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Baird Notches Up First
Win For Season
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| Steve
Baird |
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After his third
placing last week Steve Baird found that little
bit extra to finish strongly and take out the
Stawell
Amateur Athletics
Club
David
O
Jones
Mitre 10 handicap on Saturday.
Starting from
the Three Jacks Reserve north-west of Stawell,
seventeen senior runners lined up in perfect sunny
conditions
for the 6.5 km race.
Front marker Gary Saunders
set
a good early pace but it soon became apparent
that the middle markers were going to figure
strongly in the later stages of the race.
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| Thomas
Blair |
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With 2km to go Ivan McDonald
was looking a likely winner but Steve Baird dug
deep to find some hidden reserves and proved too
strong in the
closing
stages, going on to win by a narrow margin
from McDonald, with Bob Freeland coming in third.
Colin
Barnett ran the fastest time of 23min 45sec.
Jacinta Collier was the fastest female in 27min
48sec.
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| Lachlan
Hamilton |
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A good field of 13 runners
lined up for the 4km junior event. After finishing
a close
second last week, a determined Thomas Blair
overpowered
the
rest of the field and went on to score
a good win with Harry Steggall second and the
improving
Nathan
Watson third.
Fastest time was Marcus
Scott in
15min 41sec. The fastest girl was Naomi
Jamieson in 18min 16sec.
The sub-juniors ran a
2km out and back race with new club member Lachlan
Hamilton scoring his first
win from Georgia Barnett, and Heidi
Sudholz third. Heidi also ran the fastest time
for
the girls
with
8min 38sec.
The fastest boy was Tobias
Blair in 9min 6sec.
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