Page 19 - BBHAC Winter 2017-18 Gazette

Athletics Report 19

Young Athletes Relay Event

2017/18
SEAA road Relays Crystal We were one U13 boy short of All age groups U13, U15 and
Palace September 24th 20177 making a full B team but this U17 boys and girls, each com-
didn’t stop the three boys all plete a tough 3.8k lap in teams
Crystal Palace National Sports posting quality runs led out of three.
Centre played host to this by Oliver Robertson, passing
winters South of England road to Oles Chaban and finally to This year Blackheath and Brom-
relays and with the former icon- Arthur Starvis making his road ley U15 girls went one better
ic stadium looking tired and run relay debut. than last year’s silver, totally
down, it was unfortunate that dominating their race from start
the poor results service seemed The U15 boys were able to put to finish. Ava White led off in
to match. out one complete team and first style recording the 3rd fastest
off was Tom Brash who went off time overall, handing over to
Nearly a week later and the full hard passing to Sam Reardon Naomi Toft, running the 5th
results are still not available who ran the quickest BB leg. quickest leg and final passing
but what we do know is that This left Freddy Georgiou to to Morgan Squibb to bring the
BBHAC youngsters turned out power around the 3K course team home for a superb gold.
in great numbers and produced before handing to Alex Sibley A great team effort and a well
some fine results. on leg 4 who brought the team deserved victory. The U15g B
home in 25th place. team also ran brilliantly and
The U15 girls dominated their the trio of Annie Thomas, Ellie
age group fielding six full teams The U17 boys had six running, Dolby and Zakia Mossi were
with the A team winning out making up one and half teams. well worthy of a fantastic 6th
right, the B team coming a The A team had Peter Guy on place and 1st B team home, by
fantastic 3rd, the C team 13th, leg 1 passing to Callum Myatt a long way. The U15 girls are by
D team 30th, E team 36th and on 2. A slight mishap on the far our largest group and we had
the F team 41st, Great numbers. change over saw Ben Gardiner 14 girls running, making up 4
The U17girls were equally add a few seconds to his time full teams and one incomplete
impressive winning, while the but he got around well setting team.
B team came 9th. The U13 girls Matt Francis up nicely for a
had four teams racing and the A strong run on leg 4 running the BBHAC U17girls also com-
team finished 12th, the B team fastest BB 4.5k leg and crossing bined well to secure a fabulous
30th, C team 33rd and the D the line in a fine 12th. Charlie bronze after three very strong
team 44th. Andrews had a great leg leading legs from Sophie Hoare on 1,
out our B team and passed over Eloise O’Shaughnessy on 2 and
The boys numbers weren’t as to debutant Carlos Ohler who Yasmin Marghini bringing the
large but the U13 boys led the had an equally good run. team home on 3rd leg.
attack and were a creditable 4th
place behind three very strong National Road Relays 7th The U13 boys had two complete
southern teams. With the boys October 2017 teams and the A team ran su-
teams made up of 4 runners all On a lovely autumn day, Sutton perb legs culminating in a solid
running 3k it was great to see Park, Birmingham again 10th place of the 67 complete
only 7 seconds separated the BB hosted the National road relay teams racing. George Shaw, in
boys times. Max Gregson led off championships and once again his first National led off well
in style, handing over to Jamie BBHAC young athletes turned handing to Ben Campbell who
Sears who kept up the pace hand- up in great numbers and were ran a strong leg and passed
ing to George Shaw who ran BB’s rewarded with some great team over to young Jamie Sears who
quickest leg before Ben Campbell and individual results. powered his way around the
ran well bringing the team home undulating course crossing the
in 4th, just outside the medals. line in 10th. The U13boys B