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With one match still to go, Sevenoaks AC's women's team made sure of victory in the Kent Fitness Cross Country League with a fine second place at the penultimate fixture at Minnis Bay on 12th January.

SAC assembled a huge team of 33 runners for the farthest-flung race of the 2019/20 series: a brilliant turnout. So that despite a big effort by Canterbury Harriers - including a win for their women - SAC lost no ground in the team standings. With the SAC women second and the men third on the day, the combined team was second. After five of the six races, SAC women's team lies first, the men's team (which does not have championship status) fourth, and the combined team second. The Sevenoaks AC women can't be caught and will win the series and the SAC combined team will finish second regardless of outcome of the final match on February 9th.

Cath Linney was SAC's leading woman in seventh place, with fellow scorers Vanessa Gilmartin, Suzy Claridge and Heather Fitzmaurice, while the men were led home by James Mason in second place overall, with Guillaume Ninevan, Ed Saunders, Andrew Milne, Mike Lochead, Andrew Hutchinson, Andrew Mead and Darius Sarshar also scoring. However the whole team were stars as they all ran well to add to other teams' scores.

Individual medals also look possible with many SAC runners doing well in the standings, including Vanessa Gilmartin (2nd W40), Suzy Claridge (5th W45), Cath Linney (2nd W50), Pauline Dalton (1st W55), Bridgit Weekes (2nd W60), Sylvia Lewis (2nd W65), James Mason (2nd man & 1st M35), Andrew Milne (3rd M35), Andrew Mead (4th M50) and Jeremy Winter (1st M65).

The SAC results at Minnis were:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Rating	# Races
2	2	James Mason	36	36:58	Sevenoaks AC	99.67	13
12	12	Guillaume Nineven	34	38:23	Sevenoaks AC	96.33	9
20	20	Edmund Saunders	37	39:20	Sevenoaks AC	93.67	12
33	33	Andrew Milne	37	40:12	Sevenoaks AC	89.33	27
35	35	Mike Lochead	34	40:14	Sevenoaks AC	88.67	11
41	39	Andrew Hutchinson	40	40:37	Sevenoaks AC	87.33	11
48	45	Andrew Mead	51	41:29	Sevenoaks AC	85.33	38
50	47	Darius Sarshar	50	41:35	Sevenoaks AC	84.67	9
59	56	Jimmy George	38	42:01	Sevenoaks AC	81.67	12
66	63	Richard Alford-Smith	43	42:36	Sevenoaks AC	79.33	4
80	75	Jim Harness	52	43:11	Sevenoaks AC	75.33	13
86	80	Daniel Witt	44	43:31	Sevenoaks AC	73.67	57
92	85	Zack Ramsden	53	44:18	Sevenoaks AC	72.00	5
95	88	Jatinder Soomal	37	44:23	Sevenoaks AC	71.00	12
108	7	Catherine Linney	50	45:16	Sevenoaks AC	95.92	34
129	116	Graham Dwyer	47	46:13	Sevenoaks AC	61.67	12
134	120	Jeremy Winter	66	46:21	Sevenoaks AC	60.33	4
143	15	Vanessa Gilmartin	44	46:46	Sevenoaks AC	90.48	16
145	127	James Nash	28	46:50	Sevenoaks AC	58.00	5
151	132	James Graham	66	47:13	Sevenoaks AC	56.33	23
162	24	Suzy Claridge	47	47:38	Sevenoaks AC	84.35	5
170	143	Sean Leith	48	47:54	Sevenoaks AC	52.67	2
177	26	Heather Fitzmaurice	50	48:00	Sevenoaks AC	82.99	78
193	32	Pauline Dalton	55	48:51	Sevenoaks AC	78.91	49
223	181	Duncan Cochrane	62	50:03	Sevenoaks AC	40.00	34
235	191	Leonard Lai King	40	50:32	Sevenoaks AC	36.67	2
237	43	Bridgit Weekes	61	50:36	Sevenoaks AC	71.43	10
238	193	Tony Horlock	59	50:37	Sevenoaks AC	36.00	11
291	59	Sarah Shewell	60	53:35	Sevenoaks AC	60.54	112
311	242	Hugh Shewell	30	54:59	Sevenoaks AC	19.67	25
408	120	Bet Benn	38	1:05:39	Sevenoaks AC	19.05	3
428	133	Sylvia Lewis	67	1:09:23	Sevenoaks AC	10.20	18
434	294	James Fitzmaurice	77	1:12:02	Sevenoaks AC	2.33	73

The full results are here.

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The final event is at Blean Woods, Rough Common on Sunday 9th February at 11:00. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is the SAC team organiser.

Victoria

Sevenoaks AC's women's team won for the third time this season as 35 members tackled the new Kent Fitness League course at Shorne Woods. With a big hill and large patch of deep sticky mud on each of the two big laps, the woodland course offered a good technical challenge, but that was no problem for Victoria Croucher as she finished third in her first appearance in the league.

Victoria was supported by fellow scorers Cath Linney in twelfth, Suzy Claridge in seventeenth and Pauline Dalton in eighteenth, with the rest of the fourteen-strong team also running well to push back other teams' scorers.

James Mason was also third as he led the men's team to third place on the day. John Witton also impressed with ninth, as Guillaume Nineven in 27th, Andrew Milne 40th, Ed Saunders 44th, Mike Lochead 52nd, Andrew Mead 58th and Zachary Ramsden 95th also scored for the men.

The women's win keeps them in the lead in the series and helped the SAC combined team to second on the day. This allowed the combined team to retain second place in the series after four of the six races, with the men's team third on the day and fourth in the series.

The SAC results were as follows:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Rating	# Races
3	3	James Mason	36	32:46	Sevenoaks AC	99.38	12
9	9	John Witton	41	33:25	Sevenoaks AC	97.50	5
27	27	Guillaume Nineven	34	34:57	Sevenoaks AC	91.88	8
40	40	Andrew Milne	37	36:15	Sevenoaks AC	87.81	26
44	44	Edmund Saunders	37	36:19	Sevenoaks AC	86.56	11
52	51	Mike Lochead	34	36:52	Sevenoaks AC	84.38	10
55	53	Andrew Hutchingson	40	36:58	Sevenoaks AC	83.75	10
58	56	Andrew Mead	51	37:14	Sevenoaks AC	82.81	37
70	3	Victoria Croucher	26	38:17	Sevenoaks AC	98.88	Debut
88	84	Richard Alford-Smith	43	39:13	Sevenoaks AC	74.06	3
91	87	Daniel Witt	44	39:22	Sevenoaks AC	73.12	56
93	88	Tim Young	47	39:28	Sevenoaks AC	72.81	3
95	90	Zack Ramsden	53	39:36	Sevenoaks AC	72.19	4
118	111	Jim Harness	52	40:48	Sevenoaks AC	65.62	12
135	12	Catherine Linney	50	41:29	Sevenoaks AC	93.82	33
136	124	Graham Dwyer	47	41:30	Sevenoaks AC	61.56	11
145	130	Jeremy Winter	66	41:55	Sevenoaks AC	59.69	3
147	132	Jatinder Soomal	37	41:57	Sevenoaks AC	59.06	11
155	17	Suzy Claridge	47	42:20	Sevenoaks AC	91.01	4
165	18	Pauline Dalton	55	42:38	Sevenoaks AC	90.45	48
174	20	Vanessa Gilmartin	44	43:00	Sevenoaks AC	89.33	Debut
230	37	Diana Bryant	45	45:18	Sevenoaks AC	79.78	8
246	42	Bridgit Weekes	61	46:04	Sevenoaks AC	76.97	9
255	209	Tony Horlock	59	46:24	Sevenoaks AC	35.00	10
260	213	Duncan Cochrane	62	46:54	Sevenoaks AC	33.75	33
265	218	Simon Hallpike	66	47:09	Sevenoaks AC	32.19	53
277	51	Sarah Shewell	60	47:38	Sevenoaks AC	71.91	111
279	52	Kim Henderson	44	47:44	Sevenoaks AC	71.35	2
310	64	Jane Morgan	42	49:18	Sevenoaks AC	64.61	7
312	248	Hugh Shewell	30	49:25	Sevenoaks AC	22.81	24
349	84	Lucy Wilkes	45	51:48	Sevenoaks AC	53.37	3
352	86	Sarah Fisher	23	51:53	Sevenoaks AC	52.25	3
371	277	Lionel Stielow	71	53:07	Sevenoaks AC	13.75	17
467	158	Bet Benn	38	1:00:26	Sevenoaks AC	11.80	2
481	166	Sylvia Lewis	67	1:03:53	Sevenoaks AC	7.30	17

The full results are here.

The next event is at Minnis Bay, Birchington on Sunday 12th January at 11:00. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is the SAC team organiser.

Marco Mion won the final handicap race of the 2019 series ahead of Darius Sarshar, but third-placed Andrew Mead had already secured the series trophy. Sylvia Lewis held on to her second position in the series, and with fourth place on the day, James Baker snatched third.

The 2020 series starts with a five-miler on 19 January. All the details are here.

Sevenoaks AC once again fielded a full senior men's team in the Kent XC League as James Graham (170th, 49:48) joined ever-presents Andrew Mead (98th (10th over-50), 43:42), Dan Witt (128th, 45:21) and Zachary Ramsden (145th, 47:11) to finish 16th on the day at the match on 14th December at Footscray. The men stand 14th after three matches.

No senior women ran at Footscray, but Suzy Claridge completed her third match this season (53rd (11th W45), 22:36) at Danson Park on 9th November.

The Kent League results are here.

The final match for men and women is at Norman Park, Bromley on 8th February. SAC seniors/veterans can contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to run in this race.

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