The Harriers sampled the spring sunshine at the Richmond Park Stadium, Ashton under Lyne where they were involved in the first round match of the Cheshire Track and Field League, 2009. Though not having a great turnout for this first outing of the outdoor season, those who were there put in some fine performances, some of which were of AAA's graded standards. It was also the first competition for some the girls at an upper age group, under 11s now under 13's and under 13's now under 15's.
Matthew Evans competed in the senior mens competition, taking the 5th A points in the 100m sprint in 14.1s and finishing in 3rd A place in the 800m, 3m.10.6s
Annabel Kitchen, Georgia Massey, Charlotte King and Jenny Pyatt were the points scorers in the under 11 girls competition, Annabel winning the A 75m sprint in 11.4s, Georgia ran 12.6s for a 4th B place, Jenny's 12.5s took the 3rd C points and Charlotte completed the scoring in this event with a 4th D in 14.7s. In the 800m races, it was the same order of results, Annabel 2nd A in 2m.02.2s, Georgia a splendid 1st B in 2m.06.3s, Jenny 3rd C in 2m.15.7s and Charlotte 3rd D in 2m.33.8s Long jumpers Annabel and Georgia were in great form, Annabel's 3.71m taking the 1st A points and Georgia's best of 3.20m won the 2nd B points. Jenny threw 14.60m in the soft javelin taking the 1st A points and Charlotte's 5.10m was the 4th B points winning throw. In the 4 x 100m relay the quartet were 2nd in 68.6s.
The under 13 girls were represented by Katy Morgan, Kate Merrill, Sally Hulse, Emily Ross, Emily Pearson, Martha Cottrell and Jess Wright. Martha got the first points on the scoresheet with a 3rd A place in the 100m sprint, 14.8s, a grade 4 standard, Emily Pearson went one better with a 1st B scoring grade 3 in 14.4s, Jess ran a grade 4 14.8s for the 2nd C points and Emily Ross took the 3rd D in 16.1s. Jess won the 800m 2nd A points in 2m.36.9s, a grade 3 performance, Kate had a grade 4 time of 2m.44.6s taking the 1st B points, Katy ran a 2nd C finish in 3m.02.2s and Sally's 1st time effort in this event took the 3rd D in 3m.18.3s. In the long jump, Martha was the 2nd A points winner with a leap of 3.98m and Jess's 3.95m winning the 1st B points, both efforts earning a grade 3 standard award. Emily Pearson threw 10.90m in the discus for a 3rd A place. Martha, Kate, Jess and Emily Pearson were the winners of the 4 x 100m relay in 59.0s Emma Pyatt, Emma Scott, Amy Pearson and Amy Wright took on the task of scoring in the under 15 girls competition, Amy Pearson taking a 3rd A grade 4 place in the 100m in 14.8s, Emma Scott was 3rd B in 14.2s and Emma Pyatt 3rd C in 15.0s. Emma Pyatt, more at ease in the 1500m event had a fine run taking the 3rd A points in 5m.20.4s, a grade 4 performance. Amy Wright cleared 1.30m in the high jump which won the 4th A points, but had a grade 4 result in the shot putt with a best of 6.92m. Emma Scott's throw of 5.60m was good for the 3rd B points.
Tom Merrill was the sole competitor for the Harriers in the under 11 boys events and started well with a 5th place in the 75m sprint in 12.4s. In the 600m he was in 7th place in 2m.11.6s and scored the 4th A points in the javelin with a throw of 9.10m.
Ben Sutcliffe and brothers Jorge and Jack Peacock were the under 13 boys in the competition and in the 200m races each had a 4th place finish, Ben running 30.9s in the A race, Jack ran 33.6s in the B race and Jorge completed the scoring with a 40.1s in the C race. Ben and Jack took the 3rd A and 3rd B points in the high jump Ben cleared 1.20m and Jack 1.10m. Jorge won the 3rd A place points in the shot putt with a best of 4.11m. David Tomalin had two personal best performances in the under 17 mens competition, running a time of 26.9s in the 200m sprint, taking the 5th A points and had a splendid 2nd A result in the triple jump with 10.44m
The next competition for the Harriers is a re-arranged 1st round match of the National Young Athletes League which will be staged at the Deeside Stadium, Connahs Quay, Sunday 3rd May, 11.30pm start.
