Birmingham League Div 1, Round 4 – Abington Park, Sat 10th February

Finlay Ward of Rugby & Northampton AC led home the mens team in the fourth and final race of the Birmingham & District Cross Country League held at Abington Park, Northampton. The 20 year old finished in a superb 5^th place over the four lap course in a time of 30 mins 30 secs and this gave him overall victory in the Junior category for the best aggregate score over three races. He becomes only the 6^th athlete from the club to make the top 5 in Division One and led home R&N in all four races to become the Senior Club Champion.

Also producing an excellent run was Fergus Scott in 8^th spot on 30.44 and he was followed by a quartet of runners from the club to finish within 11 seconds of one another. Anthony Clancy was 41^st in 32:35, Junior Noah Bennett in 44^th with 32:40, Adam Wright (45^th in 32:44) and Veteran Phil Melling (46^th in 32:46). This packing helped the club to finish in 4^th place on the day and moved out of the relegation zone to finish 12^th in the league from the sixteen teams.

Andrew Johnstone led home the B team in 50^th position on 32:56 and he had support from Lewis Cherry (80^th in 34:44), Andrew Siggers (96^th in 35:23), James Southall (106^th in 36:05), Ben Merriman (111th in 36:15) and Sam Jackson (117^th in 36:35).  The B team finished 3^rd.