Sam Norris and Kate O’Neill prevail in Essex League

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ESSEX LEAGUE, Hilly Fields, Colchester, November 16

Regardless of a number of clashing occasions, such because the London and Jap championships, being held elsewhere within the east, the Essex League however went forward as deliberate and Sam Norris and Kate O’Neill got here out on high of the senior races.

Each had been shut with O’Neill, the 2020 junior Inter-Counties bronze medallist repeating her win from the October race when narrowly heading many-time Essex champion Gemma Kersey.

Norris wound up just a few yards away from Peter Coates with high M50 Adrian Mussett a detailed third within the males’s race.

Males: 1 S Norris (S’finish) 26:08; 2 P Coates (Brai ) 26:12; 3 A Mussett (Col H, M50) 26:15

TEAM: 1 Colchester 92; 2 Southend 94; 3   Havering 101

U17: 1 J Hurrell (Chelm) 20:09; 2 M Sanderson (B’wooden) 20;25; 3 F Evison (Bas) 21:24

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 14; 2 Basildon 24; 3 Harlow 38

U15: 1 J Parrott (Chelm) 14:13; 2 B Tucker (Harl) 14:23; 3 L Jopling (S’finish) 14:25

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 23; 2 Basildon 30; 3 Southend 61

U13: 1 T Ketterer (C&T) 12;28; 2 S Brown (SS) 12:29; 3 J Dalton (helm) 12:36

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 33; 2 SS Athletics 38; 3 Basildon 54

Ladies: 1 Ok O’Neil (Hav’g) 25:43; 2 G Kersey (Bas) 25:48; 3 Ok Fitzgibbon (Bas) 27:24

TEAM: 1 Havering 41; 2 Colchester 44; 3 Chelmsford 50

U17: 1 E Warn (B ‘wooden) 23;59; 2 L Tyler (Col H) 24:08; 3 Z Morley (Bas) 25:35

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 24; 2 Basildon 31; 3 Colchester & Tendring 36

U15: 1 F Phillips (Chelm) 15:20; 2 I Daisy (Chelm) 15:50; 3 A Shipton (Chelm) 16:09

TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 22; 2 Basildon 30; 3 SS Athletics 65

U13: 1 I Kehoe (Chelm) 12;58; 2 B Castleton-Cooke (Chelm) 13:09; 3 S Sowen (SS) 13;17

TEAM: 1 SS Athletics 21; 2 Chelmsford 26; 3 C&T 58

BERKS, BUCKS & OXON CCA CHAMPIONSHIPS, Banbury, Oxfordshire, November 17

The races had been held within the grounds of the medieval moated Broughton Citadel and the proprietor, Martin Fiennes, the twenty second Baron Seye & Sele, offered lots of the awards because the venue hosted a cross-country occasion for the primary time since 1979.

The affiliation’s treasurer is Studying AC’s Jess Gibbon, who added to her 2022 girls’s title comfortably with a close to two-minute victory over Newbury junior Josie Robertson, who has dominated the Oxfordshire League this yr.

Gibbon has had a quiet yr after profitable the South of England title in January, however returned to take the Vitality Imaginative and prescient Cross Cup in Roeselare on the finish of October.

It was one other under-20 who took the boys’s race as Chris Parker ran within the colors of standard BB&O membership Studying, while his fellow Oxford College runners turned out in pressure to take the group race, as a part of their heat up for the annual Varsity race towards Cambridge College.

Males: 1 C Parker (Learn, U20) 25:57; 2 A Gruen (MK Dist) 26:02; 3 N Whittaker (Oxf U) 26:05

M40: 1 R Corney (Learn RR) 27:27

TEAM: 1 Oxford U 42; 2 Oxford U B 127; 3 Studying 151

M40 TEAM: 1 Newbury 25

U17: 1 J Titmas (Learn) 20:55; 2 J Norton (Newb) 21:04; 3 M Gillas (Learn) 21:10

TEAM: 1 Newbury 16; 2 Bracknell 22; 3 Studying 22

U15: 1 E Langley-Aybar (Brack) 13:42; 2 J Legge (Brack) 14:07; 3 S Nixon-Gagg (Abing) 14:09

TEAM: 1 Bracknell 8; 2 WSEH 18; 3 Radley C 30

U13: 1 S Cousins (Radley) 13:21; 2 N Spruce (Abing) 13:36; 3 W Might (Learn) 13:39

TEAM: 1 Abingdon 21; 2 Studying 28; 3WSEH 30

Ladies: 1 J Gibbon (Learn) 28:59; 2 J Robertson (Newb) 30:45; 3 J Ridley (WSEH) 30:57

W35: 1 N Griffith (WSEH) 31:49

U20: 1 J Robertson (Newb) 30:45

TEAM: 1 Studying 16; 2 Oxford U 20; 3 WSSEH 21

W35 TEAM: 1 Eynsham 16

U17: 1 Y Grant (WSEH) 24:31; 2 S Massie (WSEH) 25:02; 3 G Colley (WSEH) 25:26

TEAM: 1 WSEH 6; 2 Bracknell 24; 3 WSEH B 25

U15: 1 Z Allan (WSEH) 15:18; 2 R Avenue (WSEH) 15:58; 3 C Campbell (Oxf C) 16:16

TEAM: 1 WSEH 9; 2 WSEH B 34; 3 Bracknell 42

U13: 1 H Lucas (Brack) 14:47; 2 M Lennox-Imbastari (WSEH) 14:48; 3 F Staker (Learn) 15:17

TEAM: 1 Bracknell 12; 2 Studying 19; 3 Oxford C 38

EASTERN AA CHAMPIONSHIPS, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, November 16

Former Nene Valley Harrier James McCrae returned to his roots to take the Jap championship whereas Lucy Mapp moved up from sixth final yr to win the ladies’s race.

Within the age group occasions, Olivia Forrest, the English Colleges and Inter-Counties champion, gained one other title within the under-17 girls’s class.

Males (10km): 1 J McCrae (Hallam) 36:46; 2 L White (Felix) 37:14; 3 C Smith (Hunts) 37:40

TEAM: 1 Huntingdonshire 14

Inter-Counties TEAM: 1 Cambridgeshire

Jap Masters Champs (10km): 1 M Amos (Hunts, M40) 41:26; 2 M Hayward (New J) 41:30; 3 S Coombes (Herne H, M50) 41:31

M60 (6km): 1 S Howard (Ely) 25:10

M65: 1 G Chapman (Ely) 26:57

M75: 1 J Stocker (Hunts) 31:27

U20: 1 W Hollands (St Ed) 26:03; 2 T Taylor (St Ed) 26:24; 3 Taylor (St Ed) 26:58

TEAM: 1 St Edmunds Pacers 6

Inter-Counties TEAM: 1 Suffolk

U17: 1 S Melero (St Ed) 20:24; 2 B Eccles (Bure) 21:01; 3 S McDougal (C&C) 21:05

TEAM: 1 Cambridge & Coleridge 16

U15: 1 F McLennon (C&C) 12:42; 2 L Legge (P’boro &NV) 12:59; 3 C Calver (W Suff) 13:01

TEAM: 1 Cambridge & Coleridge 11

U13: 1 M Sanford (Chelm) 11:00; 2 C Holland (Waveney) 11:10; 3 E Gibbs (Mattress C) 11;16

TEAM: 1 Bedford & C 23

Ladies: 1 L Mapp (Hunts) 24:46; 2 L Cason (Ips J) 24:57; 3 S Chicken (Ips J, W35) 25:40

TEAM: 1 Ipswich Jaffa 17

Jap Masters Champs: 1 Ok Austin (Ips J, W40) 24:57; 2 Ok King (St Ed) 25:26; 3 H Buller (St Neots, W45) 25:40

W50: 1 S Warren (C&C) 27:18

Inter-Counties TEAM: 1 Suffolk

U20: 1 E Jonas (Norw) 26:04; 2 F Hammond (W Suff) 27:14; 3 I Mitchell (Ips H) 27:40

U17: 1 O Forrest (B’wooden) 22:44; 2 E Kerswell (C&C) 23:21; 3 C Hughes (C&C) 23:33

TEAM: 1 St Edmunds Pacers 15

U15: 1 H Woodley (B’wooden) 13:57; 2 A Eager (Ips H) 14:27; 3 V Brooke (Norw) 14:56

TEAM: 1 Brentwood Beagles 15

U13: 1 M Kindler (B’wooden) 11:21; 2 S Bolton (St Ed) 12:05; 3 S Bickerstaff (B’wooden) 12:26

TEAM: 1 Brentwood Beagles 8

LONDON CHAMPIONSHIPS, Parliament Hill, Hampstead, November 16

Andrew Penney gained for Surrey League champions Hercules Wimbledon however couldn’t cease rivals Thames Hare & Hounds popping out on high within the four-to-score group race.

After shifting up from fifth right here final yr, Penney ran out a winner over James Hoad by round 30 metres.

Penney stated: “I did have a break after the monitor season and did cross coaching. Relating to the mileage I’ve been doing 60 to 70 and attempting to choose it up.”

The ladies’s race noticed Lucy Jones head a Herne Hill membership one-two as Sophie Tooley took the silver medal however it was third-placed Elizabeth Apsley who ensured that Thames posted a males’s and girls’s group double.

Jones stated: “I felt good and robust and was relaxed for the primary lap with my clubmate Sophie. After I went to the entrance within the second lap, I attempted to push it on.”Geoff Jerewood at Herne Hill.

Males: 1 A Penney (HW) 34;29; 2 J Hoad (THH) 34:29; 3 M Cameron (TVH) 34:48; 4 B Dewer (Herne H) 34:52; 5 J Brookman (THH) 35:01; 6 S Greenstein (SB) 35:23

TEAM: 1 THH 30; 2 TVH 66; 3 Hercules W 89

Ladies: 1 L Jones (Herne H) 20:58; 2 S Tooley (Herne H) 21:52; 3 E Apsley (THH) 31:57; 4 E Bradley (Belg) 21:59; 5 J Hodder (Belg) 22:01; 6   C Sharp (B&B) 22:02

TEAM: 1 THH 34; 2 Herne Hill 47; 3 Belgrave 58

LONDON YOUTH GAMES, Parliament Hill, Hampstead, November 16

U17 Males: 1 A Lennon (Sutt) 15:36; 2 H Austin (Camb) 15:55; 3 I Mezey (Ealing) 15:57

U15 Boys: 1 A Pflug (Camden) 9:46; 2 T Creed (Merton) 9:54; 3 T Clerkin (Merton) 10:05

U13: 1 E Aldridge (Brom) 7:09; 2 F Kounoupus-Prastalo (Camb) 7:09; 3 B Kaspar (Barn) 7:17

U17 Ladies: 1 A Nicholl (H&F) 11:28; 2 R James (T Hamlets) 11;34; 3     L McDonald (C Lon) 11:39

U15 Women: 1 J March (Enf) 7:11; 2 I Harrison (Wands) 76:22; 3 S Smith (Hav’g) 7:28

U13: 1 C Foster (G’wich) 7:44; 2 A Wait (Merton) 7:48; 3 S O’Brien (S’wark) 7:51

MIDLAND MEN’S 7 and Ladies’s 5-Mile CHAMPIONSHIP, Halesowen, West Midlands, November 16

Jack Grey, the double Midland Counties senior champion, added one other title to his portfolio over seven miles at Excessive Harcourt Farm, Romsley as Rebecca Miles took the ladies’s race.

After profitable the Midland title in 2019 the Cambridge & Coleridge runner had two space silvers earlier than once more profitable the Midland senior title in 2023, the yr he additionally took podium locations in each the English Nationwide and Inter-Counties Championships.

Right here Grey gained by precisely a minute over Wreake & Soar Valley’s Daniel Hallam who was third within the 2018 Midland senior occasion.

For girls’s winner Miles, this was the Desford runner’s first notable victory.

Males (7M): 1 J Grey (C&C) 36:59; 2 D Hallam (Wreake) 37:59; 3 N Williams (Notts, n/s) 40:50; 5 R Hale (Notts) 41:31; 5 J Reed (Tip) 41:45; 6 T De Jong (Notts, n/s) 42:02

TEAM: 1 Notts 81; 2 Wolverhampton & Bilston 88; 3 Tipton 113

Ladies (5M): 1 R Miles (Desf) 34:18; 2 B Tabor (Tip) 34:34; 3 Ok McGonigal (B’ville) 35:14; 4 L Collins (Hales) 35:36; 5 P Dodd (Hales) 35:54; 6 C Baker (B’ville) 36:14

TEAM: 1 Halesowen 25; 2       Bourneville 43; 3 Tipton 49

LUCA LEAGUE, Wimbledon Frequent, November 13

The second match of the re-named London Faculties League noticed Daniel McKinney and Grace Leyland come out on high of the boys’s and girls’s races.

Males: 1 D McKinney (Learn) 33:11; 2 H Donovan (UAL) 33:11; 3 I Makar (Imp C) 33;13; 4 S Babin (Kings) 33;16; 5 D Matthews (RVC) 33:25; 6 L Wheeler (Kings) 33:31

TEAM: 1 Imp C 552; 2 Kings 943: 3 UCL 871

Ladies: 1 G Leyland (St George’s) 17:29; 2 E Warren (Surrey) 17:32; 3 E Davies (LSE) 17:48; 4 J Alonso-Gautrals (UCL) 18:10; 5 M Parmer (St George’s) 18:39; 6 C Firth (Kings) 18:49

TEAM: 1 St George’s 770; 2 UCL 769; 3 LSE 755

SCOTTISH STUDENT SPORT CHAMPIONSHIPS, Aberdeen, November 16

Males (8.5km approx): 1 M Knowles (Edin U) 27:28; 2 R Martin (Stirl U) 27:44; 3 C Gourley 27:47

TEAM: 1 Edin U 13; 2 Stirl U 41; 3 Glas U 84

Ladies: 1 E Shaw (Edin U) 32:16; 2 E McNicol (Glas U) 32:34; 3 C Heggie (Edin U) 33:16

TEAM: 1 Edin U 15; 2 Glas U 55; 3 S’clyde 61

SCOTTISH EAST DISTRICT LEAGUE, Dundee, November 16

Males (8km): 1 L Rees (Fife) 25:44; 2 D Milne (Centr) 26:00; 3 M Pryde (Loth) 26:07

TEAM: 1 Centr 67; 2 Dund H 168; 3 Loth 214

M40+: J Tole (Metro) 27:53

TEAM: Metro 11

U17 (6.4km): 1 F MacKenzie (Metro) 21:39; 2 A Macfaden (Dund H) 21:51; 3 Ok Hardie (Hurt) 22:02

TEAM: 1 Hurt 13; 2 A’deen 37; 3 Metro 40

U15 (4km): 1 L Anderson (Anst) 14:27; 2 J Gillan (Centr) 14:31; 3 R Lees (Edin) 14:33

TEAM: 1 Edin 13; 2 T Bord 32; 3 Perth S 40

U13 (3.2km): 1 T Comer (Edin) 11:37; 2 T Ibbs (E Loth) 11:37; 3 J Shinnie (A’deen) 11:41

TEAM: 1 Edin 24; 2 Perth S 29; 3 Hurt 30

U11 (1.6km): G Wright (Hadd) 5:56

TEAM: 1 Edin 31

General male group: 1 Dund H 447; 2 Edin 544; 3 Hurt 623

Ladies (6.4km): 1 M Millar (Centr) 23:30; 2 M Sanchez Oller (Edin) 25:06; 3 A Hedley (Centr) 25:37

TEAM: 1 Edin 32; 2 Cors 36; 3 Perth R 99

W40+: E Mooney (Ochil) 27:48

TEAM: HBT 21

U17/U15 (4km): 1 E Dallas (S’earn, U17) 15:06; 2 J Taylor (Edin, U17) 15:31; 3 J Evans (Dunf, U17) 15:49

U15: E Taylor (A’deen) 16:17

TEAM: 1 A’deen 26; 2 S’earn 47; 3 Edin 50

U13 (3.2km): 1 M Glass Park (Banc) 12:35; 2 G Whyte (Perth S) 12:50; 3 E Daunt (Edin) 12:59

TEAM: 1 1 Edin 16; 2 Hurt 33; 3 Perth S 42

U11 (1.6km): C Czekalowska (A’deen) 6:04

TEAM: Edin 12

General feminine group: 1 Edin 107; 2 A’deen 286; 3 Hurt 486

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ARNSIDE KNOTT, Far Arnside, November 17

General (6M/1093ft): 1 B Goodfellow (Dallam) 38:14; 2 R Allison (Darkish Pk) 38:24; 3 Matthew Cardus 38:46; 4 M Barrow (Amble) 38:50; 5 J Smith (Helm H) 39:09; 6 Ok Barker (Amble) 39:21

M40: P Mather (Lons) 40:54

M45: J Dunn (Sett) 41:28

M50: J Dyer (Helm H) 45:51

M65: D Griffin (Helm H) 46:55

M70: N Hewitt (Bowl) 56:19

U21: S Ashton-Fitch (Sett) 41:26

Ladies: 1 H Smith (Salf, W40) 43:24; 2 A Lupton (B Combe, W45) 44:44; 3 Emily Simpson 47:52; 4 Ok Damage (COLT) 49:24

W50: B Dyer (Helm, H) 49:50

W55: D Howard (Furn) 55:47

W60: C Museth (Amble) 55:52

W65: Ok Ayres (Amble) 60:12

BEAST OF BAMFORD, Bamford, November 16

General (7.2km/320m): 1 M Kenyon (Dron) 30:05; 2 M Jones (Darkish Pk) 31:20; 3 James Robertson 31:59; 4 P Montgomery (Darkish Pk) 32:15; 5 F Watts (Darkish Pk) 32:27; 6 M Burley (Macc) 32:29

M40: Andy Charlton 34:40

M50: J Stockdale (Mark) 39:03

M60: Rick Frolich 43:12

M70: Ok Holmes (Darkish Pk) 48:03

Ladies: 1 L Watson (Darkish Pk) 35:25; 2 A Mandal (Darkish Pk) 36:48; 3 T Raab (Darkish Pk) 37:57; 4 R Rose (Darkish Pk, W40) 38:28

W50: H Elmore (Darkish Pk) 41:07

W60: Ok Clark (Metal) 50:57

HARRIERS V CYCLISTS, Dowley Hole, Bingley, November 16

General (5.5M/827ft, runners’ positions solely): 1 E Wilkinson (Ok&C) 35:52; 2 B Houlihan (Otl) 36:49; C Shearer (Barl) 37:44; 4 O Brooks (Wharf) 38:04; 5 J Hiom (Kesw) 38:18; 6 E Hassell (Wharf) 38:52

M40: C Emsley (Bing) 41:33

M50: J Inexperienced (Ilkley) 42:43

M60: J Ferguson (Bing) 48:21

M70: Ok Brewster (Vall) 58:16

Ladies: 1 A Wall (Horsf) 42:50; 2 E Clayton (Bing) 42:56; 3 E Bramley (Kesw) 44:05; 3 H Hardaker (Ok&C, W40) 45:57

W50: R Thackray (Bing) 47:11

W60: T Emery (Bing) 56:37

TEAM (M&W): 1 Wharf 9; 2 Bing 10; 3 Ok&C 12

HATHERSAGE NIGHT RACE, Hathersage, November 13

General (8km/400m): 1 G Hopkinson (Mat) 34:53; 2 L Roberts (Worc) 36:28; 3 T Rutter (Darkish Pk, M40) 38:14; 4 M Anderson (Totley, M40) 38:43; 5 Brent Carlin (M40) 38:48; 6 S Berryman (Summ) 39:56

M50: P Lewis (Lengthy E) 42:42

M60: A Barnett (Darkish Pk) 47:23

U20: Danny Chicken 50:35

Ladies: 1 C Brock (Metal) 42:33; 2 J Ellis (Penn, W40) 46:46; 3 A Wildman (Penn, W40) 46:48; 4 S Evans (Metal) 48:55

W50: A Wainwright (Darkish Pk) 53:13

PENMAENMAWR, Gwynedd, November 16

General (16.1km/594m): 1 G Roberts (Calder V, M40) 71:53; 2 D B Hughes (Col B) 72:06; 3 J Hartley (B Combe) 72:45; 4 J Williams (G’dale) 74:03; 5 I Evans (Denbigh) 81:32; 6 B Dooley (Amble) 81:34

M50: N Brook (Eryri) 82:54

M55: Jonathan Moore 92:23

M60: Tim Knight 1:42:17

M65: M Snell (Eryri O) 1:48:36

M75: N Harris (Ross) 2:18:13

Ladies: 1 L Richardson (Eryri) 91:21; 2 Ok Reynolds (Eryri) 92:53; 3 M Grant (Eryri, W40) 1:43:11; 4 C Cummings (Penn) 1:43:13

W45: M Hughes (Eryri) 1:44:40

W50: A Rowlands (Eryri) 1:45:14

W60: R Isaacs (Pens) 1:48:35

W65: Helen Webber 2:19:24

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