Matt Kipling and Noel Clough rode away with maximum points in the latest rounds of two regional cyclo-cross leagues.

Kipling, the Bishop Auckland rider now sponsored by the Thirsk-based Alpine Rootz team, fought from behind to finish 90 seconds clear of his nearest challenger from a field of 56 for the North-East League event promoted by My Way Trust on the Hetton Lyons course.

Cestria CC junior Darren Tiffen set the early pace as a leading group of five riders were separated by only ten seconds.

Kipling, former national junior championship silver medallist, fought back from fifth place and got to the front towards the end of the second of eight laps of a circuit of a mile and a third.

By the end of the next circuit he was nearly half a minute clear, and extended his lead all the way to the finish as Darren Tiffen held on for second place ahead of his father and Cestria team-mate Terry Tiffen, who next Sunday will be defending his second place overall in the veterans' (over-40) category of the National Trophy series at Mallory Park.

Repeating his wins in the John Stevenson Memorial event at Northallerton and the Silcoates Scramble at Wakefield.

Middridge CRT's Noel Clough consolidated his lead in the Yorkshire Cyclo-Cross Association's points series when he won the City RC (Hull) race over a nine-mile course in the grounds of Bishop Burton College, near Beverley.

Rob Jebb, the Three Peaks record holder who had beaten Clough to win the third round of the Yorkshire series at Rastrick, was a non-starter, leaving Clough, a former champion, and Chris Young, the current title holder, to battle it out.

The pair went together from the start in muddy conditions, Clough escaping from his rival and maintaining a 200-yard lead for most of the way, always looking comfortable as Young battled to limit his losses.

By the last of nine laps, the Middridge rider from Northallerton had opened up his lead to 51 seconds over Young, riding for Team Marie Curie, with Richard Binks (Huddersfield RC) crossing the line a further 2min 28sec off the pace.

Dale Goodwin (Paul Milnes RT), runner-up to Clough in round one at Northallerton and fourth at both Wakefield and Rastrick, was relegated to sixth place behind Robin Bradbury (Aire Valley RT) and John Wilkinson (Dinnington RC).