Young Harriers rise to the challenge

“There was a fantastic all round team effort and it was extremely difficult to pick out individual performances ,” said Team Manager Linda Tullett, . “ I was so proud of every athlete who took part and knew they all gave 100 per cent which was terrifically important as we won by 2.5 points so every performance mattered greatly.” Full results are below: Girls 75m A Voke Ogueh 5th= 10.9 150m A Mollie Beale 6th 22.0 B Voke Ogueh 3rd 22.9 70mH A Mollie Beale 3rd 12.9 1000m A Jessica Courtney 3rd 3:31.4 Shot A Jessica Hurst 6th 5m15 B Karen Best 6th 4m19 Discus A Jessica Hurst 6th 11m90 B Karen Best 6th 10m70 4 x 100m A Voke, Mollie, Jess C, Karen 7th 60.8 Boys 75m A Bradley Frankland 7th 11.3 B Max Whelan 5th 12.0 150m A Harry Rienecker-Found 8th 24.1 B Bradley Frankland 6th 23.7 600m A Thomas Peberdy 6th 1:57.8 B Scott Ridley 5th 2:08.8 1000m A Joseph Martin 7th 3:30.7 B Keelan Karki 6th 3:59.4 75mH A Daniel Holbrook 8th 16.1 B Frank Chamberlain 6th 17.7 High Jump A Harry Rienecker-Found 4th 1m40 B Daniel Holbrook 1st 1m30 Long Jump A Max Whelan 9th 3m43 B Ryan Moss 3rd 3m29 Shot A Dean Bryant 7th 5m64 B Finn McKay 4th 4m74 Discus A Finn McKay 6th 14m93 B Dean Bryant 2nd 12m64 Javelin A Ryan Moss 7th 14m52 4 x 100m A Max, Bradley, Harry, Thomas 8th 62.1 B Scott, Jake, Joseph, Daniel 4th 62.9 Non Scoring 75m Jake Ridley 3rd 11.6 600m Jake Ridley 8th 2:13.8 Kearly White 9th 2:16.1 Owen Mills 10th 2:19.6 Long Jump Kearly White 10th 2m79 4 x 100m Kearly, Keelan, 7th (race 1) 69.6 Darcey Frankland, Jazzy White Owen, Finn, Dean, Frank 4th (race 2) 68.3 MATCH RESULT 1st Brighton & Hove City AC 374 points – Overall Winners 2nd Crawley AC 365 3rd Chichester AC 303.5 4th Horsham Blue Star Harriers 277 5th Lewes AC 197.5 6th HAYWARDS HEATH HARRIERS 171.5 – Plate Winners 7th Worthing & District AC 169 8th Phoenix AC 125.5 9th East Grinstead AC 96 10th Eastbourne AC 33 Hastings AC 0 Meanwhile at the Southern Counties Veterans Final, a joint Haywards Heath Harriers and Lewes team represented the Sussex League at Ashford on Sunday. The team finished a creditable 6th having faced some very strong London teams. Ben Radcliffe took 2nd in the 100m 13.22 and Paul Cousins V50 was 3rd on the 3000m 4.49:63. V35 Ben Radcliffe: 100m 2nd 13.22 HJ 5th 1.40 LJ 3rd 5.47 TJ 3rd 10.91 V50 Mark McLoughlin 400m 4th 63.92 800m 2nd 2:15.69 1500m 3rd 4:50.99 V50 Paul Cousins 1500m 7th 4:49.63 9 (in the V35 race) 3000m 2nd 10:11.94 V50 Mike Bale SP 6th 7.76 DT 5th 29.95 HT 4th 30.22 JT 7th 21.59 V60 John Morgan 400m 7th 78.88 1500m 7th 6:18.84 HJ 5th 1.20 The Fittleworth 5 took place this weekend hosted by the Fittleworth Flyers part of the West Sussex Fun Run League. The senior five mile run is a multi-terrain course of scenic country lanes and woodland bridle paths and a junior 0.8 mile course predominantly through off-road paths. Both containing some challenging hills and undulations on this warm Sunday morning. In the junior race talented young Harrier Neave Scott took 2nd place with 6.22 just 4 seconds behind the winner. 8 year old Meadow Davies completed in a pleasing 7.52 and took 12th place. Jemimah Davies completed in 11.11 at the tender age of 3. Mark Davies was first Harrier and took 18th Place in this competitive senior race with 33.43, Barry Tullett took 26th 34.26, Phil Scott’s first race saw a great performance taking 65th 37.21, Mark Armitage 39.17, Michelle Pearce 43.56, 57.10 for Michelle Holdstock and Jenny Denyer with 59.10 . A large field of runners competing in the sunshine of 276 runners. At the Haywards Heath Parkrun at Clair Park, there where PB’s galore and a great first win for Richard Sutor 19.33 and PB. Pipping Steve Dallman 19.34 PB, 5th was Andrew Biggs 20.18 PB , 9th Dominic Roberjot 21.41 PB , 20th Mike Essex PB with 23.24 and young Edward Biggs first run was a positive 24.28. Julie Essex 27.08 for new PB and young Josh Essex PB 29.07. Tilagte Parkrun PB’s for Michelle Pearce 25.29, Linda Tullett 28.11 and Irene Parsley 30.28. At Hove Parkrun, Harrier Kat Barrett shaved off a massive 49 seconds to obtain 21.30 for her new 5k best time. The Harriers have an Ironman amongst them congratulations to Phil Payne for producing a fantasic performance at the Austria half Ironman 70.3 where he completed the event in 5 hours 50. This is on top of a great year of fine performances in the Rome Marathon, Brighton Marathon and Mid Sussex Marathon Weekend.