Sure-footed Victoria is no stick in the mud

Graves lost her shoe in the mud soon after the start of the race on Knavesmire, but showed great determination in her first-ever race to continue and lead her school to their highest team placing of third.

She was followed by promising newcomers Joanna Mason (Mount) and Vicki Needham (Canon Lee).

St Olave's strength in depth enabled them to win the team award with Canon Lee gaining second place.

Archbishop's - and indeed the Graves family - landed a great double when Victoria's brother, Philip, won the Junior Boys event.

Lara Gibbs of St Peter's School was a convincing winner of the intermediate race.

The Junior girls finished the busy day with the two strongest runners quickly opening up a big lead over the rest of the big field.

In mid-race Emma Macalister-Hall (St Olave's) produced an amazing change of pace to gain a convincing lead, with Tadcaster's Nicola Lampard in second spot.

Lampard had had an excellent run on a tough course in the English Schools Cup Final only three days earlier.

Tadcaster also gained third, fourth and fifth places and so became convincing team winners. Tadcaster's score of 26 points for five runners would have beaten a combined team from all other schools.

The first 20 runners in each race have been invited to represent the area on January 12 and 19. Any runner who missed the trials but would like to take part in future races should contact their PE teacher or ring 01937 581165 for further information.

A total of 280 girls took part in the races.

Girls results

Year 7 (107 ran)

1 Victoria Graves (Arch), 2 Joanna Mason (Mo), 3 Vicki Needham (CL), 4 Amelia Smalley (St O), 5 Jessica Osbourne (QM), 6 Emma Phillips (QM), 7 Sarah Hayes (Tad), 8 Lauren England (St O), 9 Joy Barker (St O), 10 Lily Willetts (CL), 11 Georgina Phillips (QM), 12 Melanie Benfield (CL), 13 Sophie Walton (Sher), 14 Rachel Hawkhead (JR), 15 Suzanne Ellwood (Oak), 16 Christine Patterson (Oak), 17 Victoria Palliser (AS), 18 Abbi Matthews (Mo), 19 Gemma Goodall (Read), 20 Elizabeth Robinshaw (Bo).

Team Placings: 1 St Olave's 65 pts, 2 Canon Lee 106 pts, 3 Archbishop's 144 pts, 4 The Mount 174 pts, 5 Millthorpe 180 pts, 6 Tadcaster 198 pts, 7 All Saints 199 pts, 8 Oaklands 219 pts, 9 Joseph Rowntree 237 pts, 10 Sherburn 257 pts, 11 Selby 394 pts.

Junior Girls (127 ran)

1 Emma Macalister-Hall (St O), 2 Nicola Lampard (Tad), 3 Lauren Mason (Tad), 4 Nina Batt (Tad), 5 Charlotte Maxted (Tad), 6 Katie Mellor (St P), 7 Amy Taylor (Sel), 8 Emma Hammill (St O), 9 Lucy Bennett-Baggs (QM), 10 Rachel Hemblade (Mill), 11 Jenny Crossland (Sel), 12 Kate Hollier (Tad), 13 Stacey Church (Ma), 14 Rosie Evans (Mo), 15 Joanne Feasby (AS), 16 Emma Shooter (Tad), 17 Sophie Cuthbertson (St O), 18 Phillipa Hetherton (Mo), 19 Laura Hunter (Mill), 20 Frances McCormick (AS).

Team Placings: 1 Tadcaster 26 pts, 2 St Peter's 64pts, 3 Millthorpe 114 pts, 4 Queen Margaret's 154 pts, Tadcaster B 184 pts, 5 All Saints 204 pts, 6 Selby 210 pts, 7 Fulford 232 pts, St Peter's B 237 pts, 8 The Mount 238 pts, 9 Sherburn 317 pts, 10 Bootham 410 pts, 11 Read School 417 pts, 12 Archbishop's 572 pts.

Intermediate Girls (46 ran)

1 Lara Gibbs (St P), 2 Mary Gore-Booth (QM), 3 Ruth Tinsley (Sel), 4 Karen Espiner (Sher), 5 Lisa Collett (Tad), 6 Liz Hodgkinson (QM), 7 Asha Hibbert (CL), 8 Lara Turner (St P), 9 Kerry Waterworth (CL), 10 Holly Atkinson (CL), 11 Anna Clarke (St P), 12 Lauren Walker (St P), 13 Kerry Howden (Sel), 14 Lizzie Fishley (St P), 15 Kristina Stiller (QM), 16 Chloe Curry (AS), 17 Louise Bonnie (CL), 18 Emma McHale (Arch), 19 Faye Woodhead (Bo), 20 Briony Pollard (Mo).

Team Placings

1 St Peter's, 2 Canon Lee, 3 Queen Margaret's, 4 Selby, 5 The Mount, 6 Archbishop's, 7 Bootham, 8 Read School.

Boys results

The first 20 boys in each age group were as follows:

Year 7

1 Michael Williams (Car), 2 Liam Simpson (Mill). 3 Sebastian Batchelor (St O), 4 Daniel Bass (Tad), 5 Tom Nicholas (Tad) 6 Jordan Nadian (St O), 7 Finn McCusker (Ful), 8 James McTurk (StO), 9 Charles Metcalfe (Ful), 10 Luke Dale (Mill), 11 Edward Mackenzie (StO), 12 Joshua Shaw (Read), 13 Daniel Burke (Arch) 14 Jamie Williamson (Ma), 15 Aaron Barnard (Sel), 16 Nick Moss (Ma), 17 Jamie Williamson (Ma), 18 Jordan McGuigan (JR), 19 Jack Webster (Sher), 20 Tim Calpin (Arch).

Team Placings: 1 St Olave's 84 pts, 2 Fulford 116 pts, 3 Archbishop's 166 pts, 4 Manor 209 pts, 5 Millthorpe 219 pts, 6 Sherburn 241 pts, 7 Tadcaster 258 pts, 8 All Saints 273 pts, 9 Selby 312 pts, 10 Canon Lee 350 pts, 11 Bootham 416 pts, 12 Read School 487 pts, 13 Brayton, Joseph Rowntree, Carlton.

Junior Boys

1 Phil Graves (Arch), 2 Robert McQuarrie (Sher), 3 Liam Taylor (Sel), 4 Simon Walker (Sher), 5 Adam Wright (Ful), 6 Matthew Suggitt (Tad), 7 Tom Bean (Ma), 8 Tom Breslin (Ma), 9 John McGrory (Car), 10 Ben Brannigan (Arch), 11 James Tweedie (Car), 12 Jon Sharp (Arch), 13 Mark Harrison (Mill), 14 Alistair Smith (Ma), 15 Jack Scott (Tad), 16 Chris Whincup (Bo), 17 John Gothard (AS), 18 Rob Kendrew (Mill), 19 Neil Dixon (Sher), 20 David Brown (Tad).

Team Placings: 1 Tadcaster 144 pts, 2 Carlton 157 pts, 3 Manor 167 pts, 4 Archbishop's 173 pts, 5 Millthorpe 180 pts, 6 Sherburn 249 pts, 7 All Saints 259 pts, 8 Selby 339 pts, 9 Bootham 346 pts, 10 Huntington 423 pts, 11 Canon Lee 556 pts, 12 Brayton 590 pts.

Intermediate Boys

1 Tom McIlroy (JR), 2 Shane Murphy (AS), 3 Jonathan Readshaw (Read), 4 Craig Anderson (Sel), 5 Lee Gemmell (Sel), 6 Simon Armistead (JR), 7 Chris Moore (Arch), 8 Joe Davies (Tad), 9 Martin Perry (AS), 10 Gavin Husband (Ma), 11 Stephen Morton (Sel), 12 Wayne Weatherill (Tad), 13 Dave Gothard (AS), 14 Luke Wood (Sel), 15 Ben Wheldrick (Ma), 16 Nick Sharpe (Arch), 17 Matthew Lord (Arch), 18 Stephen Kitching (Read), 19 Stephen Butterfield (Arch), 20 Jamie Jennings (Read).

Team placings: 1 All Saints 96 pts, 2 Archbishop's 112 pts.

Key: Arch = Archbishop's; AS = All Saint's; Bo = Bootham; CL = Canon Lee; Ful = Fulford; JR = Joseph Rowntree; Ma = Manor; Mill = Millthorpe; Mo = The Mount; Oak = Oaklands; QM = Queen Margaret's; Read - Read School; Sel = Selby; Sher =Sherburn; St O = St Olave's; St P = St Peter's; Tad = Tadcaster.

Football

Joseph Rowntree won the final of the Under 12 Yappers Cup and will represent York in the county championships after Christmas.

Burnholme, Manor and Millthorpe were the other schools in the York-area final.

Their next game is against Cleve-land in January for a place in the last eight of the county competition.

Manor School Under 16s will entertain St John Fisher (Harrogate) on Saturday for a place in the semi-finals of the county competition.

York U14s drew 2-2 with Wakefield after being 2-0 down.

They fought back well with goals by Mark Featherstone and Rob Arnold and were only denied a winner by a series of fine saves by the Wakefield goalkeeper.

Dean Greenoff was superb for York, who brought in Chris Corr (Oaklands) and John Hogg (Joseph Rowntree) to boost their firepower.

The Under 14s travel to Grimsby on Saturday.

York's Under 11s drew 3-3 at Nottingham after being 2-0 down.

They hit back in the second half to go 3-2 up with goals by Rob Whitehead, Simon Brown and Charles Woodhead but Nottingham equalised in the dying minutes.

York's Under 12s lost 6-0 at Nottingham.

RESULTS

U13 Cup: Huntington 4, Sherburn 6.

U14 Cup: Millthorpe 4, Sherburn 5.

U15 Cup: Sherburn 3, Tadcaster 1; All Saints 1, Barlby 0.

U16 League: Manor 1, Tadcaster 0.

U15 League: All Saints 2, Archbishop's 0; All Saints 2, Oaklands 0; All Saints 5, Fulford 4.

U14 League: Tadcaster 1, Oaklands 1.

U12 League: Tadcaster 1, Manor 0.

North Yorkshire County U16 results this season: N Yorks 2, Northumberland 3; N Yorks 2, Cumbria 3; N Yorks 2, S Yorks 1; N Yorks 3, Durham 1.

Secondary School League Table

U12 NE

P W D L F A Pts

Fulford 3 2 1 0 17 13 8

Archbishop's 3 2 0 1 17 11 7

Huntington 2 1 1 0 7 4 5

Canon Lee 2 0 0 2 10 16 2

Burnholme 2 0 0 2 3 10 2

Joseph Rowntree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

U12 SW

Manor 5 3 1 1 14 9 12

Oaklands 5 2 2 1 12 12 11

Tadcaster 4 2 1 1 8 7 9

Millthorpe 3 1 1 1 7 7 6

All Saints 3 0 1 2 5 9 4

Lowfield 2 0 0 2 2 5 2

U13

All Saints 5 5 0 0 29 9 15

Fulford 6 4 0 2 23 21 14

Oaklands 4 3 0 1 28 12 10

Millthorpe 5 2 0 3 14 20 9

Canon Lee 3 2 0 1 8 7 7

Tadcaster 2 2 0 0 14 14 6

Archbishop's 4 0 0 4 11 28 4

Joseph Rowntree 4 0 0 4 9 24 4

Burnholme 2 0 0 2 2 11 2

Huntington 1 0 0 1 2 4 1

U14

All Saints 4 3 0 1 12 14 10

Archbishop's 3 2 1 0 13 6 8

Tadcaster 3 2 1 0 9 4 8

Millthorpe 3 2 0 1 11 6 7

Fulford 4 1 1 2 12 13 7

Huntington 3 1 0 2 7 10 5

Oaklands 3 0 1 2 3 6 4

Joseph Rowntree 2 0 0 2 2 8 2

Burnholme 1 0 0 1 2 4 1

Canon Lee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

U15

All Saints 5 5 0 0 16 8 15

Fulford 6 2 0 4 21 23 10

Canon Lee 2 2 0 0 8 1 6

Millthorpe 2 1 0 1 9 8 4

Archbishop's 4 0 0 4 2 11 4

Huntington 1 1 0 0 5 1 3

Oaklands 1 0 0 1 10 2 1

Joseph Rowntree 1 0 0 1 1 8 1

Basketball

The schools basketball league fixtures for this term should now be finished and there are no more matches scheduled until the week beginning Monday, January 4.

Fixtures for that week are :

U16 League: Tuesday January 15, Sherburn v Huntington; Wednesday January 16, Joseph Rowntree v Bootham; Thursday January 17, Millthorpe v Burnholme. Fulford have a free week.

U15 League: Monday January 14, All Saints v Joseph Rowntree; Tuesday January 15, Sherburn v Bootham; Thursday January 17, Archbishop's v Oaklands.

U14 League: Monday January 14, Sherburn v Millthorpe; Tuesday January 15, Archbishop's v Bootham; Tuesday January 15, Fulford v All Saints; Wednesday January 16, Huntington v Oaklands.

U13 League: Monday January 14, All Saints v Oaklands; Tuesday January 15, Archbishop's v Millthorpe; Wednesday January 16, Joseph Rowntree v Sherburn. Bootham have a free week.

Will all competing schools immediately send in results of all matches played to date to Colin Raper at Bootham School.

Updated: 12:00 Wednesday, December 12, 2001