YOUNGER members of Kelly College Swimming team competed in the Devon County 50m sprint meet and came away with a fine haul of medals and trophies.

Only three girls entered the competition and all were in the 12-year age group. Laura Sprague added to her medals from the main championship events by winning gold in butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle and, with her bronze from the backstroke, claimed the overall BAGCATS trophy for her age.

Team-mate Amy Bayliss, who missed most of the main competition with a broken finger, swam the four races with a splint and bandage on her damaged hand. But this did not stop her from winning the silver medal in the freestyle, bronze in the breaststroke and finishing fourth and ninth in the backstroke and butterfly.

These results were enough to place her in second overall position. The third girl entrant, Victoria Dewar-Fowler, finished in the top ten in all of her races.

In the boys? competition, the squad entered competitors in all of the age groups and between them they won eight gold, four silver and six bronze medals.

Three of the boys also won the overall title for their respective ages: Michael Wallis (12 years), Joshua Lake (13) and Daniel Kidwell (14) with Lawrence Oxborough taking second place in the 11 year age group and Benjamin Clarke finishing third in the 12 years.

Kelly College Preparatory School provided the swimmers in the two youngest age groups as Christopher Swash and Mark Brend contested the 9 and 10 years events respectively, where both boys finished in the top ten, ending up ninth and eighth overall.

In the freestyle event for boys, the 13 years gold and silver positions were separated by a mere 100th of a second between Kelly swimmers Joshua Lake and Ben Clarke, with Joshua just edging out Ben for the gold.

Medal tally for the team - Girls: Laura Sprague, 3 gold and 1 bronze, Amy Bayliss, 1 silver and 1 bronze.

Boys: Lawrence Oxborough, gold, silver and bronze, Michael Wallis, gold (2) and silver, Liam Yeo, bronze, Joshua Lake, gold (3) and bronze, Ben Clarke, silver and bronze, Philip Channon, silver and bronze, Daniel Kidwell, gold (2) and bronze.