kick cross just wide.