Latest Laois Sport: Laois Intermediate & Juvenile Cross Country Championships Update
Report from Laois Intermediate & Juvenile Cross Country Championship
The Laois Intermediate and Juvenile Cross Country Championships took place in Abbeyleix on Sunday Oct 8th.
In glorious sunshine, in Ireland’s Tidiest Town, the Vicarstown-based Oughaval AC literally “cleaned up” by winning both the Intermediate Mens and Intermediate Womens Team Titles.
Following on from their great performances two weeks ago, with the Mens Team winning the Novice Title, and their Womens Team winning the silver medals, it has been a great season so far for this small club down by the Grand Canal.
The Vicarstown parkrun and junior parkrun is paying dividends, with 2k and 5k runs taking place every weekend.
The Women’s team of Deirdre Miller, Frances Lalor, Catherine Stapleton and Edel Carty had to work hard over the hilly 4,000m course. Only a few points separated themselves and St. Michaels at the end.
The Men’s team of Daniel McLoughlin, Kristian Redmond, Oisin Jago, Paddy McLoughlin and Brian Hogan had a great battle all through with the St Abbans lads.
As the 5 laps progressed, the Oughaval lads had some places to make up, and slowly but surely they reeled them all in.
It was all down to a sprint finish between Paddy and Dave Murphy of St Michaels, to win the title.
Paddy outsprinted Dave by the smallest of margins to gain those valuable 2 points. They were superbly backed up by good runs from John Boland and Barra O’Nuallain also.
In the juvenile races there were numerous great Oughaval performances too.
In the juvenile races there were numerous great Oughaval performances too.
For individual medals, we have
Donnacha Delaney on the podium in Boys U8
Jacob Thomas and Michael Dunne – on the podium in Boys U9
Clodagh Deegan 3rd in Girls U9
Eliza McLoughlin winner of GU15
Katie McLoughlin, 2nd in Girls U17
Richard McLoughlin 1st and Ruairi Jago 2nd in Boys U19
For team medals we had the following success:
Boys U9 – Silver Medals – Jacob Thomas, Ciaran Goulding and Michael Dunne.
Boys U15 – Bronze – Sean Finnane, Cormac Foley and Oisin Finnane
Girls U13 – Bronze Medals –Taylor Bailey, Aine Goulding, Kathryn Gargan and Laoise Dunne
Girls U15 – Silver Medals – Eliza, Heidi Browne and Leah Foley
Girls U17 – Silver Medals – Katie, Della McLoughlin and Lucy Browne.
