While the host has yet again played second fiddle in the annual Wanganui Harrier Club Anzac Relays, perennial winners Palmerston North Athletic Harriers Club has been knocked off it perch in the men's section.
Run on a loop circuit at Lakelands adjacent to Lake Wiritoa on Anzac Day, the Feilding Moa women and the Hawera Harrier men's teams won their respective grades.
For the past five or six years Palmerston North Harriers had dominted the men's section, but this season were beaten into fourth place with Feilding Moa (second) and Egmont Athletics (third) ahead of them. There was, however, just over a second separating first place to fourth.
Egmont Athletics women finished second in the women's section mainly on the strength of classy unner Hannah O'Connor. The Taranaki middle-distance athlete easily won the Phillips Electrical 3000m women's under-20 event at the Cooks Classic in January.
Whanganui High School's girls team claimed third at Scoutlands and that team features the nationally-ranked Rebecca Baker, her sister Charlotte, promising hurdler Paris Munro and Jemma Tan
