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It's tough at this level, so some good performances here, especially by Archie in the U13 boys race. Figures in brackets give size of field/winning time.

U13 boys Archie Davis 32nd 12:29 (224/11:19)
Sen women Liz Durman 83rd 35:23 Erica Martin 90th 35:46 Sonal Chaudhary
331st 46:11 (381/29.47)
Sen men Dave Carter 106th 55:31 Andrew Neighbour 521st 1:08:04 (885/48:23)

Next year this fixture will be at Stanmer Park. Maybe we can look forward to a better turnout and, who knows, some teams!

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Phoenix athletes were prominent among the medals

SENIOR BOYS. Charlie Grice (Cardinal Newman) silver.
INTERMEDIATE BOYS. Jake Elliot (Blatchington Mill) gold, Will Durkin (Ardingly) silver.
JUNIOR BOYS. Billy White (Patcham) gold
SENIOR GIRLS. Beth Kidger (Sussex Downs College) bronze.

There were plenty of other excellent performances by Phoenix youngsters.

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It's the boys teams that are still keeping the Phoenix flag flying. The U13 boys fielded 5 runners with Archie Davis (3rd), Reuben Hoyte (4th), Isaac Wright (9th) running exceptionally well, with Joe Lillie and Will Russell in support. Winners on the day, the team have now moved into bronze position overall. The U15 boys have jumped from 7th to 4th overall with excellent runs from Billy White (3rd), Sam Kitchen (14th) and Luke Reynolds (21st). Thats where it stops with the under 17 boys without a team and no longer featuring in the tables.

Well done to Charlotte Matthews, Elorah Mann (U13G), Jodie Mann, Amber Muir (U15G) for strong performances. Its always going to be difficult to trouble the medals without full scoring teams. The U15s, though, have moved up from 9th to 8th place.

Then – oh dear – the senior turnout was dire. The women first. TheU17 runner Megan Lillie, was the ONLY Phoenix runner. She ran brilliantly for 30th place but in division 2, the women's team has now plunged from third to fifth position overall.

The men too were unable to provide a complete scoring team with James Miles (an excellent 9th) the only senior runner. As ever it was down to the four vets who turned up to provide a measure of respectability. Bruce Warren (33rd), Nigel Herron (48th) and Malcolm Hughes (69th) ran well, with O65 runner Andrew Haig (91st) unexpectedly having to contribute to the scoring. Inevitably the seniors have slipped from third to 4th overall but with 34 points separating them from bronze could still get among the medals at Lancing. The vets have slipped a place to 5th but it's very tight with just 11 points separating them from bronze-placed Arena 80.

THIS FROM U13 BOYS MANAGER QUENTON DAVIS:
…the U13 Boys now lie in bronze position in the team event overall. Statistically, we have not yet fielded our strongest 3 runners in any of the first 3 matches. Brighton & Hove have pretty much run away with the gold medal  but Chichester, currently in 2nd place,  are now only 15 points ahead of the Phoenix Boys. After the great performances on Saturday at Bexhill, we took the team event over Chichester by 12 points. With Archie Davis now looking like he is back to full fitness and the other boys all improving with every match, particularly Reuben, Matt Berridge and Isaac Wright, if we manage to field our strongest teams at Lancing, it may all get very interesting indeed. Whatever the outcome, this has been an outstanding cross country season for the Phoenix U13 Boys, who are pretty much all in their first season and with the exception of Will Russell, all eligible to compete in this age group again.

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A great showing by Daryll Hards for second place on this tough 10 miler.

2nd Daryll Hards 1:00:23
54th Terry Avey 1:16:20
60th Matt Plass 1:17:01
103rd Peter Hards 1:23:06
123rd Will Flewett 1:25:27
159th Elana Moore 1:29:50
325th Paul Thomas 2:29:14

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A very cold day so a reasonable turnout especially by the seniors /vets

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