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Lincolnshire XC Championships
Louth
7 January 2007


Report by Geoff Powley:-

There were some Great individual performances by Wellington athletes at the county championships, but the best performance must be the actual number of Welly runners competing, 65 finishers in all events, and thanks to the many supporters who turned out in the blustery, cool conditions.

Underfoot the ground was generally good with only a few wet boggy patches & slippery tight corners to negotiate on the notoriously hilly London Road course.

First Race of the day was the mixed U11 Boys and Girls, there were clear winners in Dylan Love & Catrina Thomas, with Abbie Donnelly 4th and Rhiannon Phillps in 9th position

U13 Boys - Adam Taylor had a good race to finish in 3rd place.

U13 Girls - Wellington supplied half the field with 10 runners, Hannah Dunderdale had no trouble with the conditions winning comfortably. In 4th was Sheridan McWilliam, 5th Laura Donnelly, 6th Megan Ball, 7th Caitlin Lynch, 8th Sam Hood, 9th Beck Wells, 13th Vikki Lawrence, 14th Lucy Helas, 17th Lindsay Campbell. In the Team event Wellington Completed a clean sweep of the medals with 1st, 2nd & 3rd Team. Well done to this age group.

U15 Boys - Jack Skeet was untroubled in winning the race racing clear of the field early in the race, supported by Jon Humberston in 5th and Joe Dunderdale in 6, the boys won the team event. Sam Manders finished in 13th place. 

U15 Girls - Georgia Ball also hit the front very early in the race and ran away from the field to win by nearly 40 seconds08:57 09/02/2008. Becky Dobson came 3rd to confirm the Team win. The 'B' team of Hester Talbot 5th, Ellie Jones 7th, Holly Haywood 8th took 2nd in the Team event. Lauryn Burley came in 11th place.

U17 Boys - Tom Straw led home the Welly athletes in 2nd, Shane Robinson a close 3rd, Josh Spering in 8th to take the Team Title. Ryan Smith came 9th, Henry Naughton 11th, Beren Cross 14th, Gavin Campbell 15th.

U17 Girls - Lara Thomas came a solid 3rd with Katrina Sutcliffe 6th, Ellie Clare was 9th. April Bontoft was 10th home. Wellington picking up 2nd in the Team Event.

U20 Men - Mark Plaskett was first home for Wellington in 2nd place, followed by Ashley Smith in 3rd, Phil Pocknee 5th to win the Team event.
Chris Fullerton finished 6th.

U20 Women - A win for Sarah Kimpton.

Senior Men - Matt Bowser broke away in the 1st hundred metres of the race and collected another Senior County Championship win, Ian Kimpton started steadily and his strength took him through to 2nd place. Will Strangeway followed in 4th, Phil Williams 6th, Mark Baddeley 7th, Josh Stone 8th, Danny Roome 13th and Simon Machin 23rd.
The Team Event was dominated by Wellington with the 'A' team 1st and 'B' Team 2nd. 

Senior Women - A strong last mile by Harriet Canter, took her to 2nd place, Becky Rowley came in 5th, Tertia Ritchie 7th and Silvia Strangeway 8th. The Team took 2nd place.

Vet Men - Les Ball, Art Connolly & John Holmes led the Welly athletes home in 2nd, 3rd & 10th respectively to win the Team Event. In 11th was Brian Fox, 14th Geoff Powley, 16th Richard Titchmarsh, 21st Ian Mair.

Vet Women - Susie Ardron was just out of the medals in 4th, Pat Kimpton came in 15th with Dot Fraser 16th.


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