NORTH BAY RUNNING NEWS

Congratulations to the North Bay athletes who competed at the Ontario Command Legion Track and Field meet in London Ontario last weekend. Levi Charbonneau won the silver medal in the 17 years and under in the Pole Vault with a vault of 3.84. Adam Newton continued his hot hand this year winning the silver in the 100m in 10.98 into the wind. Adam also he placed 4th in the 200m in 22.5. Jennifer Gault won the bronze medal in the 17 years and under high jump with a jump of 1.57. Jennifer also placed 8th in the 200m in 27.5. Kelly Miller placed 9th in the 800m in 2.31 and 11th in the 1500m in 5.13 in the 17 years and under category. Lucas McAneney placed 7th and 13th respectively in the 3,000m in 9.19 and 4.22 in the 1500m to run out the rope in what has been a long stretch of racing this year. Kudos again to North Bayites Marcus Popp for his 2nd place finish in the Pole Vault and Greg Baril-Kenny in the High Jump at the Nationals in Victoria last weekend. To have two national ranked athletes in high profile events finish in the top ten, from the population base of North Bay is significant.

The results of the second and last Twilight meet at Cundari Field on July 23rd show cased a double victory for Lucas McAneney, who won the 1500 meter race and came back ten minutes later to win the 5,000m despite a hot pursuit by Ed McColm who couldn’t match the closing speed of the younger adversary. Based on the feedback from the competitors, there is keen interest to have more of these types of low key competitions next summer.

5000 meters

1. Lucas McAneney 16.47
2. Ed McColm 17.14
3. Donna Mae Robins 18.50
4. Lach McLachlan 23.19

1500 meters

1. Lucas McAneney 4.33.3
2. Marc Andre Paulin 4.41.0
3. Nick Walters 5.11.5
4. Matt Walters 5.18.3
5. Eric Lalande 5.35.3
6. Andrew Burke 5.36.1
7. Brad Perrin 5.45.1
8. Erin Pitkethy 6.00.3
9. Viola Burke 6.29.0