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Susie Takes Out Double
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| Susie
Ellis |
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Stawell
Amateur Athletic Club staged their first combined
Aggregate and Championship race for the season
with the Chris Blake Sealed Handicap 3km Championship,
held in the Iron Bark Reserve north of Stawell.
Dry but ideal conditions greeted the nineteen senior
runners who lined up to battled for line honours
over a very challenging, hilly course.
The field
soon sorted itself out with Col Barnett forging
to the lead, closely followed
by Ashley Roberts, Tim Schneider and Karl Scott.
However,
nobody could match Barnett’s
pace up and down the hills, and these positions
remained
constant for the entire race. Col Barnett crossed
the line first to claim the Championship win,
and the fastest race time of 10min 43sec.
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| Naomi
Jamieson |
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Winner
of the handicap section and fastest female
was Susie Ellis, who couldn’t quite catch
her hubby in the championship stakes.
Her time
was 12min 35sec. Last weeks winner Karl Scott
ran another great race to take second with
seasoned campaigner Peter Steggall finding
good form to
run third for the second week in a row.
The
juniors also ran the same 3km course, and
left many of the senior runners in their dust,
with
Nat Watson taking line honours and the Junior
Championship in 12min 48sec. Watson is showing
good form and
is running consistently fast times. He also
beat his dad, Stan, by 4 seconds.
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| Mackenzie
Ellis |
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Naomi Jamieson
put in a good run to claim the win on handicap,
with Emily Parnaby second
and Nat
Watson coming in third. Fastest junior
girl and Female Junior Champion was Ilana Jorgenson
with
the good time of 13min 45sec.
Ten sub-juniors
competed over 1000m sealed handicap, with Jack
Butler just pipping
Liam Scott for
line honours. Winner on handicap was
Mackenzie Ellis,
with Liam Scott second and Jack Butler
third.
The fastest
sub-junior time was Jack Butler
with the
quick time of 3min 44sec. Stacey Faravoni
was the fastest sub-junior girl in
a time of 4min
6sec.
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