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Cheshire Track and Field League

Sam Wilson in the shotput

Sam Wilson competes in the under-13 girl's shotput

The third round of the Cheshire Track and Field League at Salford turned out to be a run-off between the top three teams. In the under-11's team event the Harriers put up a great display but had to settle for a very close and tight third spot on the day behind Macclesfield and Salford Mets.

Again the 600 metres was the race to watch with a great run in the boys' race from Thomas Hebden to win the 'A' race with a time of 1.55.5 followed up by Max Cole in a time of 1.58.6.

The open meeting again produced a number of personal bests with sisters Leah and Sarah Kay running in the 3,000 metres both setting good performances with Leah winning in a time of 10.47.0, just outside the top ten best under-15 girls' performances in the country and followed by Sarah in a time of 12.09.

Meanwhile the sprinters were not to be out done, in the under-15 girls' 200 metres Georgina Wilkins set a personal best of 29.9 to finish second, also dad Neil set a personal best in the shotput with 8.86 metres, as in the last match at Wirral.

Again a small number of Harriers had a great day out with everyone giving there all, just a bit disappointing that other groups from the club do not support these type of leagues, other club make the effort to turn-up with a full teams, so why cannot the Harriers do this?

Inter Club Plate final at Cudworth

An under-strength track and field team were competing in the final of the Inter Club Plate competition last Sunday at Cudworth.

Unfortunately we finished in 6th and last place, but had been lucky to make the final!

Still there were some noteworthy performances from the team. The first came from Bashir Hussain who won the 10,000 metres by almost 2 minutes in 32.20. This race was run as a combined Cup and Plate match, and doubled as the North of England 10k championships. Bashir placed 3rd overall in this competition, and was awarded the bronze medal for his efforts.

Scott Boothby made an impressive debut in the 400 metre hurdles, demonstrating both speed and good technique, he placed 3rd in 61.67 seconds. Hannah Raines also performed well in the same event recording a personal best of 76.81 in 3rd place.

Vicki Robinson was agonisingly close to breaking the 60 second barrier again in the 400 metre flat race, but was happy to take victory by almost 3 seconds in 60.09 secs. Katie Deutsch was also victorious in the triple jump, winning by over 60cm in 10.59 metres.

Katie and Vicki then joined up with Charlie Hesketh and Rachel Boothby in the 4 x 100 metre relay to produce the fastest relay time of the season by over a second with 51.64 secs, unfortunately the Barnsley quartet proved too strong for them and they had to be content with 2nd place.

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