NEARLY 40 players and four teams battled it out for the Ashley Tossell Memorial Cup at the Tavistock College all weather pitch on Sunday.

The footballers and officials ignored the drizzly start to enjoy a fun and competitive event, in memory of football loving Ashley, a long serving teacher at Tavistock College, who died earlier this year.

The cup was presented at the Red and Black Club to Barney Tossell to take to Tavistock College where it will sit in the trophy cabinet.

The matches were hard fought and the winners decided by a sudden death penalty shoot out.

Event organisers Sue Hammond, Nathan Alford and Josh Robbins thanked Di Thomas and Allen Lewis for all their help and to Tavistock College for the use of the all weather pitch.

Sue also thanked the two ‘lovely gentleman from the Lions’ who managed to erect a gazebo in windy wet weather and to Shaun McDermott from Pens and Moor for the trophy and winners’ medals.

She added:?‘With no pot of money to hold the event it showed the respect the town had for a teacher, who touched so many lives, and Tavistock has once again shown how it pulls together to get things done.’

£152 was raised for the charity and part of it will go to the British Heart foundation.