AN ALL-ROUND team performance enabled Oswestry Olympians Juniors to secure second place in the first Shropshire Young Athletes Cross Country meeting of the season.

A team of 26, many making the club debuts, made the journey to Abraham Darby School to race against teams from across the county and over the border from Newtown.

There were several fine individual performances but despite the club finishing third in most categories it was the efforts of every team member which enabled the club to finish with 894 points just 17 points behind Shrewsbury AC and 17 ahead of Telford AC.

A club spokesman said: "Competing in the under-11 boys category were Finley Jones, Dylan Grimley, Oliver Jones and Brennan Ellis while Evie Griffiths, Mia Dimelow and Emily O’Connor made up the girls team.

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"Evie finished sixth as did Erin Woolcock in the U13 race while the best Oswestry place was secured by Jude White who came third in the U13 boys’ competition.

"Other U13 team members were Jack Miller, Will Jones, Lily Bowen, Amber Wilcox, Daisy-Mae Cross, Fia Lamont & May Lewis."

Meanwhile, the Oswestry U15 boys Tom Johnson, Ollie O’Connor, Archie Calloway and Riley Woolcock were the club’s highest placed team in second.

They continued: "Tom claimed a sixth place as did Lucy McBride in the girls race.

"She was ably supported by Rebecca Tinsley-Edwards and Kate Hotchkiss.

"Oswestry had no U17 girls entered but benefited from good runs by Josh Martin, Ben Rothera and Elliot O’Connor in the boys race."

There are three more meetings in the league, the next being this coming Sunday when Shrewsbury AC are the hosts at Packwood Haugh School in Ruyton-XI-Towns.