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Harriers’ Sam is the Heaton highlight

29/11/2006

OLDHAM and Royton Harriers' athletes travelled to Heaton Park for the third race in the South East Lancs Cross Country League.

The highlight of the day was the under-17s boys' four-mile event where Sam Witter led the team to first place, finishing second in his race in 16:32, ahead of James Witter (eighth, 18:14) and Mark Mannings (ninth, 19:33).

The under-11s girls also finished second thanks to Ella Clarkson (sixth, 7:10), Leyla Bramall (seventh, 7:13), Shelby McTaggart (eighth, 7:17) and Lucy Kershaw (14th, 7:53).

In the under-11s boys race Joseph Guy was sixth in 6:46, ahead of Nathan Hilditch (eighth, 7:08) and J Fitzpatrick (11th, 7:21) as they ended in third place.

Fourth place went to the under-13s girls after runs from Sofi Clark (16th, 19:44), Amy Taylor (20th, 20:56), L Copeland (21st, 21:38) and Alex Hart (25th, 22:29). The boys race saw Josh Donald sixth in 14:27.

The under-15s girls race saw Emily Crompton finish in 19:52, followed by Natalie Mannings (20:58), while the ladies race saw Julie Peters finish eighth (31:03) and Pam Hudson 30th (36:32).

The senior men's six-mile race saw Rob Ingham finish fifth in 36:50, ahead of Mike Mannings (29th, 41:02), John Hudson (34th, 41:16), Dave Smith (35th, 41:22) and Brian Schofield (60th, 45:08).

• ROYTON Road Runners members have been competing in various races at home and abroad.

David Smith completed the New York Marathon in 4:30.39, while Colin Green ran the Chicago event in 3:37.13.

Elsewhere, Steve Shaw ran the Snowdonia race in 3:37.32 and Jeff Cordwell ended the Leicester competition in 4:13.15.

Stuart Carroll (39:55), Neil Dickinson (41:12), Richard Higgs (45:58) and Robert Kellett (50:28) all competed in the Accrington 10k road race. Barry Greaves (39:10) and Rob Bickerstaffe (47:16) took part in the Barnsley 10k event.

Steve Shaw and Louise Gilchrist had times of 69:32 and 80:57 respectively when they ran the Preston 10-mile race, while June Allingan raised £1,700 for charity when competing in the Great North Run.