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SUTTON COLDFIELD OBSERVER, Friday, March 27, 2015
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SPORT ROUND-UP
Brilliant Boldmere boys and
girls impress on county stage
SWIMMING
Boldmere’s many
Warwickshire medallists.
Picture by Steve Harlow.
By STEVE HARLOW
Swimming correspondent
WEEK one of the Warwickshire
Championships
saw
three
Boldmere swimmers crowned
as county champion and two as
junior champion.
In total Boldmere notched
up 42 championship, age
group and relay medals – 16
gold, 18 silver and eight bronze
– plus 27 finalists and their
swimmers set 101 long course
PBs with two new long course
relay club records.
Luke Davies retained his
100m breaststroke county
title, winning the final in a
time of 1.05.99mins, ahead of
Jake Dixon who took silver.
In the age group finals, Oliver Carless claimed gold in the
10/11 age group with Ellis
Taylor second while William
Cooper also won silver in the
12-year age group.
The second county title went
to Ben Stanford in the 50m
freestyle. Being a 16-year-old
he also won the junior county
title.
Four Boldmere lads made
the final with Stanford top of
the tree in a time of 25.25secs
ahead of Steve Wilson who took
silver. Joey Stanger was sixth
and Ben Campbell seventh.
Leo Karski won silver in the
13/14 age group in a time of
28.54secs and went on to claim
gold in the 1,500m freestyle.
In the 1,500m freestyle, 18year-old S10 Para swimmer
Tully Kearney set a new club
record with her 18.45.92mins
time on the way to winning the
county title while her 800m
split time of 9.44.75mins was
an unofficial British record.
Ellen Ratcliffe finished
second for the silver medal, as
did Joey Stanger in the open
boys’ race.
In the boys’ 100m fly finals,
five more medals were won –
Oliver Carless (10/11) bronze,
Wilson in seventh.
Nadya
Sterling
(10/11)
stormed to gold as did Wood in
the 13-yr final with Bartley in
sixth place. Gerda Vasiliauskaite (12) and Anya Mee
(14) were sixth and eighth in
their respective finals.
Erin Davies, 12, showed her
class in the 200m breaststroke,
winning the 10/12 age group
by 14 seconds in a PB of
2.56.83mins,
ranking
her
fourth fastest in the UK.
Vasiliauskaite was second
for the silver medal while
Wood won her second gold of
the day in the 13/14 age group
in a PB of 2.51.74mins.
Davies swooped yet another
gold in the 10/12yr 200m freestyle with a four-second PB
time of 2.24.55, while Bartley
claimed bronze in the 13/14
age group.
In the backstroke events,
Karski touched first for gold in
the 13/14 200m distance while
Woolley picked up his second
silver of the day in the 10/12
age group.
In the girls’ 10/12yr 50m
sprint event, Vasiliauskaite
set a PB of 36.66secs to take
silver and Eden-Joy Light
qualified for the 15+ final, finishing fifth.
In the relays, the 10/12yr
girls’ 4x50m freestyle quartet
of Abbey Turnbull, Vasiliauskaite, Davies and Sterling
stormed to gold.
A second relay gold came via
the boys’ 13/15yr 4x50m medley team of Karski, Tom Bloor,
Matt Price and Archie Langston, who won by 11 seconds.
In the girls’ 13/15yr 4x50m
medley relay, Anya Mee, Georgina Dolan, Light and Kate
Davies seemed destined for
bronze until the latter’s fantastic anchor leg split of
28.61secs earned them silver
by just 0.06 of a second.
In the 4x200m freestyle, the
boys’ open age group foursome of Steve Wilson, Jake
Dixon, Luke Davies and Joey
Stanger were edged into silver
position.
Finally, there was another
silver medal for the girls’ open
4x100m medley team of Wood,
Emily Gordon, Rachel Wilson
and Alex Dolan.
Perry Beeches have plenty
of Warwickshire wonders
SWIMMING
PERRY Beeches and Sutton
Swim Squad produced some
impressive performances at
the Warwickshire County
Championships in Coventry.
Dan Smith is always an ambassador for the club and was
in fine form. He placed fourth
in the 50m freestyle final and
Above: a happy Lewis Carless.
FOOTBALL ROUND-UP
Mikes get back on track
Midland Premier
LONG EATON UNITED 0
BOLDMERE ST MICHAELS 0
A MUCH-CHANGED Mikes
side battled to a hard earned
goalless draw at Long Eaton
United on Wednesday.
With both sides having
struggled for results recently – Long Eaton’s title
challenge fading after a winless run of six games – the
stalemate was as entertaining as could be considering
neither side scored.
Jason Holmes
was among
those close to
breaking the
deadlock
Acer Woolley (11) silver, James
Goodwin (13) bronze and finally Jake Dixon and Luke
Davies (15+) Championship
silver and bronze medals.
Stanford was seventh and
with the fastest 16/u time of
the day, he won his second
junior county title.
The girls’ 400m IM event saw
a Boldmere one-two for Lily
Wood and Alex Bartley, taking
gold and silver respectively, in
the 12/13 age group while Kate
Davies won Championship
bronze for the third fastest
time overall.
Kear ney’s sixth place time
of 5.25.88mins would have
been a S10 British record as
well as a European and World
record time – but as the championships were not an IPC registered
event
they
unfortunately will not be eligible for ratification.
There was another Championship medal in the 15+
girls’ 100m fly final with
Rachel Wilson setting a new
PB in a time of 1.05.46 to take
silver ahead of Morgan Harlow in sixth and Lauren
third in the 50m and 100m
breaststroke.
And he topped those excellent efforts with second places
in the 200m individual medley
and 50m butterfly.
Lewis Carless also secured a
commendable third place in
the 10-year age group in the
BAGCAT points.
Junior swimmers did an excellent job in the new age
group relays for 10-12-yearolds.
Ella Payne, Eleanor Elwell,
Becky Gulliver, Trearna Hart
and Catrise Hart all swam well
in the freestyle and medley
relays and enjoyed the experience.
The boys – Dylan Langston,
Harvey Higgins, Lewis Carless and Ellison Hart – also
swam well against older swimmers and will be back again to
fight for a higher place next
year.
Other swimmers at the Warwickshire
Championships
were Andrew Gulliver, Jamie
Keyte, Jessica Deans.
Mikes keeper Adam Jenkins made the save of the
first half from Nightingale
while after the break it was
the visitors who threatened
more.
Ben
Wilkinson
had
Boldmere’s best chance,
having been freed by two
dummies in the box, but he
hit his shot directly at keeper Low when he should have
scored.
Roland Agbor, Charisma
Agbonlahor
and
Jason
Holmes also all had good
half-chances without finding the elusive finish.
■ Boldmere visit Coventry
Sphinx tomorrow (Saturday).
picked up both a silver and a
bronze. Brothers Tyler and Alfie
Smith won silver and bronze
medals respectively. Instructor
Jason Smith, 5th Dan, who won
two bronzes himself, said: “The
commitment by my students not
only on the day of the
competition but in the months
of training leading up to it has
been fantastic.”
BOLDMERE ST MICHAELS 2
CAUSEWAY UNITED 1
TWO headed goals, one in
each half, helped Boldmere
record their first victory in
ten games last Friday
night.
They were rewarded for a
bright start on 21 minutes as
Steve Palmer headed home
Ben Wilkinson’s free-kick at
the far post – his second goal
in three games – to put the
Mikes ahead.
United replied well and
former Boldmere man Joel
Ayettey came closest to
equalising when his lob over
advancing keeper Lewis
Gwilliams bounced higher
than expected off the firm
ground and just cleared the
bar.
After the interval, Causeway came more into the
game and levelled in the
58th minute as Gwilliams
saved Jack Pearlman’s freekick but the United man
tucked home at the second
attempt.
It did not take the Mikes
long to regain the lead as
centre-back
Ben
Birch
headed home a Heath freekick but it needed a great
save from Gwilliams to preserve the advantage.
Jason Holmes spurned a
great chance to settle
Boldmere’s nerves when he
blasted over the bar from
close range but the Mikes
hung on to end a run of 50
days without a victory.
Paget lose, point for Sutton
Midland Two
PAGET RANGERS 0
CHELMSLEY TOWN 1
PAGET slipped to a single
goal defeat at the hands of
Chelmsley on Saturday for
the second time in a week.
Paget had started brightly
with Chelmsley keeper Sawyer foiling both Fagg and
Carpenter, while Mungwira
had their best chance but
directed his header wide
when unmarked.
On the run up to half-time,
Chelmsley began to get on
top and Lloyd’s shot on the
HOW THEY STAND
KARATE: Members of the
Sutton Shukokai Club enjoyed
plenty of medal success at last
weekend’s KWON Open Karate
Competition in Birmingham.
Charlie Aston won two gold
medals and Ricard Barnes
claimed bronze in his first
competition. Roberto Menchini
and Ben Lancaster both won
bronze while Chloe Barnes
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Midland League Premier Division
P W
L Pts
Basford United .... 34 25
7 77
Coleshill Town..... 34 22
7 71
Lye Town ............ 36 22 11 69
Long Eaton Utd ... 33 18
7 62
Walsall Wood ...... 33 18
9 60
Kirby Muxloe ....... 34 18 11 59
Quorn ................. 36 17 12 58
Westfields .......... 35 16 10 57
AFC Wulfrunians .. 34 17 12 56
Stourport Swifts .. 35 15 11 54
BOLDMERE ........ 35 15 14 51
Rocester............. 35 15 17 48
Alvechurch .......... 34 12 13 45
Shepshed Dynamo 36 12 16 44
Coventry Sphinx .. 36 11 16 39
Causeway United. 35 12 20 39
Brocton .............. 33
9 14 37
Loughborough Uni 36
9 19 35
Continental Star .. 33 10 18 32
Heath Hayes ....... 35
6 20 27
Dunkirk............... 33
7 22 25
Tipton Town ........ 35
5 25 20
Division Two
P W
L Pts
Coventry United... 22 18
3 55
Leicester Road.... 21 11
3 40
SUTTON UNITED . 23 10
5 38
Aston ................. 24 10
6 38
Barnt Green Spartak 23 12
9 38
Hampton ............ 24 10
7 37
Chelmsley Town .. 25 10 10 35
Fairfield Villa ....... 21 10
8 33
Earlswood Town .. 18
8
4 30
FC Glades........... 21
7
6 29
PAGET RANGERS 22
7 10 26
Droitwich Spa...... 22
8 13 25
Feckenham ......... 19
7
9 24
Knowle ............... 20
6
9 23
Kenilworth Tn KH. 21
4 13 13
Coton Green ....... 26
1 24
4
turn brought a fine save out
of Maguire, while Ellis also
shot just wide.
Paget created chances
after the break as Fagg shot
just over and Morris forced
Sawyer into a fine save.
Howard went closest to
breaking the deadlock when
his shot on the turn hit the
Chelmsley crossbar.
However, it was the visitors who scored the only
goal on 75 minutes as
Maguire saved from Lloyd
but the ball fell to Ellis who
fired low into the Paget net.
Rangers pushed for an
equaliser but Morris’s effort
from distance flew wide and
Sawyer made a good save
from Morris’s free-kick.
FECKENHAM 3
SUTTON UNITED 3
UNITED dropped two points
in the race for promotion
but were glad to rescue a
draw from 3-1 down at halftime to lowly Feckenham.
Sutton took the lead on 12
minutes as Chad Duggan
headed home a Jared McGivern cross but three goals
in 16 minutes put Feckenham firmly in control.
United were excellent after
the break with the introduction of Ryan Simmonds from
the bench key as he scored
from 25 yards and set up
Lewis for the equaliser.
They pushed for the winner without success but face
Feckenham again at Hollyfield Road tomorrow (Saturday) in the second part of
a quick-fire double-header.
■ Sutton United B team secured a 1-0 win at home
against Old Wulfrunians C
in the Birmingham AFA.