YOUNGSTERS braved downpours at the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Schools’ Cross-country Championships.

Parts of Hereford Racecourse were a mudbath as the young athletes chased places at next month’s nationals at Wollaton Park, Nottingham.

The junior girls’ race was won by Worcester’s Christopher Whitehead Language College pupil Rosie Webb.

Worcester Sixth Form College’s Sophie Tothill took the senior girls’ title followed by Royal Grammar School’s Nixie Turner and Helen Jubb from King’s School.

Dan Stock from King’s won the senior boys’ race with RGS’s Lewis Sternkopf third.

Worcester City won four inter-district team age groups.

RESULTS

Junior girls: 1 Rosie Webb, Christopher Whitehead, Worcester; 2 Lucy Austin, Hereford Cathedral; 3 Anna Nicod , St Augustine’s, Redditch; 4 Holly Love, The Chase, Malvern; 5 Lottie Roberts, Bredon Hill Middle, Evesham; 6 Orla Walker, Bromsgrove School; 7 Sally Lewin, Hanley Castle; 8 Elspeth Wright, South Bromsgrove; 9 Grace Pritchard, Haybridge High, Hagley; 10 Lauren Matthews, Blessed Edward Oldcorne, Worcester; 11 Susannah Hoare, Bredon Hill Middle, Evesham; 12 Olivia Hall, St Augustine’s Redditch.

Junior boys: 1 Sam Roberts, Lady Hawkins, Kington; 2 Lawrence Hooker, Malvern College; 3 Lachlan MacPhail, King Charles, Kidderminster; 4 James Dale, Nunnery Wood, Worcester; 5 Dan Bufton, St Mary’s, Lugwardine; 6 Rowan Spencer-Nairn, Malvern College; 7 Sam Morgan, Pershore High; 8 Alex Perrin, Christopher Whitehead, Worcester; 9 Stewart Greenhalgh, South Bromsgrove; 10 Ethan Vine, North Bromsgrove; 11 S Crockett, Wyre Forest; 12 Charlie Howard, Waseley Hills, Rubery.

Inter girls: 1 Abi Saker, Bromsgrove School; 2 Ellen Bowen, St Augustine’s Redditch; 3 Alice Battey, St Augustine’s, Redditch; 4 Hannah Lancaster, Tenbury High; 5 Bryony Bishop, John Kyrle, Ross-on-Wye; 6 Ellen Johnson, Hanley Castle; 7 Abby Bevan, Hanley Castle; 8 Ariana Davison, Malvern College; 9 Georgina Denham, Malvern College; 10 Megan Nicod, St Augustine’s, Redditch; 11 Eleanor Tarring, Prince Henry’s, Evesham; 12 Jasmine Knight, Haybridge High, Hagley. District team: 1 Redditch, 2 Malvern Hills.

Inter boys: 1 Gareth Richardson, RSA Arrowvale, Redditch; 2 Tom Bailey, South Bromsgrove; 3 Tom Deykin, Trinity High, Redditch; 4 Chris McLeod, Woodrush High, Wythall; 5 Thomas Evans, Blessed Edward Oldcorne, Worcester; 6 Thomas Smith, South Bromsgrove; 7 Nathan Binner, South Bromsgrove; 8 Jake Cavens, Christopher Whitehead, Worcester; 9 George Beardmore, Royal Grammar, Worcester; 10 Oscar Hewitt, Wigmore High, Leominster; 11 Lewis Osborne, Prince Henry’s, Evesham; 12 Philip Capewell, Nunnery Wood, Worcester. District team: 1 Redditch, 2 Bromsgrove & Droitwich, 3 Worcester City.

Senior girls: 1 Sophie Tothill, Worcester Sixth Form; 2 Nixie Turner Royal Grammar, Worcester; 3 Helen Jubb King’s School, Worcester; 4 Veda Baldota, Malvern College; 5 Abi Cunningham, Malvern College. District team: 1 Worcester City.

Senior boys: 1 Dan Stock, King’s School, Worcester; 2 Conor Smith, Waseley Hills, Rubery; 3 Lewis Sternkopf, Royal Grammar, Worcester; 4 Owen Cowden, Hereford Cathedral; 5 Kieran Walker, Bromsgrove School; 6 Toby Austin, Hereford Cathedral; 7 James Hooker, Malvern College; 8 Archie Roberts, Bewdley High; 9 Angus Guthrie, King’s School, Worcester; 10 Fraser Cox, Malvern College. District team: 1 Worcester City.