Sport / Sporting round up 21 April
TWO NEW Shetland records were set on an astonishing weekend at the athletics track.
Teenagers Layla Todd and Kian Redman both smashed records, with 17-year-old Todd claiming the women’s 5K record from Michelle Sandison.
Todd set a new best time of 16 minutes and 43.5 seconds at the Fast n Flat road race in Linlithgow, beating Sandison’s 17:16 time by more than 30 seconds.
Sixteen year old Redman took Bobby Laurenson’s 200m record time in a time of 22.49 seconds, with 22.65s the previous best.
He was also just 0.08s from taking Karl Robertson’s 100m record, a record which has stood for almost 20 years.
Shetland Amateur Athletics Club paid tribute to the pair for their superb achievements, with both set to head to Orkney in July to compete in this summer’s Island Games.
Euan Duernberger meanwhile came incredibly close to making it a treble of new Shetland records this weekend, missing out by a second.
His time of 15 minutes and 28.1 seconds, also at the Linlithgow Flat n Fast event, was just shy of Ian Williamson’s 5K record of 15:27, which was set in 2000.
MAGGIE Adamson is taking on her “toughest race yet” as she navigates almost 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
Adamson and team-mate Cal Finlayson – who both guided Great Britain to victory in the Offshore Double Handed World Championships last year – set off on the Transat Paprec course on Sunday afternoon.
The biennial race sees mixed duos compete on strictly identical boats in what is called the “only transatlantic race on equal terms”.
Sailing from Concarneau in France on Sunday, they are expected to arrive in Saint-Barthélemy between two and three weeks later.
The fastest any team has completed the 3,890 nautical mile race is in 18 days and five hours.
Racing together under the Solan Ocean Racing banner, the pair said this would be “by far our toughest race yet”.
You can follow their live progress here.
THE SHETLAND men’s rugby team have taken their battle for second place in the league to the last game of the season after another home win.
The team signed off from their temporary home at the Gilbertson Park with a climactic 36-22 victory over Aberdeen Wanderers on Saturday.
That means the third-placed Shetland side will travel to second-placed Garioch this weekend with the chance to leapfrog them in the final match.
Shetland sit three points behind, but know that a win over their opponents will see them end the season in second place.
It has been a strong end to the season for Shetland, who have now not lost a league game since last November.
SPURS, Whitedale and Ness United secured safe passage into the first round proper of the Highland Amateur Cup over the weekend.
New club Southside Impact welcomed Highland Fuels Cup champions Whitedale to Sandwick on Saturday for their first ever fixture in the preliminary round of the Highland Amateur Cup.
Whitedale ran out comfortable 5-0 winners to set up a home tie against Scalloway on 10 May.
It was an all-town tie in Bressay where Thistle met Spurs, with goals from Joe Goodlad, Andrew Flett, Sean Nicol, Connor Grant, Sam Maver and Arron Peart against his former club helping Spurs win 6-2 on the day.
They will meet Ness in the first round on 10 May after North Isles were unable to field a team on Saturday, giving the South Mainland side a walkover win.
Whalsay will host Banks in the other Highland Amateur Cup first round tie next month.
Elsewhere the Northwards Manson Cup gets underway this week in Whalsay, with the quarter-finals kicking off as Whitedale play Spurs tonight (Monday).
Holders Whalsay face Celtic on Tuesday, with Scalloway then facing Ness on Wednesday.
Thistle have been given a bye to the last four, and will meet either Whitedale or Spurs In the semi-finals next week.
The final will be played on Saturday 7 June.
THE INDOOR bowls season came to an end this month with this year’s matchplay finals all played to a high standard.
In the ladies pairs, which was played as a round-robin format, Nui Coutts and Elma Scott came out on top in virtue of having a higher shots difference
And Coutts came out on top in the ladies singles too, beating Rosie Jamieson in a tightly contested final.
Having surged into a 22-9 lead after 15 ends, Coutts then was made to sweat as Jamieson pulled it back to 22-17 just five ends later.
However the final ends were shared equally and Coutts held on to win 27-21.
In the men’s pairs James Nicol and Ian Leiper met Alistair Geldard and Willie Coutts in this year’s final.
This again was a very close game, with the scores tied at 11-11 after 14 ends.
Geldard and Coutts picked up three shots in end 15 to leave Nicol and Leiper needing four shots in the final end, and despite a narrowly missed final bowl from Leiper it was Geldard and Coutts who secured a 15-11 victory.
Leiper was back in the final of the men’s singles, this time facing Colin Bain.
This was a high quality game with accurate drawing to the jack, multiple touchers, trailing of the jack and numerous measures required to determine the shots, but Bain won through with very consistent bowls to win 22-12.
Lerwick Indoor Bowling Club congratulated all the participants on what has been another very successful year.
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