HALESOWEN Cycling Club took their third win of the season in fine style last Sunday.

James Pheysey secured the first victory of his career in the Gloucester City event at Redmarley on the same course where Matt Clarke opened the team's account a few weeks ago.

The Halesowen quartet of Pheysey, Henry Lloyd-Langston, Patrick Fotheringham and Luke Rowell were constantly at the head of affairs during the 50-mile event on a rolling course, but none of the moves stuck and when the peloton moved onto the 1.2 mile climb to the finish, it was Pheysey who ran out first.

With Lloyd-Langston close behind in fifth and Fotheringham and Rowell also finishing close behind the quartet - who are sponsored by Wenlock Spring Mineral water - landed the team prize for the best four riders from the same club.

On the other side of the Midlands, Cameron Biddle continued his stellar run of form with second place in the seven-man escape that decided the PB Performance event, completing a week that had also seen him win the Halesowen road race, and take second at the Stourport criterium on Tuesday.

That all bodes well for the team's biggest challenge of the year so far, the three-day, five-stage Giro del Mon stage race in Shropshire, where Halesowen field two teams.

In the senior event, which culminates in four climbs of the Stiperstones ascent on Monday, Biddle leads with Clarke and Fotheringham in support plus guest rider Charles Walker (off the back of a recent time trial win in Stafford completing what is known to be a slow 10 mile course in just over 20 minutes), while in the support race Pheysey and Lloyd-Langston will be among the favourites along with junior Daniel Morris.

At the Halesowen velodrome, the Friday evening track league drew healthy numbers for its third week, with the racing dominated by Chateau Impney's duo of Martin Canes and Luke Hardman. Elsewhere, Kinga Ingram rode strongly in the Wolverhampton Wheelers youth omnium to cement a place in the under-16 final in August.