Saturday, August 22, 2015

Secondary Interschool Athletics Carnival.

The Interschool Athletics carnival was held over two days to cover all field and track events. BTC  athletes had some pleasing results and all athletes gave their best with some students filling in events at the last minute to ensure BTC had a representative competing.
In the girls BTC had 3 Age Champions Merial Kenni (Open) Jessee Santo ( 15 yrs) and Annie Luckman (14yrs). The girls came second in the  Aiden Scott Girls Aggregate Trophy to CCC by the narrowest of margins.... BTC 444   CCC 446.    Well done girls!  In the boys Jack Donaldson was Runner Up in 14yrs boys with only 2 points difference between  runner up and age champion. the boys came 4th in the Alex Forbes Memorial Aggregate Shield.  Overall  BTC placed 3rd in the Peter Crow Combined Aggregate Trophy. Colin Davis won the 14 Yrs Multi-Class Age Group and Alex Ford won the 16 yrs Multi- Class Age Group.
Below are individual results from the carnival:-

In the hurdles Merial Kenni, Jessee Santo  and Allen Rau placed  1st, while Jemma Callope, Babetha Nona,  Brennan Leggett, Ethan Morea, Jack Donaldson and Louie Johnson placed 4th. In the 1500m  Jack Donaldson placed 1st, Patrice Jones ,Merial Kenni and Catherine Oliver placed 2nd with Jemimah Phillott, Maddison Aitchison, Mitch Fogarty crossing 3rd and BouDean Evans, Mericka Friday and Hayley Condon claiming 4th .In the 800m  2nd places were run by Catherine Oliver,Patrice Jones, and Mitch Fogarty while 3rd places were claimed by Jack Donaldson, India Aitchison, and Jemimah Phillott and in 4th was Kelsey Jones and Evie Batt.  In the 400m Merial  Kenni , Annie Luckman and Jessee Santo placed 1st while Patrice Jones and Jack Donaldson claimed 2nd, Kelsey Jones 3rd and Evie Batt , Adagi Lifu 4th. In the 200m  Annie Luckman, Jessee Santo, Merial Kenni placed 1st, while Jack McQueen sizzled to  also claim 1st  with Jack Donaldson also crossing the line 1st.  Allan Rau crossed 3rd and Toniesha Williams and Patrice Jones 4th.Alex Ford and Colin Davis also claimed the blue ribbon in their 100m event.
In the 100m  Jesse Santo stopped the clock at 12.37seconds to not only come 1st and break the 15yr  girls record ( that was set in 2005).....but that time would have broken every 100m girls record in the program.  Annie Luckman and Merial Kenni also claimed first place. Jack Donaldson crossed the line first and Allen Rau fought hard to claim a 2nd place. Also placing 2nd was Veau Godua,  Jack McQueen 3rd and Toniesha Williams 4th. Alex Ford  also received another blue ribbon in his 100m race.

In the field events BouDean Evans claimed 1st in Open Boys discus with James Freestone  claiming 2nd. Brittney Lifu placed 1st and Toneisha Williams 3rd in 16yrs Girls Shotput. Toniesha Williams  also placed 3rd in Javelin, 4th in Discus and Long Jump. Sarah Epong came 4th in Javelin. In the 15yrs Girls Javelin Kiara Guiligo not only came 1st but broke the record (which was held by BTC's Tanay Lifu) Kiara also placed 1st in 15yrs Javelin and 2nd in Shotput. Annie Luckman  placed 1st in 14 yrs Girls Triple Jump , Long Jump and High Jump and 4th in Discus. Catherine Oliver placed 2nd in the 14yrs discus while Colin Davis placed 1st in his discus event.   Other 14 yr girls events included Olivia Treacy  2nd in Long Jump and 4th in High Jump, Tenisha Solomon 2nd in Javelin,  Tarrisha Baira 1st in Shotput. Madi Smith claimed 2nd and Michaela Henry 3rd in the Open Girls Javelin.  In  other  Open Events, Merial Kenni was 2nd in High Jump, Triple Jump,1st in Shot Put and 3rd in Long Jump. Emma Condon was 2nd in Open Shot Put.Amber Curtis was 1st in the Shotput. Jessee Santo  was 1st in  15 yrs Long Jump, Triple Jump and High Jump and 4th in Discus and Shotput while Patrice Jones was 4th in Long Jump. Zac Wilson  came into the Open Boys Shot Put as reserve and won the red ribbon in 2nd place.15 yr boys saw Adagi Lifu place1st in Javelin, 4th in Long Jump and High Jump and Mitch Fogarty claim 4th in Shotput.  14 yr old Jay Pacey was 3rd in Javelin, while Jack Donaldson was 1st in Discus,3rd in Shotput and 4th in Long Jump. Isaiah Vailalo threw the discus in the 13yrs event to claim a 2nd place while in the Girls 13 yrs Discus Chloe Cain claimed 2nd as well Chloe also was 1st in Shotput while fellow 13yr old, Babetha Nona was 1st in Triple Jump,and 3rd in Long Jump. Braithen Knox was 4th in Discus and Javelin and Louie Johnstone 4th in Shotput. In the 12 yrs age group Jahana Critchley came 4th in Shotput, Alix Reed 4th Discus,  Caleb Henry 3rd in Long Jump and Leah Williams 1st in High Jump.