James Fallon of Calasanctius College in Oranmore won the boys’ senior race at the Aviva Connacht Schools Cross-Country Championships in Sligo yesterday.
Fallon held off the challenge of David Harper from Rice College in Westport, with Sean Flynn, also Rice College, in third place.
International mountain runner Ellen Moran from Sacred Heart Westport won the senior girl’s title while Grace Cahill led a Presentation College Athenry clean sweep in the inter race. The top three teams from each race compete in the Aviva All Ireland Schools Cross-Country at the CIT in Cork on Saturday March 8.
* Thanks to Mary Barrett for results
Results:
Girls –Minor: 1 Laoise Geraghty (Taylor’s Hill, Galway), 2 Ciara Harris (St Joseph’s Foxford), 3 Aoife Morris (Ballsadare, Sligo). Teams – 1 St Joseph’s Foxford 32 (2,7,23, 2 Ursuline Sligo 41 (11,12,18), 3 St Joseph’s Castlebar 44 (13,15,16). Junior: 1 Alice Hynes (St Attracta’s CS Tubbercurry), 2 Aoife O’Brien (SH Westport), 3 Alannah Duffy (Ballinrobe CS). Teams – 1 Sacred Heart Westport 54 (2,24,28), 2 Our Lady’s Bower Athlone 64 (16,19,29), 3 Athlone CC 65 (4,21,40). Inter: 1 Grace Cahill (pres Athenry), 2 Shannen Lee (Pres Athenry), 3 Ann Moroney (Pres Headford). Teams – 1 Pres Athenry 13 (1,2,10), 2 Ursuline Sligo 57 (5,25,27), 3 Seamount College Kinvara 60 (13,23,24). Senior: 1 Ellen Moran (SH Westport), 2 Aoife Mulroy (St Joseph’s Foxford), 3 Sarah Wood-Martin (Sligo Grammar). Teams – 1 Our Lady’s Bower 16 (4,5,7), 2 Ursuline Sligo 29 (6,8,15), 3 Sligo Grammar 34 (3,14,17).
Boys – Minor: Oisin Lyons (Calasanctius Oranmore), 2 Brandon Lee (Pres Athenry), 3 Darren Costello (Col Bhaile Clar). Teams – 1 Rice College Westport 58 (5,14,16,23), 2 Summerhill Sligo 68 (11,13,18,26), 3 St Mary’s Galway 83 (6,20,24,33). Junior: 1 Aaron Doherty (Rice College Westport), 2 Finlay Daly (Abbey Boyle), 3 Ryan Traynor (St Mary’s Galway). Teams – 1 Rice College Westport 39 (1,9,10,19), 2 St Mary’s Galway 103 (3,23,27,50), 3 St Colman’s Claremorris 109. Inter: 1 Tadgh McGinty (Scoil Muire agus Padraig Swinford), 2 William Hynes ( St Attracta’s Tubbercury), 3 Shane Bracken (St Joseph’s Foxford). Teams – 1 Calasanctius Oranmore 69 (9,11,13,36), 2 St Mary’s Galway 90 (15,17,27,31), 3 Sligo Grammar 107 (10,19,21,57). Senior: 1 James Fallon (Calasanctius Oranmore), 2 David Harper (Rice College Westport), 3 Sean Flynn (Rice College Westport). Teams – 1 Rice College Westport 35 (2,3,13,17), 2 Sligo Grammar 49 (5,11,14,19), 3 St Mary’s Galway 69 (8.18,21,22)
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