Leevale Open Sports

EVENT DATE - Sat  05/04/14 & Sun  06/04/14
Venue - Leevale AC
Uploaded by Garrett Moylan, with thanks to PRO Ray Deering
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Several of our athletes competed in the Leevale Open Sports and had considerable success.

Saturday
Saturday’s events were for Senior and Junior athletes and despite the poor weather conditions, performances were good.
In the Junior 1500m we had first places in both the men and women races with Ciara Cummins recording 4.51.58 and Tom Hennessy 4.21.34 to claim their victories. Paul White was 2nd in the 400m in a good time of 50.11 and recorded 23.44 in the 200m.

Aoife Tierney finished 3rd in the Pole Vault clearing 1.90m. Dan Finnerty was 5th in the Javelin with a throw of 39.11m and clocked 12.21 in the 100m and 23.64 in the 200m. Mikey Quilligan was 4th in the 400m Hurdles in a time of 58.24, while Magaret Mary Grace ran 1.07.49 in her 400m heat. Our 4x100m mens team of Paul, Dan, Mikey and Tom finished 2nd in the relay.

Sunday
Sunday was confined to juveniles and despite only having only a few athletes competing, we managed to bring home some medals.
Alannah Deering won the u15 800m and was 3rd in the u16 High Jump.
Tom Mc Cutheon finished 2nd in both the u11 60m and the 300m.
Sean Carolan was 3rd in the u14 Shot.