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Juniors Impress at GB Trials Print E-mail
Monday, 21 February 2005
JUNIOR GB TRIALS held in Boston Sat 19th and Sun 20th February
These trials were held over a 5000m head course. This is the second round of GB trials which saw the number of invited athletes reduced from 160 to 50 boys and girls.  
Conditions were very challanging for both days of trials. On the Sunday it was further complicated with blizard conditions and large snowflakes falling, making visibility difficult at times. Both days were compounded with a roaring tail wind making significant waves.  
 
It is fair to say that the Maidenhead athletes were tested in conditions they were not accustomed to but this did not stop them performing - and performing they did!
 
Sam Ashburner won the prize for ‘best performance’ of the day, on the Saturday in the rough conditions, just 250m from the finish, Sam caught a crab and his rigger broke, causing one scull to pop out of the gate and float away! Leaning to the side where he had one scull still attached to a gate, Sam managed to balance on one scull whilst other competitors sculled past, hitting Sam’s sculling blade that floated off down the racing line. Sam did well to keep dry until the rescue launch reached him.
 
Other Maidenhead Junior Performances on the Saturday were as follows:
 
The Junior Girls had 47 athletes competing in J18 single sculls.  Louise Entwistle J16 finished 10th, Natalie Trinder finished 21st and Ally Brooks J15 finished 27th.
 
Matt Best competed in J16 boys and finished 6th on the Saturday in this category, only a few seconds separated these scullers.
 
Dave Jones did not have his best scull on the Saturday and finished 10th in the J18 mens division out of 36 scullers.
 
On the Sunday members of the junior squad who performed well on the Saturday were put into doubles and pairs.
 
Louise Entwistle was put into a double with Emma Steel of Durham RC and they sculled the course well to finish is 2nd place, just 8 seconds behind the winning double of (Hills St Neots and Cotterill Wycliffe).
 
Natalie Trinder and Ally Brooks competed again on the Sunday in singles and finished in 5th and 8th positions out of 13 Junior Women scullers.
 
The junior mens sculls was reduced to 17 on the Sunday.  Dave Jones had a much better scull and finished in 1st place, Sam Ashburner borrowed a boat and did well to finish in 6th place, Matt Best moved up to J18 level and came home in 16th place.
 
This was a very credible weekend performance from the six Maidenhead Junior athletes competing at this top junior level.
 
 
Billy Brooks
Captain Juniors
 
 
 
 
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