Local Sport
18th April 2019
Issue 1057
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PACKED OUT PARK RUN IN PENISTONE
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Start of Penistone Parkrun (photo courtesy of Steve Frith)
RUNNERS came in their droves to take part in the first Penistone Parkrun on a fine Saturday morning, with 375 taking part. Parkruns are free to enter and occur all around the country every Saturday morning at 9am. The Penistone Parkrun begins on the showground and runs out and back on the Trans Penine Trail. There were 63 athletes taking part from Penistone Footpath runners. The event was hailed a success and
trade at local cafes afterwards was reported as being brisk. Andrew Heppenstall continued his fine form with a top 10 finish at the Northumberland Cragside 10k. Andrew placed 9th in a time of 37-17. Julie Darigala and Brent Lindsay competed in the Eskdale Fell race on a beautiful spring day taking in Whin Rigg and Scafell. The race was 18.5 kilometres in distance with 1,275 metres of ascent. Julie completed in a time of 2-48
and Brent 3-28. Elsewhere on the fells Steve Sanders and Myfanwy Cross competed in the Peat Pit Woods Fell race. Steve placed 19th in a time of 20-36 and Myfanwy was 62nd in 26-28.
First back was Lee Nash in 53rd place in a time of 1-21-22. Lee was closely followed in by Charlie Skipper (1-22-16) and veteran Martin Ball (1-22-24) who were both inside the first 100 finishers.
A good number of Penistone runners competed in the challenging but popular Sheffield Half Marathon. Many achieved personal bests in the cool but run friendly conditions.
First lady back for Penistone was Jill Carlton in 1-47-27. Bryan Harrod guided a visually impaired runner round to finish in 1-45-56.
finish in second place in a time of 18-05. Lee’s father Steve finished in 12th in 21-51 whilst under 12 youngster Joseph Storey was third in the under 12 category. Julia Johnson claimed 2nd lady over55 at the Vale of York 10 mile race in a time of 1-10-14. Hannah Butcher (1-15-40) and Mark Graham (1-17-09) also took part.
Three generations of the Storey family competed in the Matlock 5k. Lee Storey had a strong run to
First full busy week of the summer at Stocksbridge Golf Club WITH the summer season just two weeks old, the number of competitions over the last seven days is now up to full steam. The first competition of the week was the Dragons mid-week Summer Cup on April 10.
The latest round was won by J. Sykes (16) with an excellent score of 40 points. He was three points clear of P. Hodkin (37) in second place with 37 points. T. Newton (13) and J. Moss (22) both finished with 36 points, but
the former took third place with a better back nine score. The gents section played its first mid-week competition, a stableford on April 11. A small field competed and S. Coutts (10) won with 38 points, ahead of C. Dale (4) on 26 points.
D. Stringer (12) took third with 34 points, the same score as P. Jepson (12), but with a better back nine. Due to a technical problem with the club competition score recording the weekend competitions will be reported next week
TEN-GOAL CHURCH
PENISTONE Church celebrated the best season in the club’s history as they scored 10 goals in two wins this week. On Wednesday, Kieran Ryan led the scoring with a hat-trick as Church beat Eccleshill United 7-3 away
from home. Jordan Coduri and Conor Glavin were also on target with Sam Scrivens bagging a brace. Then, on Saturday, James Young, Jordan Coduri and Andy Ring scored the goals as they beat Stave-
ley Miners Welfare 3-1 in front of a crowd of over 200.
Church manager Ian Richards said: “We celebrate an unbelievable season - to be top two for 90% of the season, scoring 109 goals.
“It’s a phenomenal achievement and it’s credit to the players. We’ve now got a two-week window, which has come at a good time for players to rest, recover, prepare but we want to win the final game of the season. We want to go out on a high.
“We want go out on 82 points, see if we can break the 110-goal barrier! It’s a great game to finish, against Yorkshire Amateur so we’ll be doing everything we can to win it. We won’t just relax. We want to finish on a win and nothing else.”
