Scarborough Athletic Club’s Harry Butterworth earns second place on league return

After lots of recent rain and snow, the course was classed as ‘heavy going’ but all concerned were delighted that the fixture was retained on a weekend that many sporting fixtures and local parkruns were cancelled

In the Men’s Under-17 Race, Ben Guthrie who is the current league champion for this age group, notched up a win after pulling clear of the race leader around the halfway stage.

In the Senior Men’s race Harry Butterworth, who was the winner of this year’s Yorkshire Coast 10K race, returned to cross-country for the first time in the league in six years.

After a battle with the reigning Senior Men’s champion Gregory Jayasuriya, he hung on well to finish in second overall of a strong field that precluded some older age groups who had a separate race.

All the following results are provisional pending the publication of the complete results

In the Senior Men’s Race, Harry Butterworth was followed by Darryl Koekemoer, Ekaitz Unanue, Sheldon Kilroe and Jonathan Sharp, who made a return to cross-country since his days as a junior.

For a second consecutive fixture, the club’s Senior Women fielded a scoring team of four.

Rhona Marshall, who was fourth Female overall, led Hester Butterworth, Sue Haslam, and Bridget Macedonski.

In the Junior races, starting with a combined race for Under-11 Girls and Boys, Tayla Koekemoer was the club’s Under-11 representative.

Noah Kilroe and Xavier Unanue took on the Under-11 Boys in the race.

Thirteen-year-old Jack Marshall competed in the Under-15 race.

Four SAC members competed in the annual Benidorm 10K and Half Marathon Road Races.

The race organisers recorded another record total of finishers, which was 9,132, and of which 4.043 were from Great Britain.

In the 10K race, Neil Scruton led a trio of club members after recording a notable fast time for his age group of 51.19 and being placed third Over-75.

He was followed by Dave and Lesley Lester with Dave recording 51.06 and Lesley 67.32.

Mark Bowes completed the Half Marathon in his debut for this race distance in 1.44.02.

The remnants of the recent snowfall and treacherous conditions underfoot on many courses locally, led to the cancellations of Parkruns at Woodlands Scarborough, Wykeham and Whitby.

Of the two remaining local events, Sewerby had 162 finishers of which Matthew Rutt was 25th overall and Dalby Forest survived with 146 finishers, none of which were current club members.

At York parkrun, Chelsey Glegg was fifth Female overall of 265, and Aaron Padgham was 178th overall of 709 with a PB.

Nicola Kidd was 16th Female overall of 51 and second Over-40 at Bedale parkrun and at Oldham parkrun, Kevin Hutchings was 10th Over-60.