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Week ending Sunday December 24
Representatives from Boston schools achieved major
successes in claiming five of the eight team titles at the Holland District
Schools Cross-Country Championships at Spalding. In particular, Boston
Grammar School entrants were supreme in all four boys’ age groups, in the
process achieving a clean sweep of the team accolades.
Meanwhile Boston High School Years 8 and 9
representatives carried off the junior girls’ team championship.
The overall individual titles went to proven cross-country
performers. James Munn, of Boston Grammar, won the senior boys’ race with
ease, finishing almost two minutes ahead of his closest rival. Two Boston
High School runners also won their events. Alice Flint took her first Holland
title when she finished 1 minute 44 seconds clear in the Year 7 race. In the
junior girls’ championship Ashleigh Frankish led in a trio of BHS
representatives to secure the Year 8 and 9 titles.
Elsewhere, Alex Gibb of George Farmer took the intermediate boys’ title, Tom
Rogers (Gleed Boys) won the junior championship, Becky Wycherley (St Guthlac’s,
Crowland) won the intermediate girls’ event and Emily Moss (Spalding High) won
the senior girls. Haven High Technology College’s Mantas Knisevskis was a
clear winner and proved a worthy Holland under-13 champion.
In the senior boys’ team event Boston Grammar scored 14 points to win
comfortably ahead of Boston College (48). The senior girls’ race was
dominated by Spalding High School. Lucy Nell followed team colleague Emily
Moss into the finish funnel and set the SHS team well on their way to
victory.
Boston Grammar won the intermediate boys’ race with 64 points while George
Farmer (87) was second and Gleed Boys (94) came third. St Guthlac’s (83
points) won the intermediate girls’ competition while Gleed Girls (104) were second
and Middlecott (123) finished third. On home ground, Tom Rogers won the
junior boys’ contest with ease, and Boston Grammar took the team event with
47 points ahead of Gleed (96) and St Guthlac’s (136).
In the junior girls’ championship, Boston High School runners filled the
first three individual positions for a resounding 36-point victory total.
Runners-up were George Farmer (129 points), with Gleed third (134).
In the Year 7 event a team points total of 105 gave BGS their fourth district
title ahead of Gleed (124) and George Farmer (152). Alice Flint (BHS) ran
away with the Year 7 girls’ event, with Middlecott School’s P Martin second.
George Farmer won the team title (80 points) with Spalding High (108) second
and Boston High (116) third. The first 12 finishers in each race have been
selected to represent Holland District at the Lincolnshire Schools’
Championships at Spalding on January 20.
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Week ending Sunday December 10
A total of nine youngsters from the Boston area took
part in the Lincolnshire Athletic Association Sportshall team trials at the
Princess Royal Sports Arena on Sunday December 10, the entrants competing in
various age groups. At under-13s level, two Boston and District Athletic Club
members turned in good performances despite the pair both being at the
younger end of their age range section.
Only just past his 11th birthday, Andrew Harness took
second place in the two-lap final with a time of 21.9secs. He added two
further second places in the vertical jump, leaping by 47cms while in the
standing long jump he was runner-up again with a distance of 2.06m. Andrew
was also sixth in both the four-lap race (50.2secs) and the standing triple
jump contact (5.46m). A score of 62 in the speed bounce (seventh) and 5.41m
for the shot putt (11th) completed his debut appearance statistics.
Alice Flint finished fourth in the six-lap event (79.9secs), was seventh in
the standing long jump (1.84m) and came eighth in both the speed bounce (69)
and the vertical jump (39cms). She recorded 24.3secs for two laps, 50.3secs
for four laps, 4.99m for standing triple jump, 3.51m for shot and cleared
1.00m in the high jump.
Nicola Powell of Boston High School also made a promising first appearance. She
recorded 25.4secs for two laps, 57.5secs for four laps, 1.46m in standing
long jump, 4.22m for standing triple jump and 25cms for vertical jump.
Jaydyne Overton of Middlecott School made an encouraging debut in the
competition by recording 25.7secs for two laps and then completed four laps
in 55.8secs. She achieved a score of 51 in the speed bounce, a distance of
1.48m in the standing long jump, plus feats of 3.96m in the standing triple
jump and 26cms in the vertical jump.
In the under-15 girls section, Ellis Whyler (Boston and District AC) won five
events and Hannah Boyes, of Giles School (Old Leake), collected three first
places.
Ellis’ wins came in the two-lap final in 21.4secs, the four-lap final
(44.7secs), high jump (1.40m), long jump (2.21m) and vertical jump (46cms).
Elsewhere, she was second in standing triple jump (6.14m) and shot putt
(7.23m). Hannah won the shot putt with an impressive 8.15m and shared top
position in high jump (1.40m). She finished second in the vertical jump
(39cms) and the two-lap race (21.8secs). A leap of 6.26m gave her a first in
the standing triple jump and she added thirds in the four-lap final
(46.7secs) and the long jump (1.98m).
Three Boston High School pupils also made an impact at under-15 level.
Jasmine Orrey cleared 1.20m for third in high jump and earned the same place
in standing long jump with a leap of 2.07m. She was also fourth in the two
laps (22.2secs) and the standing triple jump (5.86m).
A leap of 43cms secured third place in the vertical jump and a score of 65 in
speed bounce added another fourth position.
Laura Busch started with a promising time of 22.6secs in the two-lap race,
just missing out on a place in the final. She finished fifth in both the high
jump (1.15m) and the standing long jump (1.90m). She also gained sixth
position in vertical jump (39cms) and standing triple jump (5.46m) and
seventh in speed bounce (59).
Ashleigh Frankish claimed three fourth places in four laps (49.6secs), speed
bounce (65) and standing triple jump (5.82m). She recorded 22.3secs for fifth
place in the two-lap heats and cleared 1.15m in high jump and 38cms in
vertical jump.
Two Boston and District AC under-15 boys produced good all-round
performances. Aston Perrin had a pair of third places with 7.61m in shot and
6.32m in standing triple jump. He also finished fourth in the two-lap final
in 21.9secs, six laps (72.0secs) and high jump (1.40m). Fifth positions were
achieved in speed bounce (62) and four laps (44.3secs), and he was sixth in
vertical jump (38cms) and standing long jump (1.86m).
Thirteen-year-old Aidan McClure stepped up to the under-15 age group for the
first time and claimed a good third place in the six-lap event (71.4secs). He
went one place higher in the speed bounce completing 72 bounces in the
30-second time period.
McClure achieved 22.5secs in the two-lap race (sixth), 47.4secs for four laps
(seventh), 1.30m in high jump (sixth), 5.00m in shot (eighth), 1.82m standing
long jump (seventh), 5.46m standing triple jump (seventh) and 39cms in the vertical
jump (fifth).
Local representatives will hope that some of their youngsters will be
included in the team chosen to compete for Lincolnshire in the East Midlands
Sportshall Championships at Grantham on February 3.
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