Herdie Hat-trick and County Final Qualifiers!

What an amazing day for our Burlington orienteering team.    The event took place today at Barrow Park with over 160 children taking part.  The event was a combination of the Herdie trophy event (won by us on the previous 2 events) and the Furness area qualifier for the School Games County Finals (schools version of the Olympics in Carlisle!).  We knew we had a strong team, but we equally were aware that we would be the smallest school at the event with some schools having 60 children to choose from in one year group!
Burlington really showed that it is quality not quantity that counts!
The full sheet of results hasn't been published yet but we know we had overall 1st, 2nd and 3rd place girls being Merryn, Charlotte and Carrie respectively.  The rest of the team's positions will be confirmed soon and I suspect they will be largely impressive as we had a lot of clear rounds and some quick times.
Matthew, Ed and Patrick Stephenson had fabulous runs for the A team with clear rounds from all 3 of them and Eddie just pipping Matthew on time.
Patrick deserves a special mention as this was his first orienteering event, aimed at Years 5 and 6.  A wild card you might say - one which paid off as he got two clear rounds  - one of which was a particularly impressive time. Well done Patrick - if you can do that at your first event   - you have an exciting future ahead of you in orienteering!
Hattie, Eleanor, Ross, Imogen, Bryn and Harvey also had fantastiic runs with mostly clear rounds between them. The combined success of all 12 children contributed to our overall 1st place.
Herdie is safely back on his shelf in Mrs Louden's class and we have our seats booked on the coach to Carlisle on 1st July.  A massive achievement  - well done Team! It was meant to be.

Results on http://www.lakeland-orienteering.org.uk/