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BADAC news November 2005

Week ending Sunday November 27:

A quartet of Boston and District Athletic Club youngsters competed for the Lincolnshire team involved in the East Midlands under-11 sports hall athletics challenge. Competing against representatives from Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire the four young Gold Tops enjoyed a range of sports hall events achieving some good performances.

In the girls’ category Maria Hollingsworth won the standing long jump competition with a best leap of 1.94m, after a first effort of 1.85m. In her second individual event, the chest pass, Maria claimed ninth place with 4.75m. Alice Flint competed in the vertical jump and the first of her three trials achieved 35cms for 10th place. In the soft javelin event Alice recorded 4m for 13th position.

Both Alice and Maria contributed to the Lincolnshire relay team efforts with the girls squad finishing fifth overall.

In the boys competition Kieran Melvin and Andrew Harness featured Kieran’s best performance was in javelin where his best throw of 19metres earned him third place. A leap of 1.68m in the standing long jump gave him 13th place and in the standing triple jump his best effort of 4.62m put him in 17th position.

Andrew Harness competed in four individual events. An excellent 46cm vertical jump gave him a good second place. In the sitting throw event Andrew achieved 7.50m with his opening trial to claim a valuable fifth position.

A score of 39 in speed bounce added an 18th place and a leap of 1.68m in standing long jump resulted in 14th position. The next Lincs sports hall athletics events will be in the new year for under-13 and under-15 boys and girls.

Week ending Sunday November 20:

After two rounds of the 2005-2006 Fenland Schools Cross-Country League, Boston High School juniors are leading the way in the table. With a combined points score of 76, the school’s Year 7 and 8 girls have a 29-point cushion with second placed Bourne Grammar School next on 105 points. Showing good strength in depth, the Boston High School B team are currently placed seventh out of the 19 participating teams.

In the individual placings, after two races in the three-event series, the High School have three runners occupying top 10 positions. Ashleigh Frankish is in a hugely creditable second place following her third and runner-up finishes giving her a points total of five. Year 7 runner Louise Rutt moved up from 10th to eighth after the second race. On 18 points Louise is currently in an excellent sixth position with just one match to go. Chelsea Ironmonger lies two places behind in eighth spot with a points score of 22. She completed the Boston HS trio of representatives in the top 10 overall positions.

In the intermediate boys league Boston Grammar School were lying in fifth place after the first race but failed to finish a team in the second competition in the series. The junior boys, though, came home in a promising fourth position but slipped out of reckoning after the second race. Both schools now have a long period of preparation for the final race in the series that is at Spalding Grammar School in March 9.

The league programme ends on March 22 with a cross-country relay competition at Crowland. Next Sunday the third of this seasons Lincolnshire League Cross-Country events will be held at RAF Cranwell. The programme opens as usual with an under-11s race at 11.50am.

In addition, Boston High School under-14 runners ended in ninth place in the regional final of the English Schools Athletic Association Cross-Country Cup competition. Over a varied course extending from the Moorways Athletic Stadium in Derby, the Year 7 and 8 representatives were up against some strong athletes from schools in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Humberside and West Yorkshire. As in the qualifying round it was Ashleigh Frankish who finished first for Boston High School. In prime conditions for distance running, she coped well with the varied surfaces and crossed the finish line in 12th position. Chelsea Ironmonger and Louise Rutt were in close contention over the 2,600 metres challenge.

In the final run-in it was Chelsea who finished the better claiming 31st place with Louise a year younger in 32nd. There was good team support from Kerry Swift in 37th with another improving Year 7 runner, Wednesday Pywowariw filling 38th position through the finish funnel. With a field of 72 runners on the start line, Heather Guy made a good contribution to the Boston results, earning 44th place. A points score of 102 gave the Boston girls ninth position out of the 12 competing regional qualifiers.

Week ending Sunday November 13:

More than 200 runners ran in last Sunday’s five-mile road race and junior events at the Princess Royal Sports Arena, Boston. In dry, crisp, late autumn weather the runners enjoyed favourable conditions for both the start and finish on the Tommy Clay track and out on the Wyberton Fen road circuit. A total of 168 contestants finished the main five-mile race which started straight after the one minute’s silence held in the stadium.

Mick Jagger (Lincoln Wellington AC) re-entered the stadium with a 30 metre lead over Stewart Gregory (Holme Pierrepont Running Club).Stewart (a vet 40) closed the gap during the lap around the track finishing just five seconds behind winner Mick who recorded exactly 26 minutes for the five-mile route. Third across the finishing line was under-20 Ashley Sabin (26.13) from Charnwood AC who overtook the host club’s Shaun North (26.20) on the run in. Fifth man home was former local runner Paul Dodsworth (27.14) now a member of Warrington AC with the second vet 40 man Craig Sabin of Huncote Harriers (27.29) in sixth place.

Winner of the under-17 men’s category in 19th place overall was Gold Top James Munn who recorded 29 minutes 49 seconds. Boston’s Paul Green (30.08) finished in 26th place with team-mate Paul Higham (30.19) 27th.

Under-17 Chris Cooper crossed the line in 34th position recording 31.05 to claim second place in his age category.

Returning to competition for BADAC Owen Msimango finished 39th (32.01) with two vet 50 runners Chris Brown 42nd (32.09) and Eddie Enright 52nd (33.10) the next Gold Tops to finish.Two under-20 runners were in close contention with David Walker (33.41) just pipping Stephanie Fleming (33.49) for 55th place and Steve Hubbard was 58th in a time of 34.00.

Sharon Gallichan was third in the female veteran 35 category in 75th position (35.58) and Jodie Favell was third in the senior womens section recording (37.50) in 87th place. A further two places behind was female vet. Charlie Donald (38.00) and Charles Tomlin (41.03) 110th with Bob Whyler (41.13) 113th. Female vet 45 Gill Sleaford (42.29) claimed 122nd position with Steve Barrell (42.36) one place back. Other Boston and District AC finishers were 130th Zoe Tristram (43.52); 131st Sinead McAllister (44.17); 139th Mark Bridges (45.02); 151st Sally Ann Platt (49.25); 152nd David Platt (49.46).

In the team competition Boston and District AC won the senior mens prize with Higham and Owen Msimango combining victory.

The Gold Tops also won the women’s veterans team award with Sharon Gallichan, Charlie Donald and Gill Sleaford counting for the award and James Munn, Chris Cooper and Mark Bridges gave BADAC a third team victory when they clinched the under-17 men’s team prize.

Lincoln AC Wellington won the men’s veteran team competition. Sponsored to raise funds for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal and winners of the public house challenge were representatives of the Royal Oak at Mareham le Fen. Their team counters were Jim Smith 43rd (32.18), Linda Carmichael 59th (34.13) and Simon Clarke 77th (36.36).

The junior events which opened the programme were also competitive races. Results: Under-7 girls, 1 Kirya Overton, 2 Olivia Gallichan (BADAC), 3 Jessica Ward (BADAC); under-7 boys, 1 Jack Mockridge (Old Leake Primary School), 2 Ben Upton (Old Leake PS), 3 Joshua Moore; under-9 girls, 1 Nicky Cragg (BADAC); under-9 boys: 1 Matthew Hoyland (BADAC), 2 Jacob Smith (Old Leak PS), 3 Jake Craft; under-11 girls, 1 Annatha Munn (BADAC), 2 Karlie Wright (BADAC), 3 Hannah Moore; under-11 boys, 1 Ben Mockridge (Old Leake PS), 2 Daniel Mockridge (Old Leake PS), 3 Patrick Busby; under-13 girls, 1 Chelsea Brockett (Grantham AC), 2 Louise Rutt (BADAC), 3 Lauren Hook; under-13 boys, 1 Aidan McClure (BADAC), 2 Louise Rutt (BADAC), 3 Lauren Hook; under-13 boys, 1 Aidan McClure (BADAC), 2 Jeremy Baily (BADAC), 3 Jack Bosworth (BADAC); under-15 girls, 1 Danielle Ballum (BADAC), 2 Charlotte Inns; under-15 boys, 1 David Hill, 2 Jake Brittain, 3 Stephen Brockett (Grantham).

Week ending Sunday November 6:

The second of this season’s North Midlands Cross-Country League matches proved a testing time for competitors racing around the course at Shipley Country Park, Heanor in Derbyshire.

The park’s undulating terrain, created on the site of an old colliery spoil heap, was completely saturated following recent rains making the going particularly heavy. James Munn returned to form with a good seventh place in the under-17 men’s race. After his disappointing finish in the first match in the series James started in more restrained fashion and went on to produce a strong run over a tough course.

At senior level Shaun North also improved on his last North Midlands outing. Competing over three large demanding laps of Shipley Country Park Shaun set off behind the leaders on the first circuit and maintained good momentum on successive laps to secure 11th position.

In the senior women’s event Jodie Favell also had the satisfaction of improving on her finish place at Derby’s Markeaton Park event last month. Despite setting off a little too quickly on such a testing surface Jodie was determined to keep her rhythm and entered the finish funnel 15 places in advance of her Derby position.

Three under-15 boys finished in 12th team place with Mark Tebbs 29th, Aston Perrin 45th and Joshua Goodfellow a determined 46th.

The under-13 boys’ squad depleted on the day finished in ninth place to hold on to seventh league position after two events. Jeremy Baily was 27th, Aiden McClure 28th and Robin Perrin 37th. In only her second outing for Boston and District AC Danielle Ballam took on the tough challenge of the North Midlands League under-15 girls’ race.

It proved a steep learning curve for Danielle and she performed well at this level crossing the finish line in 44th place. Stuart Cragg recorded 1hour 19mins 0.4secs in the Worksop half marathon to finish in 31st place. There were 1,875 finishers in the event and Charlie Donald (2hrs 4mins 3secs) and Eddie Enright (2hrs 4mins 04secs) were in 1,474th and 1,475th position respectively.

The annual five-mile Poppy Run will be held on Sunday starting at the Princess Royal Sports Arena at 11am with entries already in excess of 100 runners for the main event. There is good support for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. The junior races open the programme starting at 10am.

Boston High School junior girls’ cross-country team travel to Derby on Saturday for the regional finals of the English Schools AA Cup. Competition will be against 11 other Year 7 and 8 teams from Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and South Yorkshire. The BHS girls are contesting a place in the national final. The top three teams in the regional final progress to the 2005 ESAA Cup final at Leeds on December 3.