Dutch side among entry

Wednesday 19th March 2008, 2:29PM GMT.

Sportingbet’s Bob Dutnall, left, and festival organiser Richard Bowyer. (0551882)

A DUTCH team will give an international feel to events at Foote’s Lane at the weekend when 120 visiting players take on local teams in the Guernsey Hockey Club’s annual Easter Festival.

The event, which gets underway on Good Friday, has been a fixture of the local hockey calendar for more than 30 years. It has been boosted this year thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Sportingbet.

The local firm’s managing director, Bob Dutnall, said it was keen to support such a long-standing event. ‘We know that the Easter Festival has been a major event for island hockey over the years and it is a great to have fixtures like this that bring a lot of sportsmen and women to the island year in and year out,’ he said.