Gala Harriers members win 24 of 33 contested classes at latest Team Borders trials
Gala Harriers members came out on top in 24 of 33 contested classes at Sunday’s Team Borders open graded trials at Tweedbank.
Tweed Leader Jed Track finished first in eight others and unattached athletes won the remaining two.
Members of the Galashiels club won a dozen contested classes for girls and 11 for boys.
Their winners in girls’ 100m races were under-ten Sara Anderson in 19.30 seconds, under-12 Emily Cranston in 14.60 and under-18 Iris Dennison in 14.30.
Cranston and Dennison also won at long jump with efforts of 3.55m and 4.31.
Their winning girls over 800m were under-12 Eva Tumilowicz in 3:08, under-14 Matilda Lee in 2:38 and under-18 Jessica McCowan in 2:39.
Lee also won at shot-put with a throw of 6.32m, as did her under-12 clubmate Georgie Graham with 5.82m. Graham won at javelin too with a throw of 11.90m, as did her under-14 clubmate Sunne Runciman with 11.79m.
Their boys’ 100m race winners were under-12 Finlay Grant and under-14 Connor Wilson, both in 14.60. Grant and Wilson won at long jump as well, with efforts of 3.53m and 4.30m.
Over 800m, their winning boys were under-ten Brodie Wagiciengo in 3:23, under-12 Elliot Baxter in 2:49 and under-14 Mac Jamieson in 2:50; at shot-put, they were under-ten Oliver Baxter with 3.73m and under-12 Wilfred Lee with 6.28m; and at javelin, they were under-12 Roan Miskelly with 13.54m and Wilson with 15.68m.
TLJT notched up five wins in girls’ classes and three in male ones.
Their winning girls were Bronny Bowers at under-14 girls’ 100m in 14.20 and long jump with 3.57m, Robyn Lees in the under-16 girls’ race over the same distance in 13.30, Isla Woodburn at under-16 girls’ long jump with 4.32m and under-16 Rosa Mabon over 800m in 2:37.
Their male winners included Cameron Tindle at senior 100m in 10.50, with his brother Scott second in 10.78, plus under-ten Myles Oliphant over the same distance in 15.70 and at long jump with 3.43m.
Sunday’s unattached winners were both under-ten girls, Quinn Jamieson at long jump with 2.26m and Lucy Mabon at shot-put with 4.01m.
Seven classes attracted only single entries, six of them from Gala Harriers – Posy Lee clocking 3:33 in the under-ten girls’ 800m, Leo Tait doing the under-16 boys’ 800m in 2:18, Cullen Baxter registering 5.35m at under-14 boys’ shot-put and under-16 girl Holly Craig throwing a javelin 27.03m, under-18 girl Dennison managing 11.13m and under-ten boy Oliver Baxter 7.55m.
The younger Mabon was in a class of her own as well, at javelin with a throw of 6.86m.
Gala Harriers also claimed 23 second places – for Ruby Mackie, Elliot Baxter and Leo Rossmann at the double, plus Beth Dennison, Rachel Grant, Nell Jamieson, Craig, Wagiciengo, Lucas Anderson, James Macleod, Cullen Baxter, Leona and Sunne Runciman, Cranston, Ruby Gilfillan and Matilda, Posy and Wilfred Lee, the last two twice – with eight going to TLJT’s Naomi Cullen and Izaak Oliphant at the double, Lachlan Graham, Scott Tindle, Lees and Poppy Kerr and one apiece to Quinn Jamieson and Teviotdale Harriers’ Freya Michie.