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Maidenhead Rowing Club Junior Win at Pangbourne |
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Saturday, 06 November 2004 |
Maidenhead Rowing Club juniors competed at Pangborne Sculling Head on Saturday 6th November 2004 and came home with 2 Golds and
2 Silver medals.
Maidenhead Intermediate girls competed over the Short Course 1750m down
stream. Three entries from this squad resulted in two golds and one silver.
This event held at Beale Wildlife Park just past Pangbourne. There are two
things to remember about Beale WP, one for the scullers and one for the
spectators. The rowers need to notice that the race is downstream rather than the
usual upstream, so they can stay in the middle of the stream. The spectators
need to remember that the towpath and the gateways to the towpath are very
very muddy and wellies are a must.
A big thank you to both Roy Prosser and John Truswell, without them we
wouldn't have been able to get the trailer over there. As Roy was working he
kindly, and trustingly, lent his car to John. John did the towing using Roy's car,
which is quite a brave thing to do.
The conditions were good, minimal wind, not too much stream, a little bit
cold when sitting around.
All the Intermadiate girls were in the short course division starting at 12
noon. We only had 3 entries for various reasons.
There was quad entered in the WJ13 age group, Lucy Brockwell at bow, Anna
Campbell, Emma Kerns and Carmel Bevan and we were able to coax Anthony Toma from
Claire's Court into coxing for us. They set off nicely from above the start
and looked good all the way down, overtaking two other quads on the way. They
thought they'd done quite well when they got off but were just a bit worried
about a Tideway crew who were following them and which started celebrating a
win as they passed over the finish line.
When the official times came out it was Maidenhead 6.53, Tideway Sculler
7.04. So we won the gold by 11 seconds and TSS got the silver.
Then we had Lexy Dobson and Fifi Bevan entered in the WJ12 1x event. Again
they both set off well and steered a good course down the middle of the stream.
They overtook 2 boys on the way and finished well. Lexy came in a second
ahead of Fifi at 8.21 to 8.22 to take the Gold but Fifi was happy with her time
and cheered by the silver medal..
Boys Results:
The boys competed over the longer course and had mixed results at the weekend
The top result came from Matt Best who won a silver medal finishing 2nd in
J16 sculls in a entry of 44 scullers. Locke of Eton college was first in a time
of 11.23 followed by Matt at 11.33
Adam Lilley was 13th in J15 sculls in an entry of 26 scullers in a time of
12.43. Several boys were entered in their first head race including Tom
O'Reilly entered in J14 sculls who finished 4th from 9 scullers and Ross
McCoriston who was 5th in the same event.
Jack Beaumont was a creditable 4th in J11 sculls in an entry of 11 scullers.
Two other boys hit the same unmarked tree and took a swim!
Thanks to Maggi Bevan and John Truswell for supplying the above information.
Billy Brooks
Captain Juniors |
