Halton – Microleague Champions Division C.

Halton Swimming Club representatives made the journey to Blackpool at the weekend to receive the Microleague Division C Champions trophy at a special ceremony.

Awards were also presented to Sam Hyland and Ruby Pritchard who won the top boy and top girl trophies respectively for accumulating the most points throughout the competition.

Echo Cup Round 1 – Everton Park.

Halton Swimming Club were in action at the weekend in the first gala of the new season, taking part in the annual COLSC Echo Cup held at Everton Park.

A young inexperienced squad, some swimming in a gala for the first time performed valiantly. It was a tough gala with Halton up against serial winners Southport, an ever-improving Crosby and local rivals Prescot.

There were some good performances from the swimmers who managed to gain nine new personal bests between them.

In what was a good team performance at the start of the season it is difficult to single out any individual swimmer but a special mention must go to Sam Hyland, Sam Shurie and Ben Clayton who amassed six 1st places between them. The relay teams consisting of J Garner, E Griffiths Moore, A Maree, H Connolly, C Bivon, S Buckley, J Deane and A McCurry also swam well. Besides these 1st place finishes there were also six 2nd places and seven 3rd places, helping Halton to stand 4th in the table on 149pts.

Round 2 takes place on the 23rd September with Halton hoping to improve on this 4th place finish which would see them make the final in a few weeks’ time.

Result.

Southport S.C. 239 pts.

Crosby S.C. 198 pts.

Prescot S.C. 163 pts.

Halton & Runcorn S.Cs. 149 pts.

Bootle & NL S.C. 88 pts.