STUART Perkins was the pick of Dudley Kingswinford Running Club's competitors at the Andy Holden Memorial Race in Tipton.

Perkins led home his Hoops team-mates with a ninth-placed finish in a time of 27.45. Dave Norman followed in 17th (29.25) with Mark Homer 25th (30.38), Steve Parr 39th (33.11), Andrew Weaver 48th in (34.20) and John Andrews 74th (37.07).

Elsewhere, Helen Tromans kept up her good form in the Worcestershire Midweek Series, competing in the Droitwich 10k.

Despite coming back from a break from training, she was able to place 82nd overall in a time 43.44 to take first place in her age group with one event remaining in the series.