Girls beat the elements to claim victory at Barrow.

There was end of season feeling to the final Mid-lancs fixture held at Barrow–in-Furness on Saturday. With the holiday season having started and the prospect of a 4 hour round trip, many youngsters decided to give this meeting ‘a miss’. For the 33 LPS athletes who did make the journey, they were met by heavy rain and blustery conditions, so much so, that the meeting had to be suspended for a while until the rain went off.
Despite the tricky conditions, the high jump squad excelled as ever, with victories for Kai Finch (1.90m) at senior level, Jamie Hopkins (1.70m) at U17 and Sandy Clarkson (1.70m) at U15 . Niamh Doyle won the U15G event with a grade 1 standard jump of 1.58m.
Although pb’s were difficult to achieve in the conditions, U13 Katelyn Swift managed 3, with victory in the discus (19.69m) and long jump (3.90m) as well as running 3:12.6 in the 800m. Mum, Nicola also contributed valuable points with 2nd place finish in the shot & 4th place in both the discus & hammer, in between a spell of officiating. The Williamson sisters all ran the 800m with Jenny winning the U17 event in 2:32.90, Emily finishing 3rd in U15 race (2:42.9) & Hannah 7th at U13 level.
Maddie Eastwood will be pleased with her debut performance for the club, winning the U13 javelin with a throw of 13.15m, while in the same age group, Alicia Woods recorded pb’s in the 800m (2:51.0) and long jump ( 3.60m) where she finished 3rd.
At U15, Hope Kennedy was again successful in the javelin winning with a throw 28.56m, Martha Simms best performance was in the long jump (4.58m) where she finished in 2nd place, Roisin O’Connor recorded 7.01m to take 3rd place in the shot, while Faye Hannaway was 2nd in the 1500m, despite running in dreadful weather conditions. Pheobe Lucas also braved the elements to finish 2nd in the U17 1500m with Jessica Groves improving her hammer record by over 3 metres to finish 2nd with a throw of 39.72m.
The U17M tended to focus on the sprints with Callum Garvey equalling his pb when finishing 4th in the 100m (11.9), Marcus Bathie was 3rd in the 200m (24.9) & Ciaran Scroggie 6th in the 100m (12.3) The U15B consisted of Se Loughlin, who was 2nd in the 800m (2:20.9), Jacob Garrity who cleared 1.50m in the high jump and Gideon Lucas who improved his high jump to 1.35m, as well as finishing 3rd in the 1500m. Younger brother, Conrad, managed a 6th place finish in the U13 1500m. In the same age group, Ethan Tinsley was 4th in the 800m (2:43.9)
Matt Ingram was 3rd in the senior 100m(11.9) after being deprived of competing in the triple jump due to a lack of officials. Veteran Dave Brown also accrued some useful points with a 2nd place finish in both the discus (25.70m) and hammer (26.56m) & 3rd place in the shot (9.30m)
The girls comfortably won their match on the day with 128 points from Blackpool (88) & Preston (80) while the boys finished third (102) behind Blackpool (107) & Preston (147).