East Kilbride Athletic Club - Running Club located in Scotland

Congratulations to John Fergusson 35:14 and Jamie Clements 35:42 who took a fine 2nd and 3rd place respectively behind Stephen Wylie in the Senior Mens Race at Kilmarnock today. Both Under 20's were backed by old man Condra 14th 40:44 to claim the first team prize for EKAC. EKAC 19pts - Irvine 20pts.

In the young athletes only a few results are in. There was an excellent run for Caitlin Hackett in finishing 3rd in the Under 13 girls race and there were also top ten finishes for Fiona Borthwick and Andrew Shaw in the Under 17 races. Full results will follow.

Congratulations to Adam Gatens and Calum McLaughlin who finished 1st and 3rd respectively in the Tinto Junior Hill Race. Adam's time was 20:11 and Calum 23:48.

BUMP

Tickets are now on sale on club nights for the awards night. The tickets are £10 per adult £5 per child or £25 for a family ticket which is two adults plus your kids. Please make every effort to attend and make this a succesful evening.

Over the first XC race of the winter season East Kilbride AC had a decent turnout and some good performances at the above event.

Leading the way were the young females who were led in by an excellent run from Megan Stewart in 4th position. Deborah Stokoe was 6th fastest U17 with our fastest girls time of the day in 9.51. The positions and times of the three teams were:

10 Caitlin Hackett 10.26, 15 Jaqueline Fergusson 11.00, 14 Deborah Stokoe 9.51

4 Megan Stewart 10.13, 17 Jennifer Waddell 11.26, 18 Fiona Borthwick 10.36

27 Abby Stafford 11.24, 26 Rona Calder 10.57, 27 Hayley Frier 11.05

In the boys we also had three teams competing and Adam Gatens was the fastest from the club and 12th fastest U17 overall with a time of 8.27 the results were:

31 Jack Kirwan 10.43, 27 Ben Stafford 9.32, 23 Adam Gatens 8.27

33 Michael Hackett 10.52, 28 Scott Murray 9.28, 29 Andrew Shaw 9.12

20 Luke Kirwan 9.55, 21 Scott Hernon 9.40

Onto the Seniors and with an injection of youth in the A team (three U20’s) the guys managed a fine 12th position overall. Not to be outdone there were some resolute performances from the old codgers, sorry masters, in the B team. Running solo in the ladies race was club coach Elaine Calder who ran well to place 12th on the first leg in a time of 17.15.

5 Grant Baillie 13.07, 6 Jamie Clements 13.16, 10 David Gorman 15.13, 12 Niall Walker 15.22

49 Edgar Ramage 19.10, 45 Gordon Colvin 15.59, 43 Graeme Haddow 15.32, 39 David Condra 15.18