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The new Year 7 announced themselves on the Borough

Stephen

Rettke-Grover.

Senior Aelf Vandenbegin and Aranan officials

circuit with a fine win at Richard Challoner school on Tuesday 10th November. Euan Sinclair, Will Murphy, Matthew O’Donovan and Tom Armstrong spearheaded a dominant performance against strong local opposition. They succeeded in closing out all but the bronze medal position in the top 5! Supported by two top ten performances for Ben Couzens and Joe Murphy, both selected for the Borough team, and a Borough squad selection position in the top 20 for Jack Hartley and Alistair Brendon, it was a good day for the ebullient team. Saturday warriors of Luis Bullinger, Gideon Afreh, Nicholas Lan, Milo Morrod and Aryan Aggarwal all performed well as did super-sub Vladimir Kalashnikov. The junior team (Years 8 & 9) battled hard and closed the gap to first position. The team was led by the irrepressible Eyoel Abebaw- Mesfin, Ben D’Souza , Sam Taylor and the all-important last scoring athlete, Umair Azhar. All gained Borough selection. The inter-team was spirited and impressive with Luca Jackson, Ravneet Kapoor, Aum Joshi and star find, David Cho, all scoring and gaining a great top 3 team position. The seniors defied some marshalling shuffling of the finishing order and the 11+ calling away some of our strong Upper Sixth to obtain a fine one point win over the hosts and a multitude of others. Arthur Morris and Sasvinth Sarveswaran looked especially strong in their senior debuts at the Championships, as did relatively new finds Marc Tidon and

Wijayasooria also continued to impress along with the rest of a strong senior squad. National Junior Knole Run At the National Junior Knole run on Friday 20 November at Sevenoaks Eyoel Abebaw- Mesfin, Euan Sinclair, Will Murphy and Matthew O’Donovan all ran magnificently to place us in the top 10 in the country at year 8 age. What is even more remarkable is that Euan, Will and Matt are all in year 7! There were over 100 teams competing with 325 individual athletes to complete the tough 4K course. St Albans Relay On Wednesday 18th November the cross country team ran in the annual St Albans 6 man team relays. The challenge entailed a 3km loop around the perimeter of the sports ground. Stephen Rettke-Grover led team A with a sprint start and Eric Williams ran an astonishingly quick time of 11 minutes and 6 seconds on the second leg. The race was not without difficultly as it started to rain halfway through the competition and soon some lengths of the course became boggy. Tremendously each and every Tiffin participant ran faster times at St Albans than they had done during the 3km Haskell Cup race, with Joe Brown thrashing his former time by almost 2 minutes.