BAC youngsters on song at league meeting
The athletes joined hundreds from Central Gauteng in attempt to achieve the qualifying times for the ASA sub-youth track and field championships next month in Potchefstroom.
Zianè de Klerk and Lea Pretorius led the Boksburg Athletic Club (BAC) charge at the third CGA sub-youth track and field league meeting at Germiston Stadium on November 1.
The BAC juniors were among the top contenders in most track events, while Karla Smit displayed incredible talent in the high jump. However, De Klerk and Pretorius were outstanding in their sprint and hurdles events.
De Klerk won the girls’ U9 60m and 80m sprints, clocking 09.11 seconds and 11.52 seconds, respectively, for her victories, while Pretorius won the girls’ U13 75m hurdles in 12.62. She clocked 31.26 in the 200m hurdles for second place and finished the 200m flat fifth overall in 28.18.
Janelle Sassenberg won her U11 girls’ 100m heat in 14.11 but finished eighth overall. Her teammate, Shoeshoe Sithole, also won her heat in the same race but was eighth overall, while Zoey Narainsamy, who finished second in her heat, came in 13th overall.
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Sassenberg clinched her 70m hurdles race in 12.02 while Mikayla Booysens was sixth. Amy Nauda was seventh in 13.58 in the U13 girls’ 75m hurdles and fourth in 33.28 in the 200m hurdles.
Melize Alberts clocked 28.64 for sixth in the U13 girls’ 200m. Eike Sadie fought bravely in the U9 girls’ 600m, finishing the one and a half lap race in seventh in 02:06.71.
In the second last distance race of the day, Laelynn Sadie clocked 05:08.33 in a highly competitive and tight U13 girls’ 1 500m, which was won by Tumishang Seroka of Benoni Northerns Athletic Club (BNAC).
On the field, Smit secured victory in the U11 girls’ high jump after soaring to 1.35m, while Lente van der Westhuizen finished the U11 girls’ long jump sixth after a 4m jump.
Meanwhile, sprinter Jordan Brits clocked 12.70 to win his U7 boys’ 80m for second place overall. In the 60m, the youngster was fourth overall in 09.99.
Dian van Schalkwyk rounded up the podium in the U13 boys’ 200m hurdles after finishing the race in 29.49.
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