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Mills Wins at Dadwells
Bridge
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| Kelvin
Mills |
A smaller
field of 18 senior Stawell Amateur Athletic Club
runners lined up for the Garry Rice Handicap, held
near the Dadwells Bridge caravan park in unseasonally
warm conditions.
Numbers were
down due to a number of regular runners being absent
at the Adelaide
Marathon, to be held on the following day.
The 5km
course was two laps of a flat bushland circuit.
Hanne Blair was first runner away, followed by
Gary Saunders
and Axel Meumann, setting the rest
of the field the task of running them down.
Hanne
led for most of the race, and with 500m to
go still had the lead, but the field was closing
fast. Kelvin
Mills was hot on her heels, with Stan Watson
and Mark Pumpa not far behind.
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| Nat
Watson |
The finish
turned into one of the closest seen this season,
with only one and a half minutes separating
all
the runners in the field.
Hanne was overtaken
(swamped!!) first by Kelvin Mills, who
went on the win, just holding
out the fast finishing Mark Pumpa, with
Stan Watson having to settle for third. The next
6 runners were separated by only 15 seconds. Fastest
race time went to Col Barnett, with 18min 50sec.
Fastest female was Meg Parnaby
in 25min
44sec.
A small
field of 6 juniors set out over the same 5km
course as
the seniors, with
Nat
Watson proving
too good for the rest of the field,
going on to score an easy win.
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| Elly
Atherton |
Ilana Jorgensen,
still
recovering
from injury problems, ran well to come
in second, and backmarker Alastair Dugdale
came through
the field to grab third, as well as
fastest junior time of 20min 33sec.
Fastest
junior girl was
Emily
Parnaby in 24min 7sec.
The sub-juniors
ran a 1500m out and back course, with Elly Atherton
running
well
to hold off
the rest of the field to score a
win, from Tobias
Blair second and Elly Barnett third.
Liam
Scott ran the fastest sub-junior time of 5min
11sec, and Elly Barnett was the fastest
sub-junior girl
in a
time of 5min 53sec.
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