ALDERSHOT, Farnham & District claimed half the ten team titles on offer at the South of England Cross Country Championships on Saturday.

Three of the club’s runners were contending for individual honours in the senior women’s race, but ultimately Emily Hosker Thornhill was thwarted in the defence of her crown by Kingston & Polytechnic’s Phoebe Law, who finished tenth in the U23 race at the European Championships in December.

Law came home five seconds ahead of Thornhill, but with Philippa Bowden finishing fourth, Katie Bingle fifth and Lauren Hall 22nd, the AFD quartet took the team honours.

AFD’s U15 boys were also led home by the individual silver medallist. Will Barnicoat was five seconds behind Ealing, Southall & Middlesex runner Mohamed Ali, the age group’s England Athletics 3000 metres champion.

For AFD, Dylan Spencer came seventh, Ryan Martin 14th and Ed Henderson 17th.

Luke Prior took the bronze medal when leading home the junior men’s team of Rian McCawley, eighth, Jack Boswell 14th, and Jake Cvetkovic, 16th.

AFD’s other winning sides were the U13 boys (Ethan Scott 4th, Rudi Morrell 11th, Daniel Shattock 32nd, Ollie Pickup 40th) and the U17 men (Marcus Shantry 6th, Max Heyden 13th, Elliot Pocock 29th, Charlie Kershaw 22nd).

Niamh Brown, runner-up to Bracknell’s Amelia Quirk, who came fourth over 15000 metres in the 2017 European Junior Championships, picked up another silver medal as AFD team-mates Eugenie Cockle finished ninth, Maisie Grice 12th and Lizzie Squibbs 15th in the junior women’s competition.