Sport / Sporting round-up 19 May
IT WAS another superb weekend for athlete Layla Todd, who was the third under-20 runner to cross the line at a race in Edinburgh over the weekend.
Todd and Katie Clubb – both of whom will represent Shetland at this summer’s Island Games – competed in the Sri Chinmoy 5K road race at Silverknowes on Friday night.
The pair were two of 530 athletes starting the race, with Todd across the line as 10th female and third in the under-20 category in a time of 16 minutes and 53 seconds.
Clubb was just two seconds off her PB in a time of 17:22, finishing 20th out of 158 females taking part.
Todd capped off a superb weekend by being announced as the co-captain of the Shetland junior inter-county athletics squad for next month’s junior county.
She had already been named as the overall captain for the blues, and will now lead the athletics squad out alongside Abbie Taylor.
Rhona Anderson and Finlay Geddes will captain the swimming team, with Jenny Jamieson leading the hockey squad.
The junior inter-county starts on Saturday 7 June, with Shetland hosting this year. It will conclude on Sunday afternoon.
SHETLAND’S women’s footballers continued their flawless start to the Highlands and Islands League Cup with a thumping victory over Clachnacuddin FC on Sunday.
The blues were joining the competition for the first time this year, but have seriously impressed with two huge victories from their two games.
Four goals from Freya Leslie helped them to beat Clachnacuddin 7-0, with Lisa Goudie, Emily-Jane Veitch and Kayla Shearer also on the scoresheet.
It follows their 5-0 win over Orkney in the first match, which will see them through to the semi-finals of the competition in September.
Sunday’s game was part of their preparations for July’s Island Games, which marks their return to the event after a 20 year absence.
SPURS and Ness played out a 1-1 draw in the only Ocean Kinetics Premier League match played on Friday night.
Sean Nicol netted for the home side in Lerwick but that was cancelled out by a Stuart Copland goal to give the sides a share of the spoils.
Attention turns to the semi-finals of the Jewson Madrid Cup tonight (Monday), with Spurs hosting town rivals – and cup holders – Celtic at Seafield.
Ness welcome Whitedale to Cunningsburgh in the other last four tie, with both games kicking off at 6.30pm tonight.
Bressay opened up an early lead at the summit of the Jewson Championship table after a 4-1 win over North Isles in Unst on Saturday afternoon.
An own-goal and a Simon Hildebrand penalty gave the Sharks a 2-0 advantage at the break, with Jamie Doherty lashing in a strike from the edge of the box to make it 3-0 at a sunny Baltasound.
Chris Thomson pulled one back with 15 minutes to go after chesting the ball in from close range, before Ryan Nicolson sealed the three points in the last minute.
There were plenty of goals and two comebacks in the night’s other games, with Wastside Rebels recovering from going 2-0 down to beat Ness C 5-2.
A double from Stewart Mouat had seemingly handed the South Mainland side a comfortable advantage, but a brace from Magni Einarsson and goals from Joe Fraser, Carl Leask and Donald Wilmore saw the West Mainland side take home the three points.
Banks also came back from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw with Southside Impact, who saw their keeper shown a straight red card.
Dan Forsyth and a superb Ally Morrison free-kick put the men in pink ahead at Seafield, but goals from Shaun McAlister and Michael Noblett – either side of the sending off – helped Banks to pick up their first point of the new season.
UNST are through to the next round of the netball Parish Cup after a 60-32 over Cunningsburgh on Thursday night.
Dannielle Witt was named player of the match for the home side in Unst, while Megan Keppie got the nod for Cunningsburgh.
THE FIRST games of the Simpson pairs bowls league were played on a warm sunny afternoon on a green that shows the benefit of all the work by Lerwick Outdoor Bowling Club’s greenkeeping team.
The maximum eight teams entered this Wednesday afternoon pairs league, which runs for 14 weeks during the summer and with each team playing each other twice.
This competition is played in the Hong Kong format, 2-4-2, over 16 ends.
In the first game the pairing of John Anderson and Gibbie Pottinger had a close game against Bill Christey and Rosie Jamieson (substitute for Jim Wood), coming from 11-10 behind to score four shots on the last end to win 14-11.
Ian Scott and Ewen MacRitchie also had a tight game, leading Eric Muir and Billy Hay by one shot after the ninth end.
However Muir and Hay won five of the remaining seven ends to win the match 16-12.
John Jarmson and Caroline Smith were only leading by a single shot at the halfway stage of their game, but picked up two large counts of four over the remaining ends to run out winners 20-11 against Sandy Stewart and Margaret Robertson (substitute for Norman Manson).
In the final game of the afternoon, Alex Elphinstone and Anne Robertson lost two shots to Gordon Stevenson and Jean Jarmson on the first end but then went on to win 13 of the remaining 15 ends to win 40-4 and top the table on shot difference.
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