Shildon's young athletes were on school duty on Saturday at the County Schools Championships held at Monkton Stadium Jarrow.

There was some remarkable performances with the club producing eight county champions from 13 athletes with four runners up and one third place, all in all 12 athletes qualified to represent Durham County at the Schools Inter Counties Championships held at the same venue tomorrow.

Roll of Honour

Matthew Lomax: Inter Boys

3000m Champion

Alex Todd: Junior Boys 100m

Champion (personal best time)

Michael Wilkinson: Junior Boys High

Jump Champion

Warren Roberts: Junior Boys 1500m

Champion (Personal best time)

Gemma Morgan: Inter Girls 300m

Champion

Adam Rogers: Senior Boys 100m

Champion (Personal best time)

Chris Stappard: Inter Boys 100m

Champion (Personal best time)

Stephanie Thompson: Inter Girls Triple

Jump Champion

Runners-up

Natalie Owens: Senior Girls 1500m

Abby Wilson: Junior Girls 800m

Catherine Turner: Inter Girls 100m

(Seasons best time)

Khalil Thompson: Junior Boys 1500m

John Burns: Third place Inter

Boys 400m

The next day at the Newton Aycliffe 10k some of the junior used the race as a training run after their efforts of the previous day. Junior coach Dave Owens made his road race debut with a fine run in 102nd place in a time of 45. 54.

Other Shildon finishers: 74th Matthew Hewitson 44.11; 84th Chris Bowran 45.04; 96th Matthew Lomax 45.36; 97th David Best 45.36; 98th Natalie Owens 54.36; 101st John Hewitson 45.44; 102nd David Owens 45.54; 130th John Gibson 48.49; 145th Sarah Wilson 49.59; 232nd Dorothy Borrowdale 60.00.

* The club caters for eight years upwards, which train at the Stadium 2000 Shildon on Monday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings, come and try with no obligation to join for more details about the club contact the Secretary Neil Stockley (01388) 776083 or (07855) 029645.

Newton Aycliffe

Lewis Moses won the intermediate boys 1500m at the Durham Schools track championships held at Jarrow at the weekend.

He took the pace up at the halfway mark and with a blistering last two laps went on to win easily in 4:07 which was a personal best by seven seconds and also achieving the national schools qualifying time to book his place in the English schools championships at Sheffield on July 11.