WITH permission from Tavistock Town Council and Meadowlands Pool, allowing OCRA to use their facilities, the final race of the Tavistock Area Primary Schools Cross Country Series took place in The Meadows, Tavistock.

This was a rearranged date and venue as both the weather and the ground condition meant that Princetown School were unable to host the event last month.

St Andrew’s and Horrabridge Schools were, unfortunately, unable to field teams on the day but more than 150 children, including the Year 3 and 4 fun runners enjoyed sunny weather and good ground conditions for the final date of the cross country calendar.

The Year 5 and 6 girls went off first and the first five home on the day were — 1 Hannah Walker (St Peter’s), 2 Emma Luckham (Whitchurch), 3 Maisie Pritchard-Jenkins (Bere Alston), 4 Charlotte Walker (St Peter’s) and 5 Freya Page (Meavy).

Next it was the Year 5 and 6 boys – 1 William White (Whitchurch), 2 Nicolas Maczugowski (St Peter’s), 3 William Elliott (Tavistock), 4 Ewan Dix (St Peter’s) and 5 Joel Lake (Tavistock).

While Allan Herdman processed the results, the Year 3 and 4 girls had their fun run, led home, for the third cross country in a row, by Lara Dix of St Peter’s. Taylor Charlton-Cross of Whitchurch came in first for the Year 3 and 4 boys.

Medal presentations were made for the overall winners of the three race series, with the first 3 individuals receiving medals. Girls top ten were 1 Hannah Walker, 2 Emma Luckham, 3 Charlotte Walker, 4 Masie Pritchard-Jenkins, 5 Penny Jones (Meavy), 6 Alba Stewart (Tavistock), 7 Freya Page, 8 Olivia Townshend (Tavistock), 9 Catherine Tipton (Tavistock) and 10. Eva Brown (St Peter’s).

The top 10 boys were 1 William White, 2 Nicolas Muczugowski, 3 William Elliott, 4 Ewan Dix, 5 Rory Summers (Whitchurch), 6 Finlay Beatty (Milton Abbot), 7 Solly Hunter (Mary Tavy & Brentor), 8 James Crossey (Mary Tavy and Brentor), 9 Dylan Taylor (Meavy) and 10 Ben Carty (St Peter’s).

The overall top eight team scores were – Boys 1 St Peter’s, 2 Whitchurch, 3 Tavistock, 4 Mary Tavy and Brentor, 5 Meavy, 6 Bere Alston, 7 Milton Abbot and 8 Gulworthy.

Girls 1 St Peter’s, 2 Whitchurch, 3 Tavistock, 4 Meavy, 5 Bere Alston, 6 Mary Tavy and Brentor, 7 Lady Modiford’s and 8 Horrabridge.

St Peter’s School team took the shield and gold medals and Whitchurch took the silver medals with Tavistock 3rd, Meavy 4th, Bere Alston 5th, Mary Tavy 6th and Milton Abbot 7th. The top three small schools were 1 Meavy, 2 Mary Tavy and Brentor and 3 Milton Abbot. Gold and silver medals were awarded to Meavy and Mary Tavy and Brentor.

The organisers thanked all who took part, assisted with, drove children to and supported and cheered the runners on at the cross country race series.