youngsters' struggle continues in neydl

Morpeth Harriers Young Athletes continued their NEYDL Division 2 campaign for 2025 in their third-round match held at Shildon on Sunday 22 June.
Unfortunately, the squad continue to struggle, as they could only managed to finish a lowly seventh of the eight competing teams.
Team Manager David Swinburne, despite his efforts, could only turn out seventeen athletes in total across the three age groups, and two genders, which meant that they were very much up against things from the off.
There were, however, some good results achieved, some that were very encouraging.
On the day, the club did manage to achieve five A String wins, two of them by one athlete, and one B String win.
The Morpeth athlete who achieved the two A String wins, was Under 15 Boy Mason Gaylor, who won the 1500m in 4m32.20s, which was a new personal best for the three- and three-quarter lap event.
Gaylor also won the A String Javelin, when he threw 22.6m, and his Morpeth clubmate Jacob Thompson won the B String with 7.71m.
Staying with the Morpeth Under 15 Boys, they were the clubs only age group to win a 4 x 100m Relay, doing so in 58.2s
In the 100m and 200m sprint events, Charlie Townsend finished third in both A races, posting times of 12.8s and 26.9s, respectively.
B race efforts saw newcomer Charlie Law finish fourth in the 100m in 14.4s, and again it was Gaylor in action, this time clocking 27.3s, for second in the 200m.
Law also competed in the 200m, posting a time of 29.73s.
In the 800m, Law finished fourth in the A race in 2m39.41s.
Jacob Thompson was third in the B race in 2m46.47s.
Back with Under 15 Boys Field events, Townsend finished second in the A String Long Jump with a best of 4.20m.
Thompson finished third in the B String Long Jump, producing a best of 7.71m.
Morpeth’s George Mavir won the Under 17 Men’s A race in the 800m, posting a winning time of 2m01.38s, which was a new personal best.
Thomas Roche finished second in the B race, posting a time of 2m25.63s., which was a fraction outside his personal best.
In the Under 17 Men’s 1500m, Ben Moll finished second in 4m49.10s.
Under 17 sprinter William Hodgson was a lone ranger in the 100m and 200m events, finishing third on both occasions, posting respective clockings of 12.1s, and 24.8s.
Another Morpeth lone ranger was Harry Shaw, who finished fourth in the Under 17 Men’s 400m in 63.9s.
Four athletes from Morpeth contested the Under 13 Boys events.
The best result from this age group came in the 800m, where Joseph Clasper finished second in the A race in 2m41.74s, and Luke Thompson was second in the B race in 2m49.34s.
Clasper and Thompson also competed in the 200m, where the former finished fifth in the A race in 31.1s, and the latter was third in the B race in 35.0s.
Luke Thompson finished fifth in the 100m in 16.7s, and Joseph Fawcett was fourth in the 1500m in 5m29.72s.
Luke Thompson was Morpeth’s sole Under 13 Boy Field eventer, finishing fourth in the Long Jump, with a best effort of 3.47m.
The best Morpeth Girls result, was that achieved in the Under 15 100m event, where Sophie Pledger continued her previous days celebration on reaching the English Schools by winning in 13.0s, and Sophie Peace added to the result handsomely by finishing an excellent third in the B race in 14.5s.
In the 200m, Morpeth’s Sopia Gibson finished sixth in the A race in 29.7s, and Peace finished third in the B race in 30.0s.
Peace finished seventh in the Long Jump with a best effort of 3.57m, and Gibson was fourth in the High Jump with 1.25m.
Morpeth could only muster one Under 17 Woman for the day’s competition.
Charlotte Marshall won the Shot Putt with a best of 5.42m, was third in the 1500m with 5m59.25s, and finished fourth in the 300m in 56.8s.
Only one athlete from the club took part in the Under 13 Girls events.
Izzy Cromar finished second in the 1500m in 5m35.94s, and sixth in the 200m in 32.9s.
MATCH RESULT
1st Blyth/Alnwick 710pts, 2nd New Marske 619pts, 3rd Chester Le St/Durham C 571pts, 4th South Shields/Elswick 548.5s, 5th Blaydon/Wallsend/Gosforth 491pts, 6th Tynedale/Prudhoe 342pts, 7th Morpeth Harriers 325pts, 8th Heaton/Tyne Bridge 249.5pts.
It is hoped for a better result for the club in their fourth and final match of the season, scheduled to be held at Whitley Bay on Sunday 20 July.