TEENAGERS from Grange School and Northwich Rowing Clubs hope to have made an impression during an assessment by selectors for the British rowing team last weekend.

Grange’s Ellie Cushen and Georgia Shirley, who joined Northwich late last year, combined in an under 16s girls’ double that classified second overall in a 5,000m time trial in Boston.

The duo missed out on top spot by a tenth of a second.

“They did a great job,” said Graham Jump, head coach at Grange School Rowing Club.

It completed a fine two days for Shirley, who had ranked fourth in a single for the same category on Saturday.

Cushen placed inside the top 10 in a field that also included Charlotte Almond.

Almond also raced in a double, with St Andrew Boat Club’s Robyn Patton, and together they set the ninth-best time.

Northwich sculler Beth Willford-Dutton, part of a gold medal-winning women’s eight for Great Britain at last year’s Coupe de la Jeunesse, performed strongly in a huge junior women’s field.

Kevin Dudley, another representing Northwich, was among the fastest 15 rowers in a single before taking seventh with Ollie Costley (Claires Court School) in a double.

A spring assessment has been provisionally scheduled for the end of March, when rowers’ participation will be by invite only.