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Tomorrow will see the South East Inter-county Schools match at Basildon, which will give some athletes a second chance to catch the selector’s eyes for the three remaining places in the team for next month’s English Schools Championships.
Win for Grice at Lee Valley
Charlie Grice, who it is believed will not be bidding for a place in the Sussex Schools team as he is expected to concentrate on indoor racing, chalked up an impressive win at the London Games at Lee Valley last weekend.
Running in the 800 metres Phoenix’s Grice took complete control of his the “A” race winning in 1:51.33 from Ashford’s Tim Burt.
Brighton & Hove’s Jordan Auburn was also in good form in his first year in the U20 ....
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 A brilliantly timed sprint down the final hill to the finish by Ben Tickner presented Sussex with a gold medal in the South of England Cross-country championships in Stanmer Park but we had to wait for the final of the day’s ten events.
Tickner, leg problems when finishing second in the Sussex Senior championships at the beginning of January for the Phoenix Club but on Saturday he was in fine fettle and sporting the colours of his first claim club Wells A.C.
Tickner, along with Sussex champion Jon Pepper, Enfield & Haringey, who also ran for Phoenix in the County event were never far away from the leader, Phil Wicks (Belgrave) over this nine mile race.
Wicks was seeking his third title and ....
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 Probably the most important athletics event to be held in Sussex since the, English Schools Cross-country championships in 2000 will be held in Stanmer Park on Saturday when the “Saucony” South of England Cross-country championships are held.
It was back in 1986 that these championships were last held in Sussex and then they were held over a snow covered course in Stanmer but then they only involved the men’s championships.
This year the ten races that start at 11.00, includes the Women’s championships as well.
While several of the star British women runners, from Aldershot, who did so well at the European Cross-country championships before Christmas are electing to miss the event the star performer of the afternoon is likely to be Taunton’s ....
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 The South of England Men’s Cross-country championship will be on home soil in Stanmer Park on Saturday, the sixth time the championships have been held in Sussex.
Normally these championships are held at Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath but this year the National championships are being held over that course so the “Southern” moves out of the City to another City.
These championships first appeared on Sussex spoil back in the 1930s when it was held at the Brighton race course while in 1950 Harry Hicks from Hampstead won; over what I am assured was a completely unsuitable and muddy course at Eastbourne.
I have not been able to access the results from the pre WWII event but in 1950 Peter West from Worthing ....
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 Sussex athletes scooped up a load of medals in the South of England Indoor championships at Lee Valley at the weekend including five “Golds”.
The pole vaulters again did the county proud with Crawley’s Stephanie Smith winning the senior title clearing 3.70m and Horsham’s Jade Brewster setting a new personal best of 3.40m to win the U17 crown with Brighton & Hove’s Holly Turner taking the silver medal with 3.10m.
Jack Valeri (Brighton & Hove) took the U20 triple title with a leap of 14.09m while Crawley’s Robyn Petitt took the U17 women’s high jump event clearing 1.70.
The only track medal fell to Charlie Grice (Phoenix) who romped away with the U20 1,500m crown finishing a full second clear in 3:54.22, a ....
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 It was a case of as you were as far as the girls were concerned at the “Brooks” Sussex Schools and Sussex Masters Cross-country championships at Lancing Man
In almost perfect conditions, traditionalists may have liked to see a little more mud; the racing went very much as expected without any major upsets.
In the Girls races all three of last year’s champions retained their title, something I cannot recall happening before, and in the senior race hot favourite Abigail Ashbee-Simmonds (Haywards Heath College) never looked like losing the crown she had won twelve months back as she moved well clear of her rivals from the start in winning comfortably in 17:48 although Nicole Taylor (Crowborough Beacon) was closing the gap towards ....
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 The “Old and the New” take centre stage this weekend when the Sussex Schools Cross-country championships and the Sussex County Masters Championships are being held at Lancing Manor on a full day of Cross-country racing.
The first race will start at 10.30 when the Senior Boys and Senior girls line up to do battle and in both events there is a strong favourite for the individual title but a promise of a fine battle for the minor placings.
First winner of the afternoon should be Haywards Heath College’s Abigail Ashbee-Simmonds, the reigning champion, while Crowborough’s Nicole Taylor, runner up in the Intermediate age group last year, is likely to have a good battle with BHASVIC’s Emma Dixon who beat Taylor for the ....
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There were silver medals for East Grinstead’s Ryan Spivey and Chichester’s Isobel Brown in the South of England’s Indoor championships at Lee Valley at the weekend.
Competing in the Under 20 high jump Brown’s silver ware came in the Under 20 high jump with a fine clearance of 1.70m while in the Under 17 pentathlon championships the East Grinstead youngster took second place to Havering’s Alex Law totalling 3030 points to the winner’s 3217 points.
Crawley’s Andrew Kendall and Joel Buckett took bronze medals Kendall in the senior 400 metres in 49.80 after winning his heat in 49.78 while over the same distance Buckett clocked 54.0 in the Under 17 race.
Both Tom Gardner (East Grinstead) and Katie Garland from Hasting just missed ....
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 Running in her Hastings colours Grace Baker became what is believed to be the first fifteen year old to win a Sussex senior cross-country League race when she dominated the main race at the third of the The Brooks Cross-country League events this season.
Baker, who had finished 11th in the Junior race at Edinburgh last weekend and consequently missed the U17 race at Sunday’s Sussex Championships last Sunday took up the pace making on the first of the three laps of the combined Senior/Under 17 women’s race and kept her nose in front throughout the rest of the race.
Clocking 17:34 Baker was being closed down by Beijing 1,500m Olympian Susan Scott from Glasgow who is now living in Worthing and ....
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 The switch from Saturday to Sunday had little effect on the numbers taking part in last weekend’s Sussex Cross-country championships and in fact 406 athletes completed Sunday’s races as opposed to 398 in 2011.
Team wise honours were well shared out with five clubs sharing the nine team titles that were at stake.
Chichester won the U15.Boys and U.17 girls while Crawley topped and tailed the women’s events wining the U13 Girls and the senior women’s’ titles.
Hastings took the U15 Girls and U20 Boys crowns and also took second place in the U13 Boys team events.
As had Crawley in the women’s races the Phoenix club topped and tailed the Men’s team events taking the U13 Boys title and the senior men’s title ....
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