Report by Siobhan Grant

On Friday, Newcastle Ac Junior runners Emily Kerr, Harry Mc Veigh and Saorlaith McAleenan made the long trip to Mallusk to take part in the Flahavans Primary XC NI Final.
Welcoming over 300 of the province’s best runners who had qualified after 3 gruelling rounds of distances ranging from 1000m to 1400m during the winter months.

The runners with the lowest scores over 2 of the 3 rounds qualified for the finals. With the competition returning to the pre covid structure resulted in qualifying becoming more difficult. As news filtered through, Saorlaith qualified with 3 points, Harry with 5 and Emily with 15 securing the last place for the individual girls qualifaction after a 7th and 8th place in Round 1 and 2. Continue reading →