This weekend has been “memorable” for the Soria-CS24 Badminton Club, which has hung two national medals that confirm good work with the quarry.
This past weekend the Soria Badminton Club – CS24 participated in several Spanish Championships.
On the one hand, in Ponteareas (Pontevedra), the sub-15 category took place; on the other, and simultaneously, it was held in the Asturian town of Tudela de Agüeria the National Championships for the under-11 and under-19 categories, with the club from Soria with up to seven representatives and presence in the three events.
Excellent The role of all of them, highlighting the performances of Daniela Corchón in the sub-15, and that of Aarón and Iker in the sub-11, who achieved two historic third places.
Spanish Under-15 Championship (Ponteareas). Daniela Corchón, who was thus saying goodbye to this category, participated in both the individual and mixed doubles modality together with Andrés Pérez from León, with whom he had qualified for the Championship just a few weeks before.
For the young player of the Club Badminton Soria, the illusion to get on the podium fell on the singles box, where thanks to the good results achieved throughout the season, she started as the fourth favorite.
Thus, he faced on Friday the Galician player Paula Noya, whom, asserting his role as favorite, surpassed with partials of 21-16 and 21-17, advancing in the table and crossing in the round of eighth final with the La Mancha Sofía Fernández, who was imposed with relative comfort with a double 21-9.
The quarterfinals, and after an exciting match against the Navarrese Ainhoa Larraya, they fell on the side of the Soriana by 21-17 and 21-18, thus placing themselves in the semifinals and thus securing the medal.
In the match for the pass to the final, and despite putting a set ahead, Daniela was surpassed by Andalusian Angela Jiménez by 22-20, 7-21 and 15-21, finishing the Championship in third position and hanging a medal history for your Club.
In the mixed doubles modality Daniela and Andrés did not suffer the same fate. Paired in the draw against the Andalusian Rodríguez-Jiménez, seeds number 1, they lost in the first game, despite displaying a great game, by 21-16 and 21-18.
Championship of Spain Sub-11 and Sub-19 (Tudela de Agüeria).
Several were the players of the Soria Badminton Club who traveled to Asturian lands.
In the sub-19 category, and after having made a gap among the select group of players in her category to play the most important national event of the year, Nora Martínez was the representative from Soria. Having classified only in the individual modality, Nora displayed her best game during the Championship, placing, after beating Extremadura player Lluvia Iglesias (21-8, 21-13) in the first round, among the sixteen best players in Spain. In the round of 16 she could not beat the Balearic Paula Llavero.
In the sub-11 category, five were the young players who took part in the Spanish Championship in their category: Jimena Ayllón, Aarón Barrera, Álvaro Gómez, Iker González and Daniel Marín. All of them competed in the individual modality and, in addition, in the doubles. Despite being, for some of them, the first tournament of such magnitude, they competed at the level of the most experienced players in the category, revealing the work carried out during the season.
Such was the performance that all of them finished the Championship with several triumphs, highlighting among them the classification of Jimena in the women’s individual table, that of Daniel and Aarón in the men’s individual, and that of Álvaro and Jimena in the mixed doubles, after successfully pass the group stage of the respective modalities.
Undoubtedly the best news came from the hand of the pair formed by Aarón Barrera and Iker González, who in the men’s doubles table hung the bronze medal.
Overcoming the group phase as second classified, they entered the round of 16 phase, measuring in it the De la Cruz – González couple, who they surpassed in a tight match, and after losing in the first set, by 11-15 , 15-13 and 15-9. In the quarterfinals, and with the medal at stake, they prevailed over the Galician Freire-Gómez, placing themselves in the semifinals and thus securing the medal. The Catalans Leiva-Salas dismounted the Sorians from the competition, thus remaining at the gates of the dream of the final.
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