Busy league weekend for British cross-country runners

Latest round-up includes news from the Birmingham, Chiltern, Essex, Hampshire and Met leagues plus the Kent Masters Champs

BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE, Division 1, Match 2, Stoke, November 30

Hosts City of Stoke used Betley Court Farm as their venue for the division one match which also saw the Midland Women’s League top flight join in the fun.

The Birchfield pairing of Kadar Omar and junior Aron Gebremariam took the honours from a trio of Birmingham University runners led by Finley Proffitt.

For the refugee pair up ahead, it was the more experienced Omar who comfortably got the better of his previously undefeated clubmate in his first outing over the country for a couple of years.

Earlier in the year, Gebremariam notched up wins in English Schools, Inter-Counties and English National cross-country championships.

Further back, Birchfield’s Ed Banks, champion last winter, continued his run as top veteran in the league.

Men: 1 K Omar (Bir) 29:03; 2 A Gebremariam (Bir, U20) 29:33; 3 F Proffitt (Birm U) 29:40; 4 I Hirschman (Birm U) 29:40; 5 N Campion (Birm U, U20) 29:46; 6 F Ward (R&N) 30:07

M40: 1 E Banks (Bir) 31:34; 2 B Price (W Temp) 31:40; 3 D Geisler (Worc) 32:21

U20: 3 L Davis (W tempo) 31:04

TEAM: 1 Birchfield 88: 2 W Tempo 145; 3 Birmingham U 177

B TEAM: 1 W Tempo 571

M40 TEAM: 1 W Tempo 35; 2 Bromsgrove & Redditch 58; 3 BRAT 65

B TEAM: 1 B&R 179

BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE Div 2, Match 2, Hinckley, November 30

The Nuneaton club played host at Burbage Common Hinckley. The division has a new secretary and, as in the opening fixture there were no results available

BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE Div 3, Match 2, Birmingham, November 30

Cofton Park was brought into action by hosts Club Birmingham Striders and whilst Karl Heeley led for the Amazing Feet club, it was Chris Rimmer who led Telford to a repeat team win.

Men: 1 K Heeley (Amaz Ft, M40) 35:39; 2 C Rimmer (Telf, M40) 35:58; 3 D Brewis (Sphinx, M40) 36:39

TEAM: 1 Telford 71; 2 Bourneville 112; 3 Northbrook 184

M40 TEAM: 1 Telford 20

CHILTERN LEAGUE, Match 3, Luton, Bedfordshire November 30

The third match was held at Stopsley, a venue that has hosted two English National championships in the 1970s and 1980s.

Richard Slade scored a repeat victory for Chiltern Harriers and did so over Bedford & County’s Harry Brodie with Headington’s Marcus Shantry a minute back in third.

Bedford & County retained control of the league overall with victory in both men’s and women’s sections but, as is usual with the pre-Christmas fixtures, numbers were down on the two earlier matches.

In the senior women’s event, it was regular league winner Rebecca Murray who again dominated and did so, for the second match in a row, over junior Madeleine Pearce as top master Kate Rennie, a British & Irish Masters champion, took third.

For the boys, Chiltern Harriers’ Tom Ford scored a repeat under-15 race win.

Men: 1 R Slade (Chilt) 30:47; 2 H Brodie (Bed C) 31:07; 3 M Shantry (Head RR) 32:05; 4 A Marshall (St Alb, U20) 32;13; 5 S Winters (Bed C) 32;19; 6 M Hammett (MK Dist, U20) 32:39

M40: 1 M Innocenti (Tring) 32;36

M50: 1 N Hughes (Chilt) 35:46

M60: 1 M Turney (Chilt) 39:23

U20: 3 J Hampton-Wallace (Lut) 32:55

Div 1

Senior TEAM: 1 Bedford & County 1955; 2 Chiltern 1869; 3 Wycombe Phoenix 1742

M40 TEAM: 1 Chiltern 701

U20 TEAM: 1 Northampton 568

U17: 1 E Johnson (Chilt) 18:43; 2 M Kotrys (Bed C) 18:49; 3 J Orchard (Dav) 19:00

Div 1 TEAM: 1 Bed C 158; 2 Chiltern 145; 3 St Albans 92

U15: 1 T Ford (Chilt) 13:34; 2 E Langley-Aybar (Brack) 13:39; 3 O McDonald (Dac) 13:47

Div 1 TEAM: 1 Wycombe P 133; 2 Dacorum 112; 3 St Albans 103

U13: 1 L Dolan (VoA) 10:07; 2 C Confue (Dav) 10:16; 3 E Gibbs (Bed C) 10;20

TEAM

Div 1: 1 St Albans 190; 2 Chiltern 175; 3 Milton K 156

Overall Men’s TEAM: 1 Bed C 2361

Women: 1 R Murray (Bed C) 20:04; 2 M Pearce (Mil K, U20) 20:58; 3 K Rennie (Dac, W45) 21:03; 4 E Roche (Mil K) 21:19; 5 K Stern (St Alb) 21;30; 6 J Hoar (Dac) 21:35

W45: 2 B Nkoane (Chilt) 21:37

W55: 1 L Bentham (St Alb) 25:40

W65: 1 G Heuter (Oxf C) 30:09

Div 1

Senior TEAM: 1 Bed C 712; 2 Dacorum 693; 3 St Albans 690

W35 TEAM: 1 Dacorum 457

U20/U17: 1 S Chapman (Mil K, U17) 19:43; 2 L Johnson (Dac, U17) 19:50; 3 I Frost (Dac) 20:04

Div 1 TEAM: 1 Dacorum 141; 2 Chiltern 122; 3 Milton K 121

U15: 1 I Bennetts (Northampton) 15:37; 2 O Geary (Mil K) 16:00; 3 M Davis (Chilt) 16:18

Div 1 TEAM: 1 Watford 124; 2 St Albans 110; 3 Milton K 109

U13: 1 J McDougall Chilt) 10:40; 2 H Lucas (Brack) 11:03; 3 P Crudgington (St Alb) 11:05

Div 1 TEAM: 1 Chiltern 194; 2 St Albans 179; 3 Mil K 148

Overall Women’s TEAM: 1 St Albans 1070

Overall TEAM (M&W): 1 Bed C 3330; 2 Chiltern 3261; 3 St Albans 2871

ESSEX LEAGUE, Match 4. Writtle University, near Chelmsford, November 30

It was all change at the front of the two senior races as James Stewart won his first league race in a dozen years of trying.

For the women, Rebecca Luxton, a regular in the England Masters teams in their International, took the women’s race.

Elsewhere, it was Brentwood Beagles’ Olivia Forrest who stood out with her umpteenth victory of the year in the under-17 women’s event.

Men: 1 J Stewart (Hav’g) 30:03; 2 S Norris (S’end) 30:08; 3 B Sporle (S’end) 30:34; 4 R McGavock (B’fleet) 30:43; 5 T Newall (Thurr) 30:45; 6 R Warner (Hav’g) 30:49

M50: 1 C Holmes (S’end) 32:05

M60: 1 C Ridley (Col H) 35:23; 2 P Spowage (Sol H) 35:31

M70: 1 D Butler (Bill’cat) 38:34

TEAM Div 1: 1 Southend 59; 2 Havering 118; 3 Thurrock 213

M40 TEAM: 1 Southend 96

U17: 1 J Hurrell (Chelm) 19:21; 2 F Rowe (Hav’g) 19:31; 3 T Rhys-Jones (S’end) 19:45

TEAM (3 to score): 1 Chelmsford 21; 2 Colchester 41; 3 Colchester & Tendring 41

U15: 1 J Parrott (Chelm) 14:38; 2 C Calver (W Suff) 14:44; 3 J Delaney (Chelm) 15:01

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 35; 2 Basildon 50; 3 Southend 52

U13: 1 M Sanford (Chelm) 10:55; 2 J Dalton (Chelm) 11:18; 3 T Ketterer (C&T) 11:26

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 26; 2 SS Athletics 28; 3 Basildon 71

Women

1 R Luxton (Chelm, W40) 28:05; 2 M Williams (Chelm) 29:02; 3 Z Oldfield (Lought, W45) 29:11; 4 N Sewell (Hav’g, U20) 29:14; 5 S Williams (Grange F&D, W40) 29:17; 6 L Smith (Hav’g) 30:00

W50: 1 W King (Chelm) 32;14

W65: 1 C Kennedy (Orion) 33:50

TEAM Div 1: 1 Havering 30; 2 Chelmsford 32; 3 Colchester 85

W35 TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 46

U17: 1 O Forrest (B’wood) 22:14; 2 E Warn (B’wood) 22;59; 3 L Tyler (Col H) 23:31

TEAM: 1 Brentwood Beagles 9; 2 Basildon 28; 3 Southend 30

U15: 1 S Smith (B’wood) 15:32; 2 F Phillips (Chelms) 16:22; 3 I Eida (Chelm) 16:27

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 14; 2 Brentwood 36; 3 Basildon 59

U13: 1 S Bickerserstaff (B’wood) 11:49; 2 I Kehoe (Chelm) 11;58; 3 B Castleton-Cooke (Chelm) 12;12

TEAM: 1 Brentwood 32; 2 SS Athletics 34; 3 Chelmsford 37

KENT MASTERS CHAMPIONHIPS, Dartford, November 30

With pre-race favourites Andrea Clement and Amy Clements not showing, it was older athletes who dominated the overall women’s race, Steve Smythe reports.

Renata McDonnell, 50, who was third overall in 2019 when she won 45-54 gold, regained the age group title with a strong last lap and won her biggest overall race to date.

A few seconds back, AW masters athlete of the year Clare Elms came close to becoming the oldest ever overall winner. The W60, who uniquely has won Kent senior women as well as Kent W35-44, W45-54 and W55-64 titles in both team and individual events, narrowly fell short of her ninth overall crown.

However, Elms won her 13th individual Kent masters gold in this event by finishing 30 seconds ahead of former national road champion Maria Heslop in the W55 plus age group.

The Kent runner also finished ahead of early overall runaway leader Imogen McLennan who won W35-44 gold.

The W45 team title went to Medway though curiously all three of the winning Kent W35 team were eligible for the W45 event.

Kent AC won the W35 team gold aided by W50 Victoria Buck moving down an age group to win W35 individual bronze but Tonbridge won the W55 team title.

Janet Lenton retained her W65 title which was held within the M60 plus event, where Ben Reynolds, already a many-time winner of the county M40 and M50 titles added the M60 at his first attempt.

With the following day’s BMAF 5km in mind, he held back until the last lap then stretched away for a clear victory ahead of former champion Roger Beswick.

Last year’s runner-up Andy Howey, who had only done one parkrun and no other races in the 12 months since, and had only two training runs since September, held on for third.

Reynolds also won a team gold for Tonbridge as just three points covered the top three.

Perhaps controversially, Kent don’t allow M35s to race but it was M45s anyway who dominated the 40-49 event with the first four places.

Medway’s Anthony Webb, who has been first vet in all three Kent Leagues this winter, regained the title he last won in 2019 with a strong finish.

In 2019 there were also individual golds for Reynolds, McDonnell and Elms.

Danny Kendall and Ben Shearer also stuck to the Kent League script matching their positions there and that start enabled Cambridge Harriers to win the team title but it was close as Kent’s better packing left them just a point short.

Kent did win the M50 team race though gold went for the first time to Dulwich’s Andy Bond as the race attracted more runners than the M40 event.

Bond who ran for England in the masters international in Ireland and was first M45 in 2019 when third overall, was nursing a calf problem and at the start of the last of four big laps he had dropped off the leading three.

However, in the space of around 400m he went from a tailed off fourth into a clear lead and he held that to the finish from Blackheath’s Doug Varney who showed a huge improvement from his Kent League form.

Andrew Lawes, who celebrated his 70th birthday a few days earlier, dominated the M70 race from former champion Julian Spencer-Wood and Kent League leader John Tolhurst.

M40 (8km): 1 A Webb M&M, M45 26:20; 2 D Kendall Camb H, M45 26:29; 3 B Shearer Camb H M45 26:33; 4 C Halsey Ton M45 26:42; 5 M Evans B&B 27:06; 6 R Laing Kent M45 27:26; 7 D Morgan Kent 27:27; 8 L De Bruyn B&B M45 27:32; 9 J O’Mahony Camb H M45 27:34; 10 S Evans Kent 27:42

TEAM: 1 Camb H 34; 2 Kent 35; 3 B&B 47

M50 (8km): 1 A Bond Dulw 28:47; 2 D Varney B&B 28:53; 3 C Compton Kent 28:57; 4 R Newsome SKH 28:58; 5 R Tomlinson M&M M55 29:15; 6 O Van Zyl Sev M55 29:43; 7 K McQuaid Than 29:46; 8 S McGrory Kent M55 29:56; 9 R Burford Dart 30:02; 10 J Addison Beck 30:10

M55: 4 A Rodgers M&M 30:14; 5 J Gevers Kent 31:28

TEAM: 1 Kent 58; 2 M&M 64; 3 B&B 75

M60 (5km): 1 B Reynolds Ton 19:09; 2 R Beswick B&B 19:34; 3 A Howey TWR 19:54; 4 G Meehan Dulw 20:14; 5 S Moss Beck 20:17; 6 S Georgiadis Orp 20:35; 7 P Coleman Ton 20:50; 8 L Armitage Kent 20:39

M65: 1 H Gostelow Cant 22:14; 2 S Austin TWH 22:18; 3 R Pearce SKH 22:33; 4 S Smythe Dulw 22:46; 5 P McCauliffe M&M 22:53

TEAM: 1 Ton 27; 2 Kent 30; 3 TWH 30

M70 (5km): 1 A Lawes B&B 22:32; 2 J Spencer-Wood Kent 23:39; 3 J Tolhurst Padd W 23:41; 4 M Hayley SKH 23:50; 5 A Newman Ton 24:52; 6 J Wilkins I&I 25:57

M75: 1 J Phelan B&B 28:25; 2 D Grunfield Mote 29:54; 3 R Coombs Dart 30:57

W35 (5km): 1 I McLennan B&B W40 19:56; 2 K Sanders Camb H W40 20:30; 3 V Buck Kent W50 20:55; 4 E Skinner Kent W45 21:03; 5 N Evans Ton W40  21:10; 6 S Price Dart W40 21:21; 7 V Boyle Kent W45 21:21; 8 R Morton Ton 21:31; 9 A Farrell TWH W50 21:33; 10 L Aldred Ash 22:01

TEAM: 1 Kent 14; 2 Ton 25; 3 TWH 42

W45: 1 R McDonnell Inv W50 19:39;  2 E Owen Ton 20:11; 3 H Behagg Dart RR 20:15; 4 E Brookes Cent 21:41; 5 T McPherson M&M 21:57; 6 O Cockell Swale W50 22:35; 7 K Sugden B&B W50 22:40; 8 J Holford TWH W50 23:09; 9 V Martell Ton 23:12;10 K Cudmore M&M W50 23:13

TEAM: 1 M&M 29; 2 Dart 51; 3 TWH 54

W55: 1 C Elms Kent W60 19:50;  2 M Heslop Ton 20:19; 3 T Oldershaw Ton 21:35; 4 T Taylor TWH W60 21:59; 5 K Marchant Beck 22:08; 6 R Baker Camb H W60 22:25; 7 A Pickup Beck 22:33; 8 C Bond Camb H W60 22:53; 9 G Manzotti Ton 23:29; 10 L Pitcairn-Knowles Ton W60 23:36

TEAM: 1 Ton 14; 2 Camb H 28; 3 Kent 28

W65: 1 J Lenton Orp 24:31; 2 M Bradshaw TWH 25:16; 3 E Batty Cant 27:17; 4 L Joannes TWH 28:38; 5 B Ockendon I&I W70 29:48; 6 J Moorekite Lark 30:18

HAMPSHIRE LEAGUE, Match 3, Bournemouth, Dorset, November 30

The league again went outside the county boundaries with the trip down the A35 to Kings Park and the senior men’s event saw refugee Abdinasir Mohamoud Elmi score his third straight win of the campaign.

This time the Bournemouth man was on his adopted home terrain and ran out a winner by almost two minutes over the zig-zag course.

There was a repeat under-13 boys win for Lorenzo Moss of Andover, the third quickest in his age group in the country with a 16:47 best.

Under-17 Katie Pye scored a repeat senior women’s race victory and made it a double in the women’s team standings.

Elsewhere, youngsters from Aldershot generally gave the event a miss but nobody told their under-15 girls that this was the case, as Poppy Guest led home three more of her team mates in their race.

Their club continued their autumn domination of the age group and have won both English relay championships at Sutton Park and Berry Hill Mansfield in recent weeks.

Men: 1 A Mohamoud Elmi (B’mth) 30:09; 2 R James (Soton) 31:59; 3 J Atwal (Soton U) 32:05; 4 L Jolly (Read, M40) 32:10

M40: 2 A Greenleaf (Win) 32:58

M60: 1 P Jewell (Read RR) 40:02

U20: 1 L Hamblen (AFD) 33:22

Div 1 TEAM: 1 Basingstoke & Mid Hants 86; 2 Soton U 89; 3 Soton 90

M40 TEAM: 1 Portsmouth 40; 2 Winchester RC 45; 3 Wimborn 56

U17: 1 W Smith (AFD) 20:17; 2 C Collins (Poole) 20:25; 3 C Wilson (Win RC) 20:29

TEAM: 1 Winchester RC 28; 2 Soton 31; 3 Poole 47

U15: 1 N Manojkumar (BMH) 13:46; 2 T Moore (BMH) 14:06l 3 A Mitchell (Salis) 14:09

TEAM: 1 AFD 13; 2 Winchester & D 48; 3 Bournemouth 49

U13: 1 L Moss (And) 11:01; 2 J Tildersley (Ports) 11:07; 3 H Samways (Poole R) 11:15S Bryce (AFD) 11:04

TEAM: 1 BMH 18; 2 Winchester & D 43; 3 Bournemouth 49

Women: 1 K Pye (AFD, U17) 22:39; 2 J Corbett (Soton U) 22:53; 3 K Estlea-Morris (AFD) 23:07; 4 A Mann (Win, U20) 23;13; 5 P Roessler (AFD, U20) 23:20; 6 R Lord (Stubb G) 23:39

W40: 1 V Gill (Win) 24:01

W60: 1 S Gee (Read RR) 25:46; 2 C Wheeler (Over) 29:39

TEAM: 1 AFD 9; 2 Winchester & District 27; 3 Winchester RC 32

W35 TEAM: 1 Winchester & D 13; 2 Soton 39; 3 Portsmouth 47

U20 TEAM:  1 AFD 9; 2 Winchester & D 13; 3 BMH 36

U17: 1 I Cherrett (B’mth) 15:15; 2 U Doublet (BMH) 16:24; 3 D Alford (B&M) 16:42

TEAM: 1 BMH 9; 2 Soton 26

U15:  1 P Guest (AFD) 14:28; 2 T Robertson (AFD) 14:58; 3 K McBride (AFD) 15:03

TEAM: 1 AFD 6; 2 BMH 30; 3 Winchester & D 51

U13:  1 T Goodchild (Havant) 12:06; 2 D Bulters (Win) 12:08; 3 A Uniacke (Win) 12:23

TEAM: 1 Winchester & D 18; 2 Portsmouth 25; 3 Wimborn 40

OXFORDSHIRE LEAGUE, Cirencester, December 1

A month earlier, Tonbridge’s Ben Cole won the Kent League but here turned out for Swindon to add the Oxfordshire one to his portfolio of victories.

The best of the younger runners was Banbury Harriers’ Isla McGowan, the English Schools 1500m champion, who dominated the under-17 race.

Overall: 1 B Cole (Swin) 27:17; 2 C Jardine (Abing) 27:42; 3 M Marshall (Head RR) 28:08

M40: 1 C Chessell (Swin) 30:28

M50: 1 H Jones (T Kennett Tri) 31:23

M60: 1 E Southam (Abing) 33:07

U17: 1 J Norton (Newb) 21:56; 2 H Cann (Oxf C) 22:15; 3 T Styles (Radley) 22:32

U15: 1 F Byrne (Swin) 16:09; 2 L Blyton (Bic) 16:32; 3 D Cassidy (Abing) 16:38

U13: 1 N Spruce (Abing) 10:01; 2 S Cousins (Radley) 10:02; 3 R Gray (Banb) 10:31

Women: 1 F Hannon (Oxf C) 34:2y7; 2 L Glasson (Head RR) 34:49; 3 H Horton (H’worth) 35:00

W40: 1 H Calderwood (Thame) 36:40

W50: 1 E Hines (Swin H) 36:33

U17: 1 I McGowan (Banb) 22:45; 2 I Wild (Banb) 30:38; 3 I Ransom (Banb) 31:54

U15: 1 M Davis (Banb) 17:49; 2 A Lorimer (Oxf C) 18:14; 3 S Eagland (Banb) 18:22

U13: 1 C Griffiths’Clark (Swin) 11:24; 2 H Saunders (T Kennett Tri) 12:04; 3 T Kentish (Oxf C) 12:15

START FITNESS MET LEAGUE, Match 3, Hillingdon House Farm, Uxbridge, November 30

Both Alex Lepretre and Annabel Gummow made light work of the Hillingdon House Farm course, with the brook and ski slope to negotiate, Alastair Aitken reports.

Lepretre was strong throughout. However, runner-up Thomas Butler, ran his best ever senior Met League race after being out of the frame for over eight years in Met Leagues, as he held off Andy Lawrence plus three Highgate men.

Highgate had 12 in 53 out of a field of more than 400. So, it is still surprising Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets are quite close with 1812 behind Highgate’s 1897.

Ben Noad, who was 50th and scoring for Highgate, was a leading UK international cross country runner in his day. Richard Bloom still runs well at 79, coming 382 of 407 on such a testing course.

Annabel Gummow had to run well to beat established Highgate runner Hannah Viner, who was second.

Men: 1 A Lepretre (High) 26:02; 2 T Butler (SB) 26:50; 3 A Lawrence (VP&TH) 26:57; 4 P Chambers (High) 27:08; 5 S Jinks (High) 27:35; 6 H Allen (High) 27:46

M45: 1 P Martelletti (VP&TH) 28:14

M50: 1 N Chisholm (Sat Mary’s) 30:05

M55: 1 M Weaver (High) 32:10

M60: 1 A Davidson (High) 34:18

U20: 1 A O’Gorman (SB) 28:56

TEAM: 1 Highgate 1897; 2 VP&TH 1812; 3 WG&EL) 1471; 4 London Heathside 1376; 5 TVH 1313; 6 Highgate B 1194

U17/U15: 1 L Dunham (Herts P) 12:59; 2 B Murphy (Herts P) 13:04; 3 A Pflug (High, U15) 13:08; 4 H Stockhill (WG&EL) 13;22; 5 G Watkins (WG&EL, U15) 13:23; 6 R Rack 9TVH) 13:25

U15: 3 D Lewis (Hill) 13:39

TEAM: 1 WG&EL 373; 2 Herts P 370; 3 Shaftesbury 317

U13: 1 D Pascal (SB) 11:01; 2 J Maiden (Herts P) 11:12; 3 E Frith (WG&EL) 11:13

TEAM: 1 Shaftesbury 183; 2 Herts P 171; 3 VP&TH 164

Women: 1 A Gummow (Herts P) 30:15; 2 H Viner (High) 31:08; 3 C Boyd-Squires (VP&TH) 31;20; 4 C Baker (TVH) 31:37; 5 L Sterritt (TVH) 32:02; 6 Y Goater (High) 32:08

W45: 1 J Triou (ESM) 34:11

W55: 1 D Rushman (Gerts P) 34:58

TEAM: 1 TVH 467; 2 VP&TH 465; 3 Lon H 409; 4 VP&TH B 348; 5 Herts P 294; 6Lon H B 271

U17/U15: 1 J March (Barn, U15) 14:41; 2 S Allen (High, U15) 14:41; 3 A Johnson (ESM, U15) 15:12; 4 E Archer (St Mary’s, U15) 15:40; 5 L Delvendahl (High) 15:49; 6 J Falkowska (Trent P, U15) 15:59

TEAM: 1 St Mary’s 168; 2 Lon H 157; 3 VP&TH) 152

U13: 1 V Muralidhar (ESM) 12:09; 2 M Keam-George (TVH) 12;23; 3 E Fitzgerald (Hill) 12:40

TEAM: 1 ESM 121; 2 WG&EL) 103; 3 VP&TH 92

SURREY LEAGUE, Rescheduled YA races, Nonsuch Park, Ewell, Surrey, November 30

The delayed second round match races saw a bigger uptake among the boys than was the case in the opening match in October as the stand-alone match seemed popular.

Alex Lennon led his Sutton & District team-mates to  an under-17 men’s team win to maintain their league domination.

U17 Men/U15 Boys:

1 A Lennon (S&D) 13:24; 2 T Creed (HW, U15) 13:41; 3 E Newell (S&D) 13:47; 4 P Panchev (HW) 13:48; 5 R Haig (S&D) 13:50; 6 M Hudson (S&D) 13:55

U15: 1 T Clerkin (Herne H) 14:02; 3 L Roch (Herne H) 14:35

TEAM (4 to score): 1 Sutton & D 389; 2 Hercules Wimbledon 371; 3 Herne Hill 335

U13:

1 H Kucerov (Herne H) 10:48; 2 M Harrison (HW) 10:54; J Aldham (Herne H) 10:54

TEAM: 1Hercules W 183; 2 Herne H 175;

U17 Women/U15 Girls: 1 I Harrison (HW, U15) 15:31; 2 S Coppola-Johansen (E&E) 15:48; 3 I Kaur (S&D) 16:00; 4 F Harper-Tee (HW, U15) 16:06; 5 D Larkin (Belg, U15) 16:19; 6 B Naylor-Davies (Wav’ly, U15) 16:21

U17 TEAM: 1 Herne H 48; 2 Hercules W 55; 3 E&E 68

U15 TEAM: 1 HW 36; 2 Waverley 41; 3 S London 71

U13: 1 S O’Brien (Herne H) nt; 2 J Wood (HW) nt; 3 H Kalfos (G&G) nt

TEAM: 1 S London 29; 3 HW 35; 3 Herne H 49

SUSSEX LEAGUE, Match 4, Ardingly, West Sussex, November 30

The South of England Showground at Ardingly played host and Chichester Runners’ junior Fionn O’Murchu ran out a narrow winner over Hastings’ Rhys Boorman as both relegated previous winner Andrew Green to third.

Molly Smithers made it a junior Chichester double when taking the women’s race from previous match winner Ava James as under-17 dominated.

In the younger races, Katherine Haslip, the 2022 under-13 Inter-Counties champion took the under-15 girls’ race

Men: 1 F O’Murchu (Chich R, U20) 28:12; 2 R Boorman (Hast) 28:14; 3 A Green (B&H) 28:22

M40: 1 Z Arasaretnam-Hale (B&H) 29:01

M45: 1 H Bristow (B&H) 30:22; 2 N Boniface (Horsh BS) 30:47

M50: 1 S Rowan (Hay H) 32:44

M55: 1 G Godden (B&H) 33:48

M60: 1 J Burrell Lewes) 35:12

M65: 1 J Orden (Arena) 39:54

M70: 1 T Linturn (Craw) 43:58

TEAM Div 1 (6 to score): 1 Brighton & H 42; 2 Phoenix 87; 3 B&H B 128

M35 TEAM: 1 B&H 11; 2 Horsham BS 26; 3 Eastbourne 38

M50 TEAM: 1 Steyning 35

U17: 1 F Goodman (B&H) 17:45; 2 A Matthews (B&H) 18:04; 3 J Pursey (Phoe) 18:08

TEAM: 1 B&H 11; 2 Phoenix 32; 3 Crawley 34

U15: 1 B Roberts (E’brne) 14:27; 2 G Armstrong (E’brne) 14:38; 3 F Lumber-Fry (E’brne) 14:44

TEAM: 1 Eastbourne 6; 2 Chich R 22; 3 Eastbourne B 30

U13: 1 H Chapman (Lewes) 11:02; 2 X Wagjiani (Craw) 11:24; 3 R Grant (B&H) 11:26

TEAM: 1 Crawley 12; 2 B&H 29; 3 Lewes 43

Women: 1 M Smithers (Chich R, U17) 19:48; 2 A James (Lewes, U17) 20:13; 3 R Petrova (E’brne, U17) 20:21

W40: 1 A Dixon (HY) 21;17

W50: 1 S Rushworth (Phoe) 22:05

W55: 1 E Turner (Horsh BS) 22:09

TEAM Div 1 (4 to score): 1 Lewes 26; 2 Chich R 34; 3 Crawley 89

W35 TEAM (3 to score): 1 Lewes 20; 2 HY 22; 3 Arena 39

W50 TEAM: 1 B&H 28

U17 TEAM: 1 Lewes 12; 2 Eastbourne 21; 3 Crawley 26

U15: 1 K Haslip (Phoe) 16:15; 3 E Hutchingson I(Hast) 16:23; 3 I Wheeler (Horsh) 16:47

TEAM: 1 Hy 21; 2 Chich R 30; 3 B&H 36

U13: 1 S Widdows (B&H) 11:53; 2 D Wickenden (Craw) 12:30; 3 S Gamble (Phoe) 12:39

TEAM: 1 B&H 22; 2 Crawley 27; 3 Phoenix 33

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