LONGWOOD’S Andrew Pearson won the first of this season’s West Yorkshire Cross Country League meetings at Roils Head, in Halifax – despite doing a lap more than his rivals!
Having opened up a lead of over 300m, going into the final stretch, he was then misdirected by an official which resulted in the Longwood man going round again and finishing well down the field.
However, after a quick discussion among race officials, Pearson was rightly declared the winner.
The club turned out a large number of entrants in the junior races for this first meeting of the new season, the highest placed being Lewis Crank, who finished in a fine sixth place in the Boys Under 13s.
Under 11 boys: Tom Schofield 24.
Under 13 girls: Rebecca Morris 19, Chloe Hever 24, Nell Harris 60.
Under 13 boys: Lewis Crank 6, Mason Hancock 48.
Under 15 girls: Freya Williams 15, Ana Williams 33, KIrsty Leih 39, Francesca Robertson 53, Rachel Moore 57.
Under 15 boys: Sam Hever 24.
Under 17 women: Jordane Allison 12.
Senior men: Andrew Pearson 1, Donald Kennedy 94, Richard Hardcastle 180, Ian Simpson 185.
