Four North Down girls made the winter journey to Derry on Saturday morning for the North West Cross Country Championships where the home City of Derry AC club celebrated an early Christmas – taking the first 7 places in the 6K race plus both men and women team titles plus maximum league bonus points. With the host club in such rampant mood, it was as well the North Down girls travelled as they were 2nd team and still have a healthy lead in the ANI XC League. In the womens race Stephanie Hambling had a great run to finish 7th in 23:34 min and 1st F40. Jessica Craig was 11th in 24:15, Roberta Dorning 11th in 24:26 and taking the F35 prize, and Rachel Gibson was 17th in 24:41. City of Derry had 20 points, North Down 27 and Foyle Valley 46.
No North Down men travelled and Derry on maximum points raced past them in the league to 2nd place overall. North Belfast were 4th team and remain in the overall lead with North Down 3rd.
NW Cross Country Results here Spreadsheet including junior race results here