A MARSHALLING error led to some youngsters running much further than they should have during a cross country event.

The under 11s age group runners, including a number from Warrington Athletics Club, navigated almost the same course as the under 13s were due to tackle which meant they ended up running about double the distance they should have in the third round of the Manchester Area Cross Country League.

Despite this, they all battled hard and completed the extended Tatton Park course.

In the boys category, Alex Farrell finished 13th (14:27) and along with Alfie Furnival 17th (14:40) and Luke Horman 50th (18:02) the team placed seventh.

The squad was completed by Percy Booker (18:27) and Aidan Losty (19:17) in 51st and 52nd places.

In the girls, Emilia Gandy came home eighth (15:14) and with Florence Mark 42nd (17:19) and Charlotte Andrew 56th (18:41) the team finished in 11th position.

The squad was completed by Edie (19:02) and Bella McArthur (23:23) in 61st and 72nd places respectively.

In the under 13s boys, Oliver Davenport (12:44) led the team in sixth and with Euan Lawton 24th (14:01) and Eddie Walker 47th (14:56) the team registered eighth spot.

April Rimmer (16:57) was the only under 15s girls runner from the club, finishing 41st.

In the under 15s age group, Elliot Taylor (16:47) and Harvey Howard (17:56) were the only boys, taking 26th and 43rd places respectively.

Emily Kinsey (18:05) was 10th in the girls category and with Sinead Gregory 16th (18:38) and Lilly-Ella Ford 18th (18:47) the A team achieved fifth place.

The B team of Cara Gregory 20th (19:13), Sarah Ashcroft (19:25) and Jaycee Morrison 38th (20:52) the B team claimed seventh and were the second B team.

In the under 17s age group, Alex Rix (20:32) and Hannah Hull (23:29) were the only runners from the club, finishing in 15th and fifth places in the men’s and women’s races respectively.

Rachel McQuillan (33:57) ran excellently to seal 16th place overall in the senior women’s event and along with Claire Demaine-Farrell 51st (37:06), Georgina Walker 61st (37:54) and Faye Lawton 131st (41:01) the team came home 11th.

Sharon Taylor (46:38) finished in 265th place (30th over 50) overall to complete the squad and along with Demaine-Farrell (third over 45) and Walker (eighth over 45) they finished as 23rd masters team.

The day was brought to a close by the senior men’s race with Daniel Schofield (36:14) leading the squad in with 79th place and with Steve Watmough 124th and first over 60 (37:25), David Watson 137th and eighth over 50 (37:51) and Dave Norman 191st and second over 60 (39:40) the team finished 27th.

Jonny Leatherbarrow (39:46) in 193rd place and Steve Burthem 345th and eighth over 60 (44:44) completed the squad.

Watmough, Watson, Norman and Burthem finished as 18th masters team.