KFL 2019/20 Match 5 - Minnis Bay · Sevenoaks Athletics Club

With one match still to go, Sevenoaks AC's women's team made sure of victory in the Kent Fitness Cross Country League with a fine second place at the penultimate fixture at Minnis Bay on 12th January.

SAC assembled a huge team of 33 runners for the farthest-flung race of the 2019/20 series: a brilliant turnout. So that despite a big effort by Canterbury Harriers - including a win for their women - SAC lost no ground in the team standings. With the SAC women second and the men third on the day, the combined team was second. After five of the six races, SAC women's team lies first, the men's team (which does not have championship status) fourth, and the combined team second. The Sevenoaks AC women can't be caught and will win the series and the SAC combined team will finish second regardless of outcome of the final match on February 9th.

Cath Linney was SAC's leading woman in seventh place, with fellow scorers Vanessa Gilmartin, Suzy Claridge and Heather Fitzmaurice, while the men were led home by James Mason in second place overall, with Guillaume Ninevan, Ed Saunders, Andrew Milne, Mike Lochead, Andrew Hutchinson, Andrew Mead and Darius Sarshar also scoring. However the whole team were stars as they all ran well to add to other teams' scores.

Individual medals also look possible with many SAC runners doing well in the standings, including Vanessa Gilmartin (2nd W40), Suzy Claridge (5th W45), Cath Linney (2nd W50), Pauline Dalton (1st W55), Bridgit Weekes (2nd W60), Sylvia Lewis (2nd W65), James Mason (2nd man & 1st M35), Andrew Milne (3rd M35), Andrew Mead (4th M50) and Jeremy Winter (1st M65).

The SAC results at Minnis were:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Rating	# Races
2	2	James Mason	36	36:58	Sevenoaks AC	99.67	13
12	12	Guillaume Nineven	34	38:23	Sevenoaks AC	96.33	9
20	20	Edmund Saunders	37	39:20	Sevenoaks AC	93.67	12
33	33	Andrew Milne	37	40:12	Sevenoaks AC	89.33	27
35	35	Mike Lochead	34	40:14	Sevenoaks AC	88.67	11
41	39	Andrew Hutchinson	40	40:37	Sevenoaks AC	87.33	11
48	45	Andrew Mead	51	41:29	Sevenoaks AC	85.33	38
50	47	Darius Sarshar	50	41:35	Sevenoaks AC	84.67	9
59	56	Jimmy George	38	42:01	Sevenoaks AC	81.67	12
66	63	Richard Alford-Smith	43	42:36	Sevenoaks AC	79.33	4
80	75	Jim Harness	52	43:11	Sevenoaks AC	75.33	13
86	80	Daniel Witt	44	43:31	Sevenoaks AC	73.67	57
92	85	Zack Ramsden	53	44:18	Sevenoaks AC	72.00	5
95	88	Jatinder Soomal	37	44:23	Sevenoaks AC	71.00	12
108	7	Catherine Linney	50	45:16	Sevenoaks AC	95.92	34
129	116	Graham Dwyer	47	46:13	Sevenoaks AC	61.67	12
134	120	Jeremy Winter	66	46:21	Sevenoaks AC	60.33	4
143	15	Vanessa Gilmartin	44	46:46	Sevenoaks AC	90.48	16
145	127	James Nash	28	46:50	Sevenoaks AC	58.00	5
151	132	James Graham	66	47:13	Sevenoaks AC	56.33	23
162	24	Suzy Claridge	47	47:38	Sevenoaks AC	84.35	5
170	143	Sean Leith	48	47:54	Sevenoaks AC	52.67	2
177	26	Heather Fitzmaurice	50	48:00	Sevenoaks AC	82.99	78
193	32	Pauline Dalton	55	48:51	Sevenoaks AC	78.91	49
223	181	Duncan Cochrane	62	50:03	Sevenoaks AC	40.00	34
235	191	Leonard Lai King	40	50:32	Sevenoaks AC	36.67	2
237	43	Bridgit Weekes	61	50:36	Sevenoaks AC	71.43	10
238	193	Tony Horlock	59	50:37	Sevenoaks AC	36.00	11
291	59	Sarah Shewell	60	53:35	Sevenoaks AC	60.54	112
311	242	Hugh Shewell	30	54:59	Sevenoaks AC	19.67	25
408	120	Bet Benn	38	1:05:39	Sevenoaks AC	19.05	3
428	133	Sylvia Lewis	67	1:09:23	Sevenoaks AC	10.20	18
434	294	James Fitzmaurice	77	1:12:02	Sevenoaks AC	2.33	73

The full results are here.

The final event is at Blean Woods, Rough Common on Sunday 9th February at 11:00. is the SAC team organiser.

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