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With the second highest number of entries in the country, the Morpeth Point-to-Point provided excellent entertainment for the crowds that flocked in from Morpeth and beyond on Sunday.

Consett 5-27 Morpeth RFC

A call has gone out for young golfers in the region to rally round and help relaunch the North Northumberland Junior Golf League.

Morpeth Harriers Rory Leonard and Mhairi MacLennan were both members of a team of 24 athletes that represented Great Britain with distinction at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships held at Aarhus on the Jutland peninsula of Denmark at the weekend.

Morpeth RFC 23-0 Driffield

A strong Morpeth Harriers men’s team made the trip across the country to Birkenhead for the Northern 12-Stage Road Relays inspired by the justified optimism of coming away with medals.

Pocklington 20-32 Morpeth RFC

Athletes competing in Saturday’s annual English Schools Cross Country Championships, once again sponsored by running shoe specialist New Balance, faced probably what were the worst conditions of their long and hard season, at Temple Newsam, near Leeds.

Two girls from Cambois Rowing Club won the Under 16 doubles race at the British Rowing Inter-Regional Junior Trials held on the River Wansbeck.

Morpeth Harriers U13 and U15 Boys were in dominant form at the annual Birtley AC Young Athletes Multi Terrain Relays, held at the Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy in Birtley, near Gateshead on Sunday.

Morpeth RFC 57-14 York

West Leeds 30-37 Morpeth RFC

It was an excellent day for the region, and for Morpeth Harriers athletes Rory Leonard and Carl Avery, as they each respectively won gold and bronze individual medals at the English National Cross-Country Championships.

Morpeth RFC 53-5 Bridlington

In total contrast to the previous week’s icy and snowy conditions, athletes competing in Saturday’s NE Harriers’ League fixture at Thornley Hall near Peterlee faced almost perfect conditions.

Morpeth RFC 36-12 Huddersfield YM

Teenage Ashington driver Stuart Middleton has signed with top Italian Team Bonaldi Motorsport to race in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship in Europe driving one of the team’s Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo cars.

The winter weather was the real winner in athletics at the weekend, with the snow severally impacting the race calendar, including the cancellation of the Druridge Bay and Alnwick Pastures parkruns.

Evergreen Morpeth veteran Walter Ryder made the long journey from his Scottish home in Wester Ross worth the many miles of travel at the weekend.