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Bob's Freeloaders Triumph
Bob’s Freeloaders
relay team showed they were made of sterner stuff
than their name implies when they came from behind
to clinch victory in the closing stages of last
Saturdays Dugdale Family Relays.
Thirty Stawell
Amateur Athletic Club runners competed in six
teams of
five runners each, over a 1.9km
course. Each team consisted of 3 senior and a
junior runner, all completing two legs of the course,
and one sub-junior runner completing one leg
only,
making 9 laps all up.
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| Bob's
Freeloaders runners, Peter Blair, Stan Watson,
Bob Freeland, Emily Parnaby, and Elly Barnett. |
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The sub-junior runners set
off first, with Steggall’s
Stragglers team member Liam Scott soon opening
up a big lead over Macca’s Mercenaries
Elly Barnett. Close behind was Liam Burns for
Gary’s
Saunterers, while Georgia Barnett from Bob’s
Freeloaders was in fourth place as they came
through for the first change.
Over the next
five laps, Steggall’s Stragglers
other team members of Peter Steggall, John
Kelly, Emma Kelly and Carol Lehmann kept their
team in
the lead, although with an ever reducing margin.
Bob’s Freeloaders team members of Bob
Freeland, Peter Blair, Stan Watson and Emily
Parnaby moved
into third place ahead of Gary’s Saunterers,
Duke’s Dawdlers and Kelvin’s Crawlers.
With
3 legs to go, Peter Blair took Bob’s
Freeloaders to the lead, relegating Steggall’s
Stragglers to second place, before they slipped
further back on the next leg behind Macca’s
Mercenaries.
Stan Watson ran the final
leg for Bob’s Freeloaders,
and had to fight off a strong challenge from
John Kelly, who had already passed Gary Howden.
However
Watson hung on to give Bob’s Freeloaders
the win, with Kelly of Steggall’s Stragglers
not far behind in second place.
Howden came
in third for Macca’s Mercenaries, cheered
on by the rest of the team of Ivan McDonald,
Meg Parnaby,
Shaun Parnaby and Elly Barnett.
Gary’s
Saunderers finished fourth, Duke’s
Dawdlers fifth, and Kelvin’s Crawlers
finished sixth.
Full team details and times
are available here (pdf
document).
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