Junior club cross-country – 22 December 2018

Dec 23, 2018

The second race in the Central Athletic Club’s 2018-19 Cross-Country Series was held in unseasonably bright sunshine, on Saturday 22 December in the Laigh Hills Park, Dunblane. A testing course of some 1.8 kilometres saw a field of 53 runners completing the challenge.

Connor Bell continues to impress and here controlled the race to finish as overall winner in 6 minutes 40 seconds and lead home more fine runs in his Under-13 age group from Joshua Kennedy (7:19), Owen Eckersley (7:44), Cameron Darnborough (8:19) and Ethan Duncan (8:23). It was also good to see Cian McDonnell (8:37), Josh Whitby (9:14), Freddie Mills (9:59) and Scott Hill (10:19) all equal to the test.

Under-15 runner Ryan McGuire looked in good form as he led home his age group with a 6:45 clocking with further fine efforts from Euan Docherty (7:02), Ross Lawrie (7:58), Jamie Goddard (8:11) and Lloyd Raymond (8:17). Oliver Holden was the only Under-17 Boy on show and here he finished with a creditable 7:17 effort.

The Under-11 Boys again proved to be the largest group and here it was Ray Taylor who led his peers home in an impressive 7:34 ahead of other classy performances from Euan Haythorne (8:03), Rory Gunn (8:04), Lewis Cook (8:29), Fergus Young (8:33), Jamie Connor (8:42), Callum Harvey (8:44), Logan Bell (8:45), Joel Gillan (8:48) and Noah Kennedy (8:51). JJ McIntyre (9:03) led home a string of further fine efforts from Scott MacMillan (9:07), Magnus Carrie (9:13), Sandy Bateman (9:14), Conall Paterson (9:25), Cameron Pollock (9:34) and Matthew Inman (10:53). AJ MacMillan was the sole Under-9 Boy to pick-up the challenge finishing in a highly respectable 9 minutes 12 seconds.

Summer MacLean was the top female competitor producing a tasty 7 minutes 46 seconds in the Under-15 Girls category with Amy Cully (7:59) in hot pursuit. Heather Riach (8:35) and Ellen Montgomery (9:14) also finished with commendable performances. Leona Melville proved the strongest of the Under-13 Gils with a fine effort of exactly eight minutes leading in Leah Brown (8:38), Brogan MacMillan (8:47), Caitlin Bradwell (8:53), Scarlett Roy (9:10) and Isabel McGuire (10:00).

The Under-11 Girls proved to be a competitive age group with Niamh McKinlay prevailing in 8:02 from Leya Gibb’s 8:09 effort. Emma Anderson (9:10) was again to the fore leading in more fine runs from Fia Watkin (9:38), Sienna Shepherd (9:42), Connie Bateman (9:45) and Dara Clark (9:50). The Under-9 Girls were led home by Hannah Inman’s strong 10:01 effort while Eilidh Connor (11:10) and Alexandra Montgomery (11:36) should both be more than satisfied with their runs.

Thanks are again due to Derek Easton, Raymond Milne, David Eckersley, Sean Scott and the small army of helpers who provided another excellent event on behalf of Central Athletic Club.

Full results are available to download as a spreadsheet.