Match Report by Des Webb:
Team Southampton's runners performed well at the traditional curtain raiser to their winter season on the road and cross country, in the Southern Road Relays at Aldershot's Rushmoor arena.

The best placed team in the younger age grooups was the under 17 womens team who took a very creditable 6th place by the end of their three relay legs. Louise webb who ran the second leg completed her lap of the 3km undulating course in a very fast time with the fifth fastest overall in the age group of 10mins 28seconds. She put the team in contention and then Laura Connolly the third leg runner ran a very brave final leg despite illness during the week to bring them home comfortably in the top 10 places out of a field approaching 50 teams.

Also running well were the u13 girls team. After a very good leg from their lead off runner Nichole Dally, who ran the fastest time of the 3 Southampton team members they were just outside the top 20. Katie Grimmett and laura seaman picked their way through the field over the next two legs to finish just outside the top 10 in 12th place.

Two under 15 girls teams were also competing and the top performer on the day for Southapton in the age group was Jenny Beckingham who ran a time of 11 mins and 15 seconds to place her 15th fastest overall on the day out of a total of over 150 runners drawn from all over the South of England.

In the mens race on the saturday the team of 6 runners, each running 6km finished in 50th place out of a out of 80 in 2:09:03. The team was without some of their usual members but Jon Brown performed excellently running the fastest leg of 19:46.

In the boys race top place for a team was taken by the youngsters, the u13's who finished in 13th place after great runs by Alex Ruggles, Zak Perress, Niall Holt and David Fisher (pictured) .

The Under 15 boys also ran well and led the race for a while on the first lap when Simon Ninnim (pictured) who medalled in the UK Athletics 800m this summer, took off at a lightening pace.Unfortunately he was overhauled before he completed his leg but still ran a very fast time of 10mins 9 seconds. The rest of the team kept up a strong performance finishing in 16th place overall.

The U17 boys also came 16th in their age group after running well and the B team showed strength in depth when they came in 33rd after a very fast first leg by Aaron Bennett who is maturing into a good prospect for the future (pictured) .

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U13 Girls

Team (12th Position)

Name	Performance
Nichole Dally	9:12
Katie Grimmett	9:20
Laura Seaman	9:12

U13 Boys

Team (13th Position)

Name	Performance
Alex Ruggles	11:40
Zak Perress	11:46
Naill Holt	11:42
David Fisher	12:15

B Team (incomplete)

Name	Performance
Ammarall Gill	12:32
Matthew Knapp	12:24

U15 Girls

A Team (26th Position)

Name	Performance
Jenny Beckingham	11:15 (15th fastest individual)
Hannah Musker	13:18
Mhairi-Clair Stewart	11:58

B Team (38th Position)

Name	Performance
Nicky Humphrey	12:59
Alisha Parnell	12:59
Fiona Thompson	12:52

C Team (Incomplete)

Name	Performance
Liberty Pritchard	12:59

U15 Boys

A Team (16th Position)

Name	Performance
Simon Ninnim	10:09
Chris Lewis	11:12
Ben Winstanley	11:00

B Team (26th Position)

Name	Performance
Martin Campbell	10:57
Jo Whelan	11:25
Max Costley	11:10
Simon Campbell	11:01

C Team (Incomplete)

Name	Performance
Marcus Lewis	11:56

U17 Women

Team (6th)

Name	Performance
Vicki Cronin	12:18
Louise Webb	10:28 (5th fastest individual)
Laura Connolly	12:15

U17 Men

A Team (16th)

Name	Performance
Jamie Knapp	13:08
Peter Batten	13:54
Chris Dennis	13:19
Scott Legg	13:39

B Team (33rd)

Name	Performance
Aaron Bennett	13:34
Harry Fisher	14:25
Colin Thompson	16:18
George Whelan	15:37

Senior Men

Team 50th

Name	Split 1	Split 2	Time	Place
Gareth Klepacz	9:52	10:19	20:11	47th
Russell Osborn	9:52	11:06	20:58	47th
Jon Brown	9:43	10:03	19:46	35th
Nigel Wright	10:48	10:46	21:34	38th
Christian Folliot	10:38	10:35	21:13	38th
David Cousins	12:22	12:59	25:21	50th

Total : 2:09:03 50th / 86
6x6Km, Two Lap Course.

Please Note:
These results are based on information sent to me. Any problems with names / times / positions then e-mail teamsouthampton@hotmail.com