South London Harriers took major honours at the fourth and final match of the 2001/2002 Surrey Cross Country League season at its home course at Coulsdon's Farthing Downs.

All eyes were on the senior women's 6km where Herne Hill Harriers were trying to deny SLH the first division championship for an unprecedented sixth successive year.

Despite struggling with injury, South London's scoring team of Ruth Hutton (11th in 23.37), Pippa Major (12th in 23.42), Yvonne Hill (16th in 24.03), Viv Mitchell (21st in 24.46) and Lois Curtis (36th in 26.04) placed third in the match behind Herne Hill and Dulwich Runners. This brought Herne Hill's level with SLH on 35 points but South London proved worthy winners of the title on countback.

The senior men's 8km race (two 4km laps) was extremely competitive.

SLH's Stuart Major finished fourth in 28.56 ahead of teammate Robbie James (11th in 29.45).

SLH took sixth place in the match to claim fifth place overall in the league.

SLH's boys had a great day, winning the league championship in both the under-13s and under-15/17s.

First-placed Michael Lloyd (16.17) led the SLH under-15/under-17s team home ahead of Andrew Reeves (2nd in 16.33), Andrew Garrod (3rd in 16.37), Luis Chamberlain (5th in 17.31) and Daniel Hooper (7th in 18.36). The under-13s race was won by Howard Hume in 17.49. Michael Lloyd and Peter Humphrey both won individual awards for the season's best aggregate performances in their age group.