ATHLETICS
and Hana Blake (Cardiff Met Univ) 18:48.
And it led to Katrin, older sister of star runner Ffion Higginson, securing second place in the final standings.
In the Senior Women’s event victory went to Floren Scrafton (Westbury Harriers) in 25:59 with Georgina Jayne Dando 44th (19th over-35) finishing in 26:35 and Helen Andrews (both Bridgend) clocking 30:38 (126th, 30th over-45). The event also represented a 125th successive appearance by Dave Hughes (Bridgend).
Meanwhile, the final leg of this season’s West Glamorgan Cross Country League is on Sunday at Gnoll Park in Neath. the race was won by Owen Evans in 3:50.
Meanwhile, Leigh James (Bridgend) competed in the Tokyo Marathon last week and completed the course in 3:07:51. DAVE Cascarina (Cornelly Striders) registered 2:17:46 to take 40th position in the Rhayader Round The Lakes 30K race.
The event attracted 526 competitors and it was won by Ian Williams (Tipton Harriers) in 1:54:15 from Tim Iveson (Builth & District RC) 1:55:56.
Anthony Wilkinson (Cornelly Striders) finished in 2:37:09 to claim 145th spot ahead of two runners from the Ogmore Phoenix club in Simon Harrison 2:37:20 (152nd) and Gareth Richards 2:43:58 (194th). RICHARD Dando (Bridgend) last Saturday carded a 17th victory in 64 starts at Porthcawl 5K Parkrun along the Wales Coastal Path.
His winning time was 17:52 which was 43 seconds outside a personal best (pb) set back in August 2014 when finishing fourth behind Gareth Ayres (Port Talbot Harriers).
And significantly the 17th success left him level with Matthew Wells (Amman Valley Harriers) on all-time event victories.
Newcomer Andy Gardiner (San Domenico RC) followed him home in 18:09 from Ethan Davies (unattached) 18:12, Sean Lewis (Brackla Harriers) 18:30, Nick Lewis (White Rock Runners) pb 18:42, Liam Osborne (Bridgend) 18:53, Kieran Jenkins (Cornelly Striders) 19:15, Jeffrey Thomas (Bridgend) 19:19, Nathan Payne (unattached) 19:27, Paul Chappell (Cornelly Striders) 19:38, Dave Bennett (Porthcawl Runners) 19:41 and James Maitland (Viceroys Tri Club) 19:58.
Top female in 27th place was newcomer Bethan Griffiths (White Rock Runners) 20:57, who finished one place in front of Fleur Jones (Cornelly Striders) 21:05, while another firsttime competitor, Tammy Nurse (unattached), came 37 th in 22:00. ROWAN Hobbs last Saturday made it 20 wins in 35 visits during the 80 th staging of Maesteg 5K Parkrun, clocking 18:52.
But he was pushed all the way by a fellow member of the Brackla Harriers club in Paul Speyer, who was a mere two seconds in his slipstream.
Third place went to Niki Puleio (Ogmore Phoenix) in 20:27 ahead of Dan Morgan (Bridgend) 21:19, newcomer Mike Harrison 21:33, Paul Kearns 21:37, Nicholas Finch 21:47,
Graham Hillman (all unattached) 21:55, Mike White (Bournemouth AC) 22:04 and Thomas Rees-Gralton (Port Talbot Harriers) 22:11.
First-time competitor Caroline Bassett was first female to finish, recording 23:06 to come 15th, while her colleague from the Pegasus club in Cardiff, Ellen Sugden, was 51 seconds behind.
Libby Lavis (Brackla Harriers), who finished 23rd, took third spot, completing the course in 24:30. ANNA-ROSE Merchant pulled off another Bridgend Junior 2K Parkrun victory last Sunday in a time of 7:47.
However, Alfie Smallman (Swansea Harriers) was only 12 seconds behind with Dan May (Cornelly Striders) taking third place in 8:06.
The remaining top-10 places in the 175th staging of the event went to Eve Ruby Hickman (Bridgend) 8:22, Dylan Jones 8:27,
Daniel Perriman 8:32, Joshua Morgan (Bridgend) 8:36, Luke Woodhouse 8:51, William John pb 8:58 and Samuel Cubbage 9:04.