Front-runner Ledwith in race for boys’ title

FAVOURITE Andrew Ledwith (North Monastery) will have to reproduce the form he displayed at the national inter-club championships to lift the senior boys’ title at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Cross-Country in Antrim on Saturday.

A nephew of the legendary Val Ledwith, he displayed the tenacity of his uncle in Roscommon where he eventually gave way to the talented Mullingar junior, Mark Christie, but claimed scalps in the race for silver.

That experience will stand to him when he takes on the likes of Jamie McCarthy (Kinsale CS), who finished fifth in Roscommon, and Mark Hanrahan (Douglas CS) who overtook Ledwith on his way to the silver medal last year.