Pershore Swimmers in Best Ever Showing.

13 May 2010

Pershore Swimmers in Best Ever Showing.

 

In the most compelling display of  excellent swimming Pershore Swimmers smashed a ton of pb's seventeen 1st places, sixteen 2nd places and eleven 3rd places only one 5th places and no last places in any event at their latest Nuneaton Junior League match.

 

Once again it was a stupendous start with a 1st place recorded by Tazmin Pugh and a 2nd by Drew Jones in their 10 year age 50m free; followed by 1st places by Hannah Simister  and Tyler Mclean in their 9 year 25m breast; and a 1st place in the fifth event the girls 11yrs and under 4 x 1 Medley Relay, comprising Lizzie Vizard (19.97 back), Laura Snape (22.48 breast), Alison Seward (19.63 fly), Tessa Carr (17.74 free) 1.19.82.

 

Event 6 the boys 11/u 4 x 1 Medley witnessed a 3rd place with Michael Evans (20.66 back), Jack Betteridge (24.84 breast), Adam Palin (19.52) fly), Callum Sanderson (18.65 free) 1.23.67. Another two 2nd places came in the 12/u 50m back for Katie Sharratt 41.35 and Angus Jones 40.35.   With two 1st places a 2nd and two 3rd places by the fourteenth event Pershore Swimming Club were beginnnng to build a lead over the host club Tamworth.

 

Tamworth themselves had finished 2nd in their first match in April as had Pershore and so winners honours and a place in the September finals and possible promotion were even more at stake. 10 year old  Alison Seward finished 3rd in her individual 12/u 50m fly (43.16) with Angus Jones going one better with 2nd 12/u 50m fly (43.88).  The girls and boys 10/u Medley Relays recorded another two 2nd places.  Seward was soon in action again  (2nd with 42.91) and Joseph Doyle (1st with 39.89) in their 10/u backstroke events.

 

Hannah Simister led out the 9 yr 4 x 1 free relay with 23.17 handing over to Mia de Toit 28.10, Amy Weston 21.62 and Beth Snape 25.19 coming home in 3rd place with 1.38.08.  The 9 yr boys free relay showed their fighting spirit with 1.29.33 and a 2nd place made up of James Bower 21.95; Ben Doyle 23.27; Mclean 17.66 and Isaac Stephens 26.45.  Rhiannon swam to a 3rd placed finish in the 12/u breaststroke whilst Harry Sykes entered the fray in his first of many swims of the evening with a 1st placed finish 41.12.

 

In the 10/u freestyle relays another 2nd and 1st place from the girls and boys respectively at the half way point gave Pershore (176) a one point lead over Tamworth (175).  It was then Tamworth began recording a few wins themselves in the boys 11/u and girls 9 yr Pershore coming in 3rd and 4th though Tazmin Pugh won by half a length with 38.65 in her 50m 11/u fly and Tyler Mclean 20.09 for the 9 yr 25m fly.  Sykes also recorded a 1st place with 32.60 in the 12/u 50m free.  In the 8 x 1 free relay comprising two girls from each age group Weston, the Snape sisters, Creed-Miles, Carr, Cordiner and Pugh came in a 2nd .  Pugh in fact was in action soon after again winning comfortably in the 10/u backstroke with 39.38 as too did Joseph Doyle in his 10/u back with 40.52.

 

Two more pb's came in the 9 yr 25m free from James Bower 21.81 and Amy Weston 21.00.  In the two relays and two individual 50m 11/u breaststroke which followed two 3rd and two 2nd placed finishes Tamworth had started to get away ready to build on an 8pt lead.  

 

The boys managed to put a halt to this by winning their own 8 x 1 (2 boys each age) relay, great performances coming from Bower 22.92, Mclean 17.74, Betteridge 17.87, Joseph Doyle 16.61, Palin 19.31, Evans 17.35,Sykes 14.887, and the elder Jones brother Angus with17.80.   A plucky 3rd from Creed-Miles (24.23) and 2nd from Doyle 18.22 in the 10/u fly events helped and a 4th  in the 25m back from Beth Snape 28.16 and a 2nd from Bower 24.13 may have seen Pershore slipping but Tamworth faulted themselves.

 

When Tessa Carr swam 38.48 in the 11/u free (3rd) and Michael Evans 38.42 in the same event (2nd) Tamworth's lead had evaporated and it now became level pegging with only three events left.  The 12/u girls 4 x 1 Medley Relay could only manage 3rd place and it was left up to the 12/u boys to try to rectify the situation.  They came in 1st by a length with the lead backstroke leg from Angus Jones of 19.45, a breast time of 19.71, a great pb fly leg from Palin 20.47 and 17.12 frontcrawl time from Evans in a club record time of 1.11.12.

 

With a one point lead going into the lfinal event coach Tom Naughton calmly looked upon proceeding having picked his team and now having to leave it up to a mix of four girls and four boys. 

 

Having only come into the team twenty four hours earlier young rookie Mia de Toit became one of the most important members of the team on the lead leg.  She swam a pb with 21.55 handing over 3rd place but safely to Tyler Mclean (17.64) who came back touching level with Tamworth.  Tazmin Pugh was not about to the team down let down (16.25) and when she took over established a good enough lead so that even when Tamworth came back in the fourth leg Drew Jones still held on handing over to Tessa Carr (18.44) but with times of 18.01 from Evans, 16.02 from Amy Porter and 15.38 from Sykes the team came in easy winners.  A tentative few minutes followed to see if there had been any disqualifications but the six points were indeed secure.

 

When the results were read out in reverse order the announcer could not make himself  heard above the cheering from Pershore as Tamworth were read out as 2nd on 241pts and Pershore had pipped them on 243pts.  This was the first win in the Nuneaton junior league for the Pershore club and together with their 2nd place from the first leg they lie in joint second place from the eighteen clubs in their division.  Other clubs swimming in the gala were Warley Wasps 96 pts; Perry Beeches & SSS 120 pts; Boldmere "C" 148 pts and Broadway (B'ham) 172 pts.   Next leg 26th June.

 

This was a memorable evening for the club and if the young team had been allowed to carry their Head Coach Tom Naughton out of the Tamworth Snowdome high on their shoulders they would have done.

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