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Terrific Taylor takes Anglian Schools crown
SPALDING ace Charlotte Taylor celebrated individual and team success at the Anglian Schools Cross-Country Championships at Ipswich.
The English Schools bronze medallist for both track (3000m) and cross-country was in a class of her own as she won the senior girls race by more than half-a-minute and with Chloe Hubbard and Grace Mullins also in the top four Lincolnshire took the team honours in that age group.
Taylor and Mullins have both enjoyed excellent winters with Nene Valley Harriers, Taylor winning the Lincolnshire Under 20 title and finishing second in the North Midlands Cross-Country League while Mullins took the Under 17 title in the ‘North Mids’ and was runner-up at the Lincolnshire Championships.
King’s School pupil Eleanor Smith also ran well for eighth place in that age group.
The Hunts Athletic Club members has also enjoyed a fine winter, taking the Peterborough Schools cross-country and Eastern cross-country titles.
Peterborough Schools champion Zak Stevens made up for his disappointment at the Cambridgeshire School Championships - where he was an early faller - to finish second in the minor boys race.
The race came down to a four-way sprint finish and the Hampton pupil - who was last out of the pen for the Cambs team - finished strongly to cross the line just three seconds shy of winner Alex Baxter of host county Suffolk as he just pipped Lincolnshire’s Blake Kenneally-Forrester for second place.
Cambridgeshire took the inter girls team honours with county schools champion Claire Wilson leading the way when winning the race by 13 seconds.
Arthur Mellows Village College pupil Katie Hutchinson, who won the Lincs Cross-Country League and Peterborough Schools cross-country titles this winter, finished one second behind Cambridgeshire’s final scorer Sophie Jones.
Cambs finished second in the junior girls age group, 12 points behind winners Norfolk. Two Hunts runners played a big part in the Cambridgeshire success, Diana Chalmers finishing second and Amy Chalmers sixth.
Hosts Suffolk kept the aggregate trophy for the sixth year running.
Although the Royal Hospital School course at Holbrook was mainly flat, weather conditions were biting cold - especially on the section along the sea wall.
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