This was our first ever NEYDL fixture and a big thanks to Emily Laws, Gary Curtis, and the whole Birtley team for making this a smooth introduction to the League for us all. A massive congratulations to the Birtley /TBH team, because after a hard day of athletics, we ended up winning the fixture!!
Our 12 athletes covered nearly 40 events in total and I’ll try to cover every one in the race report, mentioning any PBs that I know about and club records that get broken or claimed just to try to give you the flavour of the day. This was pretty much the running order of the day :-
U15 Girls Long Jump
Ruby Colver – 3.55m 2nd place – PB
U13 800m
Anna Carr – 3:27.3 3rd place – New PB
Freddie Palmer – 2:38.2 3rd place – PB – Club Record (improving his own record)
Henry Pickett – 3:08.0 – New PB
U17 Girls Javelin
Anna Dorman 7.03m 2nd place – New PB – Club Record
U17 Long Jump
Hope Moir 3.43m 4th place – Club Record
U15 800m
Ruby Colver – 2:51.1 PB – Club Record
Caitlin Attley – 2:52.2 – New PB
Jake Moir – 2:37.3 2nd in B string
Luis Nichol – 2:49.4 – PB
U17 800m
Anna Dorman – 2:50.1 3rd place – PB – Club Record
Zak Kettle – 2:27.9 2nd in the B string – PB
U13 Long Jump
Alanah Perowne 2.61m 3rd in the B group 4th overall – New PB
U15 Boys 100m
David Carr – 14.7 2nd place – PB – Club Record
Luis Nichol – 15.0 – New PB
U13 100m
Alanah Perowne 17.2 3rd in the B string – New PB
Anna Carr – 20.0 New PB
Freddie Palmer – 15.8 1st in the B string – New PB
Henry Pickett – 18.7 – New PB
U13 Discus
Lucy Nichol – 7.00m 2nd in B string – New PB
Anna Carr – 7.07m 2nd in A string – New PB – Club Record
Freddie Palmer – 11.13m 1stin B string – New PB – Club Record
U17 Long Jump
Zak Kettle 4.02m 1st in B string – PB – Club Record
U17 Girls 1500m
Hope Moir 6:18.5 2nd in B string – PB – Club Record
U15 1500m
David Carr 5:11.7 2nd – PB
U15 Boys Long Jump
David Carr – 3.75m 2nd – New PB
U17 Girls discus
Hope Moir 14.43m 2nd – Club Record
U15 Boys discus
Jake Moir 16.7m 1st – PB – Club Record
U13 Boys Long Jump
Henry Pickett 2.19m – New PB
U15 Girls 200m
Ruby Colver 31.8 3rd in B string – New PB – Club Record
U15 Boys 300m
Jake Moir 49.8 2nd – New PB – Club Record
There was still everything to play for, as we knew we were leading at the time of the last announcement, but we had very few athletes in some of the later events, and the relays may have been crucial to secure the win.
For the 4 X 100 U13 girls relays, after some expert practice with a stick on the playing fields we decided on the running order. Niamh from Birtley agreed to go first, handing onto Anna Carr, who handed onto Lucy and finally Alanah bringing the team home in 3rd place.
Birtley closed full teams in some of the other events, and our final run of the day was by Zak Kettle who led out the U17 boys 4 X 100 relay, leading after the fist 100, with some very strong runs from the Birtley lads bringing the team home in first place.
We had to wait for the results to be uploaded the following day before finally discovering that the win was ours.
Please bear in mind, if you are in Year 6 to Year 11, and you have been inspired by the fantastic performances above so that you are tempted to come along to the next fixture, then please let me know and I’ll have a chat about how you can get involved.
We are hosting the next fixture on Sunday 20-6-21 which is also at Churchill playing fields, so we need as much help as we can get from parents. If you can help, then let me know as I’ll start to compile a list and look into what duties we need to cover.
Dave Moir
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