Monday, October 7, 2013

Meath Even Ages Cross Country Report


The Meath even ages cross country championships were held yesterday at Greenanstown, Stamullen. We had a record turnout from the club with 56 athletes competing from U10s up to men’s novice level. The Stamullen course as usual was tough and the hills will not be forgotten easily, but at least the weather held up and racing conditions were near perfect. The U10 girls and boys got the day off to a great start with both teams winning their team events with terrific scores of 22 and 32 points respectively. Great individual performances were produced by Aimee Doherty winning the U10 girls event, Sophie Quinn who is still U9 finishing 3rd, Laura Kelly another U9 finished 8th, Matilda Ruhan 10th and Molly Keane 14th.
The top 4 boys were led home by Fionn Drummond who finished 2nd despite picking up an ankle injury on the run in, Fionn was followed closely by Kyle Witter in 4th who had a great run, Cian Crawford 11th and Michael Ohaka 15th, a great run for Michael in his first cross country.
The U12s were up next and again we won the girls team event with a great score of 25 points. Great performances were had by Ella Healy who finished 2nd, Aoife Rutherford 5th, Saoirse O’ Kane who had a terrific race finishing 7th, Sophie O’ Connor 11th and Lili O’ Connor 15th. The boy’s u12 team finished second and were only 2 points off the gold medal; Tom Kilgannon was first home for the boys in 8th place, with Matthew Hayes 13th, Nathan O’ Connor 20th and Eoghan Kavanagh 27th, both Matthew and Eoghan having a great race on their championship debut.
The U14 girls found the 2000m tough going with a number of hills on their route, but all finished the course and they only finished 2 points off a team bronze medal, Karen Hayes finished 8th followed by Rachel Doherty, Sophie Dunne, Maria Rogers and Ivie Okome. The U14 boys picked up bronze in the team event with good performances from Harry Bailey 9th, Fergal Kilgannon 11th and Darragh Casey 12th.
The standout performance of the day came from Alex Hunter in the boys U16 3500m, Alex took the gold in a very competitive field of national standard athletes, and was closely followed by Peter Kilgannon in 4th, Philip Marron 5th and Gareth Doyle 12th. The boys also won gold in the team event.
The Novice men’s team of Alan Phelan, John Coroner, Conor Duncan, Hugh Kelly and Henry Flemming had a great run in the 6k, all found the going tough but they enjoyed the experience. This was the first time in a long number of years that we had a senior team competing at the Meath Cross Country Championships and they were rewarded with a team bronze.
Thanks to all athletes and parents who attended, it was great to see a convoy of over 30 cars leaving our track yesterday morning, thanks also to Star of the Sea who hosted a great event.
The uneven ages cross country will be held at Fr. Murphy’s Athletic Club (Athboy) on Sunday, we will be posting the teams and event details on our web-site tomorrow and we look forward to another great days racing. 



FULL CLUB RESULTS:
                                  U10 GIRLS
1

Aimee Doherty
Ratoath AC



3

Sophie Quinn
Ratoath AC



8

Laura Kelly
Ratoath AC



10

Matilda Ruhan
Ratoath AC



14

Molly Keane
Ratoath AC



23

Ava Fay
Ratoath AC



28

Laura Smith
Ratoath AC



30

Aishling Doyle
Ratoath AC



35

Niamh Murray
Ratoath AC



39

Rachel Hue Conway
Ratoath AC



40

Hannah Bailey
Ratoath AC



41

Aoife Casey
Ratoath AC



43

Gracelan Conway
Ratoath AC





U10 GIRLS TEAM 1st

U 10 BOYS


2

Fionn Drummond
Ratoath AC

4

Kyle Witter
Ratoath AC

11

Cian Craford
Ratoath AC

15

Michael Ohaka
Ratoath AC

18

Harry O'Connor
Ratoath AC

29

Sam Carey
Ratoath AC

35

Mark Wallace
Ratoath AC

 U10 BOYS TEAM- 1st



U12 GIRLS

2

Ella Healy
Ratoath AC
5

Aoife Rutherford
Ratoath AC
7

Saoirse O'Kane
Ratoath AC
11

Sophie O'Connor
Ratoath AC
15

Lily O'Connor
Ratoath AC
23

Emma Coroner
Ratoath AC
29

Rachel McPartlin
Ratoath AC
32

Kate Smith
Ratoath AC
34

Orla Hayes
Ratoath AC
51

Ábha McBride
Ratoath AC
U12 GIRLS TEAM- 1st

                                  U12 BOYS
8

Tom Kilgannon
Ratoath AC
13

Matthew Hayes
Ratoath AC
20

Nathan O' Connor
Ratoath AC
27

Eoghan Kavanagh
Ratoath AC
28

Ryan Coroner
Ratoath AC
29

Stephen Kiernan
Ratoath AC
30

Alex Flemming
Ratoath AC
33

Daniel Ohoka
Ratoath AC
U12 BOYS TEAM- 2nd

          U14 Girls
9

Karen Hayes
Ratoath AC
22

Rachel Doherty
Ratoath AC
28

Sophie Dunne
Ratoath AC
29

Maria Rogers
Ratoath AC
33

Ivie Okome
Ratoath AC
                                                 U14 GIRLS TEAM- 4th

                                 U14 BOYS
9

Harry Bailey
Ratoath AC
11

Fergal Kilgannon
Ratoath AC
12

Daragh Casey
Ratoath AC
 U14 Boys TEAM- 3rd

          U16 BOYS
1

Alex Hunter
Ratoath AC
4

Peter Kilgannon
Ratoath AC
5

Philip Marron
Ratoath AC
12

Gareth Doyle
Ratoath AC
U16 BOYS TEAM-1st
          NOVICE MEN
15

Hugh Kelly
Ratoath AC
19

Alan Phelan
Ratoath AC
22

Henry Fleming
Ratoath AC
25

John Coroner
Ratoath AC
 NOVICE MENS TEAM-3rd
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