Gloucester Cross Country League

Newbold Comyn, Leamington Spa

Saturday 28th March 2009

B&R scoop medals in the final XC race of the season

Above: Yasmine celebrates the women's team moving in to the medals & retrieving her shoe.

Above: Sally Hogan led for much of her race and although had to settle for 3rd on the day won overall gold.

There was a smaller than usual turnout for the last league race that had been postponed from February due to bad weather. B&R made full use of the opportunity and by fielding enough runners to score in both senior races, our men’s and women’s teams moved up to grab medals. In fact the senior men’s team actually won the team event on the day with just 115 points. There were also fine individual performances from our youngsters as many of them achieved their highest finish of the year. Particular mention should go to Sally Hogan who won the gold medal in the U15 Girls competition (after finishing 3rd in probably the most competitive race of the day)  and Sean Bowden who had a terrific run to win the Under 17 men’s  race (and well done for pencilling in B&R after they listed him as Leamington in the results). The under 11 Boys won their team event and would surely have won team and individual medals if they could have run in more of the fixtures – they show great promise for next year.

Above: Sean opened up a commanding gap on the last lap of the U17 men's race.

Above: Charlotte and Ann scored in both the senior and veteran women's competitions.

Things had looked bad for B&R’s veteran women’s team who had hoped to overtake Bath A.C. to move in to the medals when they only had Ann and Charlotte with the start approaching. Step forward super sub Yasmine who hadn’t intended to race having run 5 miles in the morning and carrying an injury from crash landings in pole vault training the night before. But she stepped into the breach to make up the scoring team and completed the 2 lap race in spite of losing a shoe half way round the first lap! (What is it about that family and shoes?)

B&R Results at Leamington:

Under 11 Girls

11 Clare Neylon 14.05

Under 11 Boys

5 Liam Bowden 12.09

6 Tom Neylon 12.17

7 Ben Lanckham 12.36

1st team.

Under 13 Girls

10 Zoe Scoltock 16.35

Under 13 Boys

9 Lewis Anderson 14.52

Under 15 Girls

3 Sally Hogan 17.18

Under 15 Boys

5 Chris Warren Time?

Under 17 Men

1 Sean Bowden 14.38

Women’s Race

11 Tamara Ball 35.32

17 Charlotte Ball 36.27

18 Ann Stuart 36.37

25 Yasmine Al-Daftary 39.33

3 rd senior women’s team

3 rd veteran women’s team

Above: Calvin and Simon well to the fore at the start of the senior men's race.

Above: Mike  completed the scoring for our veteran men's team to clinch team bronze.

Men’s Race

5 Kevin Lanckham 40.38

7 Calvin Scoltock 40.50

10 Simon Lanckham 41.03

21 Andrew Freeman 43.07

29 Dave Daniel 44.54

33 Gavin Moorhead 45.35

36 Phil Anderson 46.36

56 Mike Neylon Time?

1st senior men’s team

4th veteran men’s team

Above: Welcome back to cross country Gavin!

Above: Andy looks like he's practising for the coming track and field season.

In the overall league, B&R athletes won the following medals:

3rd U11 Boys team

2nd junior man Simon Lanckham

2nd MV40 Kevin Lanckham

2nd MV50 David Daniel

2nd Senior Men’s Team

3rd Veteran Men’s Team

1st U15 Girl Sally Hogan

3rd FV35 Melanie Hepke

3rd FV40 Jeanette Malin

3rd Senior Women’s Team

2nd Veteran Women’s Team

Above: Dave finds the deepest part of the water but powered on to silver in his age group.

Click for full race and league results on Gloucester league website (pdf)

(PA)