{"id":11584,"date":"2025-12-17T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:30:03","slug":"harlequins-win-2025-west-midlands-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/2025\/12\/17\/harlequins-win-2025-west-midlands-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlequins win 2025 West Midlands League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOC have won the West Midlands League for the first time since 2006. The season ended with another strong performance at Octavian Droobers&#8217; Brandon Wood event last Sunday. All of the detail is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wmoa.org.uk\/wp\/west-midlands-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">league&#8217;s own page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With seven of our runners making a maximum scoring contribution of 600 points to the club total, tie-break rules were needed to decide the winner of the club&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/1900\/08\/02\/hoc-galoppen-trophy\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4536\">HOC Galoppen Trophy<\/a> for the highest scorer. Jake Fox will receive the award with a perfect record of 100 points in each of the ten events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to all members who took part over the year, and in particular to the fifteen &#8216;club counters&#8217;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Cat.<\/th><th>Name<\/th><th>Class<\/th><th>Score<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>A<\/td><td>Joey Fox<\/td><td>M12<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>A<\/td><td>Jake Fox<\/td><td>M10<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>B<\/td><td>Kin Wai Lee<\/td><td>M35<\/td><td>581<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>B<\/td><td>Steve Blackmore<\/td><td>M45<\/td><td>565<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>C<\/td><td>Adrian Bailey<\/td><td>M55<\/td><td>457<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>C<\/td><td>Peter Langmaid<\/td><td>M55<\/td><td>444<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>D<\/td><td>Corrie Blackmore<\/td><td>W45<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>D<\/td><td>Karen Thompson<\/td><td>W55<\/td><td>586<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>E<\/td><td>Alison Sloman<\/td><td>W85<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>E<\/td><td>Geoff Trewin<\/td><td>M70<\/td><td>543<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>F<\/td><td>Seb Blackmore<\/td><td>M14<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>F<\/td><td>Georgina Hudson<\/td><td>W12<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>F<\/td><td>Pippa Blackmore<\/td><td>W14<\/td><td>600<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>F<\/td><td>Peter Blackmore<\/td><td>M16<\/td><td>595<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>F<\/td><td>Danny Fox<\/td><td>M10<\/td><td>593<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOC have won the West Midlands League for the first time since 2006. The season ended with another strong performance at Octavian Droobers&#8217; Brandon Wood event last Sunday. All of the detail is available on the league&#8217;s own page. With seven of our runners making a maximum scoring contribution of 600 points to the club total, tie-break rules were needed to decide the winner of the club&#8217;s own HOC Galoppen Trophy for the highest scorer. Jake Fox will receive the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/2025\/12\/17\/harlequins-win-2025-west-midlands-league\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11584"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11596,"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions\/11596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlequins.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}