Sportshall Athletics – Round 2

Sunday 25th November `01 brought us round 2 of the North West Sportshall athletics League.  For this round we went to Norton Priory, Runcorn and once again this was well attended by all teams and their supporters.

 

Girls  The under 11`s, what a performance from all the team, an overall win by a clear 25 points, says it all.  Two great performances from Samantha Mallon and Abbie Bennett, taking wins in 4 lap A & B respectively, with anther win for Samantha in 1k chest push and a 2nd in Standing Long Jump, plus another win for Abbie in the SLJ, these two showed to be the best under 11 performers of the day, and joining them in the relay team were, Jessica Moore and Melanie Brown, to win by 6 second’s.  Overall there was only two event that the under 11`s didn’t win, but they did come 2nd

The under 13`s also showed their strength, winning overall by 19 points, once again as in round 1, Anna Walsh and Faye Rodger took maximum points in their events, both competing in, 2 lap, Vertical Jump and SLJ, plus the relay along with Ashley Helsby and Megan Jones, the relay team won by a 4 second lead.  Faye had a plan and it worked !!!  Hannah McManus took a win in the A string 6 lap, along with a B string win for Ashley Helsby, with an excellent last minute stand in run.

Under 15`s again as with the younger girls, a strong performance from the team as a whole, unfortunately missing 1st place by only 1 point.  Two wins for Katie Thompson in VJ and Standing Triple Jump brought maximum points in the A string and B string wins in the same events from Leanne Fairhurst.  Shot Putt also gave us two wins from Sarah Devoy in A string and Sportshall new comer Lucy Foster in B string.

Boys  Under 11`s finished in equal 1st place with Wirral, both 26 points ahead of 2nd place.  Yet again Tony Corrigan was unbeaten in his events of 2 lap, SLJ and S Tr J.  Nicholas Romano took the win for 1k chest push.  The relay team of Tony, Nicholas, Ashleigh Johnson and Johnathan McIntyre won the race by 4 seconds.

Under 13`s took 2nd place behind Hulme by 7 points, best performer and the only 1st place was for Ross Hayhurst in Shot Putt with a throw of 11.55m.  The relay team of Callum Forbes, Steven Lewis, Matthew Owens and Kieron Rowan, could only take 2nd place, 3 seconds behind, you guessed it Hulme Boys.  The Under 15`s to finished in 2nd place, 15 points behind Hulme.  Two wins for Shot Putt A & B for Wade Reid and William Woods, completing the team line up were, John Dillon, Adam McGlory and Adam Cranfield.

 

League positions now stand at all 3 girls teams in 2nd place, under 11 boys in 2nd, under 13 boys in 5th and under 15 boys in 6th place.

Half way threw the competition and all league placings are good and if we can maintain them or even improve on them, then the finals are guaranteed.

 

Lets Keep Winning.

Gill Limbert (Team Manager)

 

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