Mark’s big contribution to Wee tally

THE Dromiskin-based St Peter’s club had six athletes representing the Wee County in the National League finals in Tullamore on Sunday and Mark Rogers were their star performer.

The Togher athlete was third in the 400m hurdles with a season’s best 59.75sec, fourth in the pole vault with 2.60m and sixth in the 110m hurdles in 17.74sec.

Conor Durnin was fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 12.84m and Tom McGrane was seventh in both the discus and hammer. Martin McGrane was also in action in the shot putt competition where he finished eighth with a putt of 8.24m. Brendan Rogers took part in the 56lb weight for distance event and with a season’s best throw of 4.18m finished in fourth place.

Eleanor Hoey was the only representative on the Women’s team and she took part in the hammer, throwing a PB of 22.18m to finish fifth and 14.57 in the discus to finish seventh.

Conor Durnin, Mark Rogers and Eleanor Hoey all took part in relay races also and at the end of the day the Louth men’s team finished in eighth place, with the women ending up in sixth.

Elsewhere, on Friday the annual Carlingford Road Races took place and the large crowd of spectators that gathered were treated to a top-class field competing in the 5k race and some very entertaining juvenile races.

The first event with a St Peter’s athlete competing was the Girls Under-11, with Dearbhla Allen, out of her age group, trying really hard and finishing just outside the medals. In the Boys Under-11 Conor Litchfield and Jack McLaughlin both collected silverware and showed very encouraging signs.

Niamh Brady and Judith Bell ran well in the Girls Under-13, with Niamh inside the top 10 and Judith in 11th, even though both are still Under-12, as were the two boys who competed in the Boys Under-13 race, Sean Allen and Mark Litchfield.