Herts Phoenix under 13 Girls’ Team won their final race in this year’s Metropolitan Cross Country League series making it 4 wins out of 4 (one match was cancelled due to the snow) and thus retained the overall League title. Lizzie Parry finished in second place and was well supported by her team mates.  Click here for results.

Despite being sent the wrong way by a marshal and having to retrace his steps Jake Barraclough (Heath Mount) raced to an excellent win by a margin of 20 seconds over the second placed runner and led his team home to a comfortable win thus holding onto second place in the overall competition. Despite not being able to field complete teams the under 17 men’s and women’s teams finished the series in second and third places respectively in their overall team competitions. The Senior Men’s team finished in 11th place and the Veteran Men’s team finished 8th overall.

Individual Results:

 

Under 13 Boys – 3000 metres
1st Jake Barraclough (Heath Mount) 10:52, 7th Sam Jones (sir John Laws) 11:40, 10th Jamie Jones (Sir John Laws) 11:47, 15th Matthew Wright 11:56, 19th Jamie Dee (Richard Hale) 12:18, 27th Matthew Papa (Chancellors) 13:07
31 finished –, Team 1st, 2nd over all races

Under 13 Girls – 3000 metres
2nd Lizzie Parry (Bishops Hatfield) 12:17, 8th Ellie Baker (Townsend) 13:31, 9th Megan Breen (Sandringham) 13:33, 11th Alicia Found (Townsend) 13:49, 12th Isabel Found (Townsend) 13:54, 14th Emily Hore (Parmiters) 14:24
18 finished – team 1st, 1st over all races

Under 17 Men – 4000 metres
3rd Tom Barfoot (Bishops Stortford High School) 12:47, 5th Alex Cloona (Richard Hale) 13:00, 16th Nicholas Doyle u15 (John Henry Newman) 13:53
37 finished – Team 4th, 2nd over all races

Under 17 Women – 4000 metres
4th Ella Fuller (Sir John Laws) 15:22, 17th Helena Page (Presdales) 17:32, 22nd Rachel Hore (Parmiters) 19:56
22 finished – Team 5th, 3rd over all races

Senior and Veteran Men – 8000 metres
48th Paul Greaves V40 32:53, 56th Steve Prosser 33:17, 87th Adam Frith 35:04, 108th Norman Morrison V55 35:59, 111th Richard Melvern V60 36:16, 151st Simon Doyle V45 38:18, 158th Steven White V45 38:43, 185th Stuart Mann V60 40:19, 189th Mark Faughnan V45 40:29, 195th Richard Foskett V50 40:54, 203rd Peter Fitzpatrick V55 41:35, 210th Richard Bloom V60 42:01, 250th Jim Davis V60 48:31, 254th Mervyn Gilham V55 49:37
260 finished – team 12th, 11th over all races, Vets Team 5th, 8th over all races

 

Adrian Newman, Cross Country Co-ordinator