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Thirty one SNHAC runners took on the second 10k midweek league last Tuesday. A challenging course around country lanes to the south of Royston was made even more eventful by the threat from dark clouds although the worst of the rain held off until most were finished!

Leading the men to a 4th place finish was Adam Searle (8th in 37.50) with Aubrey Murray next (19th, 39.38) just one place ahead of Isaac Whitten (19th in 39.45). First woman home was Abigail Manson (10th in 46.12). She was followed home by Rebecca Pickard (25th, 49.17) and then Amelie Hobbs (50.22 for 30th).

Overall, the team came 5th of the 10 teams. The next race is in Harlow next week and we will be hoping for another record turn out!

Up against two of the biggest Clubs in the East Region, the SNHAC/HAWCS composite team finished third behind Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers and City of Norwich at Sandy on Sunday, beating Bedford Lions and Harlow to maintain 12th place after three rounds.
Wins were hard to come by. U13 Elijah Ragoobar won the A string DT and Kyle Moffat the B JT. U15 Jake Avis won the A 300m and B 100m, while Alastair Gall Gray won the B LJ. U17 Archie Blyth Grimes, in his first competition for the Club, won the LJ, Zachary Czech won the HT and Hugo MacFarlane Cushing the B TJ.
U15s Ellie Picton and Scarlett Victory won the A and B string 75H with Scarlett winning the B HJ, Karolina Wolowicz won the B 800m and Skye Barnet the B DT. Competing in the U17 age group, Sarena So and Hannah Cook won the A and B 1500m, Esme Searle the B 800m and TJ.
There were lots of personal best performances in all age groups and the athletes competing in Club colours for the first time produced excellent results.
Team Manager’s Libby and Jane Taylor were delight with the team performance and impressed with the number of athletes who volunteered to fill gaps, stepped up an age group or took on an unfamiliar event when a gap appeared.
Full results are on the website.
The last round is on the 21st July at Chelmsford. Team Managers Melissa Doran and Libby Taylor would like to see a full team to ensure a place in the Plate final on 8th September.

Instead of a trip to the beach 16 SNHAC/HAWCS athletes and 6 Officials made the trip to Kings Park Bournemouth for the second Youth Development League Match of the season. Thanks must go to Jane and Aimee Taylor who made the round trip from Nottingham, Phil and Julie Laws who broke into their holiday, along with Sally Stevens and Sarah Berry for providing the Officials required for the match. The Club received at 20 point deduction for not having a L2 Field Official (Norma tested positive for Covid Saturday morning and was unable to travel), so instead of 48 points the team only received 28 for Officials.
The 17 athletes produced some great performances/PBs and filled as many events as possible to gain points.
U17’s Esme Searle and Aubrey Murray won the steeplechase and Ben Lewis TJ, U20’s Aimie Taylor won the A PV, HJ and B string TJ, Daniel Kanu HJ and Jamie Timms A JT and B LJ.
Also competing were Kamila Adebayo, Laurena Dawkins, Megan Thomas, Georgia Sutcliffe, Ruby Cheshire, Maisie Newton, Tallulah Taylor, Abigail Manson, Hugo MacFarlane Cushing and Edward Turner.
Team Manager Tallulah Taylor was delighted by the team spirit and would like to see all the Club’s U17 and U20 athletes in action at the last YDL of the season on the 30th June at Perivale.
Full results are on the Club website.

A record 35 club members took part in the first 10k midweek league road race on Wednesday evening. For the men Chris Westcott (37.16) led the way, coming 8th with Adam Seale one place behind in a time of 37.29. Aubrey Murray, making his league debut, was next home in 38.59.

Abigail Manson was SNHAC's first woman home in 12th place (44.46), folllowed by Rebecca Pickard in 27th (47.21). Caitlin Evans was 64th in 54.17.

The team finished 5th out of the 10 teams in the division and are looking forward to race 2 at Royston on Tuesday 4th June.

The full results for all 35 SNHAC runners can ne found on the results page.

Up against Peterborough & Nene Valley, Harlow, Cambridge & Coleridge, Huntingdonshire A.C. and Ryston Runners at Stevenage, the SNHAC/HAWCS composite team won the match by 23 points from Peterborough. This was Huntingdonshire A.C’s home match as their pole vault and hammer cage needed repair.

There was a great team spirit, athletes stepped in to fill gaps and a good shift was put in by the U17s and Vets, to support the Seniors, which got good points. It was pleasing to dominate the men’s sprints, women’s hurdles and pole vault. Nile Odejimi-Riley and Bobby Pitman won the A 100 11.2 and 200m 23.0 respectively. The B strings were won by Bobby Pitman 11.6 and Hugo MacFarlane-Cushing 23.4. Shannon Rapacchi and Sandra Reed won the A and B 110H and Fran Hart and Sandra Reed won the A and B 400H. Shannon Rapacchi and Aimee Taylor won the A and B pole vault, both clearing 3m30. Tommy Cropley won the 800m in a new PB of 1.58.7, Ed Laws the 400H 55.3, Henry Bennet the JT 42m94, Annabel Howells the 400m 57.8 and Shannon Rapacchi the TJ 10m04. There were B string wins for Hugo MacFarlane-Cushing in his first TJ 11m46 and Aimee Taylor in the HJ 1m40.

The next match is the Club’s home match on the 15th June.