Sarnians regain CI honours

Tuesday 22nd June 2010, 2:29PM BST.

James Jurkiewicz powers to a close-run victory in the 16-and-over men’s 100m backstroke. (Pictures by Peter Frankland, 0986760)

GUERNSEY were made to work hard before winning Saturday’s inter-insular and regaining the trophy at Beau Sejour.

The final scoreline of 220.5-197.5 suggested a fairly comfortable success, but the Sarnians, without a handful of unavailable key names, had to withstand a late Jersey fight back after the visitors appeared to be in for a thrashing at one stage.

The seeds were sown in the early stages, with the hosts opening up a healthy lead by the end of the first bout of relays, at that stage 10 events in, out of a total of 50.

With no local winning more than two individual races, it was very much a team effort that opened up a 32-point lead going into the final 14 events of the day, having never been behind at any stage of the contest.