Alex Burrows races to cross country glory

Burrows, from Broseley, retained his title and recorded his sixth consecutive Shropshire Schools titles in all age groups,

He won twice as a junior boy in 2011 and 2012, winning again as an intermediate in 2013.

The championships were not held in 2014 after the course was flooded, and his two senior boy victories compete an unprecedented series of victories as far as current records show dating back to 1978.

He won the race in 18.26, with Freddie Huxley Fielding in second and Will Hayward in third, leading a strong Shrewsbury School team to an impressive sixth consecutive team title.

A unique family double saw Burrows' younger sister Charlotte win the Year 7 girls race in 6.55, 21 seconds ahead of second-placed Megan Davies from Thomas Telford, while Idsall's Ruby Hancock took third.

Shrewsbury High School took the team title for the fourth time in the last five years the race has been run.

Dani Rowlinson, from Wrekin College, followed up her Shropshire AA title at Attingham Park in January, with another impressive victory in the senior girls race improving from fourth last year.

She won the junior girls title back in 2012 and has returned to top form after several injuries.

Second home at Oswestry was Shrewsbury Schools' Olivia Papaionannou, with Thomas Telford's Isobel Cotham taking third.

Shrewsbury School retained their team title with a narrow two-point victory over Wrekin College.

May Davies, from Shrewsbury High School, followed up her Shropshire AA Under-15 girls victory by winning the Intermediate Girls Schools title.

It came with a comfortable 38-second victory over Telford Priory's Eva Wade. Isobel Boden, from Shrewsbury High, took the bronze medal and her school won the team trophy they last won in 2013.

Adam's Newport's Connor Bentley, the 2013 Year 7 champion, was nine seconds ahead of Thomas Telford's Dylan Gillett to win the intermediate boys race.

Corbet School's Cameron Van Onselen took third. Shrewsbury School, with five boys in the first nine places, took the team title.

Jess Humphreys, from Thomas Telford, retained her junior girls title in fine style and with it led her school to the team title in that age group for the first time.

Lakelands School's Hannah Shakeshaft, ran well for second place and collected the Ellesmere schools' first Shropshire Schools cross country medal for many years.

Elle Humphries, from William Brookes, took the bronze medal.

One of the closest races of the day came in the junior boys race with the first three boys neck and neck at the end of the first of two laps.

Last year's Year 7 champion Liam Rawlings, from Corbet School, Baschurch, came out as the eventual winner.

He pulled away on the second lap to win in 12.59, six seconds ahead of Shrewsbury School's Sam Western.

Charlie Brown from Lacon Childe School in Cleobury Mortimer was third a further seven seconds behind.

Shrewsbury School retained the team title, with four runners in the first 11 and taking their team trophy haul to an impressive four from the eight on offer on the day.

Idsall's Josh French won the Year 7 boys race by just two seconds from Thomas Telford's Conal Smith to become the first Idsall boy to win this title since the race began in 1988.

With his Idsall team-mate Jamie Lewis taking third, the Shifnal School were narrowly pipped to the team title by a strong Wrekin College by just two points.

The first six in the junior, intermediate and senior races are automatically selected to represent Shropshire.

They will feature in the English Schools Championships at Nottingham on March 5, with a further two in each age group being added at a later date.