STAR siblings Grace and Piers Copeland are on course to win their respective Poole and East Dorset Cross-Country League laurels.

The county runners both won their races at the penultimate meeting hosted by Baden-Powell and St Peter’s Church of England Middle School.

Grace, running for St Michael’s Middle School, clocked 9.07 on the St Aldhelm’s Academy course – 43 seconds ahead of her nearest rival in the Year 6-7 girls race.

Her brother Piers, meanwhile, won the Year 8-9 boys race in 7.58.

The fourth and final meeting is at Ferndown Upper School next Tuesday.

Top three individual times at St Aldhelm’s Academy – Year 6-7 girls: 1 G Copeland 9.07, 2 M Pike 9.54, 3 L Talbot (Oakmead) 9.57. Year 6-7 boys: 1 L Murphy-Parry (Allenbourn) 8.54, 2 T Miller (Sandford) 9.01, 3 E Symes (Allenbourn) 9.03. Year 7-8 girls: 1 E Martin (Poole Grammar) 8.58, 2 B Bickel (Poole Grammar) 9.01, M Williams (QE) 9.33. Year 7-8 boys: 1 P Copeland 7.58 (Poole Grammar), 2 T Bourne (Bournemouth Collegiate) 8.09, 3 S Brown (Purbeck) 8.42.