Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Cross country champion Greg Jayasuriya keeps up winning ways


Last year’s overall champion Greg Jayasuriya (Middlesbrough and Cleveland) won the senior men’s race in the second round of the North Yorkshire South Durham Cross Country League at the challenging Filey course.


Jayasuriya repeated his win from the first round in Acklam, finishing over a minute ahead of Lewis Rogers (Loftus and Whitby).


Leading the way with an emphatic victory in the Under-20 men’s event was Matthew Bailey (Middlesbrough AC), finishing more than seven minutes ahead of his nearest rival.


Highest Tees finishers in the senior women’s race were Carolyn Ollis (Middlesbrough and Cleveland) who ran well to finish third, and Kath Aspin (New Marske Harriers) who was fifth.


Grace Cuff (Middlesbrough AC) and Hazel Costello-Webster (Middlesbrough and Cleveland) ran strong races to finish second and third respectively in the Under- 20 women’s event.


In the Under-17 men’s race there was a clear win for Jay Ferns (Loftus and Whitby) from Hassan Ben-Tiba (New Marske) with Billingham’s Callum Martin fifth.


Josh Cowperthwaite took the top position in the Under-15 boys’ age group from team-mate and training partner Josh Allen in second. Callum McDonald of Billingham was fifth.


Libby Hedger (Middlesbrough AC) was second in the Under-15 girls’ race and the New Marske pairing of Eli Barnbrook and Frances Bell finished in fourth and fifth places.


The youngest boys’ age groups - Under-13 and Under-11 - saw a pair of 1-2-3s for Tees athletes.


Daniel Gunn (New Marske Harriers) won the Under-13 boys’ race ahead Daniel Currie (Middlesbrough AC) with club- mate Dominic Shipman third.


Billingham’s Will Simpson won a close Under-11 race from Adam Wanless (Middlesbrough AC) and Benjamin Johnson (Middlesbrough AC).


Gabrielle Marsh (Billingham) was second in the Under-11 girls’ event.



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