The rain took a day off to allow for comfortable conditions at the Leinster even Ages cross country in Mountain View, Ballyhale, today. From the under 10’s right through to the Novice Men KCH were very much on form. Daniel McIntyre took silver in the non-championship 1000m and Cillian Maher in 7th and James Healy running well got us off to a great start. A medal count at day end showed 22 gold, 2 silver and 23 bronze. Looks like we can be competitive at the nationals. Best wishes for that out in Gowran.
Under 12 girls with Kate Kelly an individual bronze won club gold and Kate with Ella O’Flaherty 16th and Eva Arslan 24th the County team also won gold. Mealla Crowley 59 and Casey Cleere 60 were also part of the team. Daniel Greene won individual gold in the boys race helping the county team into third place. Eoin Hoyne 23rd and Tom Hardiman 30th provided support.
The under 14 girls continued the good form and with Sinead Cormack 5th, Katie Byrne 9th, Ellen Cormack 31st, Emma Kelly 34th and Hannah Devine the club took first place and were massive scorers for the county team which placed third. Daire O’Flaherty and Fiach Crowley, both under 13 were 30th and 32nd respectively for u14 boys.
Kyrell Mtinsi in 5th led the under 16 boys who placed 8th. Other team members were Conor Ryan 40th, Conor Malone 58th and Donnacha Maher 62nd. Clodagh O’Callaghan 4th and Eimear Cormack 44th scored on the third placed county team while Evelyn McEvoy ran a steady race to finish 60th.
Ruairi McEvoy in 4th was our sole representative in boys u18. The girls u18 placed fifth. With Pia Langton in 5th and Hazel Coogan 19th both scored on the first placed county team. Ruth Cody 37th and Aoife FitzGerald 38th also ran well.
There was more success in the Junior races which were run in conjunction with the u18 races. In junior ladies our four u18 girls were joined by Isabella Burke who placed 17th which brought the club into third place and had Pia and Isabella scoring on the second placed county team. Billy Coogan was the star of the junior men as he stormed to the front to take the gold medal and lead the county team into first place. Both Myles Hewlett 6th and Ruairi McEvoy 15th also scored on the county team. Matthew McCarthy 55th completed the club scoring.
Our Novice Ladies didn’t manage to get a full team but Gretta Beckett, Kate Millea and Aibhlinn Gibbs packed well to finish in 50th, 56th and 57th respectively. Our Novice Men also won praise with Jamie Gahan 4th, Eamon O’Connor 16th and Mossy Roantree 33rd winning bronze Leinster medals with the third placed county team. Mick Cullen 59th and Daniel Quinn 85th completed the scoring for the fifth placed club team. Well done all.