Wessex League Race 2  – 27 November – Salisbury 

Our best ever XC results (yet). Scooter reports.

After the first Wessex League at Canford (where we had a home advantage), Wimborne AC took on the next challenge, at Salisbury. Everyone ran excellently and we achieved our best results in any cross-county league yet! We were the top club in the junior races.

To start the day we had the under-17 men, senior women and senior men racing together. In the under-17 men we had an outstanding result, Callum Kennedy managed to gain 1^st place with a time of 18:03. Jack Guy came in finishing 6^th!  In the under-17s you only need to have two runners to register a team score – Callum and Jack took the team prize by the narrowest of margins from Bournemouth AC. Moving on to the senior women which involved Lynn Hutchings and Paula Hine who both had great runs, Lynn coming in 4^th and Paula 8^th.  Loads of senior men came along and their results made Wimborne 3^rd team on the day. This really put Wimborne on a high. Here are the results regarding Wimborne:

Under-17 Men (8 finishers) (1st team)

1 – Callum Kennedy – 18:03
6 – Jack Guy – 21:18

Senior Women (11 finishers)

4 – Lynn Hutchings – 22:53
8 – Paula Hine – 28:40

Senior Men (37 finishers) (Wimborne 3rd team)

10 – Baz Barry – 29:29
11 – Mark Copeland – 29:34
17 – Iain Donnelly – 30:56
18 – John Hutchings – 31:20
20 – Rich House – 31:58
21 – Ian Kennedy – 32:07
23 – Graham Whiffen – 32:33
26 – Andy Olden – 33:28
28 – Gerry Hutchings – 33:32
30 – Simon Bourne – 34:16
33 – Pete Kingswell-Farr – 35:33

Straight after that race the under-11s were ready to run. Here we had Max Meadwell rocketing into 5^th place, and Freddie Williams who came in at 16^th,  Bethanie and Isabelle Kingswell-Farr taking  46^th and 48^th. Every one of our under-11s recorded their highest-ever finishing positions.

Under-11s (52 finishers) – 7th team

5 – Max Meadwell – 6:39
16 – Freddie Williams – 6:59
46 – Bethanie Kingswell-Farr – 8:18
48 – Isabelle Kingswell-Farr – 8:28

Our under-13s have been running superbly this season, both the boys and girls achieved 1^st place teams at Salisbury. We had three girl runners from Wimborne: Grace Copeland 2^nd with a time of 11.57, Maddie Williams 4^th and Pippa Hine 8^th. Pier Copeland achieved first place for the boys with a time of 11.03 and then just 22 seconds later another Wimborne runner came in finishing second place (Tom Bourne). Ryan Long managed 5^th place (his best yet) giving Wimborne a clear team victory.

Maddie Williams – still with plenty to do

Under-13 Girls (12 finishers) – 1st team

2 – Grace Copeland – 11:57
4 – Maddie Williams – 13:36
8 – Pippa Hine – 14:40

Under-13 Boys (9 finishers) – 1st team

1 – Piers Copeland – 11:03
2 – Tom Bourne – 11:25
5 – Ryan Long – 12:48

The last, but not least, race was the under 15s. Both our girls and boys did exceptionally well, the girls achieving 1^st in the teams.  Sharon Hutchings and Abbie Hine took 1^st and 2^nd place followed by Chloe Morris who came 5^th. Charlotte Bourne wasn’t far from Chloe and came in 7^th place with Ella Hearne coming in soon after Charlotte and then me.  For the under-15 boys, as there wasn’t a full team, it was all down to Ryan Walbridge and Jordan Symington who just like everyone else went out there with a bang. Ryan achieved 1^st with Jordan not far behind on 3^rd place. Overall, everybody did a great job out there. Bring on the next Wessex league race, quite a long wait – the mighty Ham Hill on 22 January – see you there.

 

A superb performance from Jordan – was this his best XC race yet?

Under-15 Girls (13 finishers) – 1st team

1 – Sharon Hutchings – 15:11
2 – Abbie Hine – 15:27
5 – Chloe Morris – 16:05
7 – Charlotte Bourne – 16:26
8 – Ella Hearne – 16:29
13 – Rebecca Skeats – 19:07

Under-15 Boys (7 finishers)

1 – Ryan Walbridge – 12:57
3 – Jordan Symington – 13:38

Becca ‘Scooter’ Skeats

Full results for the Wessex League will be found at

www.wessexleague.com