Round Two of the Essex League, held on the Hylands Park, Chelmsford course, brought more club success and excellent turn outs. There were two team successes and an individual win.
The U15 Boys continued to dominate their age group as Steve MacLachlan again led from the front for another dominant win, with team mate Grant Twist impressing in 3rd place. Daniel Winters gave excellent backing in 8th, closely followed by the improving Simon Brown in 11th. The team won with 23pts, followed by Orion in 2nd with 60pts. Havering had a further 12 finishers with impressive performances from Robbie Kidd in 17th place and Ben Warden in 21st.
The U13 Girls also came out on top in their competition, edging out Basildon for the top spot. It was all down to team work as Sidnie Sales, Eleanor Bounds and Emma McAuliffe finished fifth, sixth and seventh with newcomer Shannon Sullivan’s fantastic ninth place finish ensuring the team prize. Six other girls took part in an encouraging display.
The U17
Men and U15 Girls both
turned in excellent team performance to finish 2nd.
Bradley Tungatt again led the U17M team home in an excellent 6th
place, followed by Matt Watkins in 11th, ably supported by Scott Tungatt
in 15th and Robert Jones in 16th as the quartet finished behind
Colchester and in front of the strong Basildon squad. There was again good running again from the U15 girls and Georgie Lou Sales
looked strong in 5th place, and was well supported by the rest of the team
(Emma Fox, Louisa Wood, and Georgia Davies scoring and Rachel Kerr also
finishing) to secure runners up spot in the team event.
The U13 boys found the going tough despite several excellent performances. Jamie Buckley-Stanton improved over his previous race to finish an excellent 4th, followed by Michael Jones with another good run in 8th. Chris Sullivan improved to come home in 14th and the team was closed by Luke Overton in 33rd. The team was 4th with 58 pts.
There was another great turnout by the senior men, who even without three of their previous first four runners through injury managed to have twelve finishers. The team was led home by Rob Warner who bettered his last outing to come home in 17th. Peter Coates was next home in 31st followed by Salvator Mutijirnar in his first cross country for the club in 40th. The rest of the scoring team was made up of three athletes coming home in close order, Rob Dickenson 46th, Tony Collins 47th and it was great to see Paul Berret running for us again in 51st place.
David Nefs in his first senior race was next home in 68th followed by two vets representing us for the first time Graham Fester and Neil Bearwish in 75th and 92nd respectively. Gary Howard 104th, Martin McVeigh 126th and Kevin White 139th completed the slightly unclean dozen.
The senior women finished in sixth place thanks to solid performances by Denise Harris in 15th, an improved Emma Wallace in 21st, a promising debut by Kym Sewell (34th) just ahead of Lesley Felton in 35th.
