Team Kennet

Team Kennet were out in force on Sunday in the last of this years Oxford Mail Cross Country League at Horspath in Oxford.

The surprise of the day was the under 13 boys as they were 1st team on the day, New Comer Alex Hanson was 4th with a much improved Aaron Conway 7th and Simon Banner 11th.

The under 13 girls saw a great battle up front which included Yasmin Ryder, she finished strongly to take 2nd place just a few seconds behind the winner, which earned Yasmin 2nd overall for the season, she was backed up by Georgina Bradford in 7th and Alex Maughan in 9th for 3rd team and a Bronze team in the league. anther new comer Hanna Oliphant was 15th and Chloe Scaplehorn 19th brought the B team home in 7th place.

A total of 4 individual medals and 4 Team medals were won at the presentations. this years mens team grew stronger as the season went on, and a good turnout saw another great result taking their second win in succession which beat all but 3 in the higher league, it was enough to seal promotion to Division 1, thanks to Guy Watts 21st, Tom Milburn 23rd who took 2nd in the u20 age group, 25th Nick Awberry, 26th Mark Shepherd, 52nd Tom Munt, 64th James Moorcroft and 78th Neale Marlow. The B team were 86th Jack Eaton, 108th Lee Jones, 172nd Simon Berry, 189th Rob Findlay, 190th Colin Price and 219th Nick Maughan.

The senior ladies were again without Rachel Elliott but the small team still managed to finish 3rd in the league on the day. Sue Francis came 14th which kept her 2nd in the vet 35 age group, 23rd Helen Preedy and 35th Jenny Eaton.

The u15/17 boys picked up medals as well, Michael Randall came 3rd on the day and that was his overall league placing which was also the same as the team in the league as well, Luke Conway was 18th and Samuel Randall (u15) 20th.

The under 15 girls saw Katie Herbert home in 22nd, Emma Seymour 25th, Katie Metalli 26th and Natasha Hole 28th.

The under 11s saw the best turnout of the year. For the girls 8th Carys Cox, 29th Harriet Allen, 33rd Carli Nicholls, 35th Chloe Jones, 37th Elysia Odell, 46th Isobel Hole, 47th Bethan Jones and for the boys 6th Jordan Hole, 17th Piers Oliphant, 23rd Alex Winch, 29th James Maughan and 35th Alex Davis.

View the complete set of results.