Thankfully the weather today was so much an improvement on yesterdays. It made for better competition on a well organised course thanks to local club, St Joseph’s. For KCH this was a good day from start to finish. With a better turnout in some of the age groups it could have been an amazing day.
In the non-championship under 8 it was Summer Nova with an 8th place finish who carried the KCH colours in the girls race. The boys with four finishers in the top ten were flying – 1 Cian McIntyre, 3 John Cleere, 6 John Kelly and 10 Darragh O’Connell.
The under 10s won loads of medals with the girls team placing second and the boys had teams in first and second place – Girls: 2 Eddie Kemple, 8 Winter Rose Molloy, 17 Rosie Devine, 25 Ella Burke. Boys: 1 Daniel McIntyre, 2 Danny Quinn, 4 Cillian Maher, 6 Conor Lawerence, 7 Brian O’Callaghan, 8 James Healy, 10 Sam Breen, 13 Darragh Sweeney, 15 Harry Healy, 17 Kenny Lowry.
The under 12 girls were second team with 1 Kate Kelly, 5 Ava Arslan, 7 Ella O’Flaherty, 16 Blaithin Stokes. Daniel Greene won individual gold for under 12 boys.
The under 14 girls were first team – 1 Sinead Cormack, 2 Katie Byrne, 5 Ellen Cormack, 6 Emma Kelly, 14 Hannah Devine. Best for the boys were 8 Daire O’Flaherty and 10 David Devine.
The under 16 girls had 1 Clodagh O’Callaghan, 4 Eimear Cormack, 5 Evelyn McEvoy while the boys were first team with Kyrell Mitnsi leading in the team. 1 Kyrell, 4 Conor Ryan, 9 Conor Malone, 12 Donnacha Maher, 13 Sam McAvinney.
The under 18 girls took the silver team medals. Team results were 3 Pia Langton, 6 Hazel Coogan, 7 Kate Aylmer, 11 Aoife Fitzgerald, 12 Ruth Cody. Ruairi McEvoy took individual gold in the boys race.
For the seniors the men were very impressive with the first four places going to KCH – 1 Eoin Everard, 2 Cathal O’Reilly, 3 Brian Maher, 4 Jamie Gahan, 7 Eamon O’Connor, 11 Graham Bourne, 21 Danny Quinn. The ladies finished in second place. Much thanks to Ruth Cody who finished 15th to complete the team. Ruth had already run the under 18 girls race. The other team scorers were 6 Orla McPhillips, 7 Grainne Behan and 13 Kate Millea.
Well done all. The juveniles have set a slight lead ahead of round two in Castlecomer on Sunday next. So best wishes for a good turnout and an equally good performance.