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Weekend double for Stamford star Scott
Thorney Running Club outshone some of the bigger local clubs and Eamonn Dorling (far left), Paul Markham and Neil Martin (right) are pictured during Sundays race. Photo supplied
STAMFORD ace Aaron Scott rounded off an excellent weekend with his third successive Frostbite Friendly League success over a new course at March on Sunday.
The England international had the North Midlands Cross-Country League campaign for Notts Athletic Club less than 24 hours earlier and he led the way for second-claim club Nene Valley with an impressive run to defeat Cambridge and Coleridge’s former Welsh steeplechase champion Sullivan Smith.
John Herbert and John Pike set the early pace while Scott and Smith cruised along behind them and the latter pair then took on the pace with Scott going clear with 400m to go.
Nene Valley began the day in second place but despite a superb performance from their leading men - Pike, Herbert and Edgars Sumskis all finishing in the top six - their failure to field any women proved costly and they trailed in 12th.
Nene Valley had 1,266 points - 422 (the number of finishers in the race plus one) for each of their ‘missing’ women - added to their otherwise impressive score, scoring being based on each club’s first seven men and three women.
The club can justifiably claim the league isn’t their main winter target and that performing well in the higher-standard North Midlands Cross-Country League the day before was more important to them but it was still a disappointing effort not to get any women out - even if they’d used it as a training run.
If they’d fielded three women running 6.30 minute-miling they’d have won, or if they’d had a trio doing seven minutes per mile they’d still have finished second but it was two Huntingdon clubs who led the local challenge while Thorney Running Club enjoyed a great day in fifth.
Dave Connell finished eighth to help Hunts Athletic Club take second place and they now fill the same position overall and are on course for their best ever finish.
Pete Galpin returned to action after a two-year injury nightmare and helped BRJ finish fourth while Martin Dawson and June Swift - who both played their part in Peterborough Athletic Club’s Southern League Division Two title success during the summer - led Thorney to fifth place.
Becky Cousins of Fenland Running Club was second woman behind Riverside Runner Suzi Boast.
Daniel Richardson and James McCrae were second and third respectively for Werrington Joggers in the junior race.
Team results
Seniors - 1 Cambridge & Coleridge 373; 2 Hunts Athletic Club 604; 3 Riverside Runners 627; 4 BRJ 732; 5 Thorney Running Club 907; 6 Werrington Joggers 925; 7 Fenland Running Club 1,038; 8 PACTRAC 1,080; 9 March Athletic Club 1,128; 10 Yaxley Runners 1,217; 11 Ramsey Road Runners 1,372; 12 Nene Valley Harriers 1,390; 13 Bushfield Joggers 1,401; 14 Ely Runners 1,537; 15 Eye Runners 1,606; 16 Bourne Town Harriers 1,715.
Overall (after four races) - 1 Cambridge & Coleridge 64; 2 Hunts Athletic Club 55; 3 Riverside Runners 54; 4 Werrington Joggers 50; 5 Nene Valley Harriers 48; 6 BRJ 44; 7 Fenland Running Club 32 (4,665); 8 March Athletic Club 32; 9 PACTRAC 32 (4,814); 10 Thorney Running Club 31; 11 Ely Runners 25; 12 Yaxley Runners 24; 13 Bushfield Joggers 21; 14 Ramsey Road Runners 15; 15 Bourne Town Harriers 10; 16 Eye Runners 7.
Juniors - 1 Cambridge & Coleridge 24; 2 Werrington Joggers 50; 3 Riverside Runners 79; 4 Hunts Athletic Club 192; 5 Bourne Town Harriers 199; 6 Thorney Running Club 208; 7 Ely Runners 228; 8 Yaxley Runners 236; 9 March Athletic Club 244; 10 BRJ 400; 11 Eye Runners 586; 12 Bushfield Joggers 600; 13 Ramsey Road Runners 618; 14 PACTRAC 640.
Overall (after four races) - 1 Cambridge & Coleridge 56; 2 Werrington Joggers 52; 3 Riverside Runners 48; 4 Ely Runners 39 (691); 5 Hunts Athletic Club 39 (743); 6 Bourne Town Harriers 37; 7 Thorney Running Club 33; 8 March Athletic Club 27; 9 Yaxley Runners 25; 10 BRJ 18; 11 Bushfield 16 (1,998); 12 Eye (2,058); 13 Ramsey Road Runners 9; 14 PACTRAC 5.
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