Victory at 2nd Downs League Race
Posted by on 10 December 2017
There were many great performances up on the Downs last Sunday and we achieved 3 very high team places which is very impressive as we’re up against some of the strongest local clubs.
Headlines have to go to Archie Austin for taking a tremendous victory in the U11 event.
From the start the race quickly developed into a battle between him and a couple of twins (who are generally reckoned to be amongst the quickest around), but Archie simply would not yield to anything they threw at him and was able to produce a blistering surge of speed to win a very exciting race in an excellent time.
See below for a couple of photos of him – note in the left one he's leading the adult who was meant to be running as a hare ahead of the race but couldn’t go as quick as these 11 year olds were running.
Also noteworthy was the excellent 3rd, 4th and 5th places for the U15 girls, U13 girls and U13 boys teams respectively.
The tables for the end of season awards have not yet been published with the combined scores from race 1 & 2 yet, but I’m thinking that we’ll have a few ranking high for sure with Spencer (6th + 3rd) and Lucy (4th + 9th) probably the best placed. Trophies for Downs League are based on finishing positions from all 4 races, and anyone who has missed a race is out of contention so being ever present and consistency is the key.
Stragglers results below.
|
Position |
Name |
Time |
|
U11 Boys (3k) |
54 Finishers |
|
|
1 |
Archie Austin |
10:12 |
|
U13 Girls (3k) |
38 Finishers 4th Team |
|
|
10 |
Sophie Desmond |
11:46 |
|
11 |
Gabriella Ceccherini |
11:48 |
|
14 |
Maisie Jensen |
12:00 |
|
22 |
Poppy Mitchell |
12:21 |
|
35 |
Chloe Hoseason |
14:26 |
|
U13 Boys (3k) |
35 finishers 5th Team |
|
|
15 |
Harvey Hutchinson |
11:14 |
|
21 |
George Turner |
11:43 |
|
29 |
Patrick McGuigan |
12:21 |
|
U15 Girls (3.5k) |
31 Finishers 3rd Team |
|
|
9 |
Lucy Hoseason |
12:50 |
|
14 |
Poppy Jensen |
13:42 |
|
27 |
Madeleine McGuigan |
15:51 |
|
U15 Boys (3.5k) |
21 finishers |
|
|
3 |
Spencer Bateman |
11:15 |
