Scott leads men home at Belgooly while Dupre reclaims women’s title

JEFF SCOTT, who is married to Carrignavar athlete Michelle Murphy, is a regular Yuletide visitor to Cork and yesterday he highlighted his visit with an all-the-way victory in the Belgooly Festive Four Mile Road Race while another visitor, Canadian international Sarah Dupre, married to Leevale athlete, David Healy, reclaimed the women’s title.

The St Stephen’s Day showpiece never fails to draw record numbers and yesterday was no exception with every category well represented. But, up front, Jeff Scott strung out the field with a flying start that had him in total control up the hill on to the back road and, with a mile to go, it was clear he would not be challenged. He won in 19min 51sec.

Behind him, 48sec down, James Grufferty, a Leevale athlete now based in East Tennessee State University, won the battle for second place from Eric Meade (East Cork) who ran the race of his life to finish third in 20.45.