There was a strong start to the club's Essex Cross Country League campaign when HMAC had two individual wins and four team successes on home territory at Stubbers on Saturday.

The Ladies made it a clean sweep with wins in all four categories. 

Eleanor Bounds led the U15 girls to victory, and with Sidnie Sales (4th), Amber Turner (6th) and Rachel Sadler (8th) all in the top eight the team were well in front of the opposition. Sharmila Golan (18th) and  Michelle Lovell (31st) also saw action.

Faye Fullerton opened her winter account to take the senior women's honours with the returning Debbie Appleton fourth with Laurie Cooper (10th) and Denise Harris (20th) ensuring a narrow one point victory over Basildon. Angela Thompson was 51st.

The u17/U20 women's team were runaway winners. Georgie Sales & Zoey Littlechild were second & third with Jenny Holland (7th) and Katie Richardson (14th) securing victory. Alex Beard (16th), Emma Fox (18th) and Christina Holland (20th) completed an impressive turn out, as Jade Edwards failed to finish.

Becky Stanley was first home in third for the triumphant U13 girls, with Amanda Blaxland 8th and Shannon Sullivan 14th, before Hannah Bloy & Nancy Kane crossed the line together in 16th & 17th. Six other girls completed the course, with Avril Loynes (19th), Jessica Fazakerley (22nd) and Sarah Busby (24th) the best of the rest. 

The U13 boys & U17 Men were runners up.

The U13 boys had Ryan O'Mahoney 7th, Thomas Davis (9th), Tyler Bennett (11th) before Andrew Holland (19th) completed the scoring quartet, and Jordan Da Costa finished 29th.

The U17 men packed well with Grant Twist 6th, Callum Sutton 11th, John Whitehead 14th and Thomas Shanney 15th and just got the edge over Southend for second place. There were also good runs from Michael Donovan (16th) and Daniel Shanney (25th)

Jamie Buckley-Stanton's fourth place helped the U15 boys squad place fourth. Liam Bush (17th) and Michael Jones (19th) made the top 20, and Daniel Herold's 27th place completed the scoring quartet.Six other club athletes competed in a good turn out.

The senior men, although much depleted by many of theit top athletes away for a training weekend, still had twelve finishers.Rob Warner took over from where he left off last season with a strong run to lead the team home in 9^th place. Steve Rand took a very good 16^th place in a strong field, followed by Tony Collins 50^th Paul Berret 55^th and under twenty Rob Jones made a good start in his first senior race in 57^th place. Graham Pritchard completed the scoring team in 64^th. With vets Graham Foster 78^th, Neil Bearwish 79^th Panos Kakoallis 88^th all finishing in the top one hundred with Roger Winston 105^th , our most senior vet  Len Parrot an admirable 118^th and Dave Patterson 122^nd place.

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Under 13 Girls:  3rd Becky Stanley 15:09; 8th - Amanda Blaxland 15:43;  14th - Shannon Sullivan 16:24; 16th - Hannah Bloy 16:44;  (Team 1st - 41 pts)17th - Nancy Kane 16:44; 19th - Avril Loynes 16:46; 22nd - Jessica Fazakerley 17:06; 24th - Sarah Busby 17:30; Taylor Thacker 18:18; Jenny Harries 18:29; Nicole Norman 19:36

Team: 1. HMAC - 41; 2. Basildon - 57. 3. Southend 33 (3)

Under 15 Girls: 1st- Eleanor Bounds 15:44; 4th - Sidnie Sales 16:16; 6th - Amber Turner 16:43; 8th - Rachel Sadler 16:47; (Team 1st - 19 pts)  18th - Sharmila Golan 18:18; 31st - Michelle Lovell 23:18

Team: 1. HMAC - 19; 2. Basildon - 45; 3. Orion  57.

Under 17 Girls/ under 20 women:   2nd - Georgie Lou Sales 23:48; 3rd - Zoey Littlechild 24:19; 7th - Jennifer Holland 25:03;  14th - Katie Richardson 26:31 (Team 1st - 26 pts)  16th - Alex Beard 27:15; 18th - Emma Fox 28:26; 20th Christina Holland 29:08

Team: 1. HMAC - 26; 2. Orion - 72; 3. Colchester & T - 37 (3).

Senior Women: 1st - Faye Fullerton 25:10; 4th - Debbie Appleton 27:37; 10th - Laurie Cooper 29:17; 20th - Denise Harris 31:01; (Team 1st - 35 pts) 

Team: 1. HMAC - 35; 2. Basildon 36; 3. Chelmsford - 54

Under 13 Boys: 7th - Ryan O'Mahoney 13:56; 9th - Thomas Davis 14:14 11th - Tyler Bennett 14:45; 19th - Andrew Holland 15:25; (Team 2nd - 46 pts) 29th Jordan Da Costa 16:22

Team: 1. Southend 38; 2.  HMAC - 46; 3. Chelmsford 62.

Under 15 Boys: - 4th - Jamie Buckley- Stanton 14:09; 17th - Liam Bush 15:08; 19th -Michael Jones 15:15;  27th -- Daniel Herold 15:51; (Team 4th - 67 points)  28th - Chris Sullivan 15:54; 30th - Charlie Turner 16:00; 36yth - Adam Wileman 16:35; 39th - Adam Edwards 17:21; 40th Ross Earney 17:30; Chris Hyde 17:35; 46 - MIchael Foster 20:50; 47th = Jason Clifton 21:04; 49th - Connor Dyer 22:55

Team: 1. Thurrock 22; 2. Chelmsford 35;  3. Southend 42  4. HMAC - 67

Under 17 Boys:  6th - Grant Twist 25:19;11th - Callum Sutton 25:48;14th - John Whitehead 26:13; 15th - Thomas Shanney 26:17; (Team 1st - 28 pts) 13th - Simon Brown 16:59; 15th - Daniel Shanney 17.10;; 7th - Rob Jones 28:30;  10th - Daniel Winters 28:52; 14th - Michael Donavan 29:12; 22nd - Robbie Kidd 31:31; 25th - Anthony Soar  32.47

Team: 1. Basildon 36; 2. HMAC - 46 3. Southend 46

Senior Men: 9th - Rob Warner 37:17; 16th - Steve Rand 38:20;  50th - Tony Collins 41:53; 55th - Paul Berrett (V40) 42:20; Rob Jones (U20) 42:32; 64th - Graham Pritchard 43:15; (Team 7th - 251 pts); 78th - Neil Bearwish 44:45; 79th - Graham Foster 44:48;  88th - Panos Kakoullis 46:01; 105th - Roger Winston (V50); 118th - Len Parrott (V70) 51:44; 122nd - Dave Petterson

Team: 1. Colchester H - 101; 2 Orion 138; 3. Thurrock - 194 ....7. HMAC - 251