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Chumps dominate Dash.
Relay team
Charlie’s Chumps set a cracking pace from
the start to dominate the Stawell Amateur Athletic
Club’s annual cross country relay challenge,
the Dugdale Dash.
A good field
of 40 senior, junior and sub-junior runners made
up the
8 teams of 5 runners each.
The sub-juniors led off over the 1900m bush
course circuit, with Charlie’s Chumps Stacey Faravoni
establishing a handy lead at the first change,
in a snappy time of 8min 39sec.
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| Charlie's
Chumps runners from left to right - Thomas
Blair, Kieran Ryan, Charlie Jones, Marcus Scott
and
Stacey Faravoni |
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Richard Dugdale
was next for Barnett’s Boomers, with Elly
Barnett of Watson’s Wanderers not far behind.
Then the junior and senior runners took over,
completing
2 legs of the course each.
Charlie’s
Chumps remaining runners Charlie Jones, Kieran
Ryan,
Thomas Blair and Marcus Scott put in a scorching
performance,
stretched their lead to over six minutes at one
stage, before being pulled back to the final
margin of just over 5 minutes by Barnett’s
Boomers team members Col Barnett, Jacinta Cameron,
Karl
Scott and Daniel Faravoni, who came in second.
Charlie’s Chumps winning time was 63min
27sec.
The battle
for 3rd and 4th was close throughout the race,
with Watson’s Wanderers leading
Howden’s Hounds until the final stages
when Gary Howden and Alastair Dugdale both put
in strong
final runs to turn the tables enabling Howden’s
Hounds to carry off third placing.
The remaining
4 teams, Dugdale's Dashers, Pumpa's Pounders, Steggall's
Stayer and Scotts Stragglers also had a close battle,
all finishing within about 2 minutes
of
each other. Fastest individual
time for a single lap was 5min 51sec by Kieran
Ryan. Fastest junior runner
was
Alastair Dugdale in a time of 6min 57sec.
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